Province of Georgia

The Province of Georgia was the last of Britain's Thirteen Colonies, chartered to General James Oglethorpe on 21 April 1732 by the George II it was named for and finalized that June. Planned as a utopia on Harrington's ideals, it was to take England's debtors and worthy poor to smallholdings instead of plantations, banning drink and opposing slavery against the temper of the south, a southern shield against Spanish Florida with sturdy farmers for border guards. The grant ran a thin strip to the Pacific on paper; on the ground the Anne sailed via Charleston in January 1733, Oglethorpe planted Yamacraw Bluff that February where Savannah rose as the capital. General Oglethorpe imposed laws many colonists disagreed with, and land grants proved smaller than they wished. Royal from 1751, Georgia was the last colony to join the Revolution in 1775, and in 1776 the charity colony became the American state.