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Early Parishes of Georgia
an excerpt from
The Story of Georgia and the Georgia People
1732 to 1860
by George Gillman Smith, D.D.
Originally published c. 1901
Transcribed by K. Torp, ©2007
Early Parishes of Georgia
The State was laid off into 8 parishes in 1758, viz:
Christ Church, which included
all of Chatham and the islands adjacent.
St. Matthew's, which included
all of Effiingham and much of Screven.
St. George's, all of Burke, Jefferson,
and a part of Screven.
St. Paul's, all of Richmond, Columbia,
McDuffie, and a part of Warren.
St. John's, all of Liberty.
St. Andrew's, all the section
south of the Altamaha, near Darien. (became Camden County)
St. Philip's, the section on the
south side of the Ogeechee, west of Liberty. (became Glynn county)
St. James's, Frederica and the
county south of it to the disputed line.
In 1765 four new parishes, St. Patrick's, St. David's, St. Thomas's and
St. Mary's, were laid out in the section south of the Altamaha, and now
contained in Camden, Charlton, and the adjoining counties. These parishes were not really organized, and were such
in name only.
There was a feeble effort to build a church in each of these parishes, but save the log church in Augusta and in
St. George's parish I can find no evidence that any others were built.
pg. 60
The new immigration was very large. The first comers had reported so favorably of the land that great crowds of
immigrants came from the older counties of Virginia and from middle and eastern North Carolina into St. Paul's,
St. George's and St. Matthew's parishes. Many Scotch-Irishmean came directly from Ireland and settled in what is
now Jefferson county, which was then St. George's parish. Many Marylanders came into the land on Little river,
and another body of Quakers came from North Carolina, led by Mr. Jos. Mattocks, and settled near what was known
as the villago of Wrightsboro. When the newly ceded lands in 1773 were opened for settlement there was at once
a large immigration into that section, which was afterward known as Wilkes....
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