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Martha A. Talbert
1780 