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The Houstouns of Georgia: Bibliography

The Houstouns of Georgia

Bibliography

Bibliography

PRIMARY SOURCES

Georgia:

Chatham County Court House, Clerk’s Office, Savannah:

Judgments, Box 7.

Minutes of the Superior Court, 1792.

Superior Court Minutes, Book G.

Department of Archives and History, Atlanta:

Executive Minutes, 1789-90; 1791-92.

House Journal, 1784-86.

Governor and Council Minutes, January-May, 1789.

Receipt Book.

Senate Journal of 1791; 1791-1793.

State Officers’ Appointments, 1754-1827.

Hodgson Hall, Library of the Georgia Historical Society, Savannah:

Bethesda Manuscript Letter Book.

Miscellaneous Papers, 1784-1799, Box 3.

Office of the Secretary of State, Atlanta:

Commissions Book.

Health Department, City of Savannah:

Mortuary Records.

DEEDS, GRANTS, WILLS AND ADMINISTRATIONS

Chatham County Court House, Savannah, Georgia.

Habersham County Court House, Clarkesville, Georgia.

Liberty County Court House, Hinesville, Georgia.

Department of Archives and History, Atlanta, Georgia.

Office of the Secretary of State, Atlanta, Georgia.

Ordinary’s Office, Chatham County Court House, Savannah, Georgia.

Mrs. Samuel C. Lawrence, Charleston, West Virginia.

MISCELLANEOUS

Two Documents, Legal, of John Houstoun, owned by Miss Mary Benjamin of New York City.

George McIntosh, The Case of George M’Intosh, Esquire, A Member of the late Council and Convention of the State of Georgia; with The Proceedings thereon in the Hon. the Assembly and Council of that State. Audi alteram Partem! Printed in the Year MDCCLXXVII. (A copy is in the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. Photostatic copy in Hodgson Hall, Savannah.)

New Jersey:

Records of Mercer County Surrogate’s Court, Trenton.

New York City:

Minutes of the Common Council, 1806, 1808, 1813.

Record of Baptisms and Marriages, (Collegiate) Reformed Protestant Dutch Church.

Record of Burials of Woodlawn Cemetery.

Register of Burials of Trinity Church.

Records of the Surrogate’s Court.

Records of St. Andrew’s Society of the State of New York (Courtesy of Mr. Robert Graham, Recording Secretary).

Pennsylvania:

Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia: Anthony Wayne Collection; Emmett Collection; Dreer Collection; Gratz Collection; Old Congress Convention Collection, Case 1, Box 7.

Calendar of Franklin Papers in the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia.

South Carolina:

South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston: Henry Laurens Letter Book.

Washington, D. C.:

War Department, Adjutant-General’s Office: Muster Role of the Historical Department.

Department of Interior: General Land Office and Veterans’ Administration Records.

National Archives, Records of the State Department:

Miscellaneous Letters, September, October, 1817; April, May, 1818; February, 1819, relating to John Houstoun McIntosh.

Territorial Papers, Florida, January-December, 1812; February 1813-December 1817.

FOREIGN

England:

British Museum, London: Sloane MSS, Public Records Office, Historical Department, Lyon-King-at-Arms, London.

Scotland:

Inverness Records, and others, in the County of Inverness and Shire of Elgin, through Millar and Bryce, Searchers of Records, Edinburgh.

Graduates Lists, University of Edinburgh.

Minumenta of the University of Glasgow, published by the Maitland Club.

Records of St. Andrews University.

Jamaica:

Kingston Burials Copy Register, Spanish Town.

BIBLES

Jonathan Bryan, owned by the heirs of Mrs. Willoughby Sharpe of New York, lineal descendants.

Sir George Houstoun, Baronet; Colonel James Johnston, Jr., owned by the heirs of Mrs. Macartan Campbell Kollock of Atlanta and Habersham County, Georgia, lineal descendants.

LETTERS

Mackay-McQueen-Cowper Collection, owned by The Georgia Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Deposited in Hodgson Hall, Savannah.

Miscellaneous letters owned by Miss Susan Marion Kollock of Atlanta.

FAMILY PAPERS

Bayard, James R., of Long Island, owned by Mrs. Marie Bayard Collins of New York.

Demeré’s Diary, Raymond, owned by Mr. Edward Houstoun Demeré of Atlanta and San Francisco, lineal descendant.

Houstoun, owned by the heirs of Mrs. Macartan Campbell Kollock of Atlanta, lineal descendants.

