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In 1732, King George issued Georgia's first official charter. The Trustees of Georgia elected John Percival as president of the new colony.

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The Avalon Project : Charter of Georgia : 1732

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Whereas we are credibly informed, that many of our poor subjects are, through misfortunes and want of employment, reduced to great necessity, insomuch as by their labor they are not able to provide a maintenance for themselves and families; and if they had means to defray their charges of passage,

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Took place on July 7th, 1742. It was between the English and the Spanish on St Simons Island. The Spanish were forced to retreat, and the English won the battle. It got the name "Bloody Marsh" because a legend was told that the marsh at St. Simons Island ran red with blood following the English's victory.

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Georgia's original boundary remained the same from the founding of the colony until 1763 when the French and Indian war ended in a territorial victory for the British.

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Most citizens in Georgia were refugees from Europe. They were all fleeing religious persecution. Jews also found refuge in the Georgia colony.

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Established in 1733, which states that the colonists are to make use and posses all of the land. Also known as "Articles of Friendship and Commerce between the Trustees for Establishing the Colony in Georgia in America and the Chief Men of the nation of the Lower Creeks".

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Articles of Friendship and Commerce between the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America and the Chief Men of the nation of the Lower Creeks.

First. The Trustees bearing in their Hearts great Love and Friendship to you the said Head men of the Lower Creek Nation do engage to let their people carry up into your Towns all kinds of Goods fitting to trade in the said Towns at the Rates and Prices settled and agreed upon before you the said Head Men and annexed to this Treaty of Trade and Friendship.

Secondly. The Trustees do by these Articles promise to see Restitution done to any the People of your Towns by the People they shall send among you upon Proof made to the Beloved Man they shall at any time send among you That they who have either committed Murder, Robbery, or have bet or wounded any of your People or any ways injured them in their Crops by their Horses or any other ways whatever and upon such proof the said People shall be tryed and punished according to the English Law.

Thirdly. The Trustees when they find the Hearts of you the said Head Men and your People are not good to the people they shall send among you or that you or your People do not mind this Paper, they will withdraw the English favour from the Town so offending. And that you and your people may have this Chain of Friendship in your minds and linked to your hearts they have made fast their Seal to this Treaty.

Fourthly. We the Head Men of the Coweta and Cussita Towns in behalf of all the Lower Creek Nation being firmly persuaded that He who lives in Heaven and is the occasion of all good things has moved the hearts of the Trustees to send their Beloved men among us for the good of us our Wives and Children and to Instruct us and them in what is Streight do therefore declare that we are glad that their People are come here, and though this Land belongs to us the Lower Creeks yet we that we may be instructed by them do consent and agree that they shall make use of and possess all those Lands which our Nation hath not occasion for to use and we make over unto them their Successors and Assigns all such Lands and Territories as we shall have no occasion to use, Provided always that they upon Settling every New Town shall set out for the use of ourselves and the People of our Nation such Lands as shall be agreed upon between their Beloved Men and the head men of our Nation and that those Lands shall remain to us forever.

Fifthly, We the Head Men do promise for our selves and the People of our Towns that the Traders for the English which shall settle among us shall not be robbed or molested in their Trade in our Nation: and that if it should so happen that any our People should be mad and either kill, wound, beat, or rob any of the English Traders or their People, then we the said Head men of the Towns aforesaid do engage to have justice done to the English and for that purpose to deliver up any of our People who shall be guilty of the crimes aforesaid to be tryed by the English Laws or by the laws of our Nation as the Beloved Man of the Trustees shall think fit. And we further promise not to suffer any of the People of our said Towns to come into the limits of the English Settlements without leave from the English Beloved man and that we will not molest any of the English Traders passing to or from any Nation of Indians in Friendship with the English.

Sixthly. And we the Head Men for ourselves and People do promise to apprehend and secure any Negro or other slave which shall run away from any of the English Settlements to our Nation and to carry them either to this Town or the Savannah or Pallachuckala Garrison and there to deliver him up to the Commander of such Garrison and to be paid by him four Blankets or two Guns or the value thereof in other goods Provided such runaway Negro or other slave shall be taken by us or any of our People on the further side of the Ocony River, and in case such Negro or runaway Slave shall be taken on the hither side of the said River and delivered to the Commander as aforesaid then we understand the pay to be one Gun or the Value thereof. And in case we or our people should kill any such slave for resistance or Running away from us in apprehending him then we are to be paid One Blanket for his head by any Trader we shall carry such Slaves head unto.

