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to Subscribers
During 2006 the goal was to locate old
records and put them online. The discoveries were: WW II Draft Registrants for
Cobb Co.; WWI Service Records for Camden Co.; 1777 Marriage Licenses in Camden
Co.; Franklin Co. Death Certificates and Gwinnett County Disabled or Invalid Soldiers’
Roll, Indigent Soldiers’ Roll, Pension Roll of 1910, Service Rolls, Widows Rolls;
and Physical Descriptions of Liberty Co. Residents.
Will
Images. The
following old wills were added: Camden
1795-1900; Carroll Co. 1852-1900; Chatham 1777-1849;
Cobb Co. 1866-1904; Douglas Co. 1870-1916; Forsyth Co. 1856-1892; Forsyth Co.
1892-1936; Franklin Co. 1899-1911; Glynn Co. 1809-1866; Gwinnett Co. 1819-1886;
Jackson Co. 1802-1860; Jasper Co. 1814-1849; McIntosh Co. 1845-1915; Liberty
Estate Index 1784-1791;Liberty Estates 1823-1829; McIntosh Co. 1887-1914;
Liberty Co. 1779-1823; Newton Co. 1820-1896 and Rockdale Co. 1914-1923.
Brick
Walls. As
research is concluded on your brick walls, the results are posted under
“Working Ancestral Files” which shares the information with other subscribers
to the website and makes it possible for them to contact you. There are many high walls that are very
problematical. Therefore, some results
might not yield sufficient conclusive proofs.
One quite interesting brick wall is the situation of two fellows in
Franklin Co. with the same name Littleton Meeks Payne. One was born in 1814 and the other one was
born in 1824. Various Payne families in Franklin County use the names “Nacy”. Nacy Meeks was a son of Rev. Littleton Meeks
(2/8/1766-9/22/1852). Rev. Meeks died
near Banks Co. and was buried in the Davis
Cemetery in Cornelia, Georgia
(Habersham Co.) He had a son, Littleton
Meeks (born 1808) who resided in Franklin Co. at one time. I believe that Rev. Littleton Meeks is the
solution to the problem. He must have
had two daughters or two sisters who married Paynes. If anything can be discovered it will be in
Banks and Habersham
Counties.
Ft.
Morris,
Sunbury. End of Revolutionary War
Captain Thomas Morris commanded the fort
in Sunbury. At the close of the war, a
severe battle occurred with the British.
Captain Morris had brought to the fort his 18 Negroes which were under
orders to use the cannon, but the gun powder was exhausted. So Morris’ commanding officer ordered that the
colors be struck. Thus, the British seized possession of the
fort and town and Captain Morris was taken prisoner. After the war was over, Captain Morris went
to visit his brother, William Morris, in Virginia
and while there, died. The brother had a son (also named William) who replaced
a Lietenant so that he could go to Georgia and settle the
administration of Captain Morris’ estate, but while in this was in process,
William became ill at a local tavern and died.
Loyalists in the Bahamas
During the Revolutionary War, Savannah was under seige, however, when Cornwallis
surrendered, the loyalist families remaining in Savannah were declared traitors. One, Nathaniel Hall, whose friends were
Josiah Tattnall, Thomas Forbe and William Telfair, necessarily evacuated to New Providence, Bahamas. Hall, originally from Liverpool, had immigrated to Savannah before the
war. He died in New Province
in 1807, the 45th year of His Majesty's Reign.
His friend, Charles Cameron, the Captain General and Governer in Chief,
Chancellor, Vice Admiral and Ordinary of New Providence, attended to his Last
Will and Testament. Nathaniel left a large plantation and many
slaves in New Providence to his wife,
Ann. Part of his estate was in the hands
of his agents in England,
Chambers Langston of London and Thomas and John Moss of Liverpool. This estate presumably consisted of funds
received and held by these gentlemen’s accounting offices for goods which he
transported from the Bahamas
to England;
he bequeathed this portion of his estate the children of his brothers and
sisters. His sisters were Martha Hall
McAllister of Savannah and Sarah Powell.
Nephews, George Webb Hall and Samuel Hall of Liverpool. The Codicil bequeathed his Georgia estates to his wife's
sister, Hannah McAllister, the wife of Matthew McAllister and to their
children, viz: Harriett Hannah and Mathew Hall McAllister. Brother: Joseph of Bristol. Nathaniel Hall married Ann, a
daughter of Hannah and Joseph Gibbons of Mulberry Hill Plantation in Savannah. The Gibbons were probably the wealthiest families
in Savannah
during the 18th century as they owned thousands of acres of hundreds of
slaves.
Other Loyalists who escaped to New Province
were Thomas Starr, Michael Vernon and George Buffett of Savannah. Thomas Starr's merchant ship
actively supplied the British stronghold in Savannah.
In 1803 Starr wrote his Last Will and Testament before embarking
"for some part of the continent in America to meet the Commissioners
appointed under the Treaty between Great Britain and the United States for the
purpose of adjusting and liquidating the goods due to the British Merchants by
the subjects of the United States of America and to establish and recover the
debts due by many of the said subjects to a co-partnership in which I was under
the ____ of Story & Beed."
Expecting to recover from the public funds of Great
Britain, he left for America. His wife was Helen. Sons, John, Thomas and
George Kincaid Starr.
Origins
of Colonial Settlers to Savannah
The Colonial period began in 1752 after the
charter was surrendered by the Georgia Trustees and Georgia
became an official colony of Great
Britain.
That was when the colony was settled by entire congregations who brought
servants to establish cotton and rice plantations along the coast. The land
grants attracted settlers from France,
Scotland, Great Britain and the New England
Colonies. A flourishing trade was
established between the Bahamas,
Savannah and
the new Sunbury port. Among those
settling between 1752-1800 were: John Francis Courvois from France, David Keall
from Charleston, Jacque Philip Rossignol DeGrantmont from France, Andrew Wells
from Beaufort, South Carolina, Samuel Clark from Boston, Stephen Green from
Oxbridge, Massachusetts and Thomas R. Price from Essex Co., New Jersey.
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