This print offers an oblique perspective view of the streets, squares, and buildings of Savannah, the first settlement in Georgia. It was commissioned by the Georgia Trustees, a group of merchants, politicians, and clergy who were instrumental in the establishment of a new colony in America. The colony was conceived by James Edward Oglethorpe, a member of Parliament and a former army officer who had taken a keen interest in social and moral concerns. Oglethorpe and the trustees hoped to alleviate urban poverty in England by shipping the unemployed and the unemployable to America. In the new colony they would be granted their own farms, and though agricultural labor they would become productive subjects. These settlers would become the citizen-soldiers who would defend the flourishing colony of South Carolina from the hostile Spanish in Florida.