Georgia 1732 P1

Fifty years after the founding of Pennsylvania, Georgia became the last of the original 13 colonies to be established. Several other colonies were founded during the intervening years between the early colonies and Georgia. In fact, during America’s colonization period, at least 128 different covenants compacts, charters, and constitutions were written.

Of these, 86 came from the American colonies, and 42 from England, for the colonists. The influence of Christianity appears in almost all of these documents.

The Rev. Dr. Thomas Bray, a pastor in England, played a supporting role in starting a colony in Georgia. After his initial involvement in sending missionaries to America, he and his associates joined with General James Oglethorpe an founded Georgia in 1732.

When the first group of 114 settlers arrived in 1733, they knelt in thanks to God, declaring: Our end in leaving our native country was not to avoid want, God having given us plenty of temporal blessings; nor to gain the dung or dross of riches and honor; but singly this: to save our souls —to live wholly to the glory of God.

Content Sourced From The American Story, The Beginnings by Dave Barton & Tim Barton