310 HANCOCK COUNTY. 



was elected Governor of that State. He afterwards removed 

 to Burke county, where he died, in the 67th year of his age. 

 He was six feet high — manners easy and pohte. 



The following is the inscription upon the slab which covers 

 the remains of this patriot: 



i., -i Beneath this Stone 



{\/\ryi r--'^--' rest the Remains of 



J^ ' the Hon. LYMAN HALL, Esq., 



I * k^-f-i, .|c« formerly Governor of this State, 



~'i "^ who departed this life the 19th of Oct., 1790, 

 ^t-.A'^'- in the 67th Year of his Age. 



^ « f In the Cause of America, he was uniformly a 



Patriot. 



In the incumbent duties of a Husband and a 



Father, he acquitted himself with affection and 



Tenderness — 

 But Reader, above all, know from this Inscription 

 ^^ ■*" ' ' that he left this probationary Scene 



> as a True Christian and an 



Honest Man. 



" To these so mourn *d in Death, so lov'd in Life, 

 The childless Parent and the widow'd wife, 

 With tears inscribe this monumental Stone 

 That holds his Ashes and expects her own." 



HANCOCK. 



Boundaries, Extent. — This county has Greene and Talia- 

 fero on the N., Warren on the E., Washington and a part of 

 Baldwin on the S., and Putnam on the W. It was laid out of 

 parts of Washington and Greene, in 1793. In 1807 a portion 

 of it was added to Baldwin, and in 1825 a portion to Taliafero. 

 Its medium length is 22 miles ; breadth, 20 miles ; 440 square 

 miles. 



Rivers, Creeks. — The north fork of the Ogeechee river 

 separates the county from Warren, and the Oconee from Put- 

 nam. The other streams are Little Ogeechee river. Shoulder 