Houstoun, owned by James Patrick Houstoun, Jr., of Houston, Texas, lineal descendant.

Bryan, owned by Mrs. Samuel C. Lawrence of Charleston, West Virginia, lineal descendants.

Woodruff, owned by Miss Edith D. Johnston of Savannah, collateral descendant.

SECONDARY WORKS

Adams, Charles Francis, ed., The Works of John Adams, with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations, 10 volumes. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1850-1856.

Adams, James Truslow, ed.-in-chief, Dictionary of American History, 5 volumes. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1940.

Agnew, J. L. and Lee, F. D., Historical Record of Savannah. Savannah: J. H. Estill, 1869.

American State Papers, Documents of the Congress of the United States in Relation to Public Lands. Washington, D. C.: Gales and Wheaton, 1860.

Andrews, Charles M., Guide to the Materials for American History to 1783 in the Public Record Office of Great Britain. Washington, D. C., 1912.

Anderson, Mary Savage; Barrow, Elfrida DeRenne; Screven, Elizabeth Mackay; and Waring, Martha Gallaudet, Georgia: A Pageant of Years. Richmond: Garrett & Massey, Inc., 1933.

Armes, William Dallam, ed., Autobigraphy of Joseph LeConte. Boston and New York: Appleton & Company, 1903.

Bailey, L. H., Standard Cyclopaedia of Horticulture. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915.

Barrow, Elfrida DeRenne, and Bell, Laura Palmer, Anchored Yesterdays. Savannah: The Review Printing and Publishing Company, 1923.

Bassett, Victor H., A Medical Biography. Reprinted from the Bulletin of the Georgia Medical Society, Savannah, Vol. 1, October, December, 1935, and January, 1936. (Pamphlet.)

Beveridge, Abner J., The Life of John Marshall, 4 volumes. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916.

Blair, Ruth, compiler, Georgia Official and Statistical Register. Atlanta: Stein Printing Company, 1929.

Bloom, Sol, The Story of the Constitution. Washington, D. C.: United States Sesquicentennial Commission, 1937.

Boyd, Thomas, Mad Anthony Wayne. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929.

Brevard, Caroline Mays, A History of Florida. . . ., a posthumus work in 2 volumes. Edited by James Alexander Robertson. Deland, Florida: Florida State Historical Society, 1924.

Bryan, John Stewart, Joseph Bryan: His Times. His Family. His Friends. A Memoir. Privately printed. Richmond, Virginia, 1935.

Bulloch, Joseph Gaston Baillie, A History of the Families of Bayard, Houstoun of Georgia and the Descent of the Bolton Families of Assheton, Byron, and Hutton. Washington, D. G: James H. Dony, 1919.

Burnett, Edmund G, ed., Letters of the Members of the Continental Congress. Washington, D. C.: Carnegie Institution, 1928.

Burroughs, W. Berrien, “Sketch of William Houstoun,” in Men of Mark in Georgia. Atlanta: A. B. Caldwell, 1907-1912.

Candler, Allen D., ed., Colonial Records of the State of Georgia. Atlanta: Franklin Printing and Publishing Company, 1906-1916, I, II, IV, VII, VIII, IX, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVIII, XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXVI.

Revolutionary Records of the State of Georgia. Atlanta: Franklin Turner Company, 1908, I, II, III.

Caughey, John Walton, McGillivray of the Creeks. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1938.

Chapman, A. W., Flora of the Southen States. New York: Iverson, Phinney & Company, 1866.

Clarke, William Bordley, Early and Historic Freemasonry in Georgia 1733/34-1800. Savannah, Georgia, 1925.

Clizbee, Azalea, compiler, Catalogue of the Wymberley Jones DeRenne Georgia Library 1700-1924. Privately printed, 1931.

Collections of the Georgia Historical Society. Privately printed for the Society, Savannah, 1840-1916; “Letters of Joseph Clay, Merchant of Savannah, 1776-1793. . . .,” Vol. VIII (1813).

“Letters from General Oglethorpe to the Trustees of the Colony and Others, from October, 1735 to August, 1744. . . .,” Vol. III (1873).

“Letters of Governor James Wright,” Vol. Ill (1873).

“Letters of James Habersham, 1756-1775,” Vol. VI (1904).

Thomas Spalding, “A Sketch of the Life of General James Oglethorpe,” Vol. I (1840).

Colonial Records of the State of Georgia, The. 16 unpublished volumes in the State Archives, Atlanta. Typed copies in Hodgson Hall, the Georgia Historical Society Library, Savannah.

