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===Colonial period=== The first recorded European to visit what is today Camden County was Captain [[Jean Ribault]] of [[France]] in 1562. Ribault was sent out by French [[Huguenots]] to find a suitable place for a settlement. Ribault named the rivers he saw the Seine and the Some, known today as the St. Marys and Satilla Rivers. Ribault described the area as, "Fairest, fruitfulest and pleasantest of all the world."<ref name=":2">[http://ourgeorgiahistory.com/ogh/Camden_County,_Georgia "] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126225243/http://ourgeorgiahistory.com/ogh/Camden_County,_Georgia |date=November 26, 2010 }} [http://ourgeorgiahistory.com/ogh/Camden_County,_Georgia Camden County History"] Our Georgia History</ref> In 1565, [[Spain]] became alarmed by the French settlements and sent out a large force to take over and settle the area. During that time, the Spaniards attempted to convert the Native Americans to [[Catholicism]]. At least two missions operated on Cumberland Island, ministering to the [[Timucuan]] people, who had resided on the island for at least 4,000 years. Competing British and Spanish claims to the territory between their respective colonies of South Carolina and Florida was a source of international tension, and the colony of Georgia was founded in 1733 in part to protect the British interests. The Spanish theoretically lost their claim to the territory in 1742 after the [[Battle of Bloody Marsh]] (on [[St. Simons Island]]). However, settlement south of the [[Altamaha River]] (what is now Glynn and Camden Counties) was discouraged by both the British and Spanish governments. One group of settlers led by Edmund Gray sparked Spanish military action after settling on the Satilla River in the 1750s near present-day Burnt Fort, and were subsequently disbanded by the Royal Governor [[John Reynolds (Royal Navy officer)|John Reynolds]].<ref name=":0">Hamer, Marguerite Bartlett. "Edmund Gray and His Settlement at New Hanover." The Georgia Historical Quarterly, ISSN 0016-8297, 03/1929, Volume 13, Issue 1, pp. 1 - 12</ref> [[James Oglethorpe|General Oglethorpe]] was at [[Cumberland Island]] when Tomochichi gave the barrier island its name. Later, he erected a hunting lodge on Cumberland named Dungeness, which was the predecessor of the famous Greene and Carnegie Dungeness Mansions. He also founded Fort St. Andrews on the north end of Cumberland Island, as well as a strong battery, Fort Prince Williams, on the south end. Fort Prince Williams commanded the entrance to the St. Marys River but had become a ruin by the Revolutionary War. In 1763, Spain, under a treaty of peace with [[Great Britain]], ceded Florida to the [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]]. After this, the boundaries of [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] were extended from the Altamaha (now the southern boundary of McIntosh County) to the St. Marys River (the current southern boundary of Camden). In 1765, four parishes were laid out between the Altamaha and St. Marys Rivers. These were St. Davids, St. Patricks, St. James, and the parishes of St. Marys and St. Thomas.
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