Cyclopædia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the
Political History of the United States GEORGIA, one of the
thirteen original United States. Its territory was originally
included in the charter of 1662-3 to the lords proprietors of
the Carolinas, but was set apart by a royal charter of June 9,
1732, to a company organized by James Oglethorpe to provide
homes in America for indigent persons. The boundaries of the new
colony were laid down in the charger as follows: "All those
lands, countrys and territories situate, lying and being in that
part of South Carolina, in America, which lies from the most
northern part of a stream or river there, commonly called the
Savannah, all along the sea coast, to the southward, unto the
most southern stream of a certain other great water or river
called the Alatamaha, and westerly from the heads of the said
rivers respectively in direct lines to the south seas." this
boundary was more precisely defined by the state constitution of
1798 as beginning at the mouth of