A first book in American history with European beginnings . soned debtors be taken to America?And why could they not be settled in a colony whichwould serve as a military outpost against the Spaniards? General Ogle-thorpe laid hisscheme before theEnglish King andthe English Gov-ernment. Bothheartily land lying be-tween the Savan-nah and the Alta-maha rivers wasgranted to the newcolony, namedGeorgia in honorof King George II,and General Ogle-thorpe was ap-pointed governor. In January,1733,General Ogle- ,i -,i i • James Oglethorpe. tnorpe, with his re-leased debtors and their famili
A first book in American history with European beginnings . soned debtors be taken to America?And why could they not be settled in a colony whichwould serve as a military outpost against the Spaniards? General Ogle-thorpe laid hisscheme before theEnglish King andthe English Gov-ernment. Bothheartily land lying be-tween the Savan-nah and the Alta-maha rivers wasgranted to the newcolony, namedGeorgia in honorof King George II,and General Ogle-thorpe was ap-pointed governor. In January,1733,General Ogle- ,i -,i i • James Oglethorpe. tnorpe, with his re-leased debtors and their families, entered the SavannahRiver. The settlers bought from the Indians the landalong the southern bank of the river, laid out a town, andnamed it Savannah. True to his promise to make hiscolony a military outpost against the Spaniards, GovernorOglethorpe built forts and insisted on military drills. Andbefore many years he had a chance to prove that his colonymade a valuable protection for South Carolina. For ten years Governor Oglethorpe devoted himself165. A FIRST BOOK IN AMERICAN HISTORY to his colony. In 1743 he bade adieu to his sorrowingfriends, both the settlers and the Indians, and left forhis English home. Here he lived to a good old age, hon-ored and loved by his countrymen as much as by the un-fortunate debtors whom he had treated so kindly. We have learned something of the founding of Virginia,Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Maryland, Northand South Carolina, and Pennsylvania. Besides theseeight, there were four other colonies in America whenGeneral Oglethorpe brought his settlers to Georgia. Outof Massachusetts the New England colonists had gonenorth and southwest, and, with other colonists fromEngland, had laid the beginnings of New Hampshire andConnecticut. After the Duke of York had seized NewNetherland from the Dutch, he gave the name of NewJersey to that part of it which lay east of the DelawareRiver; and this became a separate colony. Sweden, too,had sen
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