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The
History of Georgia
By Charles C. Jones
Volume II - Revolutionary
Epoch, 1888
Submitted by: Dena Whitesell
Updated by: Angela D. Bagley-Marianchuk 07/15/08
Index of Chapters:
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Chapter I
page 1
Sir James Wright - His Fitness of the Gubernatorial Office; War Between the Cherokees and the South Carolinians;
Conduct of Governor Lyttleton; Attakullakulla; Colonel William Bull; Affair Near Etchoe; Surrender of Fort Loudoun;
Treachery of the Cherokees; Captain Stuart's Escape; Fort Prince George Threatened; Lieutenant Colonel James Grant;
Etchoe Reduced to Ashes; The Cherokee Territory Devastated; The Savages Sue for Peace.
Chapter II
page 18
Governor Wright's Inaugural Address; Response of the General Assembly; Savannah in 1760; DeBrahm's System of Fortifications;
Wharves; Health of Savannah; Population and Products of the Province; Governor Wright's Report to the Lords Commissioners
of Trade and Plantations; George III Proclaimed King; Governor Boone attempts to appropriate the Lands lying South
of the Alatamah; Protest and Caveat of Governor Wright; His Communications to the Earl of Egremont; Action of the
Home Government.
Chapter III
page 41
Territorial limits of Georgia Extended; Congress of the Four Southern Governors, the Superintendent of Indian Affairs,
and the Five Nations at Augusta, in 1763; Treaty Stipulations; Petition of Dennis Rolle and Associates; Utophian
Scheme of the Earl of Eglintoun; Regulations with Regard to the Indian Trade; Representation of the Georgia Parishes
in 1761; Four Additional Parishes laid off in 1765; Land Bounties to Soldiers; Condition of the Colony; Conduct
of Chief Justice Grover; Libel upon the Executive.
Chapter IV
page 56
Stamp Act of 1765; Its Effect in Georgia; Governor Wright's reports of the proceedings of the Liberty Boys; The
South Carolina Declaration of Rights enlists the Sympathy of Georgians; Habersham's Opinion; Georgia's Position;
Ungenerous Attitude of South Carolina; Parliamentary Debate; Repeal of the Act; Legislative Proceedings; Address
of the General Assembly to the King; A new Spirit Abroad in the Land.
Chapter V
page 73
Georgia in 1755; Silk Culture; Govenor Wright's report on the subject; Cost of Maintaining the Civil Establishment;
Trade Relations with the Indians Relaxed; Troubles with the Creeks; Strength of the Adjacent Indian Nations; Bounder
Lines; Conference between the colonial Authorities and the creeks at Savannah on the 3d of September, 1768; Talks
of Emisteseegoe and Governor Wright.
Chapter VI
page 96
England Does not Abandon her Determination to Tax the American Colonies; Opposition of the Commons House of Assembly
to Parliamentary Rule; Legislative Troubles; The Breach Widens; Benjamin Franklin Appointed "Agent to Solicit
the Affairs of the Colony"; Wylly's response to the Communication from the Massachusetts House of representatives;
Governor Wright's Report to the Earl of Hillsborough on the Condition of Affairs; Georgia Indorses the Resolutions
adopted by Massachusetts and Virginia; Governor Wright Dissolves the Assembly; Address of the Commons House of
Assembly to the King; Remarkable letter of Governor Wright to the Earl of Hillsborough; Meeting of Merchants at
the Residence of Mr. Creighton; Non-importation Resolutions adopted at a Public Meeting of the Citizens of Savannah;
Jonathan Bryan suspended from Office; the Four Southern Parishes Demand Representation; Governor Wright refuses
to sanction the Choice of Noble W. Jones as Speaker of the Assembly; Leave of absence granted to Governor Wright,
and Mr. Habersham assumes the Reigns of Government.
Chapter VII
page 120
Irish Immigration; Queensbury; Anthony Stokes; Noble W. Jones; Archibald Bulloch; Governor Habersham's Address
to the General Assembly; Dissolution of the assembly; Composition of the Assembly; Governor Wright Complimented
with a Baronetcy; James Habersham and Noble W. Jones; Cession of Lands at Augusta in 1773 by the creeks and Cherokees
in Extinguishment of the Debts due by them to the Traders; Governor Wright's Proclamation commending the Colonization
of the Newly Acquired Territory; Fort James; Dartmouth; Petersburg; Hostilities inaugurated by the Creeks; Sherrall's
Fort attached; Big Elk; Head Turkey Murdered; Peace Proclaimed at a Congress held in Savannah in October, 1774;
Treaty Stipulations; Galphin's Claim; Georgia in 1773; Civil Establishment of the Colony; Jonathan Bryan's effort
to purchase the "Appalache Old Fields".
