Chatham-Statewide County GaArchives News.....[Title Missing] September 30, 1901
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The Semi-Weekly Journal, Atlanta, Ga. September 30, 1901
{The first two lines of this article are missing} in May last, but in some was 
was laid aside, with a lot of other manuscript and was only discovered a few 
days ago.

It is a complete genealogical history of President Roosevelt's maternal 
ancestors, from the time the name made its first appearance in Scotland up to 
and including the life of the founder of the Georgia house of Bullochs.

The record was prepared by a descendant of Archibald Bulloch, and is accurate 
in every detail.  Besides being a new and valuable genealogical document it is 
of especial interest at this time, when the Georgia ancestors of the new 
president are being so much discussed.

The name Bulloch is from a Gallic word "Bealoch" meaning the outlet of a lake 
or glen, and the original way of spelling the name seems to have been Balloch, 
and a family, of, or near, Glasgow, where the Georgia progenitor came from, of 
Bulloch, traces its descent from Donald Balloch Mcdonald, a brother of Donald, 
lord of the isles.  Donald, living near the outlet of the glen, called himself 
Balloch.  The Bullochs of Georgia are not allied to any other family of Bullock 
or Bulloch in America, and they have always used the final "h" to the name.  In 
the records of Glasgow is found in 1671 James Balloch, who married Christian 
Macgie, and in 1687, we find William Balloch married Jean Reid, and in 1690 
James Bulloch and Margaret Leckie, and the name is found int he parish of 
Baldermoch at least 400 years back, so 'tis logical to deduce the descent of 
Bullochs of Georgia from the Bullochs of Sterlingshire and of Glasgow, 
Scotland, as James Bulloch, the progenitor of the family, went from Glasgow to 
South Carolina, and is found in that province as early as 1728.

James Bulloch, Esq., the ancestor of Bulloch of Georgia, was born in 1702 and 
died in Georgia, October 25, 1780, interred at Wormsloe, the family estate of 
the Noble Jones family, having married as his fourth wife, Mary, daughter of 
Hon. Noble Jones.  In 1728, or about that time, James Bulloch is found in South 
Carolina, and in 1735 we find him justice of the peace in Colleton county South 
Carolina, then an important office.  In 1741 "a special commission was granted 
under the state seal" to him as agent to the Creeks, and in 1754 he was a 
member of the South Carolina colonial assembly; October, 1767, he was a justice 
of Christ church parish in Georgia, and in 1775 a member of the provincial 
congress from the Sea Island district in company with others.  This eminent man 
was the father of the Hon. Archibald Bulloch, president of Georgia in 1776-77.

Hon. James Bulloch (*) married first about 1728-0 Jean, daughter of Rev. 
Archibald Stobo, the noted Scotch minister of South Carolina, and had:
1.  Archibald Bulloch, president of Georgia, married Mary DeVaux.
2.  Jane Bulloch, married Josiah Perry.
3.  Chritiana Bulloch, married Hon. Henry Yonge, member of his majesty's 
council.
Archibald Bulloch was born in Charleston about 1730, educated a lawyer and 
removed to Georgia, where he was on the 21st of April, 1772, elected speaker of 
the royal house of assembly, and in 1775 bestryman of Christ church parish.

On April 11, 1768, he, with others, were appointed from lower house on a 
committee to correspond with Benjamin Franklin, agent for Georgia in England; 
chosen president of the provincial congress of 1775; elected delegate to the 
continental congress 1775 and took his seat; also elected delegate to congress 
of 1776; commands detachment of troops sent to Great Tybee Island, 1776; 
elected president and commander in chief of Georgia April 15, 1776, and is 
desired to take upon himself the whole executive powers of government, and on 
February 5, 1777, signed the first constitution of Georgia.  This illustrous 
statesman, patriot and warrior, has a county named in his honor and during the 
revolutionary war there was a galley or war vessel, the Bulloch, and Fort 
Bulloch, all in Georgia.  His name is affixed to the document signed by the 
delegates to the congress of November 9, 1775, in which everyone pledged 
himself not to divulge the proceedings of the congress and was probably the 
first declaration of independence, or the paving of the way for it, and it is 
quite likely that Georgia would have remained under the crown had it not been 
for the firmness and patriotism of Archibald Bulloch, "when on him and on him 
alone all parties of liberty men were united," and yet no monument has been 
erected to this eminent Georgian, the first president of the state under a free 
government.  Hear what the historian has to say of him:
"While the president, finding it sometimes impossible to collect the council of 
safety, was desired, by a resolution of the council, passed on the 22d of 
February, 1777, 'to take upon himself the whole executive powers of government 
calling to his assistance not less than five persons of his own choosing, to 
consult and advise with on every urgent occasion, when a sufficent number of 
councillors cannot be convened to make a board." This was giving to the 
president extraordinary powers, but the council knew the prudence and 
reliability of the man to whom they intrusted them, and hence confided fully in 
his wisdom and patriotism.  Mr. Bulloch did not long hold these dictator like 
powers, for before the close of the month he died and Button Gwinnett was 
elected to succeed him.  

