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HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY
by Thomas, Mrs. Z.V
Orig. pub. Macon, GA 1927. Reprinted 1978. Print on Demand Edition 2010. 154 pp., illus., new index Jefferson County, site of Georgia's first permanent capital at Louisville, is the subject of this short history written in 1927 by Mrs. Z.V. Thomas. Jefferson was formed in 1796 from Burke and Warren Counties. The book gives a brief, textual account of the colonization of Georgia, the early days and early settlers of Jefferson County, and general accounts of schools, churches, newspapers, railroads,...
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THE CRADLE OF THE CONFEDERACY; OR, THE TIMES OF TROUP, QUITMAN AND YANCEY.
by Hodgson, Joseph
Orig. pub. Mobile, AL 1876. Reprinted 1975. Print on Demand Edition 2018. xv, 528 pp. This is an important book for the study of the organization of political parties in the South, consisting in great measure of original material. Alabama was the cradle of the Confederacy and William Lowndes Yancey was the moving spirit of secession. The book concentrates on political factions in Alabama in the 1850s and includes many of Yancey's speeches. Other Gulf states enter the picture with the intrusion of the...
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Bethel Primitive Baptist Association, Minutes of Lthe Eighteenth Annual Session
by (Georgia Baptists)
None Given: None Given, 1913. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo. Wrappers a little soiled, paper age toned and almost brittle. Size: 8vo. 5 pages. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 14. Shipped Weight: 1 pound or less. Category: Religion & Theology; History. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request.
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THE DEAD TOWNS OF GEORGIA
by Jones, Charles Colcock, Jr
Orig. pub. Savannah, 1878. Reprinted 1974. Print on Demand Edition 2009. 263, 64 pp. + maps, index This volume was originally published as Volume IV of the Georgia Historical Society's Collections and includes Itinerant Observations in America, 1745-46, by Edward Kimber. It is an insightful look into Georgia's history through a detailed examination of towns that flourished and then faded away. With specific emphasis on the colonial period, the work explores the role Georgia's settlers played in...
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THE CAMPAIGN OF 1781 IN THE CAROLINAS
by Lee, Henry
Orig. pub. Philadelphia 1824. Reprinted 1975. Print on Demand Edition 2019. (vi), 511, xlvii pp. Henry Lee published this work in response to aspersions cast upon his father, "Light Horse" Harry Lee, by chroniclers of the American Revolution, in particular Justice William Johnson of South Carolina. Notwithstanding the son's obvious bias, the volume is a standard source for the history of the Revolution in the South. The author covers background events in the life of General Nathanael Greene, and...
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RECOLLECTIONS OF A GEORGIA LOYALIST
by Johnston, Elizabeth Lichtenstein
Orig. pub. New York 1901. Reprinted 1972, 1974. Print on Demand Edition 2021. (ii), 224 pp. + illus. In this classic of Loyalist literature, Elizabeth Lichtenstein Johnson (1764-1848) describes her life as daughter, wife, mother, and grandmother in Savannah, Canada, Britain, and the West Indies during the period 1764 -1837. Born near Savannah, she was the daugher of Russian emigrant John Lichtenstein. She married Dr. William Martin Johnston in Savannah. He was a member of one of Georgia's most...
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SAVANNAH RIVER PLANTATIONS
by Granger, Mary, ed
Orig. pub. Savannah 1947. Reprinted 1972, 1983. Print on Demand Edition 2009. (xxxix), 475, XVIII pp., new intro, index, maps Originally written as a series of monographs on outstanding Chatham County plantations, this work turned out to be, under the sponsorship of the WPA and the Georgia Historical Society, a complete history of the great plantations of the area around Savannah. Plantations discussed are: Causton's Bluff, Deptford, Brewton Hill, Mulberry Grove, Richmond Oakgrove, Drakies, Colerain,...
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DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
by Gibbes, Robert W
Orig. pub. Columbia SC, 1853. Reprinted 1972. Print on Demand Edition 2019. Vol. 3, xv, 298 pp., index
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AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE COLONIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA, Volume 1
by Hewatt, Alexander
Vol. 1, (ii), (xiv), 348 pp.