Chapter VIII
pages 147
The Boston Port Bill; Coercive Measures resorted to in the
Case of Massachusetts; Public Meeting in Savannah; Its Proceedings; Mr. Bryan resigns his Membership of Council;
Governor Wright's Proclamation denouncing Unlawful Assemblages; Meeting of the 10th of August, 1774; Resolutions
adopted and Promulgated; Division of Political Sentiment in the Province; Strictures upon the meeting of the 10th
of August; Protests from adherents to the Crown; Georgia not represented in the First Continental Congress; Declaration
of Colonial Rights; Resolutions and Articles of Association of St. Andrew's Parish; Governor Wright convokes the
General Assembly; Addresses; Failure of the First Provincial Congress; St. John's Parish acts in advance of the
other Parishes; Dr. Lyman Hall represents that Parish in the Continental Congress; Peculiar situation of the Colony
of Georgia.
Chapter IX
page 171
The Commons House of assembly refuses to obey Governor Wright's order; Communication of Messrs. Jones, Bulloch,
and Houstoun to the President of the Continental Congress; Effect in Savannah of the news of the Affair at Lexington
and Concord; Powder Magazine seized by the Liberty Boys and a portion of its contents forwarded to the Patriots
near Boston; Cannon spiked to prevent a celebration of the King's birthday; First Liverty Pole in Savannah; Council
of Safety appointed; Punishment of Hopkins and Brown; Resolutions adopted by the meeting of Citizens Convened at
Mrs. Cuyler's House; Unable to stem the Cubrent, Governor Wright requests Permission to return home; His Dispatches
to general Gage and to Admiral Graves; Capture of Captain Maitland's Powder Ship; Georgia no longer Hesitates;
Governor Wright oppressed by the Gravest Apprehensions; Provincial Congress of July 4, 1775; Its Deliverations
and Conclusions.
Chapter X
page 194
Address by the President of the Provincial Congress to Governor Wright; Rev. Haddon Smith Silenced; Governor Wright
Powerless; Articles of association adopted by the Provincial Congress; Qualification of Voters; Representation;
Address to the inhabitants of Georgia; Petition to the King; Georgia received into the Confederated Sisterhood;
Representatives to the Continental Congress; Archibald Bulloch; John Houstoun; Rev. Dr. J. J. Zubly; Case of Ebenezer
McCarty; The Militia purged of its Loyal Element; The Liberty Boys in Complete Possession of the Province; Organization
of the Courts; Members of the Council of Safety; Officers appointed for the Continental Battalion; Georgia Governed
by the Council of Safety.
Chapter XI
page 211
Governor Wright arrested by Major Joseph Habersham in Obedience to the Orders of the Council of Safety; He subsequently
effects his escape; His letter to the Members of the Council in Savannah; The Provincial Congress reassembles;
Communication addressed to the Delegates to the Continental Congress; Signers from Georgia of the Declaration of
Independence; Efforts to arm the Militia and to procure Military Stores; Bills of Credit issued; Question of the
Command of the Continental Battalion; Colonel Lachlan McIntosh's letter to General Washington; Temporary Constitution
of 1776; Archibald Bulloch elected First Republican President; Address of the Council of Safety; President Bulloch's
response; Anecdote of President Bulloch; First Passage at Arms in Georgia; Descent upon Tybee Island; Heroic conduct
and Resolution of the Georgians; Assistance rendered by South Carolina; Thanks returned; Distribution of Georgia
Troops.
