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Jones County, Georgia
Created December 10, 1807 from Baldwin County;
added from Putnam 1810; from original territory 1821; from Bibb 1849. Included
part to Bibb 1822, 1834, 1835 (repealed 1837), 1849. The county was named
after U. S. Rep. James Jones. The first county seat was Clinton (orginally
named Albany), named after N.Y. Governor DeWitt Clinton. The county
seat was moved to Gray in 1905. Among the first settlers were Capt. Jonathan
Parish, Peter Clower, Henry Low, Wm Williams, Wilkins Jackson, Jeremiah
Duman, Thomas White, Jeremiah Pearson, Maj. Humphries, James and High Comer,
Roger McCarthy, Allen Greene, Benjamin Tarver, Bailey Stewart, James Anthony,
George Harper, John Chapell, Jesse M. Pope, Henry Pope, John Bayne, Stephen
Kirk, William Carbanus, P. A. Lewis, James Jones, Wm Jones, Robert Hutchins
& James Grey.
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