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First Georgia settlers arrived with Oglethorpe

Source: A True and Historical Narrative of the Colony of Georgia in America #173

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[THE First of February, 1733, Mr. Oglethorpe arrived at Georgia with the first Embarkation consisting of Forty Families, making upwards of One Hundred Persons, all brought over and supported at the Public Charge. (From A True and Historical Narrative of the Colony of Georgia, edited by Amy)]

[Oglethorpe and the settlers land on the site of present-day Savannah. They meet John and Mary Musgrove, who trade with nearby Indians Georgia celebrates February 12 as her founding because of the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar in 1752. (OurGeorgiaHistory.com)]

From 1741 AN ACCOUNT, SHEWING THE PROGRESS OF THE COLONY OF GEORGIA IN AMERICA, FROM IT'S FIRST ESTABLISHMENT.
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...The whole People arrived here on the 1st of February; at Night their Tents were got up. Till the 10th we were taken up in unloading, and making a Crane, which I then could not get finished, so took off the Hands and set some to the Fortification and began to fell the Woods. I have marked out the Town and Common, half of the former is already cleared, and the first House was begun Yesterday in the afternoon. A little Indian Nation, the only one within fifty Miles, is not only in Amity, but desirous to be Subjects to his Majesty King George, to have Lands given them among us, and to breed their Children at our Schools; their Chief [Tomochichi], and his beloved Man, who is the Second Man in the Nation, desire to be instructed in the Christian Religion. (1733-2-10 OGLETHORPE LETTER TO TRUSTEES)