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18 REMINISCENCES OF FAMOUS GEORGIANS.
Intosh, who commanded the Continental troops in Sa
vannah, thought to compliment Mr. Bulloch upon the
high office which he held as president of the Executive
Council by ordering a sentinel to be posted at his door.
But the republican instinct of the chief magistrate arose
in rebellion and he requested the removal of the sentinel,
stating that he was himself only the servant of the people,
and that he wished to avoid on all occasions the appear
ance of ostentation.
To establish the proper genealogical relationship be
tween the present Chief Executive of the United States
and the first Chief Executive of Georgia it may be said
that the President's mother was Martha Bulloch. She
was the daughter of Major James Stephen Bulloch, the
grandson of Archibald Bulloch. During the early part of
the last century Major Bulloch moved from the tide
water levels to the upper foothills, locating at Roswell,
Georgia, some twenty miles north of what is now Atlan
ta ; but Atlanta, in those days, was not even so much as
"a babe in the woods." The old Bulloch homestead in
which the President's mother was born is still standing at
Roswell an old-time Southern mansion, modeled upon
the classical pattern, \vith immense Doric pillars support
ing the spacious veranda in front, and not unlike the fa
mous ante-bellum home of General Lee at Arlington.
The President himself enjoyed the pleasure of standing
under the ancestral roof on his visit to Georgia in the fall
of 1905.
And the little town of Roswell will swell with pride at
the memory of that visit down to the latest generation.