A history of Savannah and South Georgia, Volume I, Part 2

Author: Harden, William, 1844-1936
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 1126


USA > Georgia > Chatham County > Savannah > A history of Savannah and South Georgia, Volume I > Part 2


Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).


Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62


Dinner given in honor of LaFayette, 303


Disaster to the allies, 219


Disastrous fire of 1796, 264


Disastrous plague, 291


Disposition of American forces, 204


Dissent to resolutions of August 10, 1774, 173


Distance from Savannah to Panamna eanal, 481


Dixie, 522


Dixon, James M .. 687


Dixon. Llewellyn R .. 868


Dodge county, 527


Dodge county court house, Eastman


(view), 326


Donations for the relief of all volunteers, 443 "Don't Tread on Me." 433 Dooly county, 325 Dorris, William HI., 777


Dorsett, Charles H., 652 Douglas, 529


Dowdy, Aaron W., 1071 Dozier, Walter S., 1028


Dry culture contracts, 294


Dublin, 327 Duke, Willis J., 1012


Dukes, John W., S16


Duren, George L., 855


Duren, James W., 971


Early lawyers and doctors, 502 Early measures to establish the colony, 118


Early vineyard of a Portuguese Jew, 50 Eastman, 527


· Edmondson, Grover C., SS4 Edwards, Charles G., 549 Edwards. Milton HI .. 1032


Eighth Georgia Regiment, 442


Elbert county, 501


Elbert, Samuel, 257


Ellaville, 529


Elliott, Stephen, 497


Ellis, Henry, Esq., 130


Ellis, Henry, succeeds Reynolds, 130


Emanuel, John II., 948


Emerson, Henry A., 966


Encouraging the silk industry, 56


Episcopal Orphans' Home. 498


Erection of monument to Sergt. William Jasper, 500


Evaeuation of Fort Moultrie, 434


Evaeuation of Savannah, 459


Evans, Benjamin F., 1007


"Evening Journal." 515 -


"Evening Mirror," 515


Events preceding the revolution, 177


Eve of the revolution, 188


Everett, Edward, 426


Evidences of mutual regard, 38


Exchange Bank, 478


Excitement preceding secession of


Georgia, 433


Exportation of rice stopped, 194


Exports from Savannah, 475


Ex-president Polk, visit of, 405


Falligant. Raiford. 679


Fall of Causton, 91


Fall of Fort MeAllister, 457


Fall of Fort Pulaski. 454


Families of Confederate officers required to leave. 465 Farie, James, Jr .. 940


Farmers and Mechanics Bank, 478


Father Oglethorpe. 61


Feeding and housing of first colonists, 59 Field staff and company officers of 1st Volunteer Regiment. 308


Fifty-fourth Georgia Regiment of In- fantry, 436


xxi


Figures showing business for several dec- ades, 473


Filature buildings, 37 Fillmore, Millard, 425; welcome to, 410 Final repulse of the Spaniards, 105


Financial settlement of Bosomworth


trouble, 114


Finch, Asbury B., 846


Finch, James B., 985


First African Baptist church, 497


First city jail, 335


First colonial assembly, 117


First conference with natives, 32 First Jewish burial place, 369


- First masonic hall, 509


First meeting of Savannah county board, 106


First meeting of the legislature in Sa- vannak, 240


First minister to the colony, 64


First news of disaster of "Pulaski," 338


First newspaper extra, 398


First Presbyterian church, 496


First regiment of Georgia militia, 278 First regular theatre opened (1818), 386 First steamship to cross Atlantic. 349


First streets, 62


First survey for waterworks, 392


First synagogue, 48


First telegraphic dispatches, 391


First town plan, 61


First Volunteer Regiment, 434, 508


First year's operation of Central Georgia railroad, 327


of


Fitzgerald, 526


Flannery, John, 1078


Florida Central & Peninsular Railroad Company, 489


Flynt, Roger D., 790


Folks, Frank C., 893


Folks. Gustavus P., 892


Folkston, 529


Forest City Rangers, 436


Forethought of Oglethorpe, 3


Forsyth Park, 317, 410


Forts, 166 Fort Gaines, 328


Gibbs, Charles M., 614


Fort George, 166


Fort Halifax, 166


Fortifying Georgia's southern frontier, 87


Fort Johnson, 166


Fort McAllister, 453


Fort McAllister necessary to defense of Savannah, 435 Fort Pulaski, 434 Fort Pulaski commenced, 311


