Georgia   Biographies  Benjamin Lincoln

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  BENJAMIN LINCOLN

General Benjamin Lincoln, was born at Bingham,
Massachusetts, 23d of January, 1733.  He was second in
command at the battle of Saratoga.  At the solicitation
of the delegates in Congress from the Southern States, he
was appointed, in 1778, to the command of the Southern
department.  He died in the same house in which he was
born, 9th May, 1810, aged 77 years, having been eminently
useful to his country.

Ref:  Sherwood, Adiel,  GAZETTEER OF THE STATE OF
GEORGIA, 1837, Printed by P. Force, Washington City,
p.293.

LINCOLN COUNTY, GEORGIA

This county was laid out from Wilkes County, Georgia, in
196, and named in honour of Major-General Benjamin
Lincoln.  The Savannah River separates the county from
South Carolina, Broad River from Elbert, and Little River
from Columbia County.

LINCOLNTON is the county town, situated upon the waters
of Soap Creek, distant 90 miles N. E. from Milledgeville.

Among the first settlers of this county were, Thomas
Murray, Robert Walton, John Lockhart, B. Lockhart, Thos.
Mitchell, Sterne Simmons, J. Stovall, Captain John Lamar,
Stephen Handspiker, M. Henley, Robert Fleming, James
Wallace, Peter Lamar.

Ref:  White, Rev. George, M. A., HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
OF GEORGIA, 1854, Pudney & Russell, Publishers, New York,
P. 539.   (Reprinted 1968, Heritage Papers, Danielsville,
GA)


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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