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NINETY-FOUR YEARS. AGNES PASCHAL
by Paschal, George W
Orig. pub. Washington 1871. Reprinted 1974, 1999, 2003. Print on Demand Edition 2014. 361 pp., new index Mrs. Agnes Paschal, one of the last surviving Revolutionary pensioners, died in 1869 in her ninety-fourth year. Written by her son, this memoir tells her story as she moved from her childhood home in North Carolina to the Cherokee frontier of middle Georgia near Lexington and then lived out the last days of her life in Auraria and Dahlonega during their gold-mining days. Although designed primarily...
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HISTORY OF WILKINSON COUNTY
by Davidson, Victor
Orig. pub. Macon, GA 1930. Reprinted 1978, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003. Print on Demand Edition 2013. ii, 645 pp., illus., maps, index Wilkinson County, Georgia, was created in 1803 from Indian lands and, at one time, encompassed all or part of what are now Bibb, Baldwin, Twiggs, Bleckley, Laurens, Pulaski, Dodge, Wheeler, and Telfair counties. The author treats extensively the Indian era and the struggles of the first settlers with the Indians and with the Spanish in East Florida. A chapter is devoted to...
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THE HISTORY OF GEORGIA, Volumes I & II
by Jones, Charles Colcock Jr
Orig. pub. Boston 1883. Reprinted 1965, 1966, 1969. Print on Demand Edition 2016. the set This is the "classic" work on the history of Georgia through the Revolutionary War by Charles Colcock Jones Jr., one of the most versatile and prolific historical writers of all time. He was the first native-born Georgian to write a history of his state. In his U.S. IANA, Wright Howes called this a "most scholarly history of the colonial and revolutionary period of this state." The history received accolades from...
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THE LAND CALLED CHICORA. The Carolinas Under Spanish Rule With French Intrusions. 1520-1670
by Quattlebaum, Paul
Orig. pub. Gainesville, FL 1956. Reprinted 1973, 1975, 2001. Print on Demand Edition 2009. XIV, 153 pp., index + illus., maps This study of the first Spanish attempts at settling the Carolinas, and of the Chicora Indians, treats all European contacts prior to 1670. The author describes the earliest explorations of the new land, the Spanish settlement in 1526 at the mouth of the Waccamaw River across from present Georgetown, South Carolina, contention between France and Spain, the English colony, the...
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DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
by Gibbes, Robert W
Orig. pub. New York and Columbia SC, 1853, 1855, 1857. Reprinted 1972. Print on Demand Edition 2019. The set, 3 vols. This collection of letters and papers relating to the Revolution in South Carolina is the result of 25 years of collecting by the editor, Robert W. Gibbes, a physician, newspaper editor, politician, and historian of Columbia, South Carolina. They cover the years 1764 through 1782. While the material is primarily concerning South Carolina, there is ample mention of individuals and...
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HISTORY OF ALABAMA AND INCIDENTALLY OF GEORGIA AND MISSISSIPPI FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD. With Annals of Alabama, 1819-1900, by Thomas McAdory Owen
by Pickett, Albert James
Orig. pub. Birmingham 1900. Reprinted 1975, 1988. Print on Demand Edition 2013. 773 pp., illus., index Pickett's history, one of the most valuable works on the history of the Southern country, is an account of the territory of Alabama prior to its admission as a state with later chapters containing many biographical sketches of men prominent in the later developments of the commonwealth. The Annals by Owen, historical facts in outline fashion, continue that history from statehood in 1819 to 1900....
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DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
by Gibbes, Robert W.
Orig. pub. New York, 1857. Reprinted 1972. Print on Demand Edition 2019. Vol. 2, xii, 304 pp., index
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THE HISTORY OF GEORGIA, Vol. I
by Jones, Charles Colcock Jr
Orig. pub. Boston 1883. Reprinted 1965, 1966, 1969. Print on Demand Edition 2016. xvi, 556 pp., index + illus., maps
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TRADITIONS AND REMINISCENCES CHIEFLY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN THE SOUTH
by Johnson, Joseph
Orig. pub. Charleston 1851. Print on Demand Edition 2019. viii, 592 pp., maps As noted in the title, this volume is a collection of traditions and reminiscences of the American Revolution in the South. Many of the histories written during this time concentrated heavily on actions around the coastal areas. Johnson covers that aspect; but almost half of the book details persons and events taking place in the upper part of South Carolina, particularly the districts of Fairfield, Chester, York,...
