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