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    1. Re: [GASCREVE] Francis Jones and others at Wrightsborough part 2
    2. Carole Drexel
    3. Continued from part 1, same book reference [From "Quaker Records in Georgia: Wrightsborough 1772-1793, Friendsborough 1776-1777", compiled by Robert Scott Davis, Jr. as a special publication of the Augusta Genealogical Society, Inc., 1986, p. 20. At a Council held n the Council Chamber at Savannah on Tuesday the 7th, February 1769, Present. His Excellency James Wright Esqr. In Council] RICHARD JONES 150 Acres Daniel McCarty 400 Acres Samuel Oliver 250 Acres Richard Moore 100 Acres Thomas Ansley 200 Acres Thomas Linn 250 Acres Robert McClen 300 Acres James Morrow 350 Acres Peter Perkins 500 Acres John Oliver 350 Acres Henry Ashfield 350 Acres William Elam 250 Acres Absalom Jackson 200 Acres John Slater 400 Acres Joseph Hollingsworth 100 Acres John Whitsit 200 Acres John Whitsit, Jr. 250 Acres Stephen Day 200 Acres James Emmitt 200 Acres Hugh Tennen 200 Acres Cornelius Cochran 300 Acres Isaac Vernon 350 Acres John Sidwell 300 Acres Amos Vernon 200 Acres George Morrow 300 Acres Oliver Matthews 250 Acres John Perry 250 Acres Lawrence Thompson 350 Acres John Howard 250 Acres John Hodgin 300 Acres George Beck 150 Acres Benjamin Dunn 150 Acres Edward Murphey 150 Acres Benjamin Jackson 150 Acres William Miles 100 Acres Isaac Jackson 350 Acres William Fanner 550 Acres William Mitchell 100 Acres John Carson 450 Acres Richard Bird 100 Acres John Murry 100 Acres Peter Phillips 100 Acres Samuel Wilson 200 Acres Alexander Oliver 100 Acres James Oliver 100 Acres John Hunter 200 Acres 4050 9400 Frm. The other sides 1550 = 15,000 Acres And it is further Ordered that one Thousand acres of Land out of the said Reserve be Surveyed and Laid out in a proper Spot for a Township (to be called Wrightsborough) And that a Plat of the same be certified and returned to the Clerk of the Council. Ordered That Secretary do prepare a Warrant accordingly. [s] Chas. Watson

    02/06/2008 01:24:46