{"title":"Georgia: Jones County","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"102-8477","title":"Georgia Free Persons of Color, Volume II: Appling, Camden, Clarke, Emanuel, Jones, Pulaski, and Wilkes Counties, 1818-1865","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn 1818 statute of the Georgia legislature required all free persons of color to register with the inferior court of their county of residence. According to the statute, county clerks were required to inscribe each freed man or woman by name, age, place of birth, residence, year arrived in Georgia, and occupation. While not all clerks performed their duties to the letter of the law, these source records contain vital identifying information for African-American Georgians long before the Civil War or the watershed 1870 U.S. census. The ensuing registers, varying in their completeness, survive for twenty-one Georgia counties. (By the way, the only way to emancipate a slave in Georgia was by an act of the legislature. Antebellum manumissions, though rare, were granted for unusual acts, such as defending an owner's property during a British incursion during the War of 1812, extinguishing a fire at the state capital, and other faithful service.)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume is a transcription of the free black registers for the Georgia counties of Appling, Camden, Clarke, Emanuel, Jones, Pulaski, and Wilkes Counties. Mr. Ports has arranged the contents of the record books in a series of tables, county by county and chronologically thereunder. A full-name index at the back of the volume provides for easy searching. Because the recording styles of the county clerks differ from one another, or from year to year, the author has provided an overview of the registers he found in each county, references to any gaps in the registers, handwriting irregularities or peculiarities, and so on. In addition to the required information, a few clerks recorded the registrant's height, weight, skin color, and name of their guardian. Persons of a historical mindset will appreciate Mr. Ports' inclusion, in the front matter, of the wording of salient Georgia laws from 1818 to 1835 that mandated the registration of free Negroes. These are followed by the Georgia manumission statutes enacted after 1798. Finally, since, in theory, the freedmen and women were required to register themselves every year after 1818, researchers will be able to track the whereabouts or disappearance of individuals over time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael A. Ports\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2015, paper, 184 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806357645\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-8477\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32189223796854,"sku":"102-8477","price":25.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-8477-1500px.png?v=1777310488"},{"product_id":"117-ga60","title":"History of Jones County, Georgia","description":"\u003cp\u003eJones County, Georgia was created in 1807 from Baldwin County. It is located in the center of the state. Originally known for its farmlands before the Civil War, it suffered destruction during the Civil War as Sherman's march to the sea passing through the county due to it cotton gin factor being retrofitted to produce pistols for the Confederate Army. This book is similar to other history books of the era with such topics being discussed: preformation of the county, formation of the county, Indians, early settlers, involvement in the War of 1812, education, religion\/churches, towns, roads\/trails, and a considerable amount of discussion of its involvement in the Civil War. The author has included inscriptions from 40 cemeteries from around the county. She has also included the history of 22 ante-bellum homes located in Jones County and often times giving a biographical sketch of its owner: Clinton, Gordon-Bowen-Blount, Comer, Small, Newton, Peyton, Pitts, Cabaniss, Day-Barron, Barron, Glawson, Lancaster, Greene, White, Roberts, Moughon, Tomotavia, Johnson, and Lowther. But more importantly, are the 80 plus genealogies of persons from the county. The reader will also discover an appendix filled with genealogical data: 1811 Tax Digest, 1820 Census, 1826 Land Lottery Draws, Marriage Bonds 1811-1890, Slave Deed Records 1791-1865, Index of Wills 1808-1890, Abstracts of Wills 1808-1810, List of Revolutionary Soldiers and Widows of Soldiers, Roster of Confederate Soldiers, WWI and WWII, Index to 1850 Census, and List of Grand Jurors 1808-1810.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarolyn White Williams\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1957), 2020, paper, 1128 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780893088729\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e117-GA60\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Historical Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39987069419638,"sku":"117-GA60","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/117-ga60-1500px.png?v=1777314595"},{"product_id":"101e-ga0165","title":"Jones County, Georgia History and Biographies","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in \u003ci\u003eMemoirs of Georgia\u003c\/i\u003e (1895) and \u003ci\u003eHistorical Collection of Georgia\u003c\/i\u003e (1854), this reprint contains a brief history of Jones County, Georgia followed by pioneer biographies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIncluded in many of the biographies are tidbits about the pioneer's character, military service, marriage, children, death, and political affiliation. A 'must-have' for any Jones researcher.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cblockquote\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eExample:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Example from the Campbell County, Georgia reprint)\u003cbr\u003e Thomas J. BULLARD, merchant and farmer, Palmetto, Campbell County, GA., is the son of Thomas and Susan A. BULLARD. His father was a native of Chatham County, NC where he was born in 1819 ... ((more info)) .... He died on the old homestead at Campbellton GA in 1876. He was twice married, first to Miss Ann BEARD, who died in 1844, the mother of three children: William, a planter of Putnam County; ((continues with children's names, birth dates, etc.)) ... His marriage was solemnized Jan 3, 1867 ... She is a lady of superior culture and refinement, and as an earnest and devoted Christian lady has done much to add to her husband's success ....\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/blockquote\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRev. 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