This book looks at the history of Colonial Georgia from 1732-1800. It includes the founding of Georgia as a colony by James Oglethorpe, its time as a Royal Colony under three Royal governors, the Revolutionary War, and its first years as a state of the United States. Along the way, we meet some interesting people, including the aforementioned Oglethorpe, his friend Chief Tomochichi, Mary Musgrove, the Empress of Georgia, John & Charles Wesley, who spent two (unsuccessful) years in Georgia, George Whitefield, and Johann Bolzius, pastor of the Salzburger congregation in Ebenezer, Georgia. And...
This book looks at the history of Colonial Georgia from 1732-1800. It includes the founding of Georgia as a colony by James Oglethorpe, its time as a ...