The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-15
HIS GEORGIA BLOOD
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT is WELL
CONNECTED HERE.
HIS MOTHER A BULLOCK.
A MEMBER OF GEORGIA SOCIETY
of SONS OF REVOLUTION.

The New President Is n Grandson of
Archibald BuIIoch, the First Cow
ernOr of Georgia, and of GEN.
Daniel Stewart, Another Revolu-
tionary Hera-His. Mother Was
Martha BalIoch. whose Brothers
Were Prominent In the Confeder-
acy-0n the PaternaI side He
Comes of sturdy Dutch Ancestry.
Vice President Theodore Roosevelt,
who yesterday took the oath of office
as President of the United States of
America, has good Georgia blood in
his veins. That he is well aware of
this and is doubtless proud of it, is
evident from the fact that through his
Georgia ancestry, President Roosevelt
is a member of the Georgia Society of
the Sons of the Revolution.
In fact, through his mother, Martha
BulIoch, the new President is amply
supplied with revolutionary ancestry.
Not only was his grandfather,
Archibald Bulloch. a member of the
first continental congress, and the first
president of the provincial congress of
Georgia. but the other grandfather on
the mothers side, Gen. Daniel Stewart,
was a famous revolutionary hero of
Georgia. In addition to this his grand
father, James Bulloch, was commits
stoned a captain In the Virginia State
Garrison troops at IA years of age, and
served as such until the close of the
war.
The Bulloch family occupied a dis
tinguished place in the annals of Geor-
gia and Savannah. Coming to Savan-
nah with his parents when boy from
their home in South Carolina in 1850,
Archibald Bulloch studied here, was
admitted to the bar and rapidly rose
to prominence. He was elected a
member of the General Assembly in
176S and was appointed a member of
the committee to correspond with Ben
jamin Franklin, the agent Of the col
ony in London. In 1772 he was elected
speaker of the Assembly at an excit-
ing time, Gov. Habersham having de-
clined to recognize DIR. Noble Wynn
berley Jones, who had been three times
chosen speaker of the Assembly. The
minutes of the Assembly with reference
to this matter were diStasteful to the
Governor and because the assembly
firmly but respectfully declined to
amend them the body was peremptorily
dissolved.
Espoused the Colonial Cause.
Mr.. Bulloch continued to take an ac-
tive part in public affairs, actively es-
pousing the cause of the colonists
against the home government, and on
the assembling of the provincial Con-
gress" OF Georgia, July 4. 1775, he was
unanimously chosen president of that
body With John Houston, Noble w.
Jones, DR.. Lyman Hall and the Rev.
DR.. Zubly he was elected a delegate
to the Continental Congress at Phila-
delphia.
Among the relics of the Georgia His
torical Society is a carefully preserved
document. the original of resolution
adopted by the Continental Congress-
Nov. 8, ITS. imposing secrecy upon all
the members of the congress as to its
acts and discussions. To this
is appended the name of
Archibald Bulloch, with probably
100 others. including the other members
from Georgia
In January. 1875, MFR. Bulloch was
again elected president of the provin-
cial congress with the added title Of
communicated He was also
named as one of the delegates TO the
Continental Congress, but bis duties as
head of the home government prevented
his attendance at Philadelphia and