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The Province of Georgia [1] (also Georgia Colony) was one of the Southern Colonies in colonial-era British America. In 1775 it was the last of the Thirteen Colonies to support the American Revolution .
Georgia was the only colony not present in the First Continental Congress in 1774. When violence broke out in 1775, radical Patriots (also known as Whigs) took control of the provincial government, and drove many Loyalists out of the province. Georgia subsequently took part to the Second Continental Congress with the other colonies. In 1776 and ...
Business People's Suffrage Association. [3] Chatham County Branch of the Equal Suffrage Party of Georgia. [2] DeKalb Equal Suffrage Party. [3] Equal Suffrage Party of Augusta. [2] Equal Suffrage Party of Georgia. [4] Fulton Equal Suffrage Party. [3] Georgia Men's League for Woman Suffrage. [5] Georgia Woman Equal Suffrage League, formed in 1913 ...
Province of South Carolina, previously part of the Carolina province (see below) until 1712; chartered as a royal colony in 1729. Province of Georgia, established as a proprietary colony in 1732; royal colony from 1752. The Province of Carolina was initially chartered in 1629 and initial settlements were established after 1651.
On January 19, 1861, Georgia seceded from the Union and on February 8, 1861, joined other Southern states, all slave societies, to form the Confederate States of America. Georgia contributed nearly one hundred twenty thousand soldiers to the Confederacy, with about five thousand Georgians (both black and white) joining the Union Army.
Georgia became a crown colony, with a governor appointed by the king of Great Britain. [14] The Province of Georgia was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution by signing the 1776 Declaration of Independence. The State of Georgia's first constitution was ratified in February 1777.
Lieutenant-General James Edward Oglethorpe (22 December 1696 [1] – 30 June 1785) was a British Army officer, Tory politician and colonial administrator best known for founding the Province of Georgia in British North America.
Dr Cox was buried with "the highest military honors" by Oglethorpe. His family returned to England, but his son William, only 11 years old, stayed and apprenticed to help build Bethesda, America's oldest orphanage. [5] The trustees governed the Georgia colony from its founding in 1733 until June 28, 1752 O.S., a period known as Trustee Georgia.