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Liberty
County, Georgia
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Liberty County, located on
the Georgia coast, was one of the seven Georgia counties created from
the original colonial parishes on February 5, 1777. The Guale Indians
inhabited that area from prehistoric times, and in the eighteenth
century the tribe became a part of the Muskogee or Creek Confederation.
The Spanish placed a mission on St. Catherines Island in the late
sixteenth century among the Guale Indians. In the early 1750s English
settlers, including a group of Congregationalists from Dorchester, South
Carolina, located in the area between the Medway and Newport
rivers.
Shortly before the American Revolution (1775-83), a
number of people who later became prominent in the new state and
republic settled there, including Nathan Brownson, Mark Carr, James
Dunwoody, John Elliott Sr., Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, Lachlan
McIntosh, James Screven, and Daniel Stewart. In the 1770s William
Bartram traveled through the area during his famous
expedition.
In 1775 St. John's Parish, one of three parishes that
would eventually make up Liberty County, was the first area in Georgia
to send a representative to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. In
that year the citizens of St. John's Parish gathered in the
Congregational Church in Midway, where they elected Lyman Hall to
represent them in the Continental Congress. They sent several wagonloads
of rice with him to feed the Continental troops surrounding Boston.
Because St. John's Parish was the first in Georgia to vote for liberty,
the new county created from this parish was given the name
Liberty.
The county seat is Hinesville, Georgia
Cities and towns
Allenhurst -- Flemington -- Fort Stewart --
Gumbranch -- Hinesville
Midway -- Riceboro -- Walthourville
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Website
Updates:
- June 2013: Walthourville,
a town - Transcribed by Kristen Bisanz
- Bios for LAW, FLEMING, - Transcribed by Veneta McKinney
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- March 2013: Town histories
- Taylor's Creek, Transcribed by Kristen Bisanz
- Thebes, a post-hamlet Transcribed by Kristen Bisanz
- Roderick, a post-village Transcribed by Kristen Bisanz
- Tibet, a post-hamlet Transcribed by Kristen Bisanz
- Smiley, a post-villageTranscribed by Kristen Bisanz
- Strumbay, a post-hamlet Transcribed by Kristen Bisanz
- Swindel, a post-village Transcribed by Kristen Bisanz
- Rivers
- South Newport River Transcribed by Kristen Bisanz
- Bio for Sheppard, Walter W., Transcribed by Kristen
Bisanz
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- Jan 2011: Marriages Added
for 1820-1839- 1840 Pensioners
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- Sep 2110: Will Index
added
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- Feb 2010: Cemeteries
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- Oct 2009: MCINTOSH
biography
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- Sep 2009: 1919-1925
Deaths; Biographies for LAYTON, FRASER; EARLE, LECONTE obit
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- Dec 2007: County History;
Biography of ANDREW
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