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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 275
Joseph Habersham, Jonathan Bryan, Ambrose Wright, William Young, John Glen,
Samuel Elbert, John Houstoun, Oliver Bowen, John McClure, Edward Telfair, Thomas
Lee, George Houstoun, Joseph Reynolds, John Smith, William Ewen, John Martin,
Doctor Zubly, William Bryan, Philip Box, Philip Allman, William O'Bryan, Joseph
Clay, Seth John Cuthbert.
District of Vernonbnrgh.—Joseph Butler [declined to take his seat], Andrew
Elton Wells, Matthew Roche, Jr.
District of Aeton.—David Zubly, Basil Cowper, William Gibbons.
Sea Island District.—Colonel Deveaugh, Colonel Delegall, James Bulloeh, John
Morel, John Bohun Girardeau, John Barnard, Robert Gibson.
District of Little Ogeeehee.—Francis Henry Harris, Joseph Gibbons, James Kob-
ertson [declined to take his seat].
Parish of St. Matthew.—John Stirk, John Adam Treutlen, George Walton, Edward
Jones, Jacob Wauldhauer, Philip Howell, Isaac Young, Jenkin Davis, John Morel,
John Elert, Charles McCay, Christopher Cramer.
Parish of St. Philip.—Colonel Butler, William LeConte, William Maxwell, James
Maxwell, Stephen Drayton, Adam Fowler Brisbane, Luke Mann, Hugh Bryan.
Parish of St. George.—Henry Jones, John Green, Thomas Burton, William Lord,
David Lewis, James Pugh, John Fulton.
Parish of St. Andrew.—Jonathan Cochran, William Jones, Peter Tarlin, Lachlan
Mclntosh, William Mclntosh, George Threadcraft, John Wereat, Roderick Mclntosh,
John Witherspoon, George Mclntosh, Allan Stewart, John Mclntosh, Raymond
Demere.
Parish of St. David.—John Cuthbert Seth, William Williams, Sr.
Parish of St.. Mary.—Daniel Ryan.
Parish of St. Thomas.—John Roberts.
Parish of St. Paul.—John Walton, Joseph Maddoek [declined to take his seat],
Andrew Burns, R'obert Rae, James Rae, Andrew Moore, Andrew Burney, Leonard
Marbnry.—"Georgia's Landmarks, Memorials and Legends," by L. L. Knight,
Vol. II.
GUNPOWDEK FOK BUNKER HILL.—Perhaps it may have been too small an item for
the historians of New England to chronicle, but the State of Georgia made a con
tribution to the battle of Bunker Hill * which was deemed to be of very great value
at the time to the cause of independence and which undoubtedly influenced in no
slight degree the subsequent fortunes of the Revolution. On the 10th of May, 1775,
there came to Savannah, by special courier, the first tidings of the battle of Lexing-
ton. It stirred the patriots to the highest pitch of excitement, and some of the
bolder spirits of the colony hastily devised a plan of action which was destined to
startle the royal Governor. Near the eastern extremity of the town was the maga
zine. It was built of brick and buried some twelve feet under ground. Within this
subterranean vault there were large supplies of ammunition, which Governor Wright
deemed it unnecessary to protect because of the substantial character of the struc
ture. But he little suspected the resourcefulness of the Revolutionists.
Though Georgia was still nominally within the British allegiance, the necessity
of securing the contents, of this magazine for future operations became urgent; and
Dr. Noble Wymberley Jones, Joseph Habersham, Edward Telfair, William Gibbons,
Joseph Clay, John Milledge and several others, most of whom were members of the
Council of Safety, organized themselves into a band and at a late hour on the next
evening broke into the magazine and removed therefrom about 600 pounds of gun
powder. Governor Wright soon caught wind of the affair and issued a proclamation offer
ing £150 sterling for the arrest of the offenders; but the raiders were not betrayed.
Some of the gunpowder was sent to Beaufort, S. C., for safe-keeping; and the rest
was concealed in the garrets and cellars of the houses of the captors; but some of it
was later on sent to Boston, where, in the battle of Bunker Hill, it illuminated the
opening drama of hostilities.—Ibid., Vol. II.
GEORGIA COMMISSIONS THE FIRST WARSHIP.—Another gunpowder incident is well
authenticated. On the 4th of July, 1775, the Provincial Congress met in Savannah
* '' History of Georgia,'' by Wm. B. Stevens, Vol. II. '' History of Georgia,''
by Chas. C. Jones, Jr., Vol. II.