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On January 2, 1755, Georgia officially ceased to be a proprietary colony and became a royal colony. From 1732 until 1758, the minor civil divisions were districts and towns. In 1758, without Indian permission, the Province of Georgia was divided into eight parishes by the Act of the Assembly of Georgia on March 15.
1905 map showing colonial Georgia 1732–63 and surrounding area. In 1752, Georgia became a royal colony. Planters from South Carolina, wealthier than the original settlers of Georgia, migrated south and soon dominated the colony. They replicated the customs and institutions of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Planters had higher rates of ...
The Journal of the Earl of Egmont: Abstract of the Trustees Proceedings for Establishing the Colony of Georgia, 1732–1738 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1962). Julie Anne Sweet, Negotiating for Georgia: British-Creek Relations in the Trustee Era, 1733–1752 (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2005).
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 [2] (8) Jacques Prevost: Provisional governor: July 1779: September 1779 (9) Lieutenant Colonel James Wright: Governor: September 1779: 11 July 1782
On 9 June 1732, Oglethorpe, Perceval, Martyn, and a group of other prominent Britons (collectively known as the Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America) petitioned for and were eventually granted a royal charter to establish the colony of Georgia between the Savannah River and the Altamaha River.
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 ...
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.
1750 Colonial Park Cemetery established. Christ Church built. [2] Savannah Female Asylum founded. [2] 1754 Savannah becomes capital of British Province of Georgia. [4] Pirates' House Inn in business. 1755 January 1: Georgia legislature convenes. [2] Independent Presbyterian Church founded. 1762 – Bonaventure Plantation established.