Roger Lacy and the Georgia Colony
Near Tybee Island, Georgia
Roger Lacy, sometimes spelled Lacey, arrived in Savannah in the early years of James Oglethorpe's Georgia Colony. Though he settled near Savannah, Lacy spent most of his time at a trading post in Augusta, working as a trader on the frontier of British colonial Georgia. Trading posts like the one Lacy commanded were the economic arteries of early Georgia, exchanging European goods for deerskins, furs, and other commodities supplied by the Creek and Cherokee peoples of the interior.
Augusta itself had only been laid out in seventeen thirty-five by Oglethorpe, intended precisely as this kind of commercial gateway to the interior. Lacy's presence there in those first years placed him at the intersection of colonial ambition and Indigenous trade networks that would define Georgia's early economy.
