With a number of charitable persons he obtained a part of South Carolina for a colony, and named it Georgia for George II, who gave the land.

Parliament also gave money.

For the government thought it very desirable to have a colony between the rich plantations of Carolina and the Spanish settlements in Florida.
[Sidenote: Settlement of Georgia, 1733.

_Higginson_, 127-130; _Eggleston_, 62-65; _Source-Book_, 71-73.] [Sidenote: Progress of the colony.] 88.

Georgia, 1733-52 .-- Naturally Oglethorpe had no difficulty in getting colonists.