Mr. Bulloch seemed to be just the man for the critical time in which he lived 
and for the responsible station which he held.  He was one of the foremost to 
assert and maintain the liberties of his country, even before the rupture with 
Great Britain, and when the friends of American rights in Georgia were few and 
fearful.  When Bryan had been ejected from the governor's council and Wylly 
from the clerkship and Jones from the speaker's chair for their freedom of 
thought and speech, when it was hazardous to come in collision with the royal 
power and provoke the wrath of a king's governor, when it was almost treason to 
talk the honest sentiments of a freeman, Archibald Bulloch and three others 
came out over their own signatures, with a call for a meeting of those opposed 
to the tax acts of England and anxious for a redress of their grievances.

His death was a heavy loss to Georgia at a moment when it could hardly be 
borne, for all parties of liberty men were united on him and on him alone, and 
when he was called hence by the fiat of God divisions and discord rent the rank 
of the Americans, and it was not until blood had flowed and years of animosity 
passed that harmony again pervaded our councils. 

Had not Mr. Bulloch been so deeply engaged in provinicial affairs as to prevent 
his attendance at Philadelphia in the congress of 1776 to which he was elected, 
his name would have gone down to posterity as one of the signers of the 
declaration of independence.  If he failed, however, of securing this 
distinction, he gained the honor of being the first Republican (free) governor 
of Georgia - the people's first choice to their highest office - one who 
sacrificed his private views for the public good, and who died in the very 
harness of executive authority, revered and cherished by his native province.  
His modesty of character was happily displayed when General Lachlan McIntosh 
had the customary sentinel placed before his door, to which he objected, saying 
that he wished the sentinel removed, that he acted for a free people in whom he 
placed the greatest confidence and wished upon all occasions to avoid the 
appearance of ostentation.  How few like him at the present day, Archibald 
Bulloch was the first man to read the declaration of independence in Georgia, 
member of the first secret congress of November 9, 1775 at Philadelphia, and 
held many positions of honor in Georgia; twice elected president of provincial 
congress, and then president and commander-in-chief of Georgia, 1776 and so 
styled in "proceedings of provincial congress unpublished, and in Georgia First 
society" and called president in history and first governor of Georgia.  It was 
he who expelled the invader from the soil of Georgia, when as president he led 
a detachment of troops to Tybee island and amidst the fire of cannon and small 
arms from the enemy dislodged the first invaders of our soil.  And now to sum 
the matter up, the evidence would appear that he alone was the leader without 
whom Georgia might not have gained her freedom, for though there were other 
great sons, "on him alone were all united" and President Adams even deplores 
his absence from the congress of 1776 in a letter to him.  Archibald Bulloch, 
the statesman, warrior and patriot, was at that time the great Georgian of his 
day and time.

He married October 5, 1764, Mary, daughter of Col. James DeVaux and had: James 
Bulloch, Jr., who at a youthful age was captain in Virginia state garrison 
troops 1778-81 and who returned to Georgia and in 1790 was captain in state 
troops, clerk of superior and inferior courts in Georgia and honorary member of 
the Society of the Cincinnati. II. Hon. Archibald Stobo Bulloch, collector 
port, Savannah and one of justices of interior court.  III. Jane married James 
B. Maxwell and IV. Hon. William Bellinger Bulloch, United States district 
attorney, solicitor general of Georgia, mayor of Savannah, United States 
senator, etc.

"Captain James Bulloch married April 13, 178? and had:
1.  John Irvine Bulloch, attorney at law, clerk federal court and father of the 
distinguished surgeon and physician, Dr. William G. Bulloch.
2.  James Stephens Bulloch, major Chatham battalion, one of company under whose 
auspices the first steamer "Savannah" crossed the Atlantic, grandfather of 
President Roosevelt.
3.  Jane Bulloch married John Dunwoody, ancestor of branch of the Dunwoody 
family who were prominent from the start and foremost in defense of their 
country's right.
Other names of this illustrious family were William H. Bulloch, member Georgia 
assembly, editor of Georgian and volunteer Florida Indian war, lieutenant, and 
Jefferson Bulloch lieutenant in southern volunteer guards, etc., and there are 
still others alive who keep up the nameof the old family of Bullochs, of 
Georgia.

*James Bulloch married second Mrs. Ferguson, third Anne, widow of Hon. Patrick 
Graham, fourth Mary Jones. 

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