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HISTORY OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN OF GEORGIA
by McLendon, Samuel G
Orig. pub. Atlanta 1924. Reprinted 1974. Print on Demand Edition 2009. 200 pp., map Using all the early land grants and other records of the state, McLendon, who was secretary of state in Georgia at the time he wrote this book, put together a valuable study of Georgia's land disposition history dealing specifically with the lands acquired from the Creek and Cherokee Indians and the Georgia western lands in largely what is now Alabama and Mississippi. He discusses the headright and land lottery counties....
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THE NARRATIVE OF COLONEL DAVID FANNING (A Tory in the Revolutionary War with Great Britain)
by Fanning, David
Orig. pub. New York 1865. Reprinted 1973. Print on Demand Edition 2021. (ii), (XXVI), 86 pp. David Fanning was the most notorious and successful of the Loyalist partisan leaders in the Southern colonies. Born in Amelia County, Virginia, he grew up in Johnston County, North Carolina. In 1764 he and his older sister were orphaned and bound to guardians. By 1773 he had journeyed to South Carolina and settled on Raeburn's Creek where he farmed and traded with the Indians. At the beginning of the...
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AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE COLONIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA, Vols. 1 & 2
by Hewatt, Alexander
Orig. pub. London 1779. Reprinted 1962, 1971. Print on Demand Edition 2015. The set Dr. Alexander Hewatt (or Hewat) is known as the first historian of South Carolina and is best known for this two-volume work. He was a Presbyterian minister in Charleston from 1763 to 1777. Not sympathetic with the Patriot cause, he returned to England in 1775 but remained interested in South Carolina until his death in 1828. While the books are primarily South Carolina material with a strong Charleston and lowcountry...
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Island Time: An Illustrated History of St. Simons Island, Georgia
by Davis, Jingle
University of Georgia Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2013. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0820342459 . Large format hardcover with dustjacket, first printing as indicated by the publisher's "1" in the number line on copyright page, this copy is inscribed and signed by the author on the half-title page: "For Rhonda's Mom Sandy, Always an islander at heart. Best, Jingle." It is then signed again, "Jingle Davis" by the author and it is also signed by the photographer, "Benjamin Galland." Both...
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HISTORY OF IRWIN COUNTY
by Clements, J.B
Orig. pub. Atlanta 1932. Reprinted 1978, 1989, 1997, 2003. Print on Demand Edition 2008. iv, 539 pp. + maps, new index This history tells the story of Irwin County, an original Georgia county created in 1818 from Creek Indian lands. From it eventually came all of parts of twenty-two counties (Worth, Wilcox, Turner, Ben Hill, Tift, Colquitt, Thomas, Cook, Brooks, Berrien, Lowndes, Echols, Clinch, Lanier, Atkinson, Coffee, Ware, Charlton, Jeff Davis, Bacon, Pierce, and Brantley). The initial organization...
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Giant Days or The Life and Times of William H. Crawford
by Shipp, J. E. D. (on William H. Crawford)
Americus, GA: Southern Printers, 1909 1st ed. 266pp. port. illus. green cloth 8vo w/gilt titles: Very Good [touch of shelf rubbing; else a nice clean and crisp copy; gilt is bright] A vintage copy of this bio of the influential early American politician Crawford (1772-1834).
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HISTORY OF LUMPKIN COUNTY FOR THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS 1832-1932
by Cain, Andrew W
Orig. pub. Atlanta 1932. Reprinted 1978, 1979, 1984, 1999. Print on Demand Edition 2014. ii, 530 pp., new index Lumpkin County, gold capital of North Georgia, was formed in 1932 from Cherokee, Habersham, and Hall counties. This book traces the early history of the area, covers the economic and social impact of the gold discovery, and then details the general history of the county up to 1932. A general account of the original inhabitants, the Cherokee Indians, is followed by a description of the "period...
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