Chatham County GaArchives Biographies.....Charlton, Thomas Usher Pulaski 1780 - 1835
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Author: William Harden
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   THOMAS USHER PULASKI CHARLTON, the eldest son of Thomas and Lucy Charlton,
was born near Camden, South Carolina, in 1780. His father came from Frederick,
Maryland, and was a surgeon and lieutenant under Col. "William Thompson in the
Revolutionary forces of South Carolina: and later served in the legislature of
that state. At the death of the father, the widow came to Savannah and settled
there in 1790. Thomas Usher was called to the bar of the eastern judicial
circuit in 1801, and in that year was elected a member of the Georgia
legislature. In 1804 he became attorney-general, and in 1808 judge of the
eastern circuit. Later he was elected mayor of Savannah and served in that
office for six terms. He was head of the committee of safety in 1812, and
performed devoted services during the epidemic of 1820. He again became judge,
and died in 1835. He was of strong mentality and high courage, and had the
judicial temperament. Many of his decisions appear in a volume of reports
published by him. He partially completed a life of James Jackson, designed to
cover the period of his military services. He was a close friend of that eminent
man, who designated him as his literary executor. Having enjoyed the friendship
of Jackson, he inherited from that great man some of his enemies, who, however,
did not begin to give voice to their bitterness until years after Judge
Charlton's death. He not only possessed decided literary ability but a high
order of wit. He married, in 1803, Emily, daughter of Thomas Walter, of South
Carolina, author of “Flora Caroliniana,” the first considerable work on southern
botany. Of this marriage were born his sons, Thomas Jackson Charlton and Robert
Milledge Charlton. Charlton street was named for him.



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A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME I
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913


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