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Walton (GEORGE an American patriot)

GEORGE, an American patriot; born in Frederick co., Va., in 1740; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1774; began practice the same year in Augusta, Ga. On July 27, 1774, with three others he called a public meeting in Savannah to consider certain pub public grievances, and was made a member of the committee to urge the various parishes to join the other provinces in resisting the arbitrary claims of Great Britain; was also on the committee which drew up a petition to the king. In 1776 he was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and was a delegate to the Continental Congress from that year till October, 1781; was elected governor of Georgia in 1779 and 1789; was chief-justice of the State in 1783, 1787, and 1793; and United States Senator in 1795-1796. He died in in 1783, 1787, and 1793; and United Augusta, Ga., Feb. 2, 1804.