Chapter XII
page 232
Effect of the Prohibitory Bill; Expedition of Captain John Baker against Wright's Fort on the St. Mary's River;
Governor Wright sails fob England; Sir Peter Parker's Demonstration against Fort Moultrie; Ceremonies observed
upon the Promulgation of the Declaration of Independence in Savannah. President Bulloch Calls a Convention of
the People; Depredations of the Cherokee Indians; Their Territory invaded; The Savages are compelled to sue for
Peace; Treaty concluded at Dewitt's Corner; Conference between the Georgia Commisioners and General Charles Lee;
The Reduction of St. Augustine resolved upon.The East Florida Expedition a Failure; The Continental Congress assists
in the defense of Georgia
Chapter XIII
page 262
Constitution of 1777; Fort McIntosh attacked by Fuser, Brown, Cunningham, and McGirth; Defended by Captain Winn;
The Fort surrenders; Treachery of the Enemy; Expedition from East Florida met and dispersed by Colonel McIntosh;
President Bulloch requested " to take upon Himself the Whole Executive Powers of Government."; Death
of Mr. Bulloch; Button Gwinnett appointed President; Colonel Lachlan McIntosh advanced to the Grade of Brigadier-General;
Gwinnett plans an Expedition against East Florida; Affair between Colonel Baker and Colonel McGirth; Colonel Samuel
Elbert; Lieutenant Ward attacked and slain; Disastrous Failure of Gwinnett's Expedition; John Adam Treutlen elected
Governor; Disagreement between Gwinnett and McIntosh; Duel and Death of Gwinnett; McIntosh leaves Georgia and is
assigned to Duty by General Washington; Notice of Button Gwinnett
Chapter XIV
page273
Colonel Samuel Elbert in Command of the Continental Forces in Georgia; Depreciation of the Paper Currency; Difficulties
experienced in procuring enlistments; depredations along the souther frontier; Drayton's efforts to bring about
a Consolidation of the States of South Carolina and Georgia; Proclamation of Governor Treutlen; Case of George
McIntosh; State Legislation; Fortification at Sunbury; John Houstoun elected Governor; He is invested with almost
dictatorial powers; Scopholites
Chapter XV
page 288
Governor Houstoun and General Howe plan an Expedition against East Florida; Colonel Elbert captures the Hinchinbrooke;
McGirth's Raid; Concentration of Forces at Fort Howe; Disposition of the Enemy; Letters of Colonel C. C. Pinckney,
General Moultrie, and General Howe; Governor Houstoun and General Howe at variance; affair at Aligator Creek; Colonel
Clarke Wounded; Jealousy of the Respective Commanding Officers; Howe's Inefficiency; A Council of War, held at
Fort Tonyn, determines to abandon the Expedition; Farewell Order of General Howe; The Conduct of the Expedition
criticised
Chapter XVI
page 304
The Theatre of War transferred to the Southern Provinces; Georgia invaded by Colonels Fuser and Prevost; Affair
near Midway Church; General Screven killed; Prevost's Ravages; Fuser demands the Surrender of Fort Morris at Sunbury;
Gallant Response of Colonel McIntosh; Anecdote of Rory McIntosh; Fuser raises the Siege and returns to Florida;
Condition of the Midway District; General Howe's Communication to General Moultrie; Arrival of British Forces under
Colonel Campbell and Commodore Parker; Landing at Girardeau's Plantation; Advance upon Savannah; General Howe's
Order of Battle; Howe's Fatal Error; His Dispositions; General Moultrie's Criticisms; Capture of Savannah; Losses
Sustained; Flight of the American Army; Georgia Abandoned Distresses of the Prisoners; Prison-Ships; Howe's Conduct
the Subject of Investigation; Major Andre's Parody upon the Duel between Generals Howe and Gadsden
Chapter XVII
page 326
Colonel Campbell advances rapidly up the Savannah River; Proclamations of Colonel Innes, Colonel Campbell, and
Commodore Parker; Stringent Regulations promulgated; Oaths of Allegiance exacted; The British occupy Ebenezer;
Rev. Mr. Triebner; Capture of Sunbury; General Augustine Prevost assumes Command of all his Majesty's Forces in
Georgia; Pitiable Situation of Southern Georgia; Disposition of the American and British Forces on Either Bank
of the Savannah River; General Lincoln; Affair in Burke County; Colonel Campbell captures Augusta; Dooly; Pickens;
Carr's Fort attacked; Affair near the Cherokee Ford; Battle of Kettle Creek; Colonel Boyd killed; Effect of the
