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James Edward Oglethorpe | a British general, Member of Parliament, philanthropist, and founder of the colony of Georgia.to resettle Britain's poor, especially those in debtors' prisons, in the New World. |
Trustee | an individual person or member of a board given control or powers of administration of property in trust with a legal obligation to administer it solely for the purposes specified. |
charter 1732 | establishing the colony and creating its governing board on April 21, 1732. |
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John Musgrove | a indian trader |
Tomochichi | a seventeenth-century Creek leader and the head chief of a Yamacraw town on the site of present-day Savannah, Georgia. |
Mary Musgrove | The daughter of John Musgrove |
Treaty of Savannah | The agreement of the Indians and colonists |
Samuel Nunes | was a Portuguese physician and among the earliest Jews to settle in North America. |
Salzburgers | a group of German-speaking Protestant refugees that emigrated to Georgia in 1734 to escape religious persecution |
Moravians | a member of a Protestant Church founded in Saxony by emigrants from Moravia holding views derived from the Hussites and accepting the Bible as the only source of faith. |
Highland scots | Soldiers that James Oglethorpe brought with him when he landed in yamacraw bluff |
Altamaha river | is a major river in the U.S. state of Georgia |
Fort Frederica | established in 1736 by James Oglethorpe to protect the southern boundary of his new colony of Georgia from the Spanish in Florida. |
John Wesley | an Anglican minister and theologian |
George Whitefield | an English Anglican cleric who helped spread the Great Awakening |
Grumpletonians/Malcontents | an English Anglican cleric who helped spread the Great Awakening i |
John Reynolds | British naval officer and governor of the Province of Georgia |
Commons House of Assembly | a legislative body or the lower house of a legislature |
Henry Ellis | explorer, author, and a colonial governor |
James Wright | American colonial lawyer and jurist who was the last British Royal Governor of the Province of Georgia. |
War of Jenkins Ear | was a conflict between Britain and Spain that lasted from 1739 to 1748 |
Battle of Bloody Marsh | On July 7, 1742, English and Spanish forces skirmished on St. Simons Island |
Yamacraw Bluff | the spot upon which General James Edward Oglethorpe landed to settle the colony of Georgia. |