Georgia   Biographies  Lachlan McIntosh

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http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm Georgia Table of Contents:

LACHLAN McINTOSH

Lachlan McIntosh, a solder under Oglethorpe when he came
to Georgia, was born and educated in England.  He was a
General in the amry of the United States during the
Revolution, and high in the confidence of the Government.
He was an active member from McIntosh county, in the
Convention to revise the Constitution, both in 1789 and
'95, and sustained many other important offices.

Ref:  Sherwood, Adiel, A GAZETTEER OF THE STATE OF
GEORGIA, 1837, Printed by P. Force, Washington City, p.
296.

McINTOSH COUNTY, GEORGIA

This county was laid off from Liberty in 1793.  The
Alatamaha is the principal river.

DARIEN is the capital, on the north bank of the Alatamah,
190 miles from Milledgeville.  Fort Barrington is 12
miles from Darien on the Alatamaha.

This county was named to commemorate the services of the
McIntosh Family.  General Lachlan McIntosh was born in
Scotland.  When the first regiment in Georgia was
organized, he was elected commander.  Besides rendering
important services in Georgia, he was invested with the
command of an important Western post by Washington; and
by his prompt and prudent measures, succeeded in giving
repose to the frontiers.  He died at Savannah in 1806.

Colonel James S. McIntosh, who lost his life in the late
Mexican war, was born on the 19th of June, 1787, in the
County of Liberty.  He entered the army in 1812, and
remained in it until the battle of Molino del Rey, where
he received a wound which terminated his life.

General John McIntosh. - Some incidents in the life of
this distinguished soldier, as also of the lady whom he
married, which have never appeared in print, and are
known to but few persons now living, cannot but prove
highly interesting to the reader.  They were furnished by
an esteemed friend...

Ref:  White, Rev. George, M. A., HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
OF GEORGIA, 1854. Pudney & Russell, Publishers, New York,
pp. 546-556.  [Reprinted 1968, Heritage Papers,
Danielsville, GA]


(Contributed 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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