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distinguished as an orator, and Judge Dawson, United States 

 Senator from Geoi'gia, were natives of this county. 



Rev. Dr. Francis Cummins died in this county. With few 

 interruptions by occasional sickness, he had preached the gos- 

 pel more than half a century. He was one of the oldest and 

 most respectable Presbyterian ministers in the Southern States. 

 His native place was Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. Af- 

 ter completing his education in his native State, he served for 

 some time in the army for the defence of his country, before 

 the close of the revolutionary war. He was licensed to preach 

 the gospel in the State of North Carolina, and soon after the 

 peace, settled in South Carolina. He afterwards removed 

 to Georgia, and preached' to the congregation among which 

 he died, for twenty-three years. Having resigned his charge, 

 and preached his farewell sermon, he was taken sick on 

 the next day, with influenza, and was unable to go out 

 again. He died, as he had lived, in the vigorous exercise of 

 his faculties, intelligently, calmly, and confidently trusting 

 in the gospel of Christ. 



Major Oliver Porter was four times elected elector of Pre- 

 sident and Vice-President, and frequently a member of the 

 Legislature of Georgia. 



Religious Sects, Education. — Baptists, Methodists, 

 and Presbyterians. The Baptists are the most numerous. 

 There are a few Episcopalians and Roman Catholics. Edu- 

 cation has always engaged the attention of the citizens. In 

 Greenesborough, Penfield, and other places, excellent schools 

 are to be found. 



Mineral Springs. — In various parts of the county there 

 are springs supposed to be impregnated with mineral qualities, 

 but none that are particularly celebrated. 



Miscellaneous Remarks. — The author of this work has 

 in his possession the original muster-roll of a detachment of 

 Captain Fauche's troop of dragoons, dated Feb. 25, 1794, and 

 regrets that its great length prevents its insertion. 



Name. — Two quarto volumes, containing the life of Major 

 General Nathaniel Greene, in honour of whom this county is 

 named, have been written by the Hon. Judge Johnson, of South 

 Carolina. This work we have freely used in the following 



