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1 EQ: What does it mean to be a “Trustee Colony?”
Write EQ: What does it mean to be a “Trustee Colony?” PT: Use your book to define: corporate colony -royal colony & propriety colony King George II

2 - king gave grant of land to a corporation
joint-stock colony: Write - king gave grant of land to a corporation - sold stock to investors - assumed all costs to settle colony Virginia (VA) - profits from Great Britain’s first colony in North America - selling goods - sale of land - went back to company & stockholders

3 - king issued charter granting land ownership to person or group
propriety colony: Write - king issued charter granting land ownership to person or group - owner had full rights to - govern & - distribute land - established: safe for Quakers to worship Pennsylvania

4 - operated directly by Great Britain’s (GR BRIT) government
royal colony: Write - operated directly by Great Britain’s (GR BRIT) government - through a royal governor appointed by the king - all profits went to GR BRIT’s government - no colony’s started this way - by end of colonial period most colonies were royal

5 Write

6 - 1732 – 2 decades GA – trustee colony
Write (20 years) – 2 decades GA – trustee colony - 21 men inc. James Oglethorpe (JO) interested in charity named as trustees - trustee –a person placed in an official position of trust to act on behalf of someone else

7 - GA - great social experiment - rules strict
- official motto: Write “Not for ourselves but for others” - GA - great social experiment - rules strict - carefully selected colonists - no convicts - no debtors - must have skills

8 - food to support until 1st harvest
- money donated to buy Write - tools to build & farm - weapons - food to support until 1st harvest - seeds to plant - 35 families – 114 settlers - farmers, tailors, bakers, merchants, etc. all skilled in trade

9 - late November (NOV) 1732 set sail w/ JO
Write - ship - Anne - 57 days arrived in harbor Charles Town, SC - SC would help new GA colony get started - JO & Carolina Rangers set sail for Port Royal, SC while GA settlers rested

10 - 18 miles up Savannah River
Write - JO found large flat area good for settlement known as Yamacraw Bluff - upstream – small village of Yamacraws (Creek Indians) - JO met Carolina trader John Musgrove and wife Mary - Mary’s father – white trader & mother – Creek Indian

11 - Mary would translate for JO
Write - Chief Tomochichi gave JO the land to settle - C TOM became JO’s friend & ally - ally - agreement to aid another - Why give away land?

12 - by now – small tribe depended on English goods
Write - by now – small tribe depended on English goods - traded deerskins & other furs - game was low - Indians not farmers - had little use for land b/c they had so much - C TOM gave JO the land to settle

13 - February 12, 1733 – colonists arrived at Yamacraw Bluff
Write - February 12, 1733 – colonists arrived at Yamacraw Bluff - many agree this is the founding (creation) of the GA colony - Georgia Day Celebration February 12

14 - dysentery from polluted water
Write - by April - 1 in 4 colonists died - dysentery from polluted water - only doctor died - new well dug - soon more colonists arrived - 40 misplaced Jews from Spain & Portugal including a doctor

15 - other immigrants began to arrive
Write - paid their own way - Italian silk merchants - Lutheran Salzburgers - Germans - Swiss - English - Scottish Highlanders - other nationalities

16 Write Reflection:

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