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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



Online Data

Biographies

Births

Cemeteries

Census

Church Histories/Records

County Records

Court Records

Deaths

Family Bibles

History

Marriages

Military

Newspaper Data

Obituaries

Townships

Wills/Legal Records 

Website Updates:

June 2013: Walthourville, a town - Transcribed by Kristen Bisanz
Bios for LAW, FLEMING,  - Transcribed by Veneta McKinney
 
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
 
Jan 2011: Marriages Added for 1820-1839- 1840 Pensioners
 
Sep 2110: Will Index added
 
Feb 2010: Cemeteries
 
Oct 2009: MCINTOSH biography
 
Sep 2009: 1919-1925 Deaths; Biographies for LAYTON, FRASER; EARLE, LECONTE obit
 
Dec 2007: County History; Biography of ANDREW 

 

 



Adjacent Counties
Bryan County, Georgia - north
McIntosh County, Georgia - south
Long County, Georgia - west
Evans County, Georgia - northwest
Tattnall County, Georgia - northwest


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