USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -James Oglethorpe, along with a twenty-one-member Board of Trustees, founded the colony of Georgia in 1733 and directed its development for nearly a decade.

Detailed explanation-2: -The original Georgia Trustees was a governing body chartered and appointed by His Majesty King George II of England in 1732 to establish a new colony in North America. The Trustees governed the colony of Georgia for twenty years.

Detailed explanation-3: -Founding a Colony On June 9, 1732, the crown granted a charter to the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia. Oglethorpe himself led the first group of 114 colonists on the frigate Anne, landing at the site of today’s Savannah on February 1, 1733.

Detailed explanation-4: -Twelve Trustees attended the first meeting on July 20, 1732, at the Georgia office in the Old Palace Yard, conveniently close to Westminster. Committees were named to solicit contributions and interview applicants to the new colony.

Detailed explanation-5: -James Oglethorpe was a British general, member of Parliament, philanthropist, humanitarian, was the founder of the colony of Georgia in America in 1733. He was a social reformer in England founding Georgia, after a grant from King George II, to resettle Britain’s poor, especially those in debtors’ prison.