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The Province of Georgia[ 1] (also Georgia Colony) was one of the Southern Colonies in colonial-era British America. In 1775 it was the last of the Thirteen Colonies to support the American Revolution . The original land grant of the Province of Georgia included a narrow strip of land that extended west to the Pacific Ocean.
James Oglethorpe. Lieutenant-General James Edward Oglethorpe (22 December 1696 [1] – 30 June 1785) was a British Army officer, Tory politician and colonial administrator best known for founding the Province of Georgia in British North America. As a social reformer, he hoped to resettle Britain's "worthy poor" in the New World, initially ...
November 1760. 11 February 1776. Interregnum under revolutionary control from 1776 until 1778; see List of governors of Georgia. (7) General Sir Archibald Campbell. governor. 29 December 1778. July 1779. Head of military administration.
Georgia was the only colony not present in the First Continental Congress in 1774. When violence broke out in 1775, radical Patriots (also known as Whigs) took control of the provincial government, and drove many Loyalists out of the province. Georgia subsequently took part to the Second Continental Congress with the other colonies. In 1776 and ...
Georgia was named after King George II, who approved the colony's charter in 1732. The conflict between Spain and England over control of Georgia began in earnest in about 1670, when the English colony of South Carolina was founded just north of the missionary provinces of Guale and Mocama, part of Spanish Florida.
In its early years, Georgia stood alone as Britain’s only American colony in which slavery was illegal. The ban came as the population of enslaved Africans in colonial America was nearing 150,000.
The Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America, or simply the Georgia Trustees, was a body organized by James Edward Oglethorpe and associates following parliamentary investigations into prison conditions in Britain. After being granted a royal charter in 1732, Oglethorpe led the first group of colonists to the new ...
Lawyer, jurist, colonial administrator. James Wright (8 May 1716 – 20 November 1785) was an English lawyer, jurist and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Georgia from 1760 to 1766.