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Bobert Gray<br />

Samuel Shepherd<br />

William Thompson<br />

Stephen Britton<br />

James Low<br />

Jonathan Holden<br />

John Mills<br />

GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 255<br />

James Dixie<br />

William Stvo<strong>the</strong>r<br />

George Henly<br />

John Spence<br />

D. Mclnnes<br />

Henry Forest<br />

ST. GEORGE 's PAKISH : A NEST OF LOYALISTS.—It was not until <strong>the</strong> battle <strong>of</strong> Lex-<br />

ingtou that <strong>the</strong> Scotch-Irish settlers at Queensboro in <strong>the</strong> Parish <strong>of</strong> St. George<br />

renounced allegiance to <strong>the</strong> Crown <strong>of</strong> England. The reasons for <strong>the</strong> strong royalist<br />

sentiment which prevailed in this part <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> province were numerous. In <strong>the</strong> first<br />

place, <strong>the</strong> settlers lived on <strong>the</strong> frontier belt, where <strong>the</strong>y were constantly exposed to<br />

attacks from <strong>the</strong> Indians. They needed <strong>the</strong> protection <strong>of</strong> England. Not a few <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong>m were wealthy planters, who possessed large estates. Moreover, <strong>the</strong>y resented<br />

a condition <strong>of</strong> affairs which <strong>the</strong>y laid at <strong>the</strong> doors <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> meddlesome Puritans <strong>of</strong><br />

Boston and <strong>the</strong>y did not see why <strong>Georgia</strong> should become a party to New England's<br />

quarrel. So following <strong>the</strong> famous meeting at Tondee's Tavern, <strong>the</strong>re was entered,<br />

on September 28, 1774, a protest from <strong>the</strong> Parish <strong>of</strong> St. George, in which <strong>the</strong><br />

resolutions adopted at Savannah, on August 10, 1774, were condemned as "reflecting<br />

improperly upon <strong>the</strong> King and Parliament <strong>of</strong> England." It was signed by <strong>the</strong><br />

following freeholders, who were <strong>the</strong> earliest settlers <strong>of</strong> what afterwards became <strong>the</strong><br />

County <strong>of</strong> Jefferson:<br />

George Wells, afterwal-ds lieutenant-<br />

governor.<br />

Peter Shand<br />

James Doyle<br />

Shadrach Barrow<br />

Joseph Gresham<br />

James Roe<br />

William Doyle<br />

Joseph Tilley<br />

Daniel Thomas<br />

Giden Thomas<br />

Eobert Hendersou<br />

John Bed<br />

James Williams<br />

Alexander Berryhill<br />

Charles Williams<br />

John Eogers<br />

Drewry Roberts<br />

James Eed<br />

John Kennedy<br />

Paul McCormick<br />

John Greenway<br />

Hugh Irwin<br />

James Brantley<br />

John Catlett<br />

John Pettigrew<br />

John Frier<br />

William Milner<br />

Samuel Berryhill<br />

John. Bledsoe<br />

Solomon Davis<br />

Francis Hancock<br />

Myriek Davis<br />

Daniel Logan<br />

John Forth<br />

Edward Watlers<br />

Frederick Francis<br />

Arthur Walker<br />

Eobert Douglas, Sr.<br />

Henry Mills<br />

Amos Whitehead<br />

Ezekiel Brumfleld<br />

Clement Yarbrough<br />

Bar.naby Lamb<br />

Lewis Hobbs<br />

John Howell<br />

James Moore<br />

John Sharpe<br />

William Hobbs<br />

Jacob Lamb<br />

Joseph Allday<br />

Laudruni Ashbury<br />

Jesse Scruggs<br />

Joseph Moore<br />

John Robinson<br />

Jacob Sharp<br />

James Hunt<br />

John Tillman<br />

E'obert Cade<br />

John Thomas<br />

Francis Lewis Feyer<br />

James Warren<br />

Samuel Eed<br />

Edmond Hill<br />

Thomas Pennington<br />

Job Thomas<br />

Joel Walker<br />

William N. Norrell<br />

Francis Stringer<br />

Humphrey Williams<br />

Robert Blaishard<br />

Thomas Carter<br />

John Anderson<br />

David Greene<br />

William Catlett<br />

James Davis

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