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William Houstoun (/ ˈ h aʊ s t ən / HOW-stən; also spelled Houston; c. 1755 – March 17, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States, statesman, and lawyer.He served the Province of Georgia as a delegate to the Continental Congress and later the State of Georgia to the United States Constitutional Convention in 1787.
The Georgia Experiment was the colonial-era policy prohibiting the ownership of slaves in the Georgia Colony. At the urging of Georgia's proprietor , General James Oglethorpe , and his fellow colonial trustees, the British Parliament formally codified prohibition in 1735, three years after the colony's founding.
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Transition to the Twentieth Century: Thomas County, Georgia, 1900–1920 2002. vol 4 of comprehensive history of one county. Scott, Thomas Allan. Cobb County, Georgia, and the Origin of the Suburban South: A Twentieth Century History (2003). Werner, Randolph D. "The New South Creed and the Limits of Radicalism: Augusta, Georgia, before the 1890s."
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 ...
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)
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.
When Shays' Rebellion erupted in Massachusetts, Washington was further convinced that a national constitution was needed. [164] [31] Some nationalists feared that the new republic had descended into lawlessness, and they met on September 11, 1786, at Annapolis to ask Congress to revise the Articles