Georgia   Biographies  Bryan, Hon Jonathan

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Adiel Sherwood, GAZETTEER OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, Washington City,
Printed by P. Force, 1837, p. 259.
                         HON. JONATHAN BRYAN
     Hon. Jonathan Bryan was one of the earliest settlers in this State. 
He and N. W. Jones were appointed the first Judges of the State in 1755. 
He was one of the Commissioners of the treaty of Dewit's Corner, S. C., in
1777, between Georgia, South Carolina, and the Cherokees.  Soon after
Independence was declared, he was sent to Charleston from Savannah, to
consult General Lee in regard to the best means of destroying the banditti
secreted in Florida, and which made frequent depredations on our
defenceless inhabitants.  He was a member of the Governor's Council in
1774, and because he took sides with those who would throw off the yoke of
British oppression, a motion was made to expel him from the Council; with
patriotic indignation, he answered that he "would save them the trouble,"
and resigned.  After the war he rsided on Wilmington Island, and died
there.  He was a gentleman of great wealth, kind and hospitable, and
universally beloved.  A grandson of his has been in our Legislature, and
also a Representative to Congress.


Rev. George White, M. A., HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GEORGIA, New York,
Pudney & Russell, Publishers, 1854, pp. 276-279.  (Reprinted 1968,
Heritage Papers, Danielsville, Georgia)
                          BRYAN COUNTY
     This county was laid out in 1793; a part taken from Effingham, 1794;
and a part set off to Bulloch in 1796.
     The County site is BRYAN COURT-HOUSE



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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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