Basil Cowper decision and bonds, 1800-1803.

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Basil Cowper decision and bonds, 1800-1803.

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This collection consists of an 1800 verdict passed down by the Chatham County Superior Court regarding the confiscation of Basil Cowper's estate and all debts due to him for his Loyalist activities during the Revolutionary War. It states that at the time, he was living in England. A separate record of Cowper's bonds for debt, 1774-1777, recorded in 1803, indicates that Edward Telfair, Joseph Clay, and Anne Cuthbert were indebted to Cowper.

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Georgia Historical Society

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Georgia Historical Society

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Telfair, Edward, 1735-1807

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Edward Telfair (1735 – September 17, 1807) was a Scottish-born American Founding Father and politician who served as the Governor of the state of Georgia between 1786 and 1787, and again from 1790 through 1793. He was a member of the Continental Congress, and one of the signers of the Articles of Confederation. Born on his family's ancestral estate in western Scotland, Telfair graduated from the Kirkcudbright Grammar School before acquiring commercial training. He immigrated to America in 175...

Clay, Joseph, 1741-1804

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Merchant, Revolutionary officer, and member of the Continental Congress; from Savannah, Ga. From the description of Papers, 1767-1800. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20649203 Businessman, army officer, and U.S. Continental Congress delegate from Georgia. From the description of Joseph Clay correspondence, 1794. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79453625 Joseph Clay (1741-1804) came to Savannah from England in 1760. He was a planter engaged i...

Georgia. Superior Court (Chatham County)

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For several decades after the American Revolution (1775-1783), Georgia was the only state that did not have a supreme court to review the decisions made by the trial courts. Until then, the courts were divided regionally. The Supreme Court was not established until 1845. George Walton (c.1749-1804) served in many political roles in Georgia during and after the Revolutionary War. He was elected to the Provincial Congress and a delegate to the Second Continental Congress in 1776 where he was one o...

Cowper, Basil, d.1802

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Basil Cowper (d. 1802), a native of Scotland, moved to Georgia around 1760. In 1766, he started the Savannah firm of Cowper and Telfairs with brothers Edward and William Telfair. Cowper represented the District of Action in 1775 as a delegate in the Provincial Congress. From 1776 until 1779, he fought in the Revolutionary War on the side of the United States against the Great Britain. Following the British occupation of Savannah in 1779, he joined the British Army. In 1782, he left the United St...