Georgia's Signers and the Declaration of Independence.

Octavo, bright blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, ix, 106 pp. Fine in a Near Fine, price clipped dust jacket. From dust jacket: The last of the original thirteen colonies to be settled by the British along the Atlantic Coast, Georgia severed ties to the mother country reluctantly and with grave reservations. Because Georgia had perhaps the most to lose by a declaration of independence, reactions within the colony to Britain's increasingly restrictive policies were more restrained than in the more liberal northern colonies. This lingering attachment created in Georgia a Loyalist sentiment that, while fervent, nevertheless attracted fewer adherents than did the movement for independence. This conflict was a major factor in Georgia's heatedly-debated support of the Declaration of Independence and in the seven years of war that followed. This is the story of the lives and political careers of three men -- Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton -- who attained prominence within that struggle and who acquired undying fame by representing Georgia in the congress that adopted the Declaration of Independence. Georgia, Georgiana, Revolutionary War, Americana, American History, United States History, U. S. History, U.S.-iana. yslic.