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Category : Camden County (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 253
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The People of Camden County, Georgia
Author: History of Camden County, Georgia
Author: James Thomas VocellePublisher:
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Category : Camden County (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Camden's Challenge
Author: 1850 Census of Georgia (Camden County)
Author: Citizens of Camden County, Georgia
Author: Frances Terry IngmirePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Camden County Free Persons of Colour, 1818
Author: Camden County (Ga.). Inferior CourtPublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Camden County, Georgia History and Biographies
Author: George WhitePublisher:
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Category : Camden County (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 13
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St. Marys and Camden County, Georgia
Author: Patricia BarefootPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738513850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Bounded on the north by the Little Satilla River from neighboring Glynn County and on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, Camden County's southern boundary at the St. Marys River separates Georgia from Florida. Dating from a 1766 land grant, port of St. Marys and Camden County have faced a challenging past, present, and future. Camden's growth and development have been driven by businessmen, adventurers and opportunists, determined "wild swamp Crackers," and hardy, self-reliant, God-fearing men and women. Accompanied by Jonathan Bryan, a planter with an insatiable appetite for virgin tracts of land, Georgia's third and last Royal Governor James Wright visited Buttermilk Bluff in June 1767 and envisioned a city. St. Marys was born, and its street names reflect the surnames of the 20 founding fathers. While the county seat was removed from a quaint St. Marys on more than one occasion, today, the garden spot of Woodbine serves as the seat of county government. Formerly the rice plantation of J.K. Bedell, this small city shares a symbiotic relationship with port of St. Marys and the "City of Royal Treatment" at Kingsland. The history of the county, with its three main towns as well as the outlying, rural areas, unfolds in striking photographs from days gone by. Preserved within the pages of this treasured volume, images reveal Camden and its people in times of tragedy and triumph.
1820-1830 U.S. Census, Camden County, Georgia
Author: Robert Stafford of Cumberland Island
Author: Mary Ricketson BullardPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820317380
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Robert Stafford of Cumberland Island offers a rare glimpse into the life and times of a nineteenth-century planter on one of Georgia's Sea Islands. Born poor, Robert Stafford (1790-1877) became the leading planter on his native Cumberland Island. Specializing in the highly valued long staple variety of cotton, he claimed among his assets more than 8,000 acres and 350 slaves. Mary R. Bullard recounts Stafford's life in the context of how events from the Federalist period to the Civil War to Reconstruction affected Sea Island planters. As she discusses Stafford's associations with other planters, his business dealings (which included banking and railroad investments), and the day-to-day operation of his plantation, Bullard also imparts a wealth of information about cotton farming methods, plantation life and material culture, and the geography and natural history of Cumberland Island. Stafford's career was fairly typical for his time and place; his personal life was not. He never married, but fathered six children by Elizabeth Bernardey, a mulatto slave nurse. Bullard's discussion of Stafford's decision to move his family to Groton, Connecticut--and freedom--before the Civil War illuminates the complex interplay between southern notions of personal honor, the staunch independent-mindedness of Sea Island planters, and the practice and theory of racial separation. In her afterword to the Brown Thrasher edition, Bullard presents recently uncovered information about a second extralegal family of Robert Stafford as well as additional information about Elizabeth Bernardey's children and the trust funds Stafford provided for them.