THE JOHN MILLEDGES OF GEORGIA. The first John Milledge of Georgia was born in England, and came to America with Oglethorpe. He became a man of affairs in the new colony, and held several important trusts, civic and military. His commission as commander of a troup of rangers, dated March 29, 1742, was signed by Jas. Oglethorpe. In 1768, while a member of the colonial assembly, he was one of a committee to correspond with Benjamin Franklin, agent "to arrange the affairs of Georgia with Great Britain." The Captain and his family had a pew in Christ Church, Savannah, "in consideration of six pounds and ten shillings," receipted July 5, 1763. Milledgeville, the former capital of the State, was named in honor of Gov. John Milledge. His son, Gov. John Milledge, was born in Savannah in 1757. He commenced the study of law with the king's attorney. He was so engaged at the breaking out of the Revolutionary War. When but eighteen years of age he was one of the six who broke open the magazine at Savannah and took away a large quantity of powder. Some of it was stored in Savannah, some sent to Beaufort, and a part of it to Boston, where hostilities had commenced, and with it the battle of Bunker Hill was fought. The royal Governor, Wright, offered a reward of $150 for the capture of the raiders, but they, instead of inviting arrest, waited a month and then captured the Governor in his own house, wherein they confined him. In this he was a leading spirit. He was in Savannah when it was taken by the British, but escaped. In January, 1780, he was appointed Attorney General. This was the beginning of his civil career. He served in the Legislature, and was in Congress in 1792 and '93, from 1795 to 1799, and in 1801 and 1802. He was immediately elected to the United States Senate, where he served three years, the last year as its President. In this year, 1809, being only 52 years old, he resigned his seat and gave up public life. In April, 1802, he was one of three commissioners on the part of Georgia who negotiated with three appointed by the President, a treaty by which Georgia ceded the most of her western territory to the United States for $1,250,000 and other considerations. Although confronted by three statesmen of the highest national reputation, the Georgians made so satisfactory a settlement of a bitterly contested question that they received by a unanimous vote the thanks of the Legislature, Governor Milledge retired to his plantation on the Sand Hills, near Augusta, where he died in 1818. While Mr. Jefferson's epitaph on his tomb is inscribed the " Father of the University of Virginia," Governor Milledge was the "Benefactor of the University of Georgia." Governor Milledge bought and conveyed to the University at Athens nearly 700 acres of land. Upon this land the college buildings and a great part of Athens now stand. Its first commencement was held in 1804. There hangs in the State Library, Atlanta, a handsome painting of this eminent Georgian. It is the work of the late Miss Kate Elliott Milledge, the only granddaughter of Governor Milledge. She was the daughter of the late Col. John Milledge, and a sister to the present State Librarian, Capt. John Milledge, who was a Confederate soldier, serving as First Lieutenant and Captain in 1st Georgia regiment, and afterward Captain of artillery under Gen. Lee.