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It was created by the English government as a buffer state between the Chesapeake colonies and the Spanish and French owned lands (for example, Florida) to the south and west.

Also, Georgia's founder, James Oglethorpe, founded the colony as a sanctuary for debtors who had been imprisoned.

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