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APPLING COUNTY,

  NAMED after Colonel Daniel Appling, was laid out in 1818; part added to 
Telfair in 1819, part to Ware in 1824, and a part to Telfair in 1825. Length, 
55 m.; breadth, 35 m.; area square miles, 1,925.

  Appling is sparsely populated.

  The head waters of the Great and Little St. Ilia are in this county. The 
creeks are Ten-mile Creek, Five-mile Creek, Big and Little Goose, Dougherty's, 
&c.

  The face of the country is level. The soil is poor. Productions, cotton, 
sugar-cane, corn, and rice.

  HOLMESVILLE is the county site, distant from Milledgeville 115 m. 

  Town Bluff is a small place on the Alatamaha. The climate is healthy.

  The first settlers of this county were NATHAN DEAN, JOAN TAYLOR, HENRY 
TAYLOR, SILAS O. QUIN, MOSES VICK, JOHN JOHNSON, JOHN HAWKINS, JOHN SMITH D. 
REDISH, D. SUMMERALL, R. STRICKLAND, SAMUEL SELLEARS, JOHN PERVIS, A. EASON, 
G. MOODY, JOI-IN ROBERSON, JESSE CARTER, SAMUEL CARTER, THOMAS WOODS, R. and 
S. SWILLEY, B. GEORGE, the MOBLEYS, HALLS, OVERSTREETS, and WILCOXES.

  According to the census of 1850, there were in this county 410 dwellings, 
410 families, 1,271 white males, 1,250 white females, 17 free coloured males, 
7 free coloured females. Total free population, 2,545; slaves, 405. Deaths, 
27. Farms, 313.


Additional Comments:
From: "Sketches of Counties" in

HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
OF
GEORGIA
CONTAINING THE MOST INTERESTING
FACTS, TRADITIONS, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, ANECDOTES, ETC.
RELATING TO ITS HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES, FROM ITS FIRST 
COMPILED FROM ORIGINAL RECORDS AND OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS.

BY THE
REV. GEORGE WHITE, M.A.


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