Cobb, T. R. R., ed., A Digest of the Statute Laws of the State of Georgia. . . . Athens, Georgia, 1851.

Corse, Carita Doggett, The Key to the Golden Isles of Georgia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1931.

Coulter, E. M., ed., Georgia’s Disputed Ruins; Marmaduke H. Floyd, “Certain Tabby Ruins on the Georgia Coast.” Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1937.

——— Thomas Spalding of Sapelo. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1940.

——— Short History of Georgia, A. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1933.

Columbian Lyre or Specimens of Transatlantic Poetry. Glasgow, Scotland: Richard Griffin & Company, 1928.

Crane, Verner W., The Southern Frontier, 1670-1732. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1928.

Crawfurd, George, The History of the Shire of Renfrew. . . . Brought from the earliest accounts to the year MDCCX. Paisley, Scotland.

DeBrahm, John Gerar William, History of the Province of Georgia with Maps of Original Surveys 1751-1771. Savannah, Georgia, 1849.

Dictionary of National Biography (British), Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee, eds., New York and London, 1908.

Douglas, Edward M., Boundaries, Areas, Geographic Centers and Altitudes of the United States and the Several States. . . ., a Geological Survey Bulletin. Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1930.

Duncan, Alexander McCrie, compiler, Roll of Officers and Members of the Georgia Hussars. Savannah, Georgia, 1907.

Documentary History of the Constitution of the United States of America. Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1894.

Earl of Egmont, ed., Diary of the First Earl of Egmont, Viscount Percival, 3 volumes. London: Historical Manuscript Commission, 1923.

Elliott, Stephen, A Sketch Book of the Botany of South Carolina and Georgia. Charleston: J. B. Schenck, 1821.

Encyclopedia Americana, The. New York and Chicago: American Corporation, 1940.

Encyclopedia Brittanica, ninth edition, 27 volumes. Chicago: The Werner Company, 1891-1894; eleventh edition, 31 volumes. Cambridge and New York: University Press, 1910; fourteenth edition, 30 volumes. New York and Chicago: American Corporation, 1940.

Ettinger, Amos Aschbacher, James Edward Oglethorpe, Imperialist, Idealist. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1935.

Ferrand, Max, ed., United States Constitutional Convention, 1787. Records of the Federal Convention, 4 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1927.

Fielding, Mantle, Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers. Philadelphia: Mantle Fielding, 1926.

Ford, Worthington Chauncey, The Writings of George Washington, 2 volumes. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1890.

Fosdick, Lucien J., The French Blood in America. New York and London: Fleming H. Revel Company, 1906.

Fuller, Hubert Bruce, The Purchase of Florida, Its History and Diplomacy. Cleveland: The Burrows Company, 1906.

Gamble, Thomas, “History of the Municipal Government of Savannah from 1790-1911,” in Thomas Gamble, compiler, Report of Hon. Herman Myers, Mayor. Savannah, 1900.

——— Savannah Duels and Duelists 1733-1877. Savannah: Review Publishing and Printing Company, 1923.

Gardner, Alexander, Archaeological and Historical Collections Relating to the County of Renfrewshire. Paisley, Scotland, 1885.

Georgia Society of the Colonial Dames of America, The, compiler, Some Early Epitaphs in Georgia. Durham, North Carolina: Seaman Printery, 1924.

Grice, Warren, “Nathaniel Pendleton, Georgia’s First United States Judge,” Report of the Forty-second Annual Session of the Georgia Bar Association. Macon, Georgia, 1923.

——— “Joseph Clay, Junior,” in Report of the Forty-second Annual Session of the Georgia Bar Association. Macon, Georgia, 1925.

Hamilton, George, A History of the House of Hamilton. Edinburgh: T. Skinner & Son, Ltd., 1933.

Hamilton, William, compiler, Description of the Sheriffdoms of Lanark and Renfrew. Glasgow: John Dillon & John Fullerton, 1831.

Hardee, Charles Seton Henry, Reminiscences and Recollections of Old Savannah. Privately printed, 1929.

Harlow, Alfin F., Old Bowery Days: The Chronicles of a Famous Street. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1931.

Harris, D. D., Thaddeus Mason, Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe, Founder of the Colony of Georgia in North America. Printed for the author from the German translation of the Reverend John Martin Bolzius. Boston, 1841.

Hartridge, Walter Charlton, ed., The Letters of Don Juan McQueen to His Family. Columbia, South Carolina: Bostwick and Thomley, 1943.

Heitman, Francis B., Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution. Washington, D. C., 1893.

