Learn about James Oglethorpe and how he started the thirteenth colony in America: Georgia. Through high-interest informational text, readers will learn about Og

The birth year (1688) for James Oglethorpe is found on page 2 of this book. The Library of Congress has his birth year as 1696.

This list of settlers in Georgia up to 1741 is taken from a manuscript volume of the Earl of Egmont, purchased with twenty other volumes of manuscripts on early

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