Fort Wayne, 274


Foster, James L., 987


Foster, John A., 674


Founding of Savannah, 1


Founding of Savannah in detail, 15


Franklin and Oglethorpe on the Orphan llome, 97


Franklin, Benjamin, 157


Franklin, Georgia's British agent, 157


Fraternal Order of Eagles, 311


Freeman, George C., 579


Gallie, John B., killed, 435


. Gandy, Thomas N., 881 Garfield, James A., 485 Garrard, Frank U., 981


Gartland, Francis X., 496


"Gazette." 514


Geise, Reuben, 1005 - General La Fayette, 297


General Lincoln orders, 220


Generosity of Bostonians and others. 466


George III succeeds George II, 138


Georgetown, 528


Georgia & Alabama Terminal Company, 489 Georgia divided into two counties, 105 "Georgia Gazette," 513


Georgia Historical Society, 341, 446


Georgia Hussars, 266, 436, 499


Georgia Infirmary for Colored People, 498


Georgia Medical Society, 304


Georgia received into the union, 183


."Georgia Republican and State Intelli- gencer," 514


Georgia's independence, steps leading to, 175


Georgia's last royal governor, 145 Georgia Society of Colonial Dames of America, 511


Georgia Society of Colonial Wars, 512 Georgia Society of Sons of the Revo- lution, 487, 513


Georgia Society of the Cincinnati, 257, 512


Georgia State Savings Association, 478 Georgia's temporary constitution, 191 German Club, 499


German Friendly Society, 510


Germania Bank. 478


Gignilliat, Leigh R., 1020


Gignilliat, William R., 1016


Gill, Andrew, 959


Gilmore, Doolly D., 977


Glynn county, 516, 518


Glynn County Court House, Brunswick (view), 295


Good Chief Tomo-chi-chi, 40


Good South Carolina friends, 13


Googe, William R., 717


Gordon's first town plan, 61


Gordon, Peter, 61


Gordon, William W., 327, 477


Gornto, James E., 743


Government building, Savannah (view), 306


·


INDEX


xxii


INDEX


Governor Ellis, 131


Governor Reynolds arrives, 123


Governor Wright's arrest and escape, 190 Graham, Jolm, 199 Graham. John, and Thunderbolt, 199


Graham, Patrick, suceecds President Parker, 121 Grantees, 28


Grant, James R., 729 Grant, U. S .. . 485


Gray, Joseph F., 658


Great fire, 500


Great fire of 1820. 28S


Greene, Gen .. death and funeral of, 250 Greenc and Pulaski monument, 378


Greene monument. 350


Greene, Nathaniel, and his services, 241 Greene, Nathaniel, monument, 375 Greene visits Mulberry Grove, 249


Griffin, Fletcher W., 999


Griggs, James M., 771


Grimshaw, Ilarry B., 678 Groover, Daniel A., 840


Groover, James I., 838


Groover, Robert L., 860


Gubernatorial proclamation, 124


Gunnell, Charles W., 1004


Gurr, William H., 929


Habersham, James, 37. 96, 157 . Habersham. Joseph, 190


Hagan, Peter S., 730


Hahira, 521


Hallam, William and Lewis, 385


Hansell, Charles P., 872


Harden, Edward J., 448


Harden, Thomas H., 988 Harden, William, 1082


Hardships of the new rule, 464 Harmon, Adam C., 640 Harmonie Club. 499 Harney, John M .. 343, 514 Harney's farewell. 344


Harrell, Mathew J., 946 Harris & Habersham. merchants, 99 Harris, Charles, 400


Harris, Raymond B., 648


Harris, Raymond V., 647


Harris, Robert H .. 991 Harris, Stephen N., 662 Harrison, Benjamin R., 1011 Hart, Thomas J., 921 Hart, Mattie IL., 922 Hartridge, Julian. 432


Hartridge resolutions, 432


Hartridge, Walter C., 712


Hawkins, Kendrick J., 870 Ilawkinsville, 528 Hazellmirst. 326 Heatheoto ward. 23. 28 Hebrew Benevolent Society, 510 Hebrew burial grounds, 49


Hebrew colonists, 44 Hebrews participated in the allotment of lands. 47 Hendry, Jolin M., 973 Herbert, Henry, 64 Hermitage, 529


