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The Story of Glascock County Transcribed By: Brenda Pierce The Story of Glascock County Transcribed by: Brenda Pierce For many years before the area became known as Glascock County, two tribes of Indians -- The Muscogee and Creek -- roamed the land along the Ogeechee River and Rocky Comfort Creek. The first white settlers in this area were German immigrants who settled near the headwaters of the Ogeechee River and formed the community known as Georgetown in 1750-93. This community is presently owned by Levi KITCHENS. Before the white settlers arrived, it was an Indian trading post. Disputes arose in the colony and a duel was fought between two of the citizens, Goodwin and Lovette, and both were killed and buried in the local burying ground. Bases of Indian mounds, cellars and cemeteries mark the spot where the town stood. The Indians moved around 1773. The German settlers moved to Pennsylvania. To the treaty of Augusta signed in 1773, ceded what is now known as Glascock County to the Georgia Colony. The first highway ever cut through the area was later to become Glascock County was the King's Highway, extending from Waynesboro to Wrightsboro. This road was opened as early as 1768 or 1769, and became known in our section as "The Quaker Road." It was in 1777, that Governor James Wright, still the Royal Governor of Georgia, in a treaty with the Indians, acquired the immense territory, which soon was called Wilkes. In 1793, the southern part of this pioneer territory was laid off as Warren County and included, at that time practically the entire area which was destined to become Glascock County in 1857, and named for General Thomas Glascock. Another small area which was later added to Glascock was obtained from Jefferson County in 1860. Warren County was created in 1793 from Richmond, Columbia, and Wilkes Counties. In 1777, when Wilkes County was created, this portion of Georgia was officially hunting and fishing territory of the Indians. The few white hunters or settlers who might have located in this vicinity were of the nature of squatters. We do not know the exact location of their settlements because they were a very suspicious and secretive people. Glascock came from the southern portion of Warren County and a lesser part from Jefferson County by an Act of the State Legislature on Dec. 19, 1857. The bill creating Glascock County was introduced by the Honorable Wiley W. KITCHENS., who resided at that time in the Southern portion of Warren County. A few years prior to 1796, there was a settlement by a few families on the east bank of the Ogeechee River in the area now known as Glascock County. This settlement was called Georgetown, a fact which has definitely been established for in that year the Justices of the Inferior Courts of Jefferson County ordered that the road from Louisville to Georgetown, in Warren County, be worked to the County line. Georgetown, because of its location off the stage route from Louisville to Sparta, remained the principal postoffice for our area for a number of decades. When the county was set off, a map of Georgia, in 1861, shows Gibson as the county site and the principal post office. It is presumed that Gibson was the only post office in the county at this time, and that Georgetown had ceased to be an important seat of Government. Perhaps the oldest English names still associated with Glascock are those of a few of its streams, namely: Joe's Creek, Deep Creek, Rocky Comfort, Beech Tree, Indian Creek and others. These streams are either named after people or the English term for an Indian name; and as such they appear on early colonial maps at least as long as 200 years ago. Glascock County was represented at the Secession Congress at Milledgeville by Calvin Logue and Joshua F. Usry and in contrast to each of her surrounding counties, Glascock's representatives voted to secede. NEW COUNTY Wylie W. Kitchens, Representative and a resident of the southern part of Warren County saw the necessity of bringing the government nearer the people and he introduced a bill which passed, creating Glascock County on December 19, 1857. Glascock County covers an area of 170 square miles. It is located in the Sixth Congressional District. Its courts are administered as a part of the Toombs Judicial Circuit. It is one of the counties which comprises the 18th Senatorial District. GLASCOCK COUNTY CREATED FROM WARREN COUNTY Created by Legislative Act, December 19, 1857, from Warren County. Named for General Thomas Glascock, a distinguished officer of the State militia and a lawyer of reputation. Gibson, the county seat, named for Judge Wm. Gibson, who gave $500 toward the erection of the courthouse. Judge Gibson presided over the Court of the Middle Circuit from 1867, Brigadier General Thomas Glascock, an officer of note in the State militia, a member of Congress and a distinguished lawyer, was born near Augusta, Georgia, October 21, 1790, and died at Decatur, Georgia May 19, 1841, as the result of injuries sustained by a fall from his horse. He came of an ancestry illustrious in the annals of Georgia. His grandfather, William Glascock, was speaker of the House of Assembly during the Revolutionary War period. His father, Thomas Glascock, immortalized himself at the siege of Savannah, where amid a storm of shot and shell he rescued the body of his gallant commander, Count Pulaski. The subject of this sketch was speaker of the House of Assembly during the Revolutionary War period. His father, Thomas Glascock, immortalized himself at the siege of Savannah, where amid a storm of shot and shell he rescued the body of his gallant commander, Count Pulaski. The subject of this sketch was a Captain in the War of 1812. Subsequently, at the age of 27, he served under Andrew Jackson, in the Seminole War, with the rank of Brigadier-General. Elected to Congress in 1835, he was returned without opposition in 1837, after which he resumed the practice of law. At the time of his tragic and sudden death he stood at the head of his profession. ACT CREATING GLASCOCK COUNTY Section I. Be it enacted, that there shall be a new county formed out of a portion of Warren County, bounded as follows: Beginning at the Shoals of Ogeechee in Warren County, and to run hence along the Augusta road leading from Warrenton, thence along the Augusta road to its intersection with the Waynesboro road leading from Warrenton, thence a direct line by Reedy Creek Church to the Jefferson County line to the Ogeechee river, thence up said river to the beginning. Section II. Be it further enacted, that the new county described in the preceding section of this act shall be known by the name of Glascock County, and shall be attached to the eight congressional districts, and to the first brigade and second division Georgia militia. Section III. Be it further enacted that the persons included within the said new county legally entitled to vote, shall on the first Monday in January next, elect five Justices of the Inferior Courts, a clerk of the Superior and Inferior Courts each, a sheriff and coroner, a Tax Collector and Receiver of Tax returns, a County Surveyor, and an Ordinary for said county, and that the election of said officers shall be held at the house of Mrs. Jerusha Kent, which was commonly known as Kent's Court ground or Hell's Half Acre, now in Warren County, and superintended and held as now prescribed by law and such persons as shall be elected, shall be commissioned by the Governor as now prescribed by law. In this place was a barroom, a race track where horse racing and chicken fights were held. Section IV. Be it further enacted that the Justices of the Inferior Court after they shall have commissioned, shall proceed to lay off said county into militia districts and advertise for the election of the requisite number of Justices of the Peace in such district, which shall be likewise commissioned by the Governor. Section V. Be if further enacted that the Justice of the Inferior Court of said County, after they shall have been commissioned shall have power and authority to select and locate a site for the public buildings in said county, or a majority of them are hereby authorized to purchase a tract of land for the location of the county site, which shall be known as the town of Gibson to lay off town lots, and sell them at public outcry, for the benefit of said county or to make such other arrangements or contracts concerning the County site, location and erection of public building as may be necessary. Section VI. Be it further enacted, that all officers now in commission, who shall be included in said county by its limits, shall hold their commission and exercise the duties thereof, until the several officers for the new county are elected and commissioned. Section VII. Be it further enacted that all the cases now pending in the County of Warren, and the papers connected therewith, between persons residing within the limits of said county of Glascock, shall be transferred to said county for trial, and everything done which shall be necessary for trial, and any defect that may happen shall be amended instanter. Section VIII. Be it further enacted that the superior court for said new county shall missing pages the boundaries of Glascock, thence up said river to the Glascock line, according to the plan of survey hereto attached, and that portion Jefferson included in said boundaries are hereby attached to the County of Glascock.
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