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	New Georgia Encyclopedia: John Houstoun (ca. 1747-1796)
		John Houstoun was twice governor of Georgia, the first mayor of the city of Savannah, and an early supporter of independence from Britain.
		Houstoun's father was Sir Patrick Houstoun, fifth baronet of Scotland, who was one of the earliest settlers of the colony of Georgia.
		Houstoun believed that the British were amassing an army in St. Augustine, which was known to many Americans as "that Pestiferous nest." He took the lead in organizing an invasion force consisting of troops under the commands of the Continental Congress and of the states of Georgia and South Carolina.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-680 (1045 words)

	John A. Treutlen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Adam Treutlen (1734-1782)arrived in Colonial America as an indentured servant and rose to become a wealthy merchant and landowner.
		John Treutlen was the second child born after his parents married.
		Thus, when John Houstoun was elected governor in January 1778, Treutlen dropped out of statewide politics and returned to Ebenezer to see what he could do to help the community and people that had provided him with so much during his three decades in America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_A._Treutlen (1689 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaedia - People and Peoples (Jo-Jz)
		John was a son of Christian I and king of Denmark in 1481.
		John Bright became a leading spirit in the Anti-Corn-Law League and in 1843 was elected to Parliament to represent Durham, where upon he distinguished himself as an advocate of free trade and reform.
		John Wesley was an English preacher and the founder of the Methodist church.
	www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/C7B.HTM (8517 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: John Adam Treutlen (1733-1782)
		John Treutlen arrived in America as an indentured servant and rose to become a wealthy merchant and landowner.
		John Adam Treutlen was born in 1733 in southern Germany.
		Thus, when John Houstoun was elected governor in January 1778, Treutlen dropped out of state politics and returned to Ebenezer to help the community and the people who had provided him with so much during his three decades in America.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-681 (1077 words)

	Houstoun Genealogy
		John Houstoun, Delegate to Continental Congress, member of first Executive Council, Governor of Georgia, Mayor of Savannah, Agent of Georgia in boundary disputes, Trustee of State College, Chief Justice of Georgia, andc.
		John Houstoun, Governor of Georgia, married Hannah, daughter of Hon.
		William Houstoun was a very influential man and was elected as a delegate from Georgia to the Convention in New York to assist in the framing of the Constitution of the United States.
	www.surnameguide.com /houstoun/index.htm (784 words)

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		It may have developed from John's dwelling or homestead, John having been some feudal lord to whom the land was given by Walter the High Steward of Scotland when he divided out his vast domains in the lands we now call Renfrewshire.
		Sir Peter Houstoun of Houston also fell at Flodden, together with the laird of Barrochan and Lord Semple of Castle Semple, and who knows how many of the lesser, nameless folk, tenants and retainers from the land of Johnstone who followed their lords to that fatal field.
		Houstoun was only saved from expulsion by the influence of the Rector, Lord Pollock who declared that his parents were good Presbyterians and brought up their children in the fear of the Lord.
	www.johnstonetown.org.uk /history/history/johnstone (1757 words)

	Georgia Biography -- Political Figures
		The first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate, Felton was a vocal advocate for prohibition, prison reform, vocational education, and woman suffrage.
		John B. Gordon was a celebrated Confederate officer, and later a politician who served in the U.S. Senate and a prominent leader of Confederate veteran's organizations.
		Houstoun was first mayor of Savannah, a Georgia governor, a representative in the Continental Congress, and a Georgia militia commander.
	dlg.galileo.usg.edu /GeorgiaReferenceShelf/BiographyPoliticians.html (899 words)

	The Grimsay Press - History of the County of Renfrew: from the Earliest Times.
		Abbot John Hamilton, 200, 203, 204, 205, 208, 210-212, 215-219, 376.
		Mareschal, John, bailiff to the Earl of Lincoln in Renfrewshire, 65.
		Paisley, Abbey of, Abbot John Hamilton, 200, 203, 204, 205, 208, 210-212, 215-219, 376.
	www.thegrimsaypress.co.uk /indexes/0902664875.htm (2236 words)

