THE Revolutionary Records OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA VOLUME I INTRODUCTORY REMARKS, CONFISCATION AND BANISHMENT, COMPILED AND PUBLISHED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE LEGISLATURE BY ALLEN D. CANDLER ATLANTA, GA, THE FRANKLIN-TURNER COMPANY The following compilation contains all authentic records and documents relating to the Revolutionary period of Georgia history that the compiler has been able to find after a most careful, thorough and diligent search. While it is not presented as a complete compilation, it is believed that it contains most of the official records made during the period of which it treats, certainly all that are now in existence, and to supply the place of original papers not now in existence, well authenticated copies and extracts from contemporaneous publications have been utilized. That many official records of this important period, once in existence, have been irretrievably lost, cannot be doubted, because our early historians have made copious extracts from many that cannot now be found. Among the most valuable records known to have been lost and, consequently, not now available for this compilation, are the Minutes of the Executive Office up to the fourteenth of January, 1778, the Journal of the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of 1776-7, not a vestige of which, nor even a list of the names of the delegates who sat in it, having been anywhere discovered, and the Journals of the several sessions of the legislature held prior to the seventeenth day of August, 1781. The destruction of these Minutes and Journals was a serious and irreparable loss. We have, however, the net result of the labors of the convention and these legislative sessions in the Con(3) |