Posted on: Wilkes Co. Ga Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Wilkes/10853 Surname: Taliaferro ------------------------- I am looking for letters by or about Col. Benjamin Taliaferro. Taliaferro was born in Amherst County, Va. and served in the Va. Continental line during the Revolution. He also briefly served in Georgia during the Siege of Savannah in 1779. Taliaferro and his family moved to Wilkes County in 1784. He served as a county magistrate, state representative, state senator, state superior judge, and Congressman, elected in 1798. Taliaferro was one of the few state legislators to oppose the Yazoo sale in 1789 and 1795. He died in 1821.