Historical Collections of Georgia Containing the most interesting Facts, Traditions, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, etc. RELATING TO ITS HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT TO THE PRESENT TIME. COMPILED FROM ORIGINAL RECORDS AND OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. By Pudnett & Russell, 1855 688 +41 pages, indexed, illustrated ************************************************************************ Digital Book CD Requires Adobe Reader 5 or higher to View *********************************************************************** $11.99 + $1.99 shipping and handling http://cgi.ebay.com/Historical-Collections-Georgia-History-Genealogy-/130341211360?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e58f10ce0 This is a major collection of colonial and Revolutionary documents, biographical sketches of prominent persons, lists of early settlers, militia rolls and lists of soldiers and officers in the Revolution, and county-by- county sketches from the first settlement of Georgia down to the middle of the 19th century. The accounts of the counties include traditions, statistics, early settlers, and abstracts from the census of 1850. About one-third of the book is devoted to a collection of documents dealing with the colonial and Revolutionary periods, while a 41-page Appendix gives the principal statistics of the whole state as taken from the census of 1850. "The whole volume forms a compilation of the greatest value, extensively used by subsequent writers." J.N. Larned, The Literature of American History. (1902), No. 3340.