	Biography of John Houstoun
		John Houstoun, one of Georgia's foremost patriots, was born on August 31, 1744 in St. George's Parish, near what is now Waynesboro, Georgia.
		Houstoun was appointed to a committee to provide relief for Boston, a town whose port had been closed by the Intolerable Acts in retaliation for the famous Tea Party.
		On May 8, 1777, Houstoun became a member of the Executive Council, and on January 8, 1778, he was elected governor, serving from 1778 to 1779.
	home.alltel.net /ehallman/darjh001.htm (858 words)

	Effingham County History - EFFGA.com
		The mother later remarried, and John Adam was placed under the care and tutelage of Pastor John Martin Bolzius at St. Matthew Parish, Ebenezer.
		John Adam Treutlen later became a teacher at Ebenezer and was elected a deacon in Jerusalem Church.
		Members of Treutlen's Executive Council were Jonathan Bryan, John Houstoun, Thomas Chisholm, William Holzendorf, John Fulton, John Jones, John Walton, William Few (who later signed the Constitution of the United States on behalf of the Georgia delegation), Arthur Fort, John Coleman, Benjamin Andrews, and William Peacock.
	www.effga.com /effingham-history.htm (1968 words)

	Lilla McIntosh
		John Houston MCINTOSH was born in 1764 in St Andrews Parish, Georgia.
		Bayard was the son of John Houstoun McIntosh and Mary R. Higbee.
		Therefore, Bayard Livingston McIntosh (General McIntosh) (son of John Houston McIntosh, Jr., who was son of John Houston McIntosh, Sr.) was a nephew of Eliza Bayard McIntosh (daughter of John Houston McIntosh, Sr.).
	www.valdostamuseum.org /hamsmith/LillaMcIntosh.html (2159 words)

	If Wall Could Talk...
		John Maxwell Kingsley was the first child she had brought into the world as a free person.
		John Maxwell Kingsley was Anna and Zephaniah's fourth child and the only child that was born at the Fort George Island plantation.
		John was the first child Anna had given birth to since she had become a free person of color; the first three children were born into slavery because their mother was enslaved at the time of their birth.
	www.amelianow.com /summer02-walls.htm (918 words)

	Later Career - John Houstoun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Houstoun returned home, and was elected to another one year term as governor in 1784.
		In 1790 he became the fitrst elected Mayor of Savannah, and in 1791 was appointed a justice of the Superior Court of Georgia.
		John died at his home, White Bluff, just outside Savannah on July 20, 1796.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /Abante2533/john-houstoun-later-career.html (85 words)

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		Houstoun's company had neither the iron rails nor the funds to purchase them, and he asked the Confederate government to furnish assistance.
		I, 778; Houstoun to John Milton, n.d., Milton Letterbook.
		John Milton Hawks, 25 and his associ- ates, James A. Fowler, and George W. Dewhurst, all former Fed- eral army officers, organized the Florida Land and Lumber Com- pany and planned to settle a colony of free Negroes on public lands at the Inlet.
	fulltext6.fcla.edu /DLData/CF/FullText/fhq_43_3.txt (21291 words)

	ENGLISH CROWN GRANTS IN ST
		HOUSTOUN, John 250 acres St. Andrew Parish, bounded on the east partly by Nicholas Smith and partly vacant land, on the north by Hugh Bennett and vacant land, on the west partly by Hugh Bennett and vacant land and on the south by an old line unknown.
		HOUSTOUN, John 200 acres St. Andrew Parish, bounded on the south by John Grant, Nicholas Smith and the meeting house, east by land surveyed for George Threadcroft and on the north and west partly by John McDonald and John McBean and vacant land.
		HOUSTOUN, John 350 acres St. Andrew Parish, bounded on the east by John Houstoun, north by Clement Martin and vacant land and on the southwest by John Houstoun.
	www.rootsweb.com /~gacgr/crown-h.html (1034 words)

