<P> Following Britain's victory in the French and Indian War, King George III issued the Proclamation of 1763 . One of its provisions was to extend Georgia's southern boundary from the Altamaha River to the St. Marys River . Two years later, on March 25, 1765, Governor James Wright approved an act of the General Assembly creating four new parishes--St. David, St. Patrick, St. Thomas, and St. Mary--in the recently acquired land, and it further assigned Jekyll Island to St. James Parish . </P> <P> The Georgia colony had had a sluggish beginning . James Oglethorpe did not allow liquor, and colonists who came at the trustees' expense were not allowed to own more than 50 acres (0.20 km) of land for their farm in addition to a 60 foot by 90 foot plot in town . Those who paid their own way could bring ten indentured servants and would receive 500 acres of land . Additional land could neither be acquired nor sold . Discontent grew in the colony because of these restrictions, and Oglethorpe lifted them . With slavery, liquor, and land acquisition the colony improved much faster . Slavery had been permitted from 1749 . There was some internal opposition to slavery, particularly from Scottish settlers, but by the time of the War of Independence, Georgia was much like the other Southern colonies . </P> <P> In 1777, during the American Revolutionary War, the original eight counties of the state of Georgia were created . Settlement had been limited to the near vicinity of the Savannah River; the western area of the colony remained under the control of the Creek Indian Confederation . </P> <P> Georgia was the fourth state to be admitted to the Union, on January 2, 1788 . </P>

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