Herring. Patrick HI., 942 Herring, Robert J., 834


Herrman, Soloman, 791


Hewlett, William R., 583


Heyward, George C., 687 Hibernia Bank. 478


Hibernian Society, 499 Hicks. James B., 824 Hlight, Thomas J .. S06


Hill, Andrew J .. 850


Hill. John C., 832


Hilton, Atys P., 758


Hilton. Joseph, 215 Hinesville, 528


Historical Graves in Colonial Park. Sa- vannah (view), 367


History of first Georgia volunteers, 322 Hitch, Robert M., 1049


Hitch, Simon W., 913


Ilodges, Albert J., 861


Hodges, John A .. 766


Ilodgson. Margaret T .. 491


Hogan, John M .. 584


Hollingsworth. John C., 852


Homerville, 529


Honoring Bartow's remains. 443


Honors to distinguished dead, 400


Honors to John C. Calhoun and Zachary Taylor, 406 HIonors to living and dead. 400


Hood, Bynum H., 905


Hopkins, John M .. 915


Hotel Savannah built. 500


House resents Wright's interference, 160 Houstoun, John, 427 Howard, George W., 818


Howell, Zadoc W., 800 Hloyl, Lee C., 902


Hubert, Robert B .. 679


Hurst. George T., 1047


Hutchinson, Archibald. 14


Hutchinson's Island, 13; development of. 14


"I go to illustrate Georgia," 442 Improvement of Savannah river and harbor. 422 Incident during the siege of Savannah. 216 Incident- preceding Civil war, 429


Independent church, 497 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 310 Independent Presbyterian church, 136. 496 Indians, 31 Indians at conference. 32 Indian status when the colony came. 31


xxiii


INDEX


Inhabitants of Georgia, 158 Interesting city events, 383


Interesting items, 452


International Antomobile Race, 500


Invention of Eli Whitney, 472 Irish Jasper Greens, 361, 436 Irish Volunteers. 436


Irwin county, 525


Isler, James N., 856


Jackson, Andrew, death of, 359 Jackson, Andrew, public mourning for, 401


Jackson, George A., 759


Jackson, Henry L., 762


Jackson, Henry R., 429, 449


Jackson, Joseph Z., 761


Jail of 1846, 357


Jasper Greens off for Mexico, 361


Jasper monument, 486


Jasper Springs, Savannah (view), 514 Jeff Davis county, 526


Jesnp, 528


Jewish congregations and synagogues, 49


Jewish element, 44


Jewish places of worship, 497


Jewish settlers, names of first, 47


Jews, progressive citizens, 51


Johnson, G. L., 727


Johnson, Governor, letter of, 16


Johnson, J. Wade, 963 Johnson, Seaborn W., 740 Jones, Arthur P., 718


Jones, Benja'inin P., 747 Jones, Charles S., 939 Jones, George, 544


Jones, George N., 664 Jones, James G., 779 Jones, Noble Wymberley, 160, 172, 533, 539 Jones, Walter C., 1023


Kendrick, William C., 849


Kent, Alfred, 66S


Kent, William A., 670


Kenyon, Owen T., 853


King, Harris M., 559


King, John H., 797 King, Willis H., 797 King's Daughters, 310


K. K. Mickva Israel. 48


Knight, Arthur M., 891


Knights of Pythias. 510


Knights Templars, 310 Knoll, 424 Knox, Robert II., 724


LaFayette's death, 401 LaFayette's reply, 300 Land tenures, 107 Land tenure changes, 107 Lane, Remer Y., 746


Largest naval stores market in the world. 474


Largest Sea Island eotton market in the world. 481


La Roche Family, 694


La Roche, Isaac D., 694


Lasseter, Wade IL., 780


Last royal governor of Georgia, 'James Wright, 145


Latimer, James H., 889


Launitz, Robert E., 372


Laurel Grove Cemetery, 366; dedicated, 370


Laurens county, 527


Lawrence, Alexander A., 707


Lawson, Ashley, 862


Lawson, Irvin, 865


Lawson, Lawrence F., S64


Lawton, Alexander, 488


Lawton, Alexander Robert, 570


Lawton, Alexander Rudolf, 375


Lawton Memorial building, 488


Leaken, William R., 932


Lebey, Charles C., 620


Ledford, Mercer L., 935


Lee county, 525


Lee, Robert E., 444; in command at Sa- vannah, 444 Leesburg, 328


Legal and medical professions, 502; at the present time. 504


Legal profession, 502


Leggett, George P., 763


Lester, Laura E., 620


Lester, Rufus E., 618


LeVasseur, A., 307


Le Vasseur's description of Savannah, 307 Levy, Benjamin H., 627


Lewis, Wiley M .. 1001


Lewis, William J., 672


Lewis, William MI .. 977 "Liberty Boys," 161. 172


"Liberty Boys" raid powder magazine, 177 "Liberty Boys" worry royal council, 174 "Liberty People," 174


