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the constitutional term. " Indeed, said he, were this not the 

 case, I should be deficient in gratitude to my country for the 

 distinguished marks of favour and confidence I have so fre- 

 quently experienced, v^^hich claim, and I trust I may be per- 

 mitted to say, secure my lasting affection and devotion to 

 her service." Governor Tattnall went without delay to the 

 West Indies, where he died in June, 1804. His dying request 

 was that his body should be removed to his native State. The 

 Hon. Nathaniel Hall, of Nassau, to whom the management of 

 his affairs was committed, complied with his last wishes, and 

 accompanied his remains to Georgia, and deposited them in 

 the burial-ground at Bonaventure. 



He left two sons. The one, the chivalric Colonel Edward 

 Fenwick Tattnall, who was an officer in the United States 

 army in the war of 1812, and wounded at Point Peter, near 

 St. Mary's, in Georgia, the effects of which he felt during his 

 whole life. This high-minded gentleman afterwards became 

 eminent in the State Legislature and Congress, and dying 

 early in life, was buried by the side of his father. The other, 

 Commander Josiah Tattnall, of the navy, was at the repulse 

 of the British at Craney Island, in the same war, and a volun- 

 teer in the battle of Bladensburgh. Subsequently he was with 

 Decatur at Algiers, and at a later period on the African sta- 

 tion, and very lately, in the war with Mexico, has been dis- 

 tinguished. He was wounded in the wrist by a musket-ball 

 in an engagement with the Mexicans, and before the Castle 

 of San Juan U'Ulloa gained for himself a wreath of imper- 

 ishable fame, as the commander of the Moscheto fleet." * 



TELFAIR. 



Boundaries, Extent. — Bounded N. by Pulaski, N. E. by 

 Montgomery, S. E. by Appling, and S. W. by Irwin. Laid 

 out in 1807. Part added to Montgomery in 1812, 1820, and 

 1833. It is 23 miles long and 18 wide, containing 414 square 

 miles. 



* The compiler of this work is indebted to Col. J. W. Jackson, of Sa- 

 vannah, for the above memoir. 



