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Telfair was a member of a Committee of Safety (1775–1776) and was a delegate to the Georgia Provincial Congress meeting at Savannah in 1776. He was also a member of the Georgia Committee of Intelligence in 1776. [9] Telfair was elected to the Continental Congress for 1778, 1780, 1781, and 1782. He was a signatory to the Articles of Confederation.
William Few Jr. (June 8, 1748 – July 16, 1828) was an American Founding Father, lawyer, politician and jurist.He represented the U.S. state of Georgia at the Constitutional Convention and signed the U.S. Constitution.
Georgia state capital relocated from Savannah to Augusta. [2] 1779 Town Hall built. [2] Siege of Savannah. [2] 1782 British occupation ends. [4] Georgia state capital relocated to Savannah from Augusta. [4] 1786 Georgia state capital relocated again from Savannah to Augusta. [4] Chatham Artillery established. [2] 1788 Town becomes part of the U ...
1785–1786 William Hindman: 1785–1786 John Eager Howard: 1788 Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer [10] 1779; 1780–1781: 1781 Thomas Johnson [11] 1774: 1775–1777: Thomas Sim Lee: 1783 Edward Lloyd: 1783–1784 James McHenry: 1783–1785 William Paca: 1774: 1775–1779: George Plater: 1778–1780: Richard Potts: 1781 Nathaniel Ramsey: 1786–1787 ...
1786 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) (2 P) This page was last edited on 10 September 2020, at 23:52 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Georgia was the only colony not present in the First Continental Congress in 1774. When violence broke out in 1775, radical Patriots (also known as Whigs) took control of the provincial government, and drove many Loyalists out of the province. Georgia subsequently took part to the Second Continental Congress with the other colonies. In 1776 and ...
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January 7 – John Catron, lawyer and jurist (died 1865) January 8 – Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States (died 1844) January 24 – Walter Forward, lawyer and politician, 15th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1841 to 1843 (died 1852)