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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Georgia, (search)
ure Gen. James Edward Oglethorpe (q. v.), commiserating the wretched condition of prisoners for debt who crowded the English prisons, proposed in Parliament the founding of a colony in America, partly for the benefit of this unfortunate class, and as an asylum for oppressed Protestants of Germany and other Continental states. A committee of inquiry reported favorably, and the plan, as proposed by Oglethorpe, was approved by King George II. A royal charter was obtained for a corporation (June 9, 1732) for twenty-one years, in trust for the poor, to establish a colony in the disputed territory south of the Savannah, to be called Georgia, in honor of the King. Individuals subscribed largely to defray the expenses of emigrants, and within two years Parliament appropriated $160,000 for the same purpose. The trustees, appointed by the crown, possessed all legislative and executive power, and there was no political liberty for the people. In November, 1732, Oglethorpe left England with 1
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Georgia, (search)
2 Trustees receive their charter granting all those lands between Savannah and Altamaha, and westerly from heads of said rivers in a direct line to the South seas, including islands within 20 leagues of the coast. The trustees, serving without pay, offer to all indigent persons who would be willing to seek a livelihood in the colony if provided with a passage thither and means of getting settled, free citizenship and free exercise of religion (Papists excluded). Charter granted......June 9, 1732 Ship Ann, Capt. John Thomas, with Gen. James Oglethorpe, Rev. Henry Herbert, P. D., and thirty-five families, anchors in Rebellion Roads, S. C.......Jan. 13, 1733 Obtaining consent of Creek Indians through Mary Musgrave, interpreter, Rev. Thomas Bosomworth, Oglethorpe, and colonists land at Yamacraw bluff, on south side of Savannah River, the present site of Savannah......Feb. 12, 1733 First clapboard house in Georgia begun in Savannah......Feb. 19, 1733 Two thousand religious