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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS
though he declined a commission in the royal army, nor could he shed the blood of
kinsman at home. He was poised between two painful extremes; but the situation
was soon simplified by banishment. With John Mullryne, lie suffered the penalty
of expatriation; and, taking his two sons, John and Josiah, he embarked for
England. The family estate was confiscated by the whigs; and thus were these
BONAVENTURE : TlIE OLD HOME OP THE T ATTNALLS, NEAR
SAVANNAH, Now A BURIAL PLACE OP THE DEAD
staunch partisans of the royal house rewarded for the conservatism which kept them
loyal to the Crown.
The boys were put to school abroad; but young ".Josiah, making his escape,
returned to America. lie felt the lure of Bonaventure, the home of his birth.
Joining the American army at. Purysburg 1, he took an active part in the closing
scenes of the Revolution in Georgia. He was honored in many ways by the state,
was finally made governor, and before his death was reinvested with the titles to
Bonaventnrc, within whose soil his ashes today sleep. He died in the West Indies,
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