James Oglethorpe

Learn More – James Oglethorpe

John C. Inscoe, ed., James Edward Oglethorpe: New Perspectives on His Life and Legacy
(Savannah: Georgia Historical Society, 1997).
Phinizy Spalding, Oglethorpe in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977).
Phinizy Spalding and Edwin L. Jackson, James Edward Oglethorpe: A New Look at Georgia’s
Founder (Athens: Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia, 1988).
Phinizy Spalding and Harvey H. Jackson, eds., Oglethorpe in Perspective: Georgia’s Founder
after Two Hundred Years (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1989).
“James Edward Oglethorpe (1696-1785).” New Georgia
Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1058&sug=y
Georgia Historical Society – Georgia History Festival Honoree Curriculum James
Oglethorpe: http://georgiahistory.com/containers/237
Georgia Historical Society Three Centuries of Georgia History: Eighteenth Century
James Oglethorpe Historical Marker: http://georgiahistory.com/markers/344
Collections of the Georgia Historical Society Volume
1: http://archive.org/details/collectionsofgeo01geor
“Trustee Georgia, 1732-1752.” New Georgia
Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-816

A List of the Early Settlers of
Georgia: http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ugapressbks/pdfs/ugp9780820334394.pdf

The Royal Charter Establishing the Colony of
Georgia: http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/adhoc&CISOPTR=411&CISOSHO
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