The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-24
WHEN TAR HEELS
INVADED GEORGIA
The Stream Began Before
the Revolution.
LATER TWAS A FLOOD
Where the First and Second Great Tides
of Our People Flowed and Set
tIed---A Partial List
of the Many
Families.
(By George G. Smith. Vineville, Ma
con, Georgia.)
ATLANTA Journal.)

The first North Carolina immigrants
came to Georgia not long after Gov
ernor Reynolds opened the door for
new corners in 1854. and they continu-
ed to come in larger numbers until
the great flood after the Revolution.
They first came from Eastern North
Carolina and settled in eastern Geor-
gia, the larger number in ST. Mat
thews' Parish. afterward Scriven and
dillingham;. They were generally poor
people but some of them had consid-
cradle property for those times. They
received grants of 200 acres each as d
gratuity and if they brought slaves
with them they received fifty acres
for each slave imported. While l can
not claim eXactnesS for my divisions,
/ divide the North Carolina settlers
into three groups: Cd Those who
came from Eastern North Carolina
and who settled in the country south
of Augusta. CD Those who settled
around and above Augusta before the
opening of the coded lands in 1873.
CD Those who settled in Wilkes be-
fore the Revolution or during its pro-
gress, and (4) those who settled on
the frontier in what is now Hancock
and the western part of Greene and
Washington
The first Corners settled in what is
now Effingham and Scriven and Burke.
In the appendix to my story of the
Georgia people l have given a list of
these immigrants and from this list
gather what / think is probably cor
rect statement of who these immi-
grants were. They We're: Samuel,
Hugh, William and Isaac Alexander,
James Anderson, Philip Aston, Daniel
n
David and John Allen, Nathaniel, Will
liam, Ludovick, Ashley and John Boy
kin, Moses and Robert Bennett, Will
liam Bishop, Charles Bailey, James
Butler, Thomas Battey, William Black
mon, John Brinson, Lewis Bryan, Will
liam Boykin, John Brantley, Thomas
Brantley, James Brantley, Samuel
Beckham, James Beckham, William
Burney, James Bowie, John Brinson
Isaac and Matthew Brinson, Needham
Bryan, John Bryan, Henry Bell, James
and Samuel Boyd, James Bigham
William T. Matthew Colson, John
Conyers, John Catlett, N. Cherry, Alex
Caswell, Bailey Carpenter, Henry
Caldwell John Clements, John Cain,
George Cubbedge, Moses Gone, Joseph
and Allen Dickson, William Dawson,
John Everett, Hugh and Daniel Evans,
Philip Finney, John Fleming, Moses
Greene, John Green, Matthew Gray,
William and John Hearne, John Ro-
bert and Thomas HUMPHREYS, James
Huston, Samuel Hudson, John How
ard, John Harwell. Davis Harwell
Davis Harwell, William Hobbs, David
Holmes, John Hampton, Henry Hay
man, Thomas, Robert and John
Hamilton, Abram Jones, James and
John Jones, John jameson, Robert
Irwin, Jacob JONES, Jesse Johnston,
Malachi Jones, Reuben Jones, Henry
Jones' Bait Jones, Alex. and John r.
win, VIM. Kennedy, Henry KEENAN,
Hugh Kennedy, John Knight, John
Lester, Benjamin and Samuel Lanier
Rryan Lane, John Lane, Thomas Lane
Alex. Lane, Roger Lawson, Frances
Henry, Thomas, Samuel, William
Evan, Isaac, David, Jacob, Benjamin
Joseph Lewis, John Lot, Daniel Lot
Solomon Lot, John Lasseter, Mat
thew Lively Samuel Lasseter, join
Lester, Thomas Lovett, Abraham, Les
ter, John Lawson, Ethelred Lane
David Mizell, Luke and William Mizell
David LESSEE, William Mccall. Johr
Matthews, William Mikell John Null.
key, John Murphy, Jonathan Mulkey
Samuel Mcneil, John Means, Thomas
Mobiles, :. Mobiles George Nowlan
Charles, Elisha, Samuel, Neal, William
Powell. Joseph and Isaac Perry, Jas
Perkins, Ed. Pennington, Thomas
IL,
John Stewart, Richard ScruSgs, Viii
liam Simpson, John Taylor, Abraham
Wells, Andrew Willowby, Thomas
Waters, b. Williams, Thomas White
head, John Womack, Benjamin War.
rem, Charles Williams, John Williams
This does not by. any means claim tc
be a full list of those who settled south
of Augusta before the Revolution. Per.
haps some mentioned in it came from
VIRGINIA rI a r 70,
the Revolution. An excellent old gen
tleman, Mr. Z. W. Lane, writes me
from Emmanuel county, that colony
from North Carolina struck their tents
on the south side of the Ogechee river
in 1888. He says they packed their
wearing apparel bedding, etc., in to-
Lacco hogsheads, and attaching shafts
to the hogshead, they rolled them tt
Georgia.
He says these first corners were the
Wallaces, Perkins, Shepherds, Jones
Brinsons, Doughertys, Burks, Roberts
Hiltons, Cliftons, Parkers, Johnsons
Hundleys Cowarts, Deals, Lanes La.
niers Woods, Hendricks, Beasleys
Stocks. Wootens, Vickers, Colemans
Wades, MiZels, Copelands, Hays
They settled near the river SWAMP
So they could hide from the Indians
and had block houses, built where
they fly in danger. They were cattle
ranchers whose ranges were on thu
Canoochee, the Ogechee and tributar,
streams.
The first settlers were all stock rails
ers and the stock ranches of the grea
wire grass counties were nearly all o
them owned by North Carolinians
The great fertility of the lands il
Burke and their adaptability to tn,
raising of indigo and afterwards O
cotton soon turned this section into al
agricultural rather than pastora
country.
The next tide of North Carolinian
went toward the northern and western
frontier. The trouble with the Regl
lators, the difficulty of reaching ;
market from middle North Carolin
led to an immigration from the thel
western, but now central part of Nortl
Carolina which scattered itsel
through Richmond, Columbia, Lincoln