The History of Georgia: Containing Brief Sketches of the Most Remarkable Events, Up to the Present Day

McCall, Hugh

Savannah: Seymour & Williams, 1811

*Important note: Volume 1 only* Later boards, lacking most of spine leather.  viii, 376 p.  Toning, especially to last pages.  The first history of Georgia.  McCall's father served as a Colonel in the Revolutionary war.  McCall himself served in the War of 1812 and interviewed many of many Georgian Revolutionary War veterans to write his history.  This volume "covers the political and diplomatic events leading up to the founding of the colony in 1732 and the arrival of the first colonists in 1733. The volume then proceeds as a year-by-year chronicle of the colony's development through 1771." - John Inscoe, Hugh McCall (1767-1824), New Georgia Encyclopedia, 2017.    Refs:  Howes M 33; De Renne Vol. 1, p. 393; Streeter 1161; Sabin 42973; Field 972.  Book plate of David M. Sherman.  Sherman worked at the Georgia Heritage Trust and the US Interior Dept in historic preservation in Georgia.