Publications of James Edward Oglethorpe contains various writings by the founder of the Georgia colony, supplemented by introductions and notes to further the r

James Edward Oglethorpe turned his back on Oxford University, his family's Jacobite schemes, and a career as courtier to a prince to settle as an English countr

Nine essays that attempt to answer some of the questions that continually surface when Oglethorpe's name is mentioned.

The birth year (1688) for James Oglethorpe is found on page 2 of this book. The Library of Congress has his birth year as 1696.

A biography of the English founder and first governor of the colony of Georgia who was active in politics and penal reform and a supporter of the American Revol