for South Carolina against the Spanish and some Creek factions. Each of the new "Georgians" was chosen for their work skills, which would best contribute to the colony. The men were trained and made members of the militia for the defense of Georgia and South Carolina. Most of the 114 traveled with wives, children and servants. Dr William Cox, appointed medical doctor for the colony, brought his wife Elizabeth, son, William, a young daughter and a male servant. In an early letter to the trustees, Dr Cox said: "the greatest health hazard in Savannah is alligators in the streets". However, Dr Cox was the first to die (after 59 days) from the real health hazard, that of consumption (i.e. tuberculosis), for which he had treated many colonists immediately after arrival. Dr Cox was buried with "the highest military honors" by Oglethorpe. His family returned to England, but his son William, only 11 years old, stayed and apprenticed to help build Bethesda, America's oldest orphanage. The trustees governed the Georgia colony from its founding in 1733 until June 28, 1752 O.S., a period known as Trustee Georgia. List of Georgia Trustees The Georgia Trustees: Trustees named in the royal charter, effective June, 1732 Trustees appointed at the first annual meeting in March, 1733 Trustees appointed at later annual meetings 1734: Rev. Dr. Thomas Rundle (Bishop of Derry, died 1743), Hon. William Talbot, Richard Coope, William Wollaston MP, Hon. Robert Eyre, Thomas Archer MP, Robert Tracy (MP), Hon. Henry Archer (MP), Francis Wollaston (d.1774) 1737: Sir Jacob Bouverie, 3rd Baronet (later Viscount Folkestone) 1738: Sir Henry Gough, 1st Baronet , Sir Roger Burgoyne, 6th Baronet 1739: Lord Sidney Beauclerk (died 1744) 1741: Hon. Henry Bathurst, Hon. Philip Perceval (brother of the Earl of Egmont), Sir John Frederick, 1st Baronet (brother of Thomas Frederick, deceased Trustee) 1742: Hon. Alexander Hume Campbell, Sir John Barrington, 7th Baronet, Samuel Tuffnell MP, Sir Henry Calthorpe, KB 1743: Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet, Velters Cornewall, John Wright (died 1748) 1745: Rev. Dr. Thomas Wilson 1747: Francis Cokayne (Lord Mayor of London), Samuel Lloyd (silk merchant) 1749: John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont, Anthony Ewer, Edward Hooper, Sir John Cust, 3rd Baronet, Slingsby Bethell, Stephen Theodore Janssen (Lord Mayor of London) 1752: Richard Cavendish Employees and officials of the trustees London: Benjamin Martyn, Secretary; Harman Verelst, Accountant Savannah: William Stephens, Secretary, later President of Savannah County and President