Quotation from: The Beginner's American History

Written by: D.H. Montgomery


The two colonies farthest south were North Carolina and South
Carolina. In 1733 James Oglethorpe, a brave English soldier, who
afterward became General Oglethorpe, came over here to make a new
settlement. This new one, which made just thirteen[4] in all, was
called Georgia in honor of King George the Second, who gave a piece
of land for it, on the seacoast, below South Carolina.


[Illustration: Map of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina.]

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