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

- 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

- 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

- 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

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- 1732 – 2 decades GA – trustee colony Write (20 years) - 1732 – 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

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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?

- 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

- 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

- 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

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

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