Cowper and Telfairs (Savannah, Ga.) promissory notes and legal document, 1770-ca. 1780.

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Cowper and Telfairs (Savannah, Ga.) promissory notes and legal document, 1770-ca. 1780.

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This collection consists of five promissory notes to the firm, all receipted by Noble Wimberly Jones, Esq. (1770-1775), and a plea for rent for their storehouse dated 1780. Basil Cowper and William Telfair owned a store house and distillery on Wharf Lot No. 3, Trustees Garden which had been occupied by the Royal Artillery since before 1778.

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Jones, Noble Wimberly, c. 1723-1805

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Noble Wimberly Jones (c. 1723 – January 9, 1805) was an American physician and statesman from Savannah, Georgia. A leading Georgia patriot in the American Revolution, he served as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1781 and 1782. Born in Lambeth, England, he immigrated to North America with his parents, who settled in Savannah in 1733, the first group of white settlers of the Province of Georgia. As a youth, Jones served in the militia under James Oglethorpe, helping to protect the pro...

Cowper and Telfairs (Savannah, Ga.)

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Cowper and Telfairs was a mercantile partnership owned by Basil Cowper and brothers Edward and William Telfair. The Telfairs, of Scottish heritage, imported East Indian and European goods from London during the 1770s. Edward, a member of the Sons of Liberty, was elected to the Provincial Congress in 1774. He was a signed of the Articles of Confederation and a three-term governor of Georgia. Edward's family had a residence near Augusta called "The Grove." His children went on to become prominent ...

Cowper, Basil, d. 1802.

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