Victory; Capture of the British Post at Herbert's; Captain Whittley and his Party taken; Exploit of Lieutenant
Hawkins; Colonel Campbell evacuates Augusta
Chapter XVIII
page 345
Fruitless Effort to compass an Exchange of Prisoners; Prevost invades South Carolina; b He is Driven Back; Position
of the American Forces; A Council of War, convened at General Lincoln, recommends an Advance for the Relief of
Georgia; Colonel Campbell resolves to thwart this Movement; Major McPherson and Lieutenant-Colonel Prevost detached
to surprise General Ash in the Angle formed at the Confluence of Brier Creek and the Savannah River; Defeat of
the Americans; General Ash's Dispatch to General Lincoln; General Moultrie's Comments; Gallantry of General Elbert;
General Ash's Conduct investigated by a Court of Inquiry; Strength and Position of the Enemy; Commissioners take
Possession of Captured and Abandoned Property; Pickens, Dooly, Clarke, Few, Hammond, and Ross defeat the Creek
Indians led by Tate and McGillivray; Capture of the American Galleys Congress and Lee; Wretched Treatment of American
Prisoners; Lincoln again contemplates a Movement for the Relief of Georgia; His Purpose delayed by Prevost's Demonstration
against Charlestown; Dr. Ramsay's Account of the British Depredations; Exploit of Captain Spencer; Colonel Twiggs
defeats Captain Muller; Major Baker puts Captain Goldsmith to Flight; Robert Sallette; McGirth routed by Colonel
Twiggs at Lockhart's Plantation
Chapter XIX
page 364
Depreciated Condition of the Currency; Political Status; An Ougabchical Form of Government established; Constitution
of a Supreme Executive Council; Powers Confided to it; John Wereat chosen Permanent President; Abnormal Condition
of Affairs; General Lachlan McIntosh returns to Georgia; General Washington's Letter to Congress; Communication
from the Supreme Executive Council to General Lincoln; Royal Government in Georgia; Governor Wright's Dispatch
to Lord George Germain; Political Distractions of Georgia
Chapter XX
page 375
The French Alliance; Count d'Estaing; Preparations by the Allied Army to dislodge the Enemy from Savannah; Siege
of Savannah in September and October, 1779
Chapter XXI
page 397
The Siege of Savannah continued; Assault of the 9th of October, 1779; Repulse of the Allied Army; Count Pulaski;
Estimate of Forces engaged and of Losses sustained; Names of the Killed and Wounded; Lieutenant Lloyd; Sergeant
Jasper; Siege Raised; Departure of the French and Americans; War Vessels composing the French Fleet; General Lincoln's
Letter to Congress; Count d'Estaing; Death of Colonel Mattland; Pitiable Condition of the Sea-Coast of Georgia
Chapter XXII
page 417
Governor Wright's Oppressive Regulations; Deplorable Condition of Savannah; Members of the Royal Commons House
of Assembly; Acts of Confiscation; Parties Affected; Calamities of a Divided Government; Acts of the Royal General
Assembly; Efforts to Fortify Savannah; Political Affairs of Georgia as administered by the Supreme Council of Safety;
Proclamation of Governor Wereat; Two Executive Councils in Being; Patriotic Manifesto of the Legitimate Council;
Case of General Lachlan McIntosh; The Glascock Letter; Walton's Complicity; The Forgery Unmasked; Governor George
Walton; Governor Richard Howley; The Capital transferred to Heard's Fort; President George Wells; President Stephen
Heard; President Myrick Davies; The Doctrine of "Uti Possidetis."; Governor Nathan Brownson; Reorganization
of the State Government; Governor John Martin; Complimentary Resolutions to Generals Greene and Wayne, and to Colonel
Elijah Clarke; The Legislature ASSEMBLES AT EBENEZER, AND ONCE MORE AT SAVANNAH; Resolutions and Prudential Restrictions;
Review of the Peripatetic Government of Georgia during the Revolution; Colonial Records
Chapter XXIII
page 442
Sir Henry Clinton's Southern Expedition; The Fall of Charles-town a Heavy Blow upon the Republicans of the South;
Captain Hugh McCall; Operations of Private Armed Vessels and of Partisan Leaders; Affair on the Ogeechee between
Colonels Pickens and Twiggs and Captain Conklin; The Small-Pox; Savage the Warfare between Royalists and Republicans;
Treachery of General Andrew Williamson; Augusta occupied by Colonels Brown and Grierson; Conduct of Colonel Brown;
