210 DOOLY COUNTY. 



Irregularities are sometimes committed, but generally speaking, 

 the people are honest, orderly, and industrious. More atten- 

 tion ought to be paid to their buildings by the farmers. There 

 is too much anxiety to make cotton, and domestic comforts 

 are neglected. Hunting deer is the chief amusement. Parties 

 are frequently made up, which leave home and spend a week 

 in hunting, and return laden with spoils. 



Productions, Markets. — Almost every thing grows well. 

 Cotton succeeds finely, as well as corn, potatoes, sugar-cane, 

 &c. Little attention has been paid to the cultivation of fruits, 

 but there can be no doubt of their success with due care. The 

 county was once fine for grazing, but it has been injured 

 by fires. Planters carry their crops to Macon and Hawkins- 

 ville. 



Mills. — Five saw-mills, five grist-mills. 



Minerals. — There are no very valuable minerals in this 

 county. The calcareous formation of the countiy furnishes a 

 great variety of fossils. 



Name. — The family of the Doolys originally came from 

 Ireland and settled in North Carolina. Colonel John Dooly, 

 from whom the name of this county was derived, settled in 

 Lincoln county about the beginning of the American Revolu- 

 tion, and received a commission as Captain in the Georgia 

 continental brigade. His brother, Captain Thomas Dooly, a 

 gallant officer, was murdered by the Indians under circum- 

 stances so aggravated, that he determined, regardless of con- 

 sequences, to embrace the first opportunity to revenge his 

 death. The circumstances were these : Early in a skirmish 

 with the savages, on the twenty-second of July, 1776, near 

 the Oconee river, Captain Thomas Dooly received a most 

 severe wound ; but indifferent to his sufferings, he continued 

 to encourage his men, and actually fired two shots at the enemy 

 after he was wounded. His junior officer, more intent upon 

 his own safety than upon his duty, neglected his commander, 

 and was one among the first to leave the ground. Captain 

 Dooly, in an agony of sufiering, implored his men not to leave 

 him in the power of his enemies ; but seized with consterna- 

 tion, and following the example of their lieutenant, they left 

 him to his fate, and when last seen he was in the act of defend- 



