Abercorn, Province of Georgia

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Surnames/tags: Georgia Southern_Colonies

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Abercorn A historical marker placed at the site of the village of Abercorn, now in Effingham County, Georgia, has the following text "Near here the Village of Abercorn was laid out, in 1733, and ten families assigned to it. In 1734, when the Salzburgers arrived in Georgia, many of them were stationed in Abercorn to wait for their homes to be built in Ebenezer and a road cut through to that place. Their pastor, the Rev. John Martin Bolzius, remained with them during the months of waiting. The location of the Village proved unsuitable for permanent settlement, and in a few years Abercorn was abandoned, to take its place among the Dead Towns of Georgia – only the Creek that runs beside the site still bears the name."^{[1][2][3] [4]}

Early Settlers^[5]

• Thomas Antrobus
• Will Box and family
  • Mary Unknown Box (widow)
• Robert Baird
• Robert Bunyan
• Will Curtis
• John Davant
• Jo. Davis
• Isaac Gibbs
• Richard Hughes
• Francis Smith Wattle
• Jo. Thompson, Senr. and family
• Will Watkins
• Robert Baird
• John Brodie
• Issac Gibbes
• Joseph Somers
• George Stephens

Sources

1. ↑ https://georgiahistory.com/ghmi_marker_updated/village-of-abercorn/ Georgia Historical Society, Georgia Historical Marker The Village of Abercorn, POSTED ON JUNE 16, 2014.
2. ↑ Swiss American Historical Society Review Volume 39 Number 1 Article 2, 2-2003, Swiss Migration to America in the 1730s: A Representative Family, the Pfifister family of Hori, Canton Zurich and the Feaster family in America, Hans Ulrich Pfister.
3. ↑ "Letters from Georgia, v. 14200, 1732–1735 June," Transcripts of the Earl of Egmount papers, p53(126); digital images, Digital Library of Georgia (https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/guan/ms1786/pdfs/ms1786-14200.pdf), image 53.
4. ↑ https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/wm135V7_The_Village_of_Abercorn_Rincon_GA
5. ↑ E. Merton Coulter, Albert B. Saye, A List of the Early Settlers of Georgia (Decatur, Georgia: Bowen Press, 1949), digital images, The University of Georgia Press https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ugapressbks/pdfs/ugp9780820334394.pdf

• Reps, J. W. (1960). Town Planning in Colonial Georgia. The Town Planning Review, 30(4), 273–285. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40102287

See also - General Reference:

• Early Settlers of Georgia, Sources.
• Province of Georgia
• Handbook of Georgia Counties Compiled by Marion R. Hemperley Georgia Surveyor General Department Office of Secretary of State Atlanta 1980 http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ggpd/docs/1980/ga/s700_ps9/m1/1980/c6.con/1.pdf