Liberty Street branch of the Citizen's and Southern Bank, 478 Lieutenant-governor James Wright, 148 Light house erected on Bay street, 424 Lighting of the streets, 395


Linton, Moses B., 945


Literature, etc., 446 Littlefield. Elijah M. D., 983


Little Sisters of the Poor, 498 Little & Phillips, 871


Little, William 11 .. 871


Livingston. Thomas J., 830


Local militia ready to act, 276


Locating the burial place of Nathanael Greene, 290 Locating the Oglethorpe Barracks (1834), 312


xxiv


INDEX


Locating the remains of Nathanael Greene, 378 Locke, William F., 976


Lowndes county, 520


Lowndes County Court House (view), 522 Lovell, Edward, 632


Lovell, Edward F., 633


Lovell, Robert P., 631


Lutheran Church of the Ascension, 494 Lutheran church organized, 138


Lyons, 524


MacIntyre, Archibald T., S28 MacMillan, Thomas H., 630


Macon depot opened for business, 326


Macon, Dublin & Savannah Railroad Company, 489


Macready's impressions, 390


Macready. William C., 390


Make-shift enstom houses, 409


Mann, William S., 1065


Mansion at the llermitage, Savannah (view), 528


Marine Bank, 478


Marshall, William, 796


Martello Tower, 280


Martial law in Savannah, 445


Martin, Robert V., 665


Masonic Hall, 464


Masonic societies, 509


Masonic Temple, 310


Massie common school, 417


Massie Poor School Fund, 416


May, John C., 753


Mayor Anderson's report on condition of city at end of war, 468


Mayor Purse's report on the progress of the war, 453


Mayors, 1797-1802, 269; 1804-1820, 292; 1821-1824, 310; 1826-1834, 323; 1835- 1850, 396; 1850-1866, 450; 1867-1913, 482


Mayors and aldermen, 292


MeAllister, Matthew HI., 449


McAlpin family, 529


MeAlpin, Henry, 646


MeCall, John G .. 734


McCallum, John D., 968


McCarthy, Joseph, 361


MeCauley, William F., 644


McCoy, Olin S .. 769


McDonald, William A., 874


MeHancock. Joe, 858 MeIntire, Francis P .. 607


Melntosh, Lachlan, 260 MeIntosh, Olin T .. 627


Mckinnon, Alexander J .. 930 Mckinnon, Philip. 799 MeLanghlin. James T., 670


MeLaws, Lafayette, 487 MeLeod. George F .. 957 McMullen, John W., 983


MeNeil Marble Company of Marietta, 501


McQueen, Alexander S., 719 MeQueen, R. D .. 719


McRae, 526


Medical profession. 302


Meetings of protesting citizens, 178 Meigs, 522


Meldrim, 529


Meldrim. Peter W., 701


Members of council continued, 482 Memorials, 311


Memorials to General Greene and Count Pulaski, 308


Memorials to Generals McLaws and Bar- tow, 487


Memorial to William W. Gordon, 331


Mercer, Hugh W .. 445


Mercer, Mrs. Susan D., 905


Merchants and Miners' Transportation Company, 477


Merchants' National Bank, 478


Methodisin, 495


Mewborn, John A., 733


Mexican war, 361


Middle Georgia & Atlantic Railroad Com pany, 489


Midway church, 501


Midway church and monument to Gen. erals Sereven and Stewart, 301


Midway church, erected in 1792 (view), 263


Military headquarters of Confederacy, 320


Military spirit, 507


Military parade ground, 315


Militia, 118


Millar, Charles C., 714


Miller, David J., 762


Miller, Martin V., 965


Milligan, Edward C., 807


Mills, George J., 351


Minis, Abraham, 554


Minis, Abram, 354


Minis, J. Florance, 377


Minis and Salomons, 100


Mitchell, Henry. 737


Mitchell. Robert G., 825


Monroe R. R., 330


Montgomery county, 524


Montgomery Guards. 436


Monument for Pulaski, 372


Monument to General Nathanael Greene, 375


Monument to General Oglethorpe. 300 Monument to Tomo-chi-chi, 103


Monument to William W. Gordon erect- ed. 500


Monuments to Generals Bartow and Me- Laws, 500 Moody, Joseph W., 812 Moore, Francis, 13, 15, 64 Moore, R. Lee, 960


.


