Georgia   Biographies	Hon Abraham Baldwin

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Adiel Sherwood, A GAZETTEER OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, Washington City,
Printed by P. Force, 1837, p. 258
                          HON. ABRAHAM BALDWIN
     Hon. Abraham Baldwin was one of our most distingushed and useful men.
 He was born in Connecticut, and was graduated at Yale College, in 1772. 
He came to Georgia just at the close of the war, and settled in Columbia
county, near the Savannah river, where is a small mount, called Baldwin's
Mount.  He was in our Legislature in 1785, and one of the first trustees
of our University.  He is said to be the author of the charter of
incorporation; but this has been disputed.  He was not on the committee to
bring in the bill : Mr. Stephens, of Chatham, was the Chairman of the
committee, but still Mr. Baldwin might have sketched out the charter.  It
is certain he was an active promoter of science.
     Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Few were the delegates from this State of the
Convention of 1787, which planned and formed the Federal Constitution.  He
died at Washington City, in 1807, when serving our State as a Senator in
Congress.


Rev. George White, M. A.,  HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GEORGIA, New York,
Pudney & Russell, Publishers, 1854, pp. 265-269.  {Reprinted 1968 by
Heritage Papers, Danielsville, GA}
                         BALDWIN COUNTY, GEORGIA
     This county was first laid out by the Lottery Act of 1803; parts
added from Wilkinson, Washington, and Hancock, 1807; parts added from
Washington, 1812, and a part taken from Washinton, 1826.  Named after the
Hon. Abraham Baldwin.  The Oconee runs through the middle of the county,
into which Fishing and other creeks empty.
     MILLEDGEVILLE is the seat of justice for the county, and the capital
of the State of Georgia.
     The cases of longevity that have come to the compiler's knowledge
are:  Mrs. Martha Thomas, now living, aged 107 years; Mrs. Martha Bass,
died at the age of 83; Mrs. Edith Howard, 89; Mrs. Susanna Jackson, 84;
Mrs. Myric, 85; Jesse Doles, 85; Mrs. Huson, over 80; William McGehee, 80;
John Dismukes, 93.
     Among the early settlers were:  Major John Howard, Herbert Reynolds,
General John Scott, General Jett Thomas, Captain Augustine Harris, Colonel
Abner Hammond, Major Thomas H. Kenan, Jesse Sanford, Lazarus Battle, Hines
Holt, George R. Clayton, Dr. Thompson Bird, Colonel Z. Lamar, Charles
Malone, William and Archy Devereaux, W. D. Jarrett, Thomas Napier, D.
Fluker, A. Greene, and R. White.

(Submitted by Barbara Walker Winge, barbarawinge@yahoo.com)

Note:
Adiel Sherwood, A GAZETTEER OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, Washington City,
Printed by P. Force, 1837,  pp. 255-256.
APPENDIX:  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES


   "The author conceived that a short biographical sketch of the
individuals after whom the several counties were named, would furnish an
instructive and pleasing appendage to his topographical work...
   Acquainted with the intimate friends of some of the 'venerable dead,'
he has been furnished with sufficient materials to enlarge on their
character...
   There are in the State ninety counties (book printed in 1837, presently
in 2001, there are 159 counties)..."


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