Individuals denounced as Tories in Georgia, 1782 After the capture of Georgia by the British during the American Revolution from The Story of Georgia and the Georgia People 1732 to 1860 by George Gillman Smith, D.D. Originally published c. 1901 [These are excerpts from the book transcribed by K. Torp, ©2007] pg. 93-95 ...When Governor Wright was placed in his seat again he called a meeting of a loyal assembly, and they at once retaliated on the Whigs by passing an act of attainder and confiscation. This roll of honor has been preserved and is herewith given. It aimed to take in all those were were obnoxious to the crown, and contained the names of sundry persons who were afterwards denounced by the Georgia Legislature of 1782 as Tories... John Houston, governor, Noble W. Jones, speaker; John Adam Treutlen, counselor; M. Sheftall; Lachlan McIntosh, general; Wm. O'Bryan, treasurer; George Walton, member of Congress; John Wereat, counselor; Wm. Stephens, attorney; Ed Telfair, member of Congress; John McClure, Major; Ed Davies, assemblyman; John Clay, paymaster; Samuel Elbert, rebel general, Savannah; Seth John Cuthbert, major, Darien; W. Holsendorf, counselor, Darien; R. Howley, governor; George Galphin, superintendent Indian affairs, Silver Bluff; Andrew Williamson, rebel general; John White, colonel; N. Wade, treasurer; John Twiggs, colonel, Richmond; Wm. Few, rebel counselor, Columbia; E. Langworthy, rebel delegate; Wm. Glascock, counselor, Richmond; Robert Walton, commissioner, Richmond; Jos. Wood, clerk; Piggin, colonel; Wm. Hornbay, distiller; Pierce Butler, rebel officer, Darien; Jos. Wood, member of Congress; Rev. Wm. Piercy; Thos. Savage, planter; Thos. Stone, councilor; Benj. Andrew, councilor, Liberty; John Baker, colonel, Liberty; Wm. Baker, rebel officer, Liberty; Francis Brown, planter, Liberty; Nathan Brownson, member rebel Congress; John Hardy, captain; Thos. Morris, officer; Thos. Maxwell, planter, Liberty; Jos. Woodruff; W. Le Conte, counselor, Liberty; P. Chambers, shopkeeper; T. Washington, rebel officer, died in Charleston; C. F. Chevalier, counselor, French refugee; E. Maxwell, planter, Liberty; Thos. Maxwell, mayor of Sunbury, Liberty; Wm. Gibbons, Jr., planter, Savannah; Wm. Davies, officer, Burke; Jno. Graves, yeoman, Liberty; Charles Kent, counselor; Jno. Bacon, mariner, Liberty; N. Saxton, tavern-keeper; P. Lowe, officer; S. Spencer, mariner; Jno. Winn, Sr., planter, Liberty; Dev Jarrett, assemblyman, Richmond; S. West, gent., Liberty; J. Dupont, planter; Frederick Pugh, planter; James Rae, planter, Richmond; James Martin, planter; John Martin, sheriff, Jefferson; Thos. Pace, officer, Richmond; Benj. Few, officer, Richmond; D. Wright, planter, Richmond; C. Bostick, shopkeeper, Richmond; L. Bostick, planter, Richmond; L. Marbury, officer, Richmond; Jno. Sharp, planter, Richmond; Jno. McIntosh, colonel, Liberty; James Houston, surgeon, Chatham; James Habersham, Jr., merchant, Savannah; Jno. Habersham, major, Savannah; John Milledge, assemblyman, Savannah; Levi Sheftall, butcher, Savannah; P. J. Cohen, shopkeeper, Savannah; Jno. Sutcliff, shopkeeper, Savannah; Jonathan Bryan, counselor, Savannah; John Spencer, officer, Savannah; Rev. Jno. Holmes, chaplain, Burke; Wm. Gibbons, Sr., counselor, Savannah; Sheftall Sheftall, officer, Savannah; P. Minis, shopkeeper, Savannah; C. Pollock, shopkeeper, Savannah; R. Hamilton, attorney, Savannah; Benj. Loyd, officer, Savannah; J. Alexander, officer, Savannah; John Jenkins, assemblyman; S. Stirk, secretary, Effingham; P. Densler, yeoman; H. Cuyler, officer, Savannah; Jos. Gibbons, assemblyman, Savannah; Ebenezer Platt, shop keeper, Savannah; M. Griffin, planter; P. De Vaux, gentn., Savannah; John Gibbons, vessel master, Savannah; John Smith, planter; Jos. Oswald, planter; Josiah Powell, planter; Samuel Saltus, planter, Liberty; John Sandeford, planter; Peter Tarling, officer, Savannah; Oliver Bowen, commodore, Savannah; Lyman Hall, member of Congress, Liberty; Andrew Moore, planter; Joshua Inman, planter, Burke; John Dooly, colonel, Wilkes; Jno. Glen, chief justice, Savannah; Rich Wyley, member council, Savannah; A. F. Brisbane, counselor, Savannah; Shem Butler, assemblyman, Savannah; Jos. Habersham, colonel, Savannah; Jno. Stirk, colonel, Effingham; R. Demere, general, Darien; C. Odingsel, captain, Effingham; Wm. Peacock, counselor, Liberty; John Bradley, sea captain; Jos. Reynolds, bricklayer; Rudolph Strohaker, Chas. Cope, Lewis Cope, butchers, Savannah; Hepworth Carter, captain, Jefferson; S. Johnson, butcher; Jas. Harris, planter; Henry Jones, colonel, Burke; Hugh McGee, captain; John Wilson, gent., Richmond; George Wyche, officer, Richmond; Wm. Candler, officer, Richmond; Z. Fenn, planter, Richmond; Wm. McIntosh, colonel, Darien; Dr. Brydie, surgeon, Savannah; A. MacLean, merchant, Augusta; Pat Houston, baronet, Savannah; McCarty Campbell, merchant, Augusta; James Gordon, planter; Jno. Kell, gent., Darien; John McLean, planter; John Snider, planter, Effingham; Jno. Elliott, officer; R. Swinney, yeoman; Hugh Middleton, officer; Joe Pray, mariner; J. McLean, planter. The French allies, assisted by the Americans, made an effort to recapture Savannah in September, 1779. Count D'Estaing, the French commander, directed the movements. He was wounded, and Count Pulaski, a Ple, who was an American ally, was fatally wounded. The battle was a fierce one and the loss of the French and Americans considerable. The victory of the british was complete and they were the masters of the whole of Georgia. pg. 109-110 The war was virtually at an end in the early part of 1782, and with a devastated territory, an empty treasury, and a heavy debt, with an imperfect constitution and a discordant people, Georgia began her career as a free and independent State. There had been seventeen thousand white people when the war began, and probably, despite the ravages of the war, there were as many at its close. There was from 1777 to 1783 almost a complete suspension of all the religious work in the new State. The Rector of the Episcopal church in Savannah was a Loyalist. Mr. Triebner, the Lutheran, was a Loyalist and a fugitive, and the church in Ebenezer had been used as a stable. The Reformed Presbyterian minister in Burke, now Jefferson county, was a loyalist, and had fled the country. St. Paul's church in Augusta and the church at Midway had been burned. The Baptist preachers, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Bottsford, and Mr. Mercer, had been driven from the State, and there was no resumption of regular religious work until after war had nearly ended. The Quakers had been so persecuted in Georgia by the Whigs that they left the State and never returned to it. Return to Main Index Page