Lastly, We promise with streight Hearts and Love to our Brothers the English to give no encouragement to any other White People but themselves to settle among us, and that we will not have any correspondence with the Spaniards or French. And to shew that we, both for the good of ourselves our Wives and Children do firmly promise to keep this Talk in our Hearts as long as the Sun shall shine or the waters run in the Rivers we have each of us set the marks of our Families.

Schedule of Prices of Goods agreed on Annexed.

Two Yards Strouds, Five Buckskins

One Yard Plains, One Buckskin weighing one pound and three quarters or Doeskins answerable

One White Blanket, Five Buckskins or ten Doeskins

One Blue Duffel Blanket, three Buckskins or Six Doeskins

A Gun, ten Buckskins or Twenty Doeskins

A Pistol, Five Buckskins or ten Doeskins

A Gun Lock, four Buckskins or Eight Doeskins

Four measures of Powder, one Buckskin or two Doeskins

Sixty Bullets, one Buckskin or two Doeskins

A White Shirt, two Buckskins or four Doeskins

A Knife, one Doeskin

Eighteen Flints, one Buckskin or two Doeskins

Three yards of Cadiz, one Doeskin

Three yards of Gartering, one Doeskin

A Hoe, two Buckskins or four Doeskins

A falling axe, two Buckskins of four Doeskins

A Large Hatchet, answerable or three Doeskins

A small Hatchet, one Buckskin or two Doeskins

A Brass Kettle, per pound one Buckskin or two Doeskins

Two Yards of Brass wire, a Doeskin

A Looking Glass, one Buckskin or two Doeskins

A Hat, Two Buckskins of four Doeskins

A Leathern Belt, one Buckskin or two Doeskins

One Dozen Buttons, one Doeskin

John T. Juricek, Georgia Treaties, 1733-1763, pp. 15-17, Vol. XI in Alden T. Faughan (gen. ed.), Early American Indian Documents: Treaties and Laws, 1607-1789 (Frederick Md.: University Publications of America, 1989.

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History - 1733 Treaty of Savannah - GeorgiaInfo

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Articles of Friendship and Commerce between the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America and the Chief Men of the nation of the Lower Creeks. First.

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Before Georgia was colonized by the early Europeans, three main Native American tribes lived on the land. The three tribes where the Yamacraw, Yamassee, and the Creek Indians.

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Georgia lies between the head waters of the Savannah and the Altamaha rivers with its western boundary formed by the Pacific and its eastern boundary formed by the Atlantic.

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Families were very large. Children played games outdoors and did lots of chores. There were no schools so boys were taught at home while girls learned to sew, cook, and clean. Most people were small farmers. Many people died because it was so hard to find fresh water & many disease-bearing insects came.

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James Oglethorpe was given a new assignment to build a fort, Fort Forderica, on St. Simons Island.

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When the colonists arrived in Georgia, a group of Yamacraw Indians inhabited the land. The chief, Tomochichi, kept peace between the two groups and strived for the success of Georgia as a colony.

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Georgia was the last and biggest of the 13 Colonies

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Before leaving on the journey to Georgia, the Trustees looked for colonists to join Oglethorpe. They looked for carpenters, tailors, bakers, farmers, merchants, and other skilled people to help make the colony successful. In November 1732, James Oglethorpe and 114 other colonists started the expedition to find Georgia. They crossed the Atlantic on a journey that lasted 2 months. The main religion of the Georgia colony and its founders was based on the Anglican Church.

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On January 19th, 1735, Alice Riley was the first woman hanged in Georgia for participating in murder of her master with her boyfriend. She was pregnant at the time and got to deliver the baby before the execution. This was taken place in Wright Square.

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James Edward Oglethorpe founded Georgia on February 12, 1733. It was founded because it had been almost 5 decades since the British had established a colony in America.

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This speech was to delivered to the South Carolina Assembly of why he colonized Georgia.

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James Oglethorpe's Speech to South Carolina Assembly, 1733 - American Memory Timeline- Classroom Presentation | Teacher Resources - Library of Congress

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It would be needless for me to tell you, who are much better judges, how the increasing settlements of the new Colony upon the Southern frontiers, will prevent the like danger for the future.