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458 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS
cultural Society of Georgia, an organization which still exists after the
lapse of more than a century and which in its manifold activities has
been an untold blessing to the state. The charter members of this time-
honored organization constitute a roll of honor. These were : * John
Bolton, John Gumming, Thomas Young, Thomas Telfair, John M. Ber-
rien, Curtis Bolton, Joshua E. White, Richard Richardson, Steele White,
Ebenezer Stark, Nicholl Turn-bull, Noble W. Jones, Wm. Scarborough,
Oliver Sturges, Benjamin Burroughs, Barna McKinne, Benjamin Mau
rice, Charles Perry, Hugh Ross, Hanen Kimball, Joseph Carruthers,
John Hunter, Henry Hall, Jabez Longworth, Jonathan Meigs, Wm.
Woodbridge, John P. Williamson, James Dickson, David Williford,
Stephen Martell, Wm. T. Williams, Richard M. Stites, John Anderson,
John Eppinger, John Eppinger, Jr., Adam Cope, John G. Williamson,
Wm. Taylor, Thomas Phelps, Jonathan Battelle, Charles Oddingsells,
Robert G. Houston, Benjamin Ansley, Frederick Ball, George Woodruff,
Francis Roma, John Lawson, Richard Wall, Archibald S. Bulloch,
Lemuel Kollock, Hugh McCall, Gurdon J. Seymour, Wm. Mein, Edward
White, Alfred Cuthbert, Henry Holcomb, Thomas Gardiner, John Craig,
George Scott, Tobias V. Gray, James G. Almy, John Grimes, George
Anderson, Wm. B. Bulloch, Wm. Gaston, John H. Deubell, James Bilbo,
Robert Small, Thomas L. Malone, Thomas Mendenhall, James B. Read,
Abraham Richards, Theodore A. Scheodde, Andrew Low, Richard F.
Williams, George Harrell, Ralph May, Zachariah Miller, Calvin Baker,
B. Ogden, Thomas Bourke, Samuel Barnet, George Jones, L. N. Alard,
A. Devuillard, Thomas Dicheneaux, J. J. Coiron, J. J. Blanchard and
N. Nazant.
Georgia's pioneer cotton factory was chartered by the Legislature of
1810. It was styled the Wilkes Manufacturing Company and was located
near the present Town of Washington. Its incorporators were : Mat
thew Talbot, Boiling Anthony, Benjamin Sherrod, Frederick Ball, Gil
bert Hay and Joel Abbot, t It was chartered for the manufacture of
cotton and woolen goods by machinery to be erected in Wilkes, with a
capital stock of $10,000 to be increased to a sum not exceeding $50,000.
There was also a factory established at this time in Morgan, on Little
River. But neither enterprise prospered. These items possess a value
chiefly as showing the wideawake activities of our people in these pioneer
days.
In 1810 a petition was presented to the Legislature, presumably by
members of the Clark party in whose ranks there were few members of
the legal profession begging the General Assembly to abolish "the most
useless pest that ever disgraced civil society — the lawyers. ' ' t
Quite a number of academies were chartered between 1810 and 1818
two of which, the one at Powelton and the one at Mount Zion, both.
located in Hancock, became widely famous in after years. Powelton was
a strong Baptist center. Here the Georgia Baptist Association was
organized and here William Rabun and Jesse Mercer lived at one time.
Mount Zion was a Presbyterian neighborhood. Here the noted edu
cators, Nathan and Carlisle P. Beman, taught, and, in after years, Gov-
* ' ' Clayton 'a Compilation, ' ' pp. 585-587.
t " Clayton 's Compilation," pp. 667-668.
t "Georgia and State Eights," U. B. Phillips, p. 110.