Savannah, Georgia
Description: The Town of Savannah
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To Savannah\'s colony this meant getting rid of their country’s debtors, making sure the and between Florida and the Carolinas were settled by the English, and lastly they could watch the activities of the Spanish in Florida and the French in the huge territories of French Louisiana in the west. In the beginning only people who owed money were coming but word got around that a ship was going to the new land and most people who came were humans out of work, people who wanted religious freedom, and of course the country\'s debtors.
The people out of work and religious freedom people had to pay to get on though. Thirty-five families were chosen to go on which equaled to one hundred twenty people coming. On November 17, 1732 the Anne (the boat took to Savannah) set sailed down the England\'s Thames River. There was 120 people, and lots hogs, ducks, geese, and sheep. It took a long time to get there but on January 1, 1733 land was spotted aboard the Anne. They had spotted Charlestown, South Carolina. Even though everyone aboard had been on for a year no one was aloud off the boat but James Oglethorpe and a few men because they were afraid that the people would love Charleston so much and not want to leave. They asked the governor Robert Johnson for help. He said yes but only because there would then be a colony between them and the Spanish (in Florida). That was when they picked were the where they would build the colony. It would be 18 miles from the Savannah River (named after a Native American tribe that is there. Oglethorpe asked permission from the nearby Native Americans if he could stay. This meant no war because the Native Americans said they could stay there. February 12, is now and will forever be Georgia\'s birthday because that’s the day everyone finally went to Georgia. When the settlers came they had a hard life. They lived in tents. In the end each family had a house, a garden plot inside Savannah totaling five acres.