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to protect the other british colonies from the attacks of the French, Spanish,& Native Americans.
James Oglethorpe
The first colony established in New England was the Plymouth Plantation, established at Plymouth near Cape Cod.
This colony could protect the other British colonies from Spanish attack. Great Britain had been at war in the early 1700's. Georgia would serve as a military barrier.
James Oglethorpe persuaded King George II that England needed a buffer between South Carolina and Spanish Florida, and so the King signed the charter creating the colony of Georgia in 1732. Georgia was the first new British colony in North America in more than 50 years.
Georgia. They did not send a representative to meet in the first continental congress.