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Royal period | the period between the termination of Trustee governance of Georgia and the colony's declaration of independence at the beginning of the American Revolution |
Savannah | a coastal Georgia city |
Worthy Poor | people who are incapacitated and incapable of supporting themselves |
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. |
Trustee Period | Trustee Georgia is the name of the period covering the first twenty years of Georgia history, from 1732–1752, |
Charter of 1732 | Twenty trustees received funding from Parliament and a charter from the King, issued in June 1732. The charter granted the trustees the powers of a corporation |
Debtor | a person or institution that owes a sum of money. |
Rice rivers | The Rice River is a 57.1-mile-long (91.9 km) tributary of the Mississippi River in northern Minnesota, United States. ... The Rice River takes its name from the abundant wild rice that once fed Native Americans. |
John Reynolds | a captain in the British royal navy |
Philanthropy | A longer word that means charity |
Royal Governor | A royal governor is a gubernatorial official, appointed by a king or other monarch. |
Highland Scots | The Highland Scots were from Scotland, and were famed for their bravery in war. |
Mary Musgrove | Mary Musgrove was of mixed Yamacraw and English ancestry. She facilitated in the development of Colonial Georgia and became an important intermediary between Muscogee Creek natives and the English colonists. |
Tomochichi | he head chief of a Yamacraw town on the site of present-day Savannah |
James Oglethorpe | a British soldier, Member of Parliament, and philanthropist, as well as the founder of the colony of Georgia |
Malcontents | a person who is dissatisfied and rebellious. |
James wright | a colonial lawyer and jurist who was the last British Royal Governor of the Province of Georgia. |
Henry Ellis | Henry Ellis was an explorer, author, slave trader and a colonial governor of the provinces of Georgia and Nova Scotia. |