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Religious Sects, Education. — Methodists and Baptists 

 are the most numerous. In the county there are about 

 twenty churches. 



Education is highly appreciated. Twenty-five schools in 

 the county. 



Roads and Bridges. — The roads and bridges are in good 

 order. 



Character of the People. — The people are generally 

 moral. Few litigations occur, and seldom cases of a criminal 

 character are brought into court. People generally are well 

 educated. 



Manufactures, Mills. — One cotton-gin factory in Clinton 

 goes by steam, and employs at least one hundred hands. The 

 profits of this establishment are 820,000 per annum. 



Massey's cotton-gin factory, 1 1 miles from Clinton, employs 

 thirty hands. Flour-mills 7; saw-mills 8; grist-mills 12. 



Minerals and Mineral Springs. — There is a chalybeate 

 spring at Antioch meeting-house, and a sulphur spring at 

 Massey's. Iron, quartz, mica, and granite, are the chief 

 minerals. 



Early Settlers. — William Butler, Samuel Dale, Roger 

 M'Carthy, Robert Cunningham, John R. Gregory. 



Mounds. — There is a mound eight miles from Clinton, on 

 the road to Milledgeville, and one on Cedar creek, near Blounts- 

 ville. 



Name. — The Hon. James Jones, after whom this county 

 was called, was born in the State of Maryland, and came 

 to Georgia when very young, under the care of his uncle, 

 the late Colonel Marbury. He received the principal part 

 of his educationC'at the academy in Augusta. At the age 

 of eighteen he was placed in the office of a gentleman 

 eminent in the profession of the law, in the city of Savan- 

 nah. After his clerkship he was admitted to the bar, where 

 his talents were soon discovered ; but shortly afterwards con- 

 necting himself in marriage, he declined the practice and be- 

 came a planter. At the age of twenty-three, the people of 

 Chatham county elected him to the Legislature. In that body 

 he acquitted himself with independence, and was for several 

 years placed first on the list of Chatham's representatives. In 



