Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America

Bray died in February 1730, and Oglethorpe became the driving force behind the organization, which would soon give birth to the Georgia Trustees.

Oglethorpe personally led the first group of colonists to the new colony, departing England on November, 1732 and arriving at the site of present-day Savannah, Georgia on February 12, 1733 O.S.

Now known as the Oglethorpe Plan, it specified how towns and regions would be laid out, how property would be equitably and sustainably allocated, and how society would be organized to defend itself on a perilous frontier.

In an early letter to the trustees, Dr Cox said: "the greatest health hazard in Savannah is alligators in the streets".

However, Dr Cox was the first to die (after 59 days) from the real health hazard, that of consumption (i.e. tuberculosis), for which he had treated many colonists immediately after arrival.

His family returned to England, but his son William, only 11 years old, stayed and apprenticed to help build Bethesda, America's oldest orphanage.

Dr. Thomas Wilson 1747: Francis Cokayne (Lord Mayor of London), Samuel Lloyd (silk merchant) 1749: John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont, Anthony Ewer, Edward Hooper, Sir John Cust, 3rd Baronet, Slingsby Bethell, Stephen Theodore Janssen (Lord Mayor of London) 1752: Richard Cavendish London: Benjamin Martyn, Secretary; Harman Verelst, Accountant Savannah: William Stephens, Secretary, later President of Savannah County and President of the Georgia colony.

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