History of Sunbury, (Liberty County) Georgia United States of America

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Biographies:

John Elliott, senator, was born in Georgia about 1774. He was graduated from Yale A.B., 1794, A.M., 1797; and was admitted to the bar in 1797. He practised law in Sunbury, Liberty county, Ga., and held several local offices. He was elected to the United States senate and served in the 16th, 17th and 18th congresses, 1819-25. He died at Sunbury, Ga., Aug. 9, 1827.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Joseph Wood, delegate, was born probably in Pennsylvania. He was residing in Sunbury, parish of St. John (now Liberty county), Ga., in 1774, having purchased a plantation on North New Port river; entered the Revolutionary service; was promoted major, Jan. 4, 1776; lieutenant-colonel, July 29, and colonel of the 2d Pennsylvania regiment, September 7, and was stationed in Canada, 1776. He subsequently returned to his plantation in Georgia. He was a member of the council of safety and was deputed with two others by St. John's parish to request of the committee of correspondence at Charleston, S.C., "permission to form an alliance with them and to conduct trade and commerce according to the act of non-importation to which they bad already acceded." Although the application was declined, the parish commissioned Dr. Lyman Hall to represent them in the Continental congress, to which Joseph Wood was elected a delegate in January, 1777, and re-elected in February, 1778. He died in Sunbury, Ga., in 1789.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Maria Jane McIntosh, author, was born in Sunbury, Ga., in 1803; daughter of Lachlan and ??? (Stuart) McIntosh. She was educated at home and in Sunbury academy, and at the death of her father in 1806 removed to New York and made her home with her brother, Capt. James McKay McIntosh, U.S.N. She lost her property in 1837. She is the author of Blind Alice (1841), written under the pen name "Aunt Kitty"; Jessie Graham (1843); Florence Amos (1843); Grace and Clara (1843) and Ellen Leslie (1843); and these were collected and published in one volume, entitled Aunt Kitty's Tales (1847). Macready the tragedian bought the stories for his children and procured their republication in London. She is also the author of: Conquest and Self-Conquest (1843); Woman an Enigma (1844); Praise and Principle (1845); Two Lives, or To Seem and To Be (1847); Charms and Counter Charms (1848); Woman in America, Her Work and Her Reward (1850); The Lofty and the Lowly (1852); Emily Herbert (1855); Rose and Lillie Stanhope (1856); Violet, or the Cross and Crown (1856); Meta Gray (1858); Two Pictures (1863). She died in Morristown, N.J., Feb. 25, 1878.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor