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1837
Jones County is bounded by Jasper and a
part of Putnam, on the N., by Baldwin on the E., by Twiggs and a corner
of Wilkinson on the S., and by the Ocmulgee and Bibb on the W. Population,
16, 498. Academy funds received, $1,051.67. Poor School do., $801.86. Three
incorporated Academies in the county; but wo have ceased operations. Clinton
is the capital.
Pubic Place. Blountsville, Freeman's
store, and Fortville.
Source: A Gazetteer of the
State of Georgia: Embracing a Particular Description of the Counties, Towns,
Villages, Rivers, &c., and Whatsoever is Usual in Geographies, and
Minute Statistical Works, Together with a New Map of the State. By Adiel
Sherwood
Edition: 3. Published by Printed
by P. Force, 1837
1854
Laid out in 1807; part added from Putnam
1810; part to Bibb, 1822. Length, 21 m.; breadth, 18 m.; area square miles,
378.
The chief river is the Ocmulgee.
The face of the county is hilly.
The soil, though much worn, is productive.
Clinton is the county town distant
from Milledgeville 22 miles.
Blountsville, a small place is 10
miles from Clinton.
Griswold's Cotton Gin Factory
is situated in Griswoldville. Machinery moved by steam. Yearly average
sales, 900 gins, worth not less than $40,000; saws worth about $80,000;
70,000 pounds of castings, mostly of iron, used per annum; 50,000 pounds
of wrought iron, 40,000 pounds gin-saw cast steel, and 200,000 feet of
lumber. Annual profits of business, $20,000. Connected with this establishment
are two saws, cutting 600,000 feet of lumber pr annum, besides wagon, smiths'
shops. &c. Whole number of hands employed, 80.
The most common diseases are
fever and pneumonia.
Extract from the Census of 1850.
White males, 1,972; white females, 1927; free coloured males, 17; free
coloured females, 29. Total free population, 3,945; slaves, 6,279. Deaths,
85. Farms, 405; manufacturing establishments, 15. Value of real estate,
$1,373,625; value of personal estate, $3,525,464.
Among the first settlers were, Captain
Jonathan Parish, Peter Clower, Henry Low, Wm. Williams, Wilkinson Jackson,
Jeremiah Dumas, Thomas White, Jeremiah Peason, Major 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, Wm. Carbanus, P. A. Lews, James Jones, Wm. Jones,
Robert Hutchings, James Grey.
Mr. Benjamin
Reynolds died in this county, aged seventy-three years. He was a native
of Caroline County, Virginia. At the breaking out of the Revolutionary
War, he was too young to enter the service. As soon as his age would admit,
he, together with the patriotic citizens of the Revolution took up arms,
and entered the service of his country. At the end of the war he removed
to South Carolina into a neighborhood distinguished for their loyalty to
the British crown. Mr. Reynolds, from his zealous devotion to the cause
of liberty, encountered the most violent persecution from his misguided
associates. After the purchase of the land on which Jones County is included,
he removed thither, being one of its earliest settlers.
John
Lamar, Esq., died in this county. As a soldier of the Revolution, he
was not only brave to a fault, but his services were of long continuance,
and his sufferings excessive. Very shortly after entering the army, he
was deputed with others to the performance of a perilous duty, in which
he was deserted by his companions, and left to execute the order alone,
which he did to the admiration and astonishment of all. For this act of
intrepidity and fidelity, the Government tendered him a Lieutenant's commission
in the regular forces, which, however, he modestly declined, on the ground
that he was too young and inexperienced to assume the responsibilities
of the station, being at this time only in his seventeenth year. He served
under General Marion and Pickens, attached generally to the battalion of
the latter; was at the battle of the Eutaw, Cowpens, siege of Augusta,
and in several other engagements; once taken as a prisoner, but made his
escape from the camp of Lord Cornwallis, rescuing at the same time one
of his cousins' was twice wounded during the war by the British, and once
by the Indians, after his removal to Georgia.
Many of the citizens of this section
of the State have done honour to it by their virtues and talents.
Dr. Hamilton, now of Cass,
was a practitioner of medicine in this county for many years, and had a
high reputation.
Colonel Robert Hardeman is
well known as a courteous gentleman and eminent lawyer.
Historical Collections of Georgia:
Containing the Most Interesting Facts, Traditions, Biographical Sketches,
Anecdotes, Etc., Relating to Its History and Antiquities, from Its First
Settlement to the Present Time ; Compiled from Original Records and Official
Documents ; Illustrated by Nearly One ...By George White, Published by
Pudney & Russell, 1855
Source: A gazetteer of Georgia:
containing a particular description of the state, its resources, counties,
towns, villages, and whatever is usual in statistical works. By Adiel Sherwood.
Edition: 4. Published by S. Boykin, 1860
Source" Georgia: Her Resources
and Possibilities: Her Resources and Possibilities By Georgia Dept.
of Agriculture, R. T. Nesbitt, Georgia;
Published by Franklin Printing
and Publishing Co., 1895
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