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a. Note:   THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR Council of War at Burke County Jail In January 1779, after the British had captured Savannah, two British commanders, Commodore Hyde Parker and Colonel Archibald Campbell, promulgated from Savannah a proclamation which offered immunity and security to all former colonists who would come and take the oath of allegiance to the Crown. With the fall of Savannah, Sunbury and Ebenezer, the occupation of all Georgia by the British seemed certain, and by the time the British forces had pushed up the Savannah River as far as the Twin Sisters' Ferry, inhabitants were flocking in to swear allegiance, and in many cases had enrolled in the loyalists' ranks. A group of Patriot officers, however, met at the Burke County Jail on January 14, 1779, to determine the most expedient method of counteracting this disaffection. Lt. Col. James Ingram was the initiator of this "Council of War." Officers present were: Col. Francis Pugh; Lt. Col. James Ingram; Lt. Col. Samuel Mathews; Maj. James Martin; thirteen captains: Andrew Burney, Benj. Mathews, Charles Crawford, Daniel Walikon, John H. Wilkinson, George Wyche, Joseph Atkinson, Moses Davis, John Sharp, Thomas Lewis, Joshua Inman (written Hinman), John Warren and John Murrey; and nine Lieutenants: Robert Clark, Thomas Townsend, Matthia Gray, Thomas Ford, Shadrack Inman (written Hinman), James Costilo, Samuel Holton, James Lewis and Frederick Wommack. It should be noted that at least fourteen members of the Council of War were Burke Countians: Pugh, Lanier, Martin, Wyche, Atkinson, Davis, Sharp, Thomas and James Lewis, Joshua and Shadrack Inman, Warren, Gray and Wommack. 1872: MILITARY: The Blue Horse No. 518 Burke County Rangers in Capt. James McKay's Regiment, Oct. 1, 1781 - January 16,1782. Capt. Patrick Carr 2nd Lieut. Josiah Hatcher lst Lieut. Michael Jones Sgt. Patrick Connelly Privates: Isaac Audis, Andrew Berryhill, Zephaniale Bell, Charles Burch, Edward Burch, Edward Bieggs,Peter Beeson, Peter Ballard, William Coletrap, William Collins, John Davis, Henry Donlin, Luke Durham, Daniel Evans, Daniel Epperson, Thedore Goodwyn, Thomas Gilphin, George Gilphin, John Hatcher, John Hix, Ezekiel Harris, Archibald Hatcher, William Hatcher, William Holmes, James Haccees, William Hurst, Jacob Holley, William Jones, John Kitts, John Leitle, William Moore, John Murray, John Manning, Patrick Malone, John Milledge, John MeElheney, Ezekiel Oxford, Jesse Oxford, Lud Outlaw, Edward Outlaw, William Patterson, Hilliary Phillips, Timothy Rickenson, William Shirley, William Stewart, and John Talley. ***************************************** From the records of the GA Archives: Revolutionary War Bounty Land Warrants, Petitions Archibald Hatcher: 1st page Hatcher, Archibald 1 certificate 1 warrant 2nd page Georgia By the Court of Justices of the County of Richmond To Nathan Beal, Surveyor of the county, aforesaid You are hereby authorized and required to and measure and lay out, or cause to be laid out unto Archibald Hatcher seventy acres of land in the said county on head right. Taking especial care that the same hath not been heretofore laid out to any person or persons whatever: and you are hereby also required to record the plat of the same in your office, and transmit a copy thereof together with this warrant to the Surveyor General within two years from this date. Given under our hands this 3rd day of July, 1797 Test George Watkins C.L.C. signed Isaai Herbert J.P. & Joseph Hutchinson J.P. 3rd page Archibald Hatcher Warrant for 70 acres Land in Richmond Executed 12th August ,1797 ************************************************ Georgia Tax Index, 1789-1799: Archibald Hatcher, Richmond County, Knowland Dist, 1795 and 1799 ************************************************* 1784: They Were Here Vol 5 , p 165 MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL In Council Friday September 17, 1784: This day His Honor the Governor signed the following grants in Council - viz Archibald Hatcher 287 1/2 Washington County ************************************************* Georgia State Land Grants Book DDD, p. 318 LDS Film 465079 Transcribed by Cecil Q Larsen State of Georgia. By the Honorable John Houstoun Esquire, Captain General, Governor and Commander in Chief, in and over the said State. To all to whom these presents shall come, GREETING: Know Ye, That in Pursuance of the Act for opening the Land Office, and by virtue of the Powers in me vested, I HAVE, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Honorable the Executive Council, given and granted, and by these presents, in the Name and Behalf of the said State, DO