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Jones County was created Dec. 10, 1807 from Baldwin Co.;  added from Putnam 1810; from original territory 1821; from Bibb 1849. Incl. part to Bibb 1822, 1834, 1835 (repealed 1837), 1849. The county was named after U. S. Rep. James Jones. The first county seat was Clinton (orginally named Albany), named after N.Y. Governor DeWitt Clinton. The  county seat was moved to Gray in 1905. Among the first settlers were Capt. Jonathan Parish, Peter Clower, Henry Low, Wm Williams, Wilkins Jackson, Jeremiah Duman, Thomas White, Jeremiah Pearson, Maj. Humphries, James and High Comer, Roger McCarthy, Allen Greene, Benjamin Tarver, Bailey Stewart, James Anthony, George Harper, John Chapell, Jesse M. Pope, Henry Pope, John Bayne, Stephen Kirk, William Carbanus, P. A. Lewis, James Jones, Wm Jones, Robert Hutchins & James Grey.
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  • African-American 
  • Bible Records (link)
  • Biographies (link)
  • Births 1949-1950 (link)
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  • George Watkins' Land Research Information page
  • Deeds-Land District 13 by George Watkins
  • Watkins' Land Ownership Worksheets by Years
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  • 13th Land District Ownership 1807-present (partial)
  • 12th Land District Ownership 1807-present (partial)
  • 10th Land District Ownership 1807-present (partial)
  • Families
  • Family Group Sheets for Jones County (link)
  • Family Group Sheets for Georgia (link)
  • Early Forts of Georgia (link)
  • Fort Hawkins
  • Genealogists of Jones County - Honors Page
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  • Homicides
  • Jackson Sisters
  • Land Research for Jones County
  • 1821 Land Lottery - Fortuate Drawers1
  • Land District 13 by George H. Watkins
  • Land District 10 by George H. Watkins
  • Land District 12 by George H. Watkins
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  • Deeds-Land District 13 by George H. Watkins
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  • Militia Districts (GMD) 
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  • 1832 Gold Lottery
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  • Medical Doctors 1826 - 1874
  • Military 
  • Modoc Rangers 1875
  • Mortality Census 1850 - 1880
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  •  Macon Telegraph 1826 - 1908 (link)
  •  Milledgeville Newspapers 1808 - 1920 (link) 
  • Abstracts of Early Newspapers (link)
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