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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 2827upon ids career as clerk in his father's store, and received his first instructionin business methods from the elder man, continuing to he so engaged untilthe outbreak of the war between the United States and Spain. Enlisting ina South Carolina Volunteer infantry regiment, he saw three years of activeservice^but never participated iii any of the battles of the campaign, althoughhe at all times showed himself a good soldier and left the service with anhonorable and commendable record. His military career over, he returned tothe mercantile business and subsequently turned his attention to farming inWayne County. Here be became known as a reliable and energetic, citizen,and when the occasion arose he was appointed ordinary to complete an unexpiredterm, which terminates December 31, 1916. His official service hasbeen made notable by a conscientious and impartial performance of duty,and few members of the bench are held in higher esteem. Since assuming hisjudicial duties, Judge Jones has transferred the operation of his farmingproperty to other hands, although he still retains its ownership, and has alsoa handsome home at Odum. in Wayne County. Since the attainment of hismajority, Judge Jones has been a stanch and unwavering democrat, andhas had much to do with the success of his party in Wayne County. Hisfraternal affiliation is with the Masons, the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen of the World.Judge Jones was married December 22, 1906, to Miss Emma L. Boyd,daughter of Henry and Adeline Boyd, of Wayne County, and they are theparents of two children: Emma L. and Essie L. Judge and Mrs. Jonesare members of the Baptist Church and have taken an active interest in thesuccess of its movements.ARCHIBALD BULLOCH. This famous member of the Bulloch family wasborn in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1729-30, and died in February, 1777,while president of the Province and State of Georgia. He received a liberaleducation, was a lawyer and a planter. A record of the public offices whichhe held and whose duties he fully discharged, reads as follows: One of thecommittee from the Lower House to correspond with Franklin for redress ofgrievances, April 11, 1768; elected speaker of the Royal Assembly or Houseof Commons, April 21, 1772; elected July 4, 1775, president of the ProvincialCongress of Georgia; July 7, 1775, delegate to Continental Congress; attendsCongress, and November 9, 1775, signs secret compact or Declaration; again,January 20, 1776, elected president of Provincial Congress; February 2, 1776,again elected delegate to Continental Congress, and, but for official duties athome, would have signed the Declaration of Independence, having been adelegate to the Congress which issued it; July 4, 1776, again elected presidentof the Provincial Congress and, by virtue of the resolution adopted by that.Congress on April 15^ 1776, was made president and commander-in-chief ofGeorgia as well.In the last-named capacity Archibald Bulloch led a detachment of colonialtroops and Indians against a colony of British officers and Tory sympathizersand expelled them from Tybee Island, as thus narrated: '' Finding that thehouses on Great Tybee Island afforded comfortable shelter for the King'sofficers and Tory refugees, the Council of Safety resolved to send a detachment of troops there, to destroy them and rout the Tories. The execution ofthis order, rendered perilous by the peculiar situation of the place and theprotection afforded by the men-of-war, was committed to Archibald Bulloch,who, with a party of men composed of detachments from the riflemen, lightinfantry, fusiliers, volunteers and a few Creek Indians, burnt all the houses,except one, in which was a, sick woman and several children, killed twomarines and one Tory and took one marine and several Tories prisoners. TheCherokee man-of-war and an armed sloop kept up an incessant fire upon theparty, but none of them were injured and they retired from the island in