	HOUSTOUN, John (1744-1796) Guide to Research Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A photocopy of a letter from Stephen Drayton to John Houstoun written on March 20, 1773.
		A letter from John Houstoun to an unidentified recipient written on December 14, 1773.
		John Houstoun gives the recipient advice concerning a mortgage.
	bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=H000831 (158 words)

	The Forsythe Saga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		John Forsyth was the son of William Forsyth, Baron of Dykes.
		John was in favor of adopting the French language as the national speech, as a barrier against English settlement in the lowlands of Scotland.
		Walter Forsyth, son of John Forsyth, and grandson of William Forsyth, Baron of Dykes was a Regent, or Provost, of the College and Subdeaneries of Glasgow in 1678 (Act Scot.
	www.rumblefische.com /ancestors/chap0010.html (9972 words)

	Revolutinary Years - John Houstoun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		That same year, John was a representative in the rebel Provincial Congress of Georgia, and they nmed him as a delegate to the First Continental Congress.
		He was reappointed to the national congress in 1776, but did not attend.
		He stayed at home to work with the Committee of Safety to thwart the loyalist effforts of the popular preacher and loyalist, John Joachim Zubly.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /Abante2533/john-houstoun-revolutinary-years.html (263 words)

	CHAPTER 7. SECOND SPANISH PERIOD, 1783-1821
		Soon after the reconstruction of the fort was begun, Indians threatened the plantations on the west side of the St. Johns River, as well as on Amelia Island.
		King Payne, the Seminole Indian chief, had told Captain John Forrester that Bowles had sent "a small party of Indians with an intention of plundering the inhabitants of the Province." A few days later, a man named Atkinson informed the governor that there was danger that privateers would try to plunder the seacoast.
		On the person of one of the fl prisoners a letter was found from Alexander Arbuthnot to his son, John, warning him of Jackson's approach.
	www.vernonjohns.org /nonracists/jxspfla2.html (2937 words)

	Part 2
		John David Edwards, son of John and Mary Braddock Edwards, was born.
		John David, son of John and Mary Braddock Edwards, was born.
		John Houstoun McIntosh, was self-appointed "Director" of the "Republic." McIntosh’s house on Fort King George Island became headquarters for the "Patriots." Built in 1798, this oldest plantation house in Florida had been previously owned by John "Don Juan" McQueen.
	members.aol.com /JGBraddockSr/ChildrenoftheIronMen2.html (8270 words)

	Search Our Georgia History for Houstoun
		Noble Wimberly Jones, Archibald Bullloch and John Houstoun selected to represent Georgia in the 2nd Continental Congress by 4 parishes.
		The Second Provincial Congress elects Archibald Bulloch, John Houstoun, The Reverend John Zubley, Noble Wimberly Jones and Lyman Hall as delegates to the Continental Congress
		John Houstoun becomes the first native-born Georgian to lead the executive branch.
	www.ourgeorgiahistory.com /search?id=1058 (417 words)

	The Thomaston Times: Recognizing a Revolutionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The John Houstoun Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, in cooperation with the Georgia State Society Sons of the American Revolution, hosted a dedication of grave markers for Revolutionary War Soldier William Caraway.
		John Houston Chapter member Julie Greer dressed in period attire as Mrs.
		Caraway's grave was marked with bronze DAR and SAR markers placed on either side of the government marker that the JOhn Houstoun Chapter installed for him back in 1912, less than one year after the chapter was formed.
	www.thomastontimes.com /articles/2006/01/30/news/news01.txt (564 words)

	Jacksonville Plantation Life
		It is part of 46,000 acres of wetlands, most of it on the north side of the St. Johns River.
		In 1804 John Houstoun McIntosh purchased the island from John McQueen.
		There is mention of John Houston McIntosh having a plantation in the St. Marys, Georgia area known as the New Canaan Plantation.
	www.vernonjohns.org /nonracists/jxprewar.html (3897 words)

