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7 unusual facts about Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America


Anthony Ashley Cooper, 4th Earl of Shaftesbury

Shaftesbury was elected to the Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America in 1733, less than a year after the group was created by royal charter.

Benjamin Martyn

He served as the only secretary for the Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America from 1732 to 1752.

John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont

In 1730, the two men were among those who formed an association that later became the Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America.

Oglethorpe Plan

The new Georgia colony was authorized under a grant from George II to a group constituted by Oglethorpe as the Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America, or simply the Georgia Trustees.

Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America

Ted Turner (CNN founder and Chairman of Turner Enterprises, Inc.)

Andrew Young (former UN Ambassador, Mayor of Atlanta, US Congressman and civil rights leader)

Now known as the Oglethorpe Plan, it specified how towns and regions would be laid out, how property would be equitably and sustainably allocated, and how society would be organized to defend itself on a perilous frontier.



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