[1]Well-known historian of Coastal Georgia and Historical Collaborator of the National Park Service for the Fort Frederica Project.
[2]Published as Volume IV of the Collections of the Georgia Historical Society (Savannah, 1878). Jones gave no source for this map, but it has been identified by the author as a small detail from a large map of St. Simons Island made in 1739 by Capt. John Thomas, Engineer in Oglethorpe’s Regiment. The original manuscript map is now in the Crown Collection in the British Museum (with a copy in the Library of Congress), catalogued CXXII-71a.
[3]Robert & George Watkins, comps., A Digest of the Laws of the State of Georgia ... (Philadelphia, 1800), 599.
[4]These original manuscript maps were discovered by Nathaniel Harrison Ballard, State Superintendent of Schools for Georgia, among uncatalogued papers in the office of Georgia’s Secretary of State. They are now in the Georgia Department of Archives and History and their first publication was in Margaret Davis Cate, Our Todays and Yesterdays, (Brunswick, Ga., 1930), 57, 60.
[5]Allen D. Candler, ed., Colonial Records of the State of Georgia (25 vols. Vol. XX, not published. Atlanta, 1904-1916), XXII, Pt. I, 280; XXXIX, 433, 479. Collections of the Georgia Historical Society, I (Savannah, 1840), 192.
[6]Candler, ed., Colonial Records of Georgia, XXII, Pt. I, 279.
[7]Collections of The Georgia Historical Society, II (Savannah, 1842), 113, 150.
[8]Candler, ed., Colonial Records of Georgia, VI, 146.
[9]Ibid., X, 79.
[10]This Christian Perkins who petitioned for Dr. Hawkins’ lot came to Georgia as Christian Grant. Several of her brothers, all of whom were indentured servants, came at the same time. (E. M. Coulter and A. B. Saye, eds., A List of the Early Settlers of Georgia (Athens, 1949), 19. One of these, Peter Grant, fought at the Battle of Bloody Marsh and spent the rest of his life on St. Simons Island, where he died in 1804 at the age of eighty-four. [George White, Statistics of the State of Georgia (Savannah, 1849), 283; Coll. Ga. Hist. Soc. I, 284n]. Christian Grant married John Perkins and after his death married Francis Lewis. In her will (executed in 1786 and recorded in 1811) on file in Chatham County, Georgia, Court House (Will Book E, 84), she left her Frederica lots (17N and 1S) to her brother, Peter Grant. However, in 1789 she executed a deed transferring lot 17N “to my loving nephew ... Thomas Grant, son of my brother, Peter Grant.” (Glynn County, Ga., Deed Book CD, 168).