XXV


INDEX


Moore's description of Savannah, 18 Moose, Loyal Order of, 511 Morgan, 528 "Morning News," 313, 515 Morrison, Angus, 866 Morton, James O., 1081


Morven, 522 Moses, Cornelius F., 629


Motte, John W., 637


Mount Vernon, 524 Moye, Andrew J., 705


Moye, Thomas R., 712 Mulberry Grove, made over to Greene, 244


Municipal affairs, 1797-1802, 269


Municipal government continued, 263 Muscogee county, 518 "Museum." 514 Myddelton, Robert B., 742 Myers, James F. C., 638 Myers, Sigo, 708 Myrick, Shelby, 663


Names of first Jewish settlers, 47 Names of first streets, 62 Nashville, 523


National Bank of Savannah. 478


Naval stores and important trade, 474


Naval stores, Savannah (view), 474 Neese, John A., TS5


Newbern, Philip, 937


New council house, 126


New Independent church, 287 New Laurel Grove cemetery, 366


New secretary of the trust, 74


Newspaper mention of "Pulaski" disaster, 334


Newton, 528 Nichols, Mongin B., 653 Nicholson, David B., 734 Nisbit, Eugenius A., 1054 . Noel, John Y., 427


Non-combatant citizens armed for de- fense of eity, 445


Norman, Newton J., 641 Norman, William S., 641 Norton, George M., 667 Norton, Joseph S., $15 Notes from an early plan of Savannah, 126


O'Byrne, Michael, 612 Ocean Steamship Company, 477 Ocilla, 525 Ocmulgee, 525 Ocmulgee and Flint River Railroad, 329 Oglethorpe, James E., 1, 10, 13, 15, 3S, 54, 59, 61, 68. 83. 500. 529; portrait, 4; prison reform record. 4; reasons for selecting site, 12; and the Indians, 31; returns to England, 65; adminis- . tration approved. S6: self-sacrifice, 90; administration the last, 105; last of-


ficial appearance, 106; last days in Georgia, 114


Oglethorpe, James E. (portrait). 4


Oglethorpe Barracks, 315, 319, 500


Oglethorpe Club, 499


Oglethorpe Light Infantry, 442 .


Oglethorpe monument, 500


Oglethorpe Savings and Trust Company, 478


Old and present theatre similar, 390


Oldest artillery company in Georgia, 257


Oldest hotel in Savannah, 500


Old Exchange, 267 .


Old Prison, 128


Old view of Savannah (view), 60


O'Leary, Michael J., 582 Olmstead's account, 434


. One hundred and fiftieth anniversary, 485


Order of American Firemen, 510 Original deed, 25


Original Savannah described, 39


Origin of name "Savannah," 2


Orphan Home, 97


Osborne, William W., 550


Other organized bodies, 499


Other writers, 450


Owls, 511


Parker, Henry, colonial president, 116


Parrish, Ansel A., 741


Parrish, Thomas J., 730


Patriotie societies, 311


Patterson, James M., 879


Pavo, 522


Peace declared, 281


Peacock, Duncan D., 105S


Peeples, Charles B., 749


Pemberton, General, 445


Pendleton, Alexander S., 919


Penfield Mariners' church, 497


People's Savings & Loan Company, 478 Pereival ward, 23, 28


Perry, 529


Persons to whom original deed granted land, 26


Petition to king, 181


Phillips, Wendle C., 872


Pideoek, 522


Pieree county, 520


Pioneer churches, 64


Pioneer points of interest, 62


Pioneers, but not the first. 100


Pioneer theatrical performances (1783), 385


Pittman, David W .. 911


Planter's Bank, 477, 478 Poem on the lost "Pulaski." 339 Police Benevolent Society, 510 Poole, Richard W .. 529


Portraits, James Edward Oglethorpe, 4; Tomo-Chachi. Mico. 34 Postoffice, Americus (view), 127


xxvi


INDEX


Postoffice and Court House, Valdosta (view), 521


Powell, Alfred J., 875


Powell, Foy O., 727


Powell, Ivy M .. 769


Powers granted to the trustees, 24


Preparations for the war of 1:12, 272 Presbyterian meeting house, 136


.


