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Liberty County, Georgia
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for Liberty County, Georgia.
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Liberty County, located on the Georgia coast, was one of the seven
Georgia counties created from the original colonial parishes on February 5, 1777. The Guale Indians inhabited that
area from prehistoric times, and in the eighteenth century the tribe became a part of the Muskogee or Creek Confederation.
The Spanish placed a mission on St. Catherines Island in the late sixteenth century among the Guale Indians. In
the early 1750s English settlers, including a group of Congregationalists from Dorchester, South Carolina, located
in the area between the Medway and Newport rivers.
Shortly before the American Revolution (1775-83), a number of people who later became prominent in the new state
and republic settled there, including Nathan Brownson, Mark Carr, James Dunwoody, John Elliott Sr., Button Gwinnett,
Lyman Hall, Lachlan McIntosh, James Screven, and Daniel Stewart. In the 1770s William Bartram traveled through
the area during his famous expedition.
In 1775 St. John's Parish, one of three parishes that would eventually make up Liberty County, was the first area
in Georgia to send a representative to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. In that year the citizens of St.
John's Parish gathered in the Congregational Church in Midway, where they elected Lyman Hall to represent them
in the Continental Congress. They sent several wagonloads of rice with him to feed the Continental troops surrounding
Boston. Because St. John's Parish was the first in Georgia to vote for liberty, the new county created from this
parish was given the name Liberty.
The county seat is Hinesville, Georgia
Cities and towns
Allenhurst -- Flemington -- Fort Stewart -- Gumbranch -- Hinesville
Midway -- Riceboro -- Walthourville
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Online Data
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Biographies
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Births
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Cemeteries
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Census
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Church Histories/Records
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County Records
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Court Records
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Deaths
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Family Bibles
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History
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Marriages
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Military
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Newspaper
Data
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Obituaries
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Surnames
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Wills/Legal Records
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Website Updates:
Oct 2009: MCINTOSH biography
Sep 2009: 1919-1925 Deaths; Biographies for LAYTON, FRASER; EARLE, LECONTE obit
Dec 2007: County History; Biography of Benj. Andrew |
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