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Province of Georgia
Origins
In 1732 George II granted a charter to a board of Trustees led by James Oglethorpe for the land between the Savannah and Altamaha rivers. Oglethorpe founded Savannah in 1733, with the help of the Yamacraw leader Tomochichi. The colony was meant to shield the Province of South Carolina from Spanish Florida and to offer a new start to the poor.
Rule and society
The Trustees banned slavery, limited landholdings and forbade hard liquor, and they recruited Protestant Salzburgers, Scottish Highlanders and others. Oglethorpe defeated a Spanish invasion at Bloody Marsh in 1742. Settlers, envious of Carolina's rice wealth, pressed for slavery, which was allowed in 1751. The Trustees surrendered the charter, and Georgia became a royal province in 1752, with rice plantations spreading along the coast under governor James Wright.
Decline and legacy
Patriots took control in 1776 and Georgia became a state of the United States, though British forces reoccupied Savannah from 1778 to 1782 and restored royal government there. Georgia adopted its first state constitution in 1777.
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- Province of Georgia was a colony of Kingdom of Great Britain1732 CE – 1776 CE
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Province of Georgia. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/province-of-georgia
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- The Epoch Institute. “Province of Georgia.” The Epoch Institute States Register. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/province-of-georgia.
- Harvard
- The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Province of Georgia’, The Epoch Institute States Register. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/province-of-georgia (Accessed: ).
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