Henderson, Archibald, Washington’s Southern Tour. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923.

Heyward, Duncan Clinch, Seed from Madagascar. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1937.

Hill, Roscoe R., ed., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1780. . . . Vols. 32-34, 1936, 1937.

House, Homer D., Wild Flowers. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1934.

Hull, Augustus Longstreet, A Sketch of the University of Georgia. Atlanta: Foote and Davies Company, 1894.

James, Marquis, The Life of Andrew Jackson (first edition). Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1938.

Jenkins, Charles Francis, Button Gwinnett, Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926.

Johnston, Elizabeth Lichtenstein, Recollections of a Georgia Loyalist. New York: M. F. Mansfield & Company, 1901.

Jones, C. C., Jr., Biographical Sketches of the Delegates from Georgia to the Continental Congress. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1891.

——— Biographical Sketch of the Honorable John Habersham of Georgia. Privately printed. Cambridge, 1896.

——— “The Dead Towns of Georgia,” in Collections of the Georgia Historical Society, IV. Savannah, 1878.

——— History of Georgia, The, 2 volumes. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1883.

Journals of the Continental Congress, Edited from the Original Records of the Library of Congress, Chief Division of Manuscripts. Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office. Worthington Chauncey Ford, ed., Volumes I through XV, 1904-1909; Gailard Hunt, ed., Volumes XVI through XXVII, 1910-1928; Roscoe R. Hill, ed., Volumes XXXII through XXXIV, 1936, 1937.

Kimber, Edward, A Relation or Journal of a Late Expedition to the Gates of St. Augustine on Florida Conducted by The Hon. James Oglethorpe With a Detachment of His Regiment et. from Georgia; Sidney A. Kimber, ed. Reprinted from the Original Edition, London, 1744; Biographical Notes, Charles E. Good-speed. Boston, 1935.

LaFar, Mabel Freeman and Wilson, Caroline Price, Abstract of Wills Chatham County, Georgia, 1773-1817. National Genealogical Society, Washington, D. C., 1936.

——— “Henry Holcombe (1762-1824). . . Reprint from The Georgia Historical Quarterly XXXVIII, No. 3 (September, 1944).

Lamar, Joseph R., The Bench and Bar of Georgia During the Eighteenth Century, Annual Address Before the Thirtieth Annual Session of the Bar Association, Warm Springs, Georgia, May Twenty-ninth, 1913. Reprinted from the Annual Report.

Lossing, Benson Johnson, Harper’s Encyclopedia of United States History. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1901.

Lovell, Caroline Couper, The Golden Isles of Georgia. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1932.

M’Call, Hugh, History of Georgia, 2 volumes. Savannah: W. T. Williams, 1816.

Mackenzie, George Norbury, Colonial Families in the United States. New York and Chicago: The Grafton Press, 1940.

Maclean, John Patterson, An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America to the Peace of 1783, Together With Notices of Highlander Regiments and Biographical Sketches. Glasgow, Scotland: Helman-Taylor, 1900.

Marshall, John, The Life of George Washington, 5 volumes and atlas. New York: William H. Wise & Company, 1925.

Mathews, F. Schuyler, Field Book of American Wild Flowers. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1902.

Miller, Stephen S., Bench and Bar of Georgia. . . ., 2 volumes. Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott Company, 1858.

——— Memoir of Gen. David Blackshear. . . ., Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott Company, 1858.

Minutes of the Union Society Being an Abstract of Existing Records from 1750-1858. Savannah: John M. Cooper Company, 1860.

McCain, James Ross, Georgia as a Proprietary Province. Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1917.

McCrady, Edward, The History of South Carolina in the Revolution, 1750-1780: 1780-1783, 4 volumes. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902.

McElreath, Walter M., A Treatise on the Constitution of Georgia. . . . Atlanta: The Harrison Company, 1912.

Paul, Sir James Balfour, The Scots Peerage, 9 volumes. Edinburgh, 1904-1914.

Pierce, William, Sketches of Characters in the Convention. (In the Library of Congress).

Porcher, Frances Peyre, Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests. Charleston, South Carolina: Porcher, Walker, Evans and Cogswell, 1869.

Redding, Mrs. J. H., Life and Times of Jonathan Bryan, 1708-1788. Savannah: The Morning News Print, 1901.

Register of the Georgia Society of the Colonial Dames of America, The. Baltimore: Waverly Press, Inc., 1937.

Rhode Island General Assembly, The Remains of General Nathanael Greene. . . . Providence, Rhode Island: Freeman, 1903.

Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Duc de la, Travels Through the United States of America. . ., English Translation. R. Phillips, London, 1799.

Sabine, Lorenzo, Loyalists of the American Revolution. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1864.

Sachse, Julius F., Washington’s Masonic Correspondence. Philadelphia: Julius F. Sachse, Masonic Temple, 1915.

Salley, A. S., ed., Register of St. Philip’s Parish, Charles Town, South Carolina, 1720-1758. Charleston, South Carolina: Walker, Evans & Cogswell Company, 1904.

Semple, William, The History of the Shire of Renfrew. . . Brought from the earliest Account to the year MDCCX by Mr. George Crawfurd: And continued to the Present Period. Paisley, Scotland: Printed and Sold by Alex. Wier, Bookseller near the Cross, and by the Author, MDCCLXXXII.

South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, XVII, No. 1 (January, 1917).

Stevens, William Bacon, A History of Georgia, 2 volumes. Philadelphia: E. H. Butler, 1859.

Stack, Frederick William, Wild Flowers Every Child Should Know. New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1909.

Stoddard, John L., History of the Independent Presbyterian Church and Sunday School. Savannah, 1882.

Thomas, William Sturgis, Members of the Society of the Cincinnati, Original, Hereditary and Honorary. New York: Tobine A. Wright, Inc., 1929.

United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission, Loan Exhibition of Portraits of the Signers and Deputies of the Convention of 1787 and Signers of the Declaration of Independence. . . . Washington, D. C., 1938.

Unpublished Colonial Records of Georgia, “Letter Books of the Trustees, Department of Archives and History, Atlanta, Georgia.

Van Doren, Mark, ed., The Travels of William Bartran. (Reprint). New York: The George Macy Companies, Inc., 1928.

Vincent, John Martin, Aids to Historical Research. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1934.

Waddell, Alfred Moore, A History of New Hanover County. Privately printed, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1909.

Wallace, David Duncan, The Life of Henry Laurens. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1915.

Warren, Charles, The Supreme Court in the United States. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1923.

Washington’s Diary, May to September, 1787. Original in the Library of Congress.

Watkins, Robert and George, eds., A Digest of the Laws of the State of Georgia. . . to the Year 1789. Philadelphia: R. Aitken.

White, Henry Clay, Abraham Baldwin. Athens: The McGregor Company, 1926.

White, Reverend George, Statistics of the State of Georgia. Savannah: W. Thorne Williams, 1849.

——— Historical Collections of Georgia. New York: Pudney & Russell, 1854.

Wilson, Adelaide, Historic and Picturesque Savannah. Boston: The Boston Photogravure Company, 1889.

NEWSPAPERS

Atlanta:

Atlanta Journal

Sunday American

Charles Town and Charleston:

City Gazette of the State of South Carolina

The South-Carolina Gazette

The South-Carolina Gazette and Daily Advertiser

New Orleans:

Louisiana Courier

New York:

New York Gazette and General Advertiser

New York Herald

New York Post

New York Spectator

The New York Times

Savannah:

The American Patriot

Columbian Museum & Savannah Advertiser

Columbian Museum & Savannah Daily Gazette

The Gazette of the State of Georgia

Georgia Gazette

The Georgian

The Republican; and Savannah Evening Ledger

Savannah Morning News

MAGAZINES

Agricultural History (July, 1938).

De Halve, Vol. II.

The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vols. I, III, IX, X, XIV, XVI, XX, XXII.

Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Vol. LXX.

MANUSCRIPTS

Marie E. Reddy, “Some Notes on Cherokee Hill,” 1936; in the files of the Savannah Historical Research Association.

Albert Berry Saye, “Georgia’s Delegates to the Federal Convention of 1787. Who They Were and What They Did.” Thesis in the University of Georgia Library, Athens.

MAPS

Henry Poppell’s Map of North America, 1733, showing where the Keowee River was designated as the Isundiga or Savannah River (Library of Congress).

Map of the Altamaha River, section showing Sterling Bluff (Hodgson Hall, Georgia Historical Society Library, Savannah).

Plat showing John Houstoun’s plantation at White Bluff (Chatham County Courthouse, Savannah).

St. Simon’s Island, Georgia, Chandler’s Historical Map, in The Georgia Historical Quarterly, I, No. 4 (December, 1917).

SCRAP BOOKS

Gamble, Thomas, Thomas Gamble Collection (Public Library, Savannah).

Johnston, Edith D., Book of Newspaper Clippings.

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