Colonel Dooly murdered; Exploit of Colonel John Jones; Affair between Colonel McDowell and Ma-job Dunlap; Engagements
near Wofford's Iron-Works and NEAR MUSGROVE'S MILL; COLONEL CLARKE WOUNDED; CORNWALLIS Sanguinary Instructions;
Colonels Clarke and McCall attempt to capture Augusta; details of the enterprise; The Siege Raised; Terrible Fate
of the American Prisoners; Brown's Atrocities; Major Carter; Sad Flight of the North Georgians; Colonel Clarke
conducts a Large Body of Women and Children to Temporary Homes on the Waturga
Chapter XXIV
page 463
The Republicans of Georgia almost in Extremis; Their Marvelous Courage and Endurance; Influence of Woman; Colonels
Twiggs and Clarke defeat Major Wemyss at Fish Dam Ford; Tarleton's Discomfiture at Blackstocks; Sumter Wounded;
Gallantry of Major Jackson; Affair at Long Cane; Colonel Clarke dangerously Wounded; Colonel Pickens resumes his
sword; General Greene assigned to the Command of the Southern Department; Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Lee; General
Morgan's Address to the Georgia Refugees; Major John Cunningham; Battle of the Cowpens; General Pickens Tribute
to Major Jackson; Affair at Beatte's Mill; Effect of the Battle of Guilford; Cornwallis moves Northward; Operations
of Colonels Clarke, Baker, Hammond, and Williamson; Upper Georgia filled with Mourning and Desolation; Affair near
Matthew's Bluff; Harden defeated by Brown near Wiggin's Hill; Republican Prisoners butchered; Character of Colonel
Brown
Chapter XXV
page 477
Colonel Williamson invests Augusta; Arrival of Colonel Clarke; Major Dill defeated at Walker's Bridge; Shelby and
Carr defeats Brown's detachment at Mrs. Bugg's Plantation; Hayes and his Command murdered; General Pickens and
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Lee ordered to assist in the Reduction of Augusta; Lee captures Fort Galphin at Silver
Bluff; The Siege and Capitulation of Augusta; Colonel Brown and Mrs. McKay; Pickens and Lee rejoin General Greene;
Major Jackson left in Command of Augusta; Rascality of John Bubnet; Governor Wright calls lustily for Aid
Chapter XXVI
page 496
General Twiggs orders an Advance for the Repossession of the Middle and Southern Divisions of Georgia; Nefarious
Plot in Jackson's Legion; Davis complimented by the Legislature; Naval Exploits on the Georgia Coast; Captains
Howell, McCleur, Antony, and Braddock; Jackson's Operations near Great Ogeechee Ferry; Scarcity of Provisions;
General Twiggs repulses the Indians; Murder of Myrick Davqcs; Twiggs threatens Savannah; Pickens invades the Cherokee
Territory; State Certificates issued upon the Faith of Confiscated Property; Effect of Cornwallis' Surrender; General
Greene prepares for the Relief of Georgia; His Letter of Advice to Governor Martin; General Wayne detailed to recover
Georgia; Proclamations of Governor Martin; British Forces in Savannah; The Town narrowly watched; Wayne's Activity
highly commended; Seat of Government ; advanced to Ebenezer; conduct of Colonel James Jackson; Ferocity of the
Enemy; Major John Habersham's Mission; Poverty of Georgia; Affair between Jackson and Captains Ingram and Corker;
Wayne advances to support Jackson; Brown Escapes; Guristersigo defeated by Wayne
Chapter XXVII
page 515
Independence at Hand; Governor Wright's Communication to General Wayne; Dispatch from Sir Guy Carleton; A Deputation
from the Merchants and Citizens of Savannah waits upon General Wayne; Generous Terms offered on the Part of the
Republicans; Major John Habersham entrusted with the Conduct of Negotiations; General Wayne's Order in Anticipation
of the Early Evacuation of Savannah; Colonel Jackson designated to receive the Surrender of the Town; General Wayne's
Orders on taking Possession of Savannah; Evacuation of the Town; Georgia despoiled by the Departing Loyalists;
General Wayne complimented by General Greene; The Executive Council and the Legislature convene in Savannah; Acts
and Regulations promulgated by them; Colonel Jackson complimented with a Mansion; Plantations presented to generals
Wayne and Greene; measures adopted for the Rehabilitation of the State; Losses sustained by Georgia during the
Revolutionary War; Her Population; Memorial of Sir James Wright; Dr. Lyman Hall elected Governor. Georgia an Independent
State
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