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Ship Of State
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into the 5-acre-lake or eddy could easily have been defended by a small garrison. The high bluff between the river and this body of water would have made a splendid “lookout” tower. The river could have been surveyed by one person for a considerable distance in both directions. High bluffs behind the lake would have been a suitable location for a big house or fort. Thick swamps lie ominously about on three sides.
This could be the substance and setting for a good novel on this colorful frontiersman who dwells in the shadows of the West Florida Revolution during the last days of the Second Spanish Rule.
Declaration Of Independence
An army of considerable strength stormed the Spanish Headquarters at Baton Rouge September 23, 1810, and raised the Lone Star Flag of the Republic of West Florida. Three days later, an assembly of citizens, of our area, met in St. Francisville to set up a separate government. The signers of this Declaration of Independence were:
John J. Abner Solomon Armstrong William Bartlet Joseph Burns Gabriel Burrus Eli Crocket James Davis James Davis, Jr. Walter Davis Fossett Douglass John Douglass Sterling DuPree
John Elliott George Eubanks John Eubanks William Eubanks Willis Fairbanks William Flurry John H. Gray Allen Goodin John Haven Michel A. McCarty William Mills
P. S. Munson Aaron Parker Gabe Parker Hubbard Parker Lewis Parker Ed Smith John Ward Patrick Ward Moses Ward Henry Water George Williamson
. The signers of the credentials were: Captain of the District: Sterling DuPree; First Lieutenant: Gabriel Burrus; Second Lieutenant: William Eubanks.
This impressive list of names is still to be echoed in the names of citizens of George County today. This is a Declaration of Independence we have not heard much about!
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