Ferrie, John, fl. 1787.

"St. Marys sits on land confiscated from two brothers of royal governor James Wright... After the departure of its royalist owners, the land belonged to Jacob Weed, an early planter and state legislator. Weed sold 1,672 acres along the St. Marys River to nineteen other men, and the twenty laid out the new town together in 1788... St. Marys was established by an act of the state legislature on December 5, 1792. It was not officially incorporated, however, until November 1802." -- "St. Marys." New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2219 (Retrieved April 28, 2010)

From the description of John Ferrie letter to Jacob Weed, 1787 May 2. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 610060446