Present artesian well system, 395


Present building completed in 1850, 409 President Pierce invited, 426


"Press," 513


Preston, 528


Prison reform record of Oglethorpe. 4 Proclamation of his Majesty King George the Third. 139


Proclamation of royalists, 207


Progress of infant colony, 22


Progress toward independence, 161


Prominent lawyers of a later period. 503


Promoted to General Oglethorpe, SS


Prompt action of Governor J. E. Brown, 433


Proposal that city issue bonds, 422


Prosecution conducted by Dist. Atty. Joseph Ganalıl. 430


Prosperous condition of colony. 148


Protestant Episcopal church, 47


Province divided into parishes. 132


Provincial congress. 179: address of. 179


Public ceremonies proclaiming new sov- ereign, 143


Public funeral of Colonel McIntosh, 363 Publie institutions and noted events, 409 Public library established and City Hall built, 489 Publie meeting held. 170


Publie mourning for Andrew Jackson, 401


Publie school system, 415


Publie water supply, 392


Pulaski. Count, 223


Pulaski's. Count, death wound, 224 "Pulaski" disaster. 334


Pulaski Guards, 436


Pulaski Ilouse. 500


Pulaski monument, 308. 371


Pulaski monument delivered to eommis- sioners, 374 Purse, Thomas, 453. 493, 367


Purvis, Jolin 11., 654


Quinn, George W., 967 Quitman, 521


Quotation from account of Honorable II. R. Jackson, 431


Race, international automobile, 300 Ragan, Joseph T., 900 Railroad to Tybee I-land, 493 Ramsey, Jason M., 810 Ramsey, Redding G., 803


Rapid growth of cotton business in Sa- vannah, 472


Rauers, John J., 611


Real Estate & Trust Company, 478


Reception of LaFayette, 997


Reception to Henry Clay, 401


Reconstruction, 466


Regular municipal administration, 253 Reidsville, 528


Religion, commerce and defense, 93


Religious, moral and industrial, 64


Removal of obstructions in river, 46S


Removal of obstructions in the Savan- nah river, 422


Renewed protests against British acts, 157


Resolutions adopted at publie meeting, 170


Resolutions by Boston council, 467


Resolutions by Confederate council. 454


Resolutions by Jonathan Bryan. 15S


Resolutions of Rhode Island legislature, 382


Resolutions on capture of Savannah, 464 Respect paid by publie to memory of


Henry Clay and Governor Troup, 427 Resultant sanitary measures, 413


Repeal of the stamp act acknowledged, 153


Report of the Honorable Jeremiah S. Black, 430


"Republican." 315


Reynolds' administration disappointing, 128 Reynolds. John, 122


Richardson, Charles H., 909


Rich, Elijah A. J., 1007


Rising discontent against royalty, 146 River front, Savannah (view), 421


Roberts, Hezekiah, 844


Roberts, John B., 1065


Robertson, William Il., 636


Rochelle, 325


Rockingham, 523


Roddenbery, Walter B., 1072


Rogers, Dwight L., 982


Roman Catholics, 495


Roman Catholic schools taken into pub- lie school system, 470


Rowland. Charles P., 614


Royal cause getting dark. 235


Royal civil government feeble, 231


Royalists attempt to capture rice boats, 195 Russell. Waring. Jr., 586


Sailing and landing of the colouy, 10 St. Andrew's Society, 499 St. Joseph's Hospital, 498 St. Mary's, 529 St. Mary's Orphan Home, 498 Salzburg and silk, 53 Salzburgers, 65


INDEX


xxvii


Salzburg exiles, 33 Saussy, Gordon, 640


Securing the friendship of the Creeks, 101


Sedition in Georgia, 150


Seminole war of 1836, 364


Semmes, Kate F .. 627


Semmes, Raphael T., 624


Sesqui-centennial of landing of Ogle- thorpe, 500


Sheftall. Sheftall, old revolutionary sol- dier, 403


Sherman. General, 462


Shuptrine, Herman C., 635


Shuptrine. James T., 635


Siege from a British standpoint, 225


Silk industry, 56


Slade, James J., 917


Slavery, 67 Smets, Alexander A .. 446, 447


Smith, Edward J., 765


Smith. Joseph N., 959


Sneed. John L., 728


Solomon Lodge of Free Masons, 509


Sons of Confederate Veterans, 511


Sons of Liberty. 174


South Bound R. R. Company, 489


South Carolina aids Georgians, 198


South Carolina Couneil of Safety, 196


Southern Bank of the State of Georgia, 478 "Southern Centinel." 514


"Southern Patriot." 514


South Georgia College, 326


Souter, James F., 984


Special order of General Sherman, 462


Savannah Hospital, 332


Savannah Port Society, 497


Savannah puts up a liberty tree, June 2, 1775, 167


Savannah Rifle Association, 499


Stanfill, Lucius M., 764


Stanley, John G .. 907


Savannah Union Station Company, 489


Savannah Volunteer Guards, 499


Savannah Widows' Society, 498


Savannah Yacht Club, 499


Scarborough, James M., 869


Statesborough, 524


Statisties of deaths during siekly months, 292


Statisties of the port of Savannah, 472-


Status of railroads in 1842, 330


Steamer "Pulaski," 334


Stephens, William, 74


Stephens, William B .. 1002


president,


Sereven, John, 595


Sereven, John, death of, 488


Sereven, Thomas F., 603


Seaboard Air Line, 489


Seamen's Home, 497


Seeession of Georgia. 436


Secession of South Carolina. 433 Second Savannah church, 133


Securing permanent quarters for Georgia


Streets and squares. 499


Street scene, Dublin (view), 527


-


Savannah Chapter D, A. R., 383, 487


Savannah Female Orphan Asylum, 498 Savannah Golf Club, 499


Spirit of sedition in Georgia, 150


Springfield, 528


Stamp aet, 154 Stanaland, John O., 877


Stanley, Vivian L., 1045


Statements by Franeis Sorrel, agent, 336 Statenville, 529


State of the provinee (1773), 163


Scene in the Prison Park at Anderson- ville (view), 321


Sehedule of the priees of goods, 37


Sehirm, Edward L., 945


Sehirm, William P., 944


Schiley, Julian, 684


Sehwarz, John E .. 689 Sereven, James P .. 428, 501, 58S


Stephens, William, colonial 108


Steps leading to Georgia's independenee, 175


Stevens, William B .. 448


Stewart, Daniel, 501


Stillwell, William B., 649


Stone seat in honor of Oglethorpe, 511 Storm adds terrors to epidemic, 412


- Historical Society, 346


Savannah, original site. 24; first Fourth of July (August 10th), 200; held by British, 202; again American, 231; as a military post, 312; prompt response, 361; water works, 394; publie school system, 415; river and harbor, 420; literary eircle, 446; during Civil war, 453; second cotton port in world, 472; commereial record, 475; business rec- ord for past four years, 475; imports, 476; banks, 477; ranks fourth among prineipal ports of United States, 481; sesqui-eentennial, 485; newspapers, 513


Savannah, Albany & Gulf R. R., 519


Savannah & Albany R. R., 472


Savannah & Atlantie R. R., 493


Savannah and Ogeechee eanal. 391


Savannah and Spanish - American 488


war,


Savannah and the Panama eanal, 479 Savannahı & Tybee R. R., 493 Savannah Artillery, 436


Savannah Bank and Trust Company (view), 478


Savannah Bank and Trust Company, 478


Savannah Benevolent Association, 414, 498, 510


Savannah Trust Company, 478


xxviii


INDEX


Strengthening the Fort Wayne works, 277


Strickland, James W., 886


Stuart, Charles T., 833


Summerlin, Algerine T 104.


Sumner, Leonard M., 778


Suiter, 525


Sunbury, 149


Survey from Savannah to Macon, 325


Sweat, Albert C., 823


Sweat, Carey M .. 743 Swedenborgian church, 497


Sylvania, 528


Sylvester, 523


System in use from 1854 to 1892, 395


Tablet in honor of John Wesley, 511 Taggart, Grantham I., 676


Taggart, James. 676


Talley, William R., 876


Tefft. I. K., 343. 446


Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 491


Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences (view), 492


Telfair county, 525, 526


Telfair, Edward, 491, 526


Telfair Hospital for Females, 498


Tennille. George F., 700


Terrell county, 528


Terrific storm of 1804, 271




Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.