The enterprise was organized avowedly as a work of charity.

The territory was vested in trustees, who should receive no pay or emolument for their services.

Oglethorpe himself gave his unpaid labor as military and civil head of the colony, declining to receive in return so much as a settler's allotment of land.

An appropriation of ten thousand pounds was made by Parliament for the promotion of the work--the only government subsidy ever granted to an American colony.

With eager and unselfish hopes of a noble service to be rendered to humanity, the generous soldier embarked with a picked company of one hundred and twenty emigrants, and on the 12th of February, 1733, landed at the foot of the bluff on which now stands the city of Savannah.