June 09, 1732: Georgia Charter Issued to Trustees
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Suggested Readings
Kenneth Coleman, Colonial Georgia: A History (New York: Scribner, 1976).
Amos Aschbach Ettinger, James Edward Oglethorpe: Imperial Idealist (Oxford, Eng.:
Clarendon Press, 1936).
James Ross McCain, Georgia as a Proprietary Province: The Execution of a Trust (Boston: R.
G. Badger, 1917).
Robert G. McPherson, ed., 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).
“Trustee Georgia, 1732-1752.” New Georgia
Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-816
Georgia Historical Society Three Centuries of Georgia
History: http://georgiahistory.com/containers/46#Colonygraph
Georgia Historical Society James Edward Oglethorpe:
http://georgiahistory.com/containers/237
The Royal Charter Establishing the Colony of
Georgia: http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/adhoc&CISOPTR=411&CISOSHO
W=395
Collections of the Georgia Historical Society (1840) Volume
1: http://www.archive.org/details/collectionsofgeo01geor
www.todayingeorgiahistory.org
June 09, 1732: GA Charter
Image Credits
A Map of the County of
Savannah
Georgia Historical Society
Georgia Historical Society Map
Collection, 1361MP 030
Courtesy of the Georgia
Historical Society
A Map of the Travels of
Oglethorpe
Georgia Historical Society
Georgia Historical Society Map
Collection, 1361MP 589
Courtesy of the Georgia
Historical Society
James Oglethorpe Portrait
Georgia Historical Society
James Oglethorpe Portrait,
Artifact Collection, A 1361 600
Courtesy of the Georgia
Historical Society
James Oglethorpe Portrait
Georgia Historical Society
James Oglethorpe Portrait,
Artifact Collection, A 1361 327
Courtesy of the Georgia
Historical Society
Copy of the Georgia Trustee’s
Seal
Georgia Historical Society
Georgia Trustee’s Seal, Artifact
Collection, A 1361 126 a,b
Courtesy of the Georgia
Historical Society
King George II
Ed Jackson
Courtesy of Ed Jackson
King George II
Ed Jackson
Courtesy of Ed Jackson
James Oglethorpe
Georgia Historical Society
Rare Book Collection, F289 0340
1841
Courtesy of the Georgia
Historical Society
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June 09, 1732: GA Charter
Image Credits
Portrait of King George II
Georgia Historical Society
Memoirs of the court of England
from the revolution in 1688 to the
death of George the Second,
Main Collection, 1 DA 480 J58
1908
Courtesy of the Georgia
Historical Society
Royal Charter of Georgia
Georgia Archives
Courtesy of Georgia Archives,
RG 49 2 18
St. Stephens Chapel
Internet Archives
The history of the ancient palace
and late Houses of Parliament at
Westminster
Courtesy of Internet Archives
Seal of Trustees
Georgia Historical Society
History of Georgia for Use in
Schools, Main Collection, F 286
E9 1908
Courtesy of the Georgia
Historical Society
House of Parliament
Library of Congress
Library of Congress, Prints and
Photographs Division,
LC-USZC4-6015
Westminster Meeting Place
Public Domain
Map of the Coast, Sea Islands,
Georgia Historical Society
and Early Settlements of Georgia
Rare Collection, F289 0340 18
Courtesy of the Georgia
Historical Society
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June 09, 1732: GA Charter
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Landing at Savannah
Georgia Historical Society
A comprehensive and popular
history of the United States :
embracing a full account of the
discovery and settlement of the
country and events down to the
present time, Rare Collection,
E178 S834 1882
Courtesy of the Georgia
Historical Society
Plan of Savannah
Georgia Historical Society
Courtesy of the Georgia
Historical Society, Map
Collection, 1361MP-001Color,
no text
Audience Given by the Trustees
of Georgia to a Delegation of
Creek Indians
Winterthur Museum
Image Courtesy of the Winterthur
Museum
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