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raA EARLY HISTORY OF GEORGIA.
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TAG EARLY HISTORY OF GEORGIA.
One of the regrets my life has been my failure
study the early history of my native state for
understand more of English history after the Nor
conquest than do of the early settlements made
in wilkes and washington counties when colonies
Virginans in. bringing their families. nVas7-
hold goods and their slaves and laid the foundations
of subsequent success Along WITH the Virslnans
we may also note the North Caroliniano and Mary
landers who people of the same sterling character
and Industry
with the story of oglethorpe and savannah
better informed English history is connected
therewitb 10 give pertnence and historical accuracy,
the unrecorded story of Virginia and North
Carolina predecessors that is growing very dim ana
misty in tradition.
We believe that our ancestors we're not much in
cned historical annals. Their time was so mueil
absorbed with clearing of the forests getting farms
homes living order and in trying to do their
duty and all that they allowed the valuable tine
to slip along expecting somebody to do it, knowing
exactly who and result it has not been done ina
it cost II IL cents TO send letter
DAYS Int the scarcity of records will make it difficalt
task it efficiently and we'll My fathers father
was horn in MARYLAND and the grandmother whom
was named was a Marshall, of Virginia. My mothers
father came North Carolina and her mother was
furnished with any satisfactory family records
Inquiries constant and perplexing
NV grandmother Mrs Marshall did her best and
kept everything in a trunk that came to my father
as executor but Shermans bumrners burned IL up
less papers that the dear grandmother SO muen
time and care, sacrificed by vandal torches
So,la svs eli 7 could snare to see them again, but
they are gone the story of the pioneer set
tiers who out to middle Georgia from virginia
and North Carolina the state line the Oconee
river on the west the most gratifying history
ever written for their descendants. remember as
child handling those old Virgnian deed papers and
reading grandmothers letters with keen delight and
as she was married by Episcopal bishop would
place her, bridal hnery in my mind She was
an uncommon scribe for her time. and died num-
Der of years before and childish longing
for her and her tell things was very great
These Virginians. North Carolinians and Maryland
ers who settled middle Georgia allured by the
cheapness fertility of the lands, the delghtfuness
of the climate wewatered sections, ana compara
tive nearness to Augusta market Cotton has been
Cseorefa's standard money crop for a long term OF
wears but it fact that tobacco, not cotton' was
the Georgia money crop among the early settlers Inc
neople used cotton, forced to pick by hands
the seed from and largely raised spun
and woven TO make apparel and mems shirts ana
trousers. 49,.
And these sterling Virginans and others prougH
with them the ideas opinions that prevailed IN the
lection they had left-as well the manners ana Gus
toms economies and labor devices s..s.
Wilkes county was a tremendously large one IN
the davs of the Oconee state lne and has been sub
divided many times into smaller sections or counties
The state of Georgia reached first to the oconee then
to the Ocmulgee then the Flint and the Chatta-
hoochee was the boundary in ls25-on the west ~
will be worth time and trouble to gather an ne
data and it will be most valuable contribution Inc
Cherokee Indians with us until 1885, ana the
middle Georgia people fought Indians for many long
years.