In return for many coveted goods, he procured within the year a formal cession of the land between the two rivers and the islands off the coast.

He swore friendship and promised to treat the Indians justly, and he kept his oath.

The site chosen, he now returned to the Anne and presently brought his colonists up the river to that fair place.

As soon as they landed, these first Georgians began immediately to build a town which they named Savannah.
Ere long other emigrants arrived.

In 1734 came seventy-eight German Protestants from Salzburg, with Baron von Reck and two pastors for leaders.