The story of Georgia and the Georgia people, 1732 to 1860 . Thomas Glascock 2,644, George Walton 2,357, John Milton1,042, that Jackson, Tel-fair and Barnett were Re-publicans, and Glascock,Walton and Milton wereFederalists.* The Re-publicans were largely inthe majority, and Abra-ham Baldwin and JamesJackson were electedsenators. Governor Jack-son then resigned hisplace as governor and re-turned to the Senate. The rush of immigrantsto upper Georgia duringthis period was constant,and the State doubled itspopulation in ten years. The lands were given away and the Virginians and NorthCarolinians c
The story of Georgia and the Georgia people, 1732 to 1860 . Thomas Glascock 2,644, George Walton 2,357, John Milton1,042, that Jackson, Tel-fair and Barnett were Re-publicans, and Glascock,Walton and Milton wereFederalists.* The Re-publicans were largely inthe majority, and Abra-ham Baldwin and JamesJackson were electedsenators. Governor Jack-son then resigned hisplace as governor and re-turned to the Senate. The rush of immigrantsto upper Georgia duringthis period was constant,and the State doubled itspopulation in ten years. The lands were given away and the Virginians and NorthCarolinians came in great colonies to take up headrightsand make settlements. These newcomers were of allclasses. Many of them had little property other than theycould bring on a pack-horse, but some of them had afew slaves. They built their cabins in the small smoky cabin with a dirt floor was the home ofmost of them. They came mainly from Virginia, and the * I am indebted for this fact to my young friend, Professor Phillips, of theUniversity of Abraham Baldwin. i 182 The Story of Georgia [Chap. V. \ best blood of England was found in the veins of many an im- imigrant who had but little education and but little property. !There was a very large immigration from middle North jCarolina of Scotch-Irish people who came to Warren, Han-cock and Wilkes. The farms taken by them were gener-ally small, two hundred acres being, as a rule, the size of a ]farm. They raised cattle, sheep, hogs and horses, and as a \rule aimed only at first to make a living. In our study of 1the counties the features of every-day life will be moreclearly brought out. 1 During the period under survey the first Catholic church ^in Georgia was founded by a body of Maryland Catholics iwho settled in what was then Wilkes, and afterward Talia-ferro county. The Catholics had been forbidden a settle-ment in Georgia during the colonial days, but after the jRevolution, when there was freedom of religious wor
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