288 GLYNN COUNTY. 



Burnet's negroes had been carried away by the Indians. 

 Some months afterwards, the Indians acknowledged to the 

 Commissioners who made the treaty at Colerain, that during 

 the night of the attack upon Mr. Burnet's house their loss had 

 exceeded thirty men. 



During the war of 1812, a detachment of one hundred men 

 from Cumberland island, of the British invading army, took 

 possession of St. Simon's, where they remained for three 

 weeks. Whilst on the island, they succeeded in carrying off 

 three hundred slaves. To the credit of many of the negroes, 

 they remained true to their masters. On the plantation of Mr, 

 Couper, a remarkable instance of fidelity occurred in the 

 conduct of his driver, Tom, who is worthy of a passing notice, 

 not only for his great fidelity and intelligence, but from having 

 come probably farther from the interior of Africa than any 

 other negro in America ; his native village being Silla, on the 

 Niger, a few days' journey west of the celebrated city of Tim- 

 buctoo. He is a Mahometan in religion, and of the Foolah 

 nation, the most intelligent of the native African tribes. 



Name. — The county of Glynn may be proud of bearing 

 the name of John Glynn, who was eminent in his profession 

 as a lawyer, highly esteemed for his probity of character, and 

 conspicuous for his love and unwavering support of rational 

 and constitutional liberty. His known liberal principles made 

 him the ardent friend of the American colonies, and it was to 

 honour these principles that the State of Georgia attached his 

 name to this portion of her territory. In the Annual Register, 

 from 1758 to 1779, the name of Sergeant Glynn frequently 

 appears as a leading counsel in the most important law cases, 

 and he is uniformly mentioned with respect, for his modera- 

 . tion, independence, conscientiousness, and learning. In his 

 address to the freeholders of Middlesex, which he represented 

 in Parliament, he says : " Honour or infamy will deservedly 

 attend me in the same manner as my future conduct shall an- 

 swer or disappoint your expectations. I do not owe your sup- 

 port to any personal friendship or connexions, and am therefore 

 free even from the temptation of leaning to them : my obliga- 

 tions are to the public ; and to the public I will return them. 

 The freedom of a county election is the last sacred privilege 



