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Subject: Re: [GACHATHAM] Isaac Young Sr, John Amory, Newington
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 23:23:17 EDT


Dale,
Here is the next entry on that subject:
Colonial Records of Georgia ("Statutes, Colonial and Revolutionary,
1768-1773," excerpt):
AND IT FURTHER BE ENACTED that the Commissioners or Surveyors herein after
named be and they are hereby Authorized and impowered to lay out a Road from
Horse Creek upon the North side of Great Ogechee River to the Road directed in
and by the said Recited Act of the General Assembly to be continued from
Newington to the best Fording Place above the Honourable Jonathan Bryan's Cow pen on
Great Ogechee River the said Road so to be laid out as aforesaid to run
paralel with the said River Great Ogechee and as near the same as conveniently may
be that the said Road and all rivers Creeks and Waters from Horse Creek to the
Road to Continued from Newington as aforesaid and within six Miles of the
said River Great Ogechee shall be and Continue to be called the Ogechee division,
And that the several Male white Inhabitants free Negroes and Mulatoes and
all Male Slaves within the Limits of the said division as aforesaid shall be
and they are hereby declared to be liable to work within the said division, And
that David Cutler Braddock Esquire Mathias Zettler William Powell and John
Goldwire Junior shall be and they are hereby declared to be Commissioners or
Surveyors of the Roads within the same and that the said Commissioners and the
said Male white Inhabitants free Negroes and Mulatoes and Male Slaves as
aforesaid shall be liable to all and Singular the duties penalties fines and
forfeitures required mentioned declared and Inflicted in and by the said recited
Act. . . ..
. . . By Order of the Commons House of Assembly
ALEX WYLLY SPEAKER
By Order Of the upper House of Assembly.
N JONES
Council Chamber
11th April 1768
Assented to
JA: WRIGHT



J. G. (Jerry) Braddock, Sr.
Home page: http://members.aol.com/JGBraddockSr/home.html


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