Bibliographies.--Avery, III. 438-440; Winsor, V. 392-406; Channing and Hart, _Guide_, § 103. Historical Maps.--No. 4, this volume (_Epoch Maps_, No. 4), MacCoun, and school histories already cited. General Accounts.--Avery, III. ch. xxiv.; Doyle, _Colonies_, V. ch. viii.; G. Bancroft, II. 268-291; Greene, _Provincial America_, ch. xv.; Hildreth, II. 362-377; Lodge, _Colonies_, ch. ix.; Winsor, V. ch. vi.; McCrady, _South Carolina under Royal Government_, chs. xi., xii.; W. Wilson, _American People_, II. 62-68; histories of Georgia by Jones, McCall, and Stevens. Special Histories.--C. Jones, _Dead Towns of Georgia_; P. A. Strobel, _Salzburgers_; J. MacLean, _Scotch Highlanders in America_, ch. vi.; G. White, _Historical Collections of Georgia_; lives of Oglethorpe by Bruce, Cooper, Harris, and Wright. Contemporary Accounts.--Oglethorpe, _Account_ (1732); Martyn, _Reasons for Establishing Georgia_ (1733); _Account Showing Progress of Georgia_ (1741); _Impartial Enquiry into State and Utility of Province of Georgia_ (1741); Cadogan, _Impartial Account of Expedition against St. Augustine_ (1743); Moore, _Voyage to Georgia_ (1744); Egmont, _Journal of Trustees for Establishing Colony of Georgia_; Candler, _Colonial Records_. 116. Settlement of Georgia (1732-1735). Sidenote: Unsettled territory. The southern boundary of South Carolina was practically the Savannah River; but the English claimed as far south as the St. John's. Just below the St. John's, and one hundred and seventy miles south of the Savannah, lay the old Spanish colony of St. Augustine, founded (page 34, § 12) in 1565. The country between the Savannah and the St. John's was a part of the old Carolina claim; but when the Carolinas became royal provinces the king reserved this unsettled district as crown lands. Sidenote: Formation of the Georgia Company. James Oglethorpe had been an army officer; he was a member of parliament, and was prominent in various efforts at domestic reform, particularly in the improvement of the condition of debtors' prisons. Stirred by the terrible revelations of his inquiry, he engaged other wealthy and benevolent men with him, and formed a company (1732) for the settlement of the reserved Carolina tract, which was to be styled Georgia, in honor of the king, George II. The proposed colony was to serve the double purpose of checking the threatened Spanish advance upon the southern colonies in America, and of furnishing a home for members of the debtor class, who would be given a chance to retrieve their fortunes by a fresh start in life. This scheme, half philanthropic and half military, had also in view the extension of the English fur-traffic among the Cherokees, whose trade was now being eagerly sought by the Spanish on the south, and the French on the west. Sidenote: The charter.