Georgia transplant Eli Whitney was granted a patent, the Yazoo land fraud was ongoing and John Johnson was born in Georgia in 1794. Native Americans tribes populated Georgia, whose boundaries stretched to the Mississipi River. Benjamin Hawkins was appointed as an agent among the Creeks in 1796 by President Washington. Hawkins described a farm that grew peaches, cotton, corn, rice, peas, beans, squashes, pumpkins, watermelons and colewarts.
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| Georgia Map Circa 1795 (LOC) |
In 1777 the first Georgia counties were formed [replacing parishes]. They were Burke, Camden, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Liberty, Richmond and Wilkes Counties [along the coast]. In 1784 counties Franklin was formed from Cherokee lands and Washington from Creek lands. Bourbon County was formed in the Natchez area and eliminated shortly thereafter. Greene County was next, formed from Washington and Wilkes. Several more counties were created in 1793. [Source]
About 1814 John Johnson married Mary (Polly) Greer, who was born about 1793 in Virginia. The family moved to Tennessee before finally settling in southern Illinois.
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