Georgia History Exam Latest Update Graded A+ James Oglethorpe Founding Trustee and Governor of the Georgia colony 1733 Opposed slavery and respected GA Indian customs
Mary Musgrove Served as an interpreter between Oglethorpe and Tomochichi (she was part Native American and part British)
Tomochich...
Georgia History Exam Latest Update Graded A+ James Oglethorpe ✔✔Founding Trustee and Governor of the Georgia colony 1733 Opposed slavery and respected GA Indian customs Mary Musgrove ✔✔Served as an interpreter between Oglethorpe and Tomochichi (she was part Native Americ an and part British) Tomochichi ✔✔Chief of the Yamacraw who gave James Oglethorpe land for the Savannah settlement - Yamacraw Bluff William Stephens ✔✔Secretary of the Trustee 1737 - supported Trustee policies, wrote "A State of the Province of GA" Appoi nted President 1741 -1751 - authority to grant land John Reynolds ✔✔First man to hold the title of Royal Governor in GA 1754 Was removed by the British Board of Trade in 1757 because of his dictatorial and spendthrift ways Henry Ellis ✔✔Second Royal Gover nor of GA - replaced John Reynolds in 1757 Resigned in 1760 due to health reasons He wore a thermometer James Wright ✔✔Third Royal Governor of GA 1760 -1782 - fled when the American Revolution started Played an instrumental role in two large land cessions for the state from Georgia's Native American neighbors Noble Wimberly Jones ✔✔"Morning Star of Liberty" Speaker of Commons, Whig (patriot) against British taxation Member of convention that created th e States Constitution in 1777 George Walton ✔✔One of three Georgia signers of the Declaration of Independence Elected Governor in 1779 Lyman Hall ✔✔One of three Georgia signers of the Declaration of Independence GA Governor 1783 -1784 Button Gwinnet ✔✔One of three Georgia signers of the Declaration of Independence Was killed in a pistol duel with Lachlan McIntosh over the command of GA forces Lachlan McIntosh ✔✔Whig (patriot) In charge of defense during the Battle of Rice Boats in the Savannah harbor in an effort to defend the city from British Killed Button Gwinnett in a pistol duel over the command of GA forces Elijah Clarke ✔✔Led troops at Battle of Kettle Creek Whig (patriot) leader for the Georgia militia during the Revolution Commissioner for treat ies with Native Americans Thomas Brown ✔✔Torie (loyalist) who was defeated (against Elijah Clarke) in the Battle of Kettle Creek Feb 1779 and victory pursuing Americans in the Battle of Briar Creek March 1779 restoring the royal government. Opposed Sons o f Liberty Nancy Hart ✔✔Whig (patriot) supporter that killed one and wounded a second loyalists that came into her house to steal from her. The remaining loyalist were hung by her husband, Benjamin Hart Archibald Campbell ✔✔Torie (loyalist) lieutenant colonel who captured Savannah in December 1778 and Augusta in January 1779 during the American Revolution Count Charles Henri d'Estaing ✔✔French ally to General Benjamin Lincoln (Continental Commander) that tried unsuccessfully to recapture Savannah in "the Seige of Savannah" the second deadliest battle during the Revolutionary war in 1779 James Jackson ✔✔Overturned the Yazoo land fraud of 1795 Served in the Georgia militia in the American Revolutionary War ; served at the defense of Savannah, the Battle of Cowpens, and the recapture of Augusta and Savannah An early GA politician of the Democrat -Republican Party Anthony Wayne ✔✔General "Mad" sent by General Nathanael Greene to push the British out of Savanna h 1782 Defeated James Jackson for reelection to Congress in 1791, but voting irregularities on the part of his supporters found that he did not win fairly Negotiated peace treaties with both the Creek and the Cherokee
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