	The Sharp Family - E. Tappan Adney (revised)
		Distantly related to "Shairp of Houstoun," was James Sharp, Archbishop of St. Andrews, who by turning to the Established Church incurred the hatred of the Covenanters and was murdered by them on Magus-muir in May, 1679; an account of whom is found at some length in cyclopedias.
		Arms of Major William Sharp, of Houstoun — including an "augmentation" registered in 1678: Argent, on a fesse between two crosses crosslet fitchee in chief sable, and a dexter hand grasping a sword in pale in base gules, three mullets of the field.
		Major William, of Houstoun, registered arms at the College of Arms in 1672, but it is clearly evident that he simply placed on record arms long in use.
	personal.nbnet.nb.ca /halew/Adney.htm (9727 words)

	Sons of Liberty
		They took their name from a phrase used by Isaac Barré in a speech against the Stamp Act in Parliament, and were organized by merchants, businessmen, lawyers, journalists, and others who would be most affected by the Stamp Act.
		The leaders included John Lamb and Alexander McDougall in New York, and Samuel Adams and James Otis in New England.
		John HOUSTOUN - HOUSTOUN, John (1744—1796) HOUSTOUN, John, a Delegate from Georgia; born in Waynesboro, Ga.,...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0845939.html (281 words)

	Crypt: History of Camden & Charlton Counties, Georgia
		These are the ruins of a tabby sugar works built by John Houston McIntosh at New Canaan Plantation soon after 1825.
		Thomas Spalding was the great-grandson of John* Mohr McIntosh / John McIntosh Mohr.
		Tabby is a concrete-like substance made of lime, water, powered oyster shells, and crushed (but chunky) oyster shells.
	www.camdencounty.org /history/mcintosh_sugar_mill.html (222 words)

	GeorgiaInfo - Carl Vinson Institute of Government
		Seth John Cuthbert, President of Supreme Executive Council - 1779
		John Wereat, President of Supreme Executive Council - 1779-1780 (footnote 2)
		John M. Slaton, President of Senate - 1911-1912
	www.cviog.uga.edu /Projects/gainfo/gagovs.htm (547 words)

	Nautical
		The efficacy of this simple application was fully proved by the cure of two bad sores occasioned by the bite of a negro's teeth".
		John Lunan (1814) Hortus Jamaicensis Vol I 1814.
		Houstoun, from the Spanish West Indies, where he was sent at the expense of a collection raised by that curious physician, Sir Hans Sloan, for to collect and send them to Georgia, where the climate was capable of making a garden which might contain all kinds of plants.
	cocos.arecaceae.com /nautical.html (6639 words)

	Memorials: May 7, 1997
		He was born Sept. 17, 1900, in Brooklyn, N.Y., to John M. Sadler (a cotton broker) and Alice P. Horton.
		He is survived by three sons, John McIntosh, Houstoun Morgan, and David Bailey, six grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.
		He was an authority on the artist John Singleton Copley.
	www.princeton.edu /paw/archive_old/PAW96-97/15-0507/0507mem.html (6473 words)

	Kingsley
		Compared to the tabby (a mixture of lime, water, sand and oyster shells) cabins in which the slaves lived, Zephaniah Kingsleyâs clapboard house was a mansion.
		The Spanish were unable to offer sufficient protection from marauding Indians attacking settlers along the St. Johnâs River so John McQueen is known to have sheltered families in his great house for safekeeping.
		He found himself at the plantation, which at this time was owned by John Houstoun McIntosh.
	www.greenlightwrite.com /kingsleyplantation.htm (893 words)

	Members of 1st Continental Congress, 1770 - 1774 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Henry Middleton, John Rutledge, Christopher Gadsden, Thomas Lynch, Edward Rutledge.
		He had lived a bachelor until that week, when he was about forty-five years of age.
		John Adams wrote in his diary, that Charles Thomson was "the Samuel Adams of Philadelphia; the life of the cause of liberty."
	www.startiming.net /cave/cc-del.html (366 words)

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