give and grant unto Archibald Hatcher his Heirs and Assigns forever, ALL that Tract or Parcel of Land, containing two hundred eighty seven & a half Acres, Situate, lying, and being, in the County of Washington in the said State, and butting and bounding Southwestwardly by the Oesne(?) River & South Eastwardly by Jeremiah Buggs Line, and on all other Sides by Vacant Land (On Bounty) having such Shape, Form, and Marks, as appear by a Plat of the same hereunto annexed; together with all and singular the Rights, Members and appurtenances thereof, whatsoever, to the said Tract or Parcel of Land belonging, or in any wise appertaining; and also all the Estate, Right, Title, Interest, Claim and Demand, of the State aforesaid, of, in, to, or out of the same; TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said Tract or Parcel of Land, and all and singular the Premises aforesaid, with their and every of their Rights, Members, and Appurtenances, unto the said Archibald Hatcher his Heirs and Assigns, to his and their own proper Use and Behoof forever, in Fee-Simple. GIVEN under my Hand in Council, and the Great Seal of the said State, this Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-four and in the Ninth Year of American Independence. Signed by His Honor the Governor in Council the 17th Day of Sept. 1784. Wm Freeman O. C. E. C. Registered 21st Septr. 1784. ****************************************************** 1793: Historical collections of the Georgia chapters, Daughters of the American Revolution. Atlanta, Ga.. C.P. Byrd, Volume II: Richmond County Georgia Deed Book "A-1" [Camden Public Library] Campbell, McCartan -- Page 257 -- Feb. 1, 1793 and wife Sarah, to Anny Margaret, James and John McLaws, children of Alex. McLaws of Augusta, Lot Reynolds Street. Test: Archibald Hatcher ***************************************************** THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE, A N D GAZETTE OF THE STATE. NO T I C E '"THE fubfcriber defires all per- fons indebted to him not to pay any money, or fettle any debt in any manner whatever with any perfon, except Mr. Ar- chibald Hatcher, or a written order from himfelf, after this date. MACARTAN; CAMPBELL Augufta, July 8, 1793. ********************************************************** THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE AND GAZETTE of THE STATE June 9, 1792 ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST THE Members of LODGE COLUMBIA are de- fired to attend their duty at the Lodge Room, on Sunday, the 2nd inftant, at 10 o'.clock, A. M. being the festival of St. John the Baptift. The folemnities of the Subbath rendering it neceffary to pojtpone the Feaft Until Monday the 25th. dinner will le ferved up at the Lodge Room, on that day, precifely at 3:o'clock P.M. The company of tranfient breathern is requefted on both day's. Tickets, at 75. each, to be had of Brothers Hatcher, Jones, Biay. and Caines, Stewards. By order of the Worfhipful Mafter, ALEX.. McMILLIAN Sec'ry. ******************************************************** THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE A N D GAZETTE OF THE STATE SATURDAY JANUARY 23, 1796 His Excellency JARAED IRVIN, Efq. is elect- ed Governor of this State The Hon. Benjamin Taltafereo, Efq. Prefident of the Senate; and William Robertfon, Efq. Secretary. The Hon. THOMAS STEVENS, Efq. Speaker of the Houfe of Reprefentaves, and James M. Simmons, Efq. Clerk. ___________ On Saturday morning, the 16th inFt. the river arose to an alarming height in a few hours the fite of the town was generally under water, and ex- cepting a few houfes which ftand on the highest fituations, the rest were completely furrounded with the water which found its way over the low- eft parts of the bank of the river and fpread itfelf through the whole town and common; ...it kept rifing until Sunday morning, when the level of Augufta was two feet under water; during the day it might be faid to be at a ftand, ...in the evening it began to fall, and on Monday morning had fub- fided between four and five inches,... thro' the day it fell but very little, but during the night made a very rapid decreafe, and the morning of Tuefday reftored the agreeable prospect of land, which, notwithftanding the ravages of the various cur- rents, was a very defirable fight:... previous to the river's rifing above its banks it had been fwelled to a confiderable height; ...but from the quantity of rain which fell in the neighbourhood, nothing farther than a common fwell was expected; ...about 3 o'clock, however, on a Saturday morning, as a prelude to the difagreeable fcenes about to enfue, a great part of the Bridge was fwept away, and the remainder went in the courfe of the day; ...the currents were very rapid in all the low places, and a number of chimnies were thrown down and cel- lar walls burft in, ...the greater part of the Upper Warehoufe was carried away, and a confiderable porportion of the tobacco floated off, whilft that which remains can only be confidered in no other point of view than as a total lofs; ...the Lower Ware- houfe may be faid to be in a ftate fomewhat pre- ferable, as none of the hogfheads have been floated out of it; ...the tobacco at Picken's Warehouse was entirely under water; and the whole of the to- bacco at Arenton's Warehoufe would have been loft, but for the exertions of Mr. Hatcher and other gentlemen concerned; ...the Middle Warehoufe alone has proved adequate to the fecurity of the property there depofited; ...many cattle have been drowned, and the damage to the fwamps muft be very ferious; happily, however, there is no infor- mation as yet of any lives having been loft; many of tje inhabitants who depended on the daily fup- plies of the market, were in want of the common neceffaries of life, but have been relieved by fome generous and humane attentions ro their diftreffed fituation:...fome very hazardous exertions were made by feveral of the inhabitants in manning boats,...one croffed into South-Carolina to the re- lief of a family in the moft imminent danger, and others went to various parts of the fwamps and low grounds to the aid of thofe who were fo un- fortunately fituated:...boats of confiderable bur- den plied the ftreets, and in some places it was dangerous to venture on hofeback. A remark- able efacpe was effected by a man who was carried down the river on a raft,...he watched his oppor- tunity of throwing himfelf on the bridge as the raft approached, the fhock of which was fs great when it ftruck, the greateft part of the bridge be- ing gone a confiderable time before, what remain- ed gave way, but not fo fuddenly as to involve in its ruin, the active raftsman who cleared himfelf with fuccefsful fpeed and aftonifhing prefence ofmind from the dreadful craft of the laft frag- ment of this once great and ufeful communication between Georgia and South-Carolina. It is thought that the river, at the higheft, must have been about 35 feet above its common level;...it is certain, however, that the memory of the oldeft inhabitant recollects nothing like a precedent to this inunda- tion, nor, may it be juftly fuppofed, was it ever before at fo prodigious a height. ******************************************************* 1795: Richmond County, Georgia Records, p. 316: Archibald Hatcher appointed guardian of Polly and Elizabeth Arrington, daughters of late Henry Arrington, dec'd at the request of their mother, Mrs. Archibald Hatcher, September, 1795. Summer Court 1795 Mrs. A. Hatcher requests that her husband be named legal guardian of her three children, minors: Polly [Mary] Arrington Henry Arrington Elizabeth Arrington. Archibald Hatcher was then appointed guardian of three minor children of Henry Arrington, now deceased....We here see that Archibald Hatcher wed Mary the Widow of Henry Arrington. [Leonardo Andrea papers on Hatcher] ************************************************* THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE AND GAZETTE OF THE STATE 1 Oct 1796 WARNING My negro boy James, formerly the property of Macertan Campbell, Esq. having been invaigled out of my pof- feffion, and for some time harboured from home, has lately voluntarily returned into my poffeffion: I do therefore forwarn all perfons whatfoever from harbouring or int- ermeddling with the faid boy in future, under pain of being prosecuted to the utmost rigour of the law. A. Hatcher October 1, 1796. ************************************************* 1797: LAND WARRANT: Archibald was given a Land Warrant for seventy acres in Richmond Co. Ga. 3-7-1797 by the Court of Justices, County of Richmond William Longstreet J.P. Isaac Herbert J.P. Joseph Hutchinson J.P. ************************************************** SATURDAY.September 9, 1797 THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE AND GAZETTE OF THE STATE THE STORE-HOUSE at New Savannah ( Arinton;s warehoufe) with a garden, kitchen, ftable and a corn- houfe feiled, fit for the recertion of fheiled corn. Apply to A. HATCHER aUGUST 20, 1797. ************************************************ SATURDAY.June 9, 1798 THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE AND GAZETTE OF THE STATE I WILL deliverin Augufta, any kind of lumber ifially cut at faw mills, from five to twenty fix feet long, at the Augufta market price: Mr. James Robertfom will manage the mills, whole knowledge of the fawing bufinefs, will, I have no doubt, give fatisfattion. ARCHIBALD HATCHER Mount Libenus?, May 16, 1798. ********************************************** 1799: Saturday October 12, 1799 THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE AND GAZETTE OF THE STATE TO BE RENTED FOR ONE YEAR, On Saturday the 19th instant, at New- Savannah, The Store and other houfes, at faid place, belonging to the heirs of Henry Arinton, dec. Bond with undoubted fecurity will be required, and immediate poffeffion given by ARCH.. HATCHER, Guardian for the Heirs. Oct. 3, 1799. ************************************************** 1801: AUGUSTA CHRONICLE 25 Jul 1801 p. 3 Twenty Dollars Reward. Stolen or Strayed from Mr. Hatcher's near Augusta, on Thursday the 9th inst. a BAY MARE, about 4 feet 11 inches high, 6 years old, branded on the near shoulder thus, D with a diamond over it; and on the right side of the neck, under the mane, with a D, has several small white soots on her back bone, her legs are very fine, and had a _ear about six inches long on the sole of her right hind one, trots and paces remarkably well, but is skitish, and carries her head rather low. The above reward will be paid on her being delivered to Mr. Hatcher, or to your subscriber in Louisville. J. Meriwether. Fifty Dollars will be paid for delivering in the Augusta jail the thief who stole out of my pasture the above described Mare of Capt. Meriwether's. Archibald Hatcher. Richmond county, July 20, 1801. ************************************************* 1802: Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel 19 Jun 1802, p. 4 Collector's Sales. At the market-house in the city of Augusta, on the 19th of July next, will be sold, the following property, or so much thereof as will satisfy the taxes, with costs, for the year 1801, viz....111 acres pine and 1st quality land in Richmond county, Savannah river, near Arinton's ware-house, the property of Archibald Hatcher, as returned; taxes D. 18 22 1/2. 222 acres pine and 1st quality land in Richmond county, adjoining land of gent. John Twiggs, returned by Archibald Hatcher, for the estate of Henry Arinton, taxes D. 10 68 1/4. One lot with improvements on Ellis street in the city of Augusta, returned by Archibald Hatcher, as trustee for the children of William Hayes; taxes D. 9 18 1/4.... *************************************************** AUGUSTA CHRONICLE and SENTINEL 11 Sep 1802 p. 1 Sheriff's Sales. On the first Tuesday in October next, at the market house in the city of Augusta, will be sold, ... The hald of four thousand acres of land, with a good saw mill and plantation, on Butler's creek, adjoining lands of Robert Watkins, Archibald Hatcher and Thomas Glasscock, ... all taken as the property of John Cobbs. **************************************************** 1805: AUGUSTA CHRONICLE 5 Oct 1805 p. 3 List of letters remaining in the Post-Office at Augusta the 1st of October 1805, and if not taken away before the 1st, of January 1806, will be returned to the General Post-Office as dead letters. Archibald Hatcher ****************************************************** 1807: WITNESS: Archibald & Mary Hatcher witnessed the Will of James Wilson on Sept. 15, 1807, Jefferson Co., Georgia, records, Vol. 1, page 135. ***************************************************** 1807: Jasper County, Georgia Deed Bk B-1, p 276: December 4, 1807 Archibald and Mary, his wife, of Richmond Co sell for $1000 200A being in the 14th district of Baldwin Co to Edward Lloyd. A Hatcher Teste: David Bates, Ben Tarver J.J.C. Recorded: March 9th, 1820. **************************************************** 1808: DEATH: "Marriages and Deaths 1763-1800, Abstracted from Extant Georgia Newspapers" by Mary Bondurant Warren, p 49: Archibald Hatcher, Esq., d 1/13/1808 at his seat near Augusta, member of GA Legislature from Richmond Co, Augusta Chronicle, 1/18/1808. 1/16/1808 ***************************************************** 1808: Historical collections of the Georgia chapters, Daughters of the American Revolution. Atlanta, Ga.. C.P. Byrd [Camden Public Library] Vol. II, Administrator and guardian bonds, Divisons of estates, etc., page 94. Hatcher, Archibald, dec'd. Mar. 30, 1808 -- Mary Hatcher and James Meriwether, app. Admrs. Littleberry Bostwick, Chesley Bostwick, Hezekiah Beal, Sec. Returns both in Louisville and Augusta. ***************************************************** Augusta Chronicle, April 1808, The names of nominees to fill Archibald Hatcher�s seat in the Georgia State House of Representatives were listed. May 5, 1808: A special election was held to fill his vacant seat after his death. Nicholas WARE won the seat with 118 votes. His friend, Walter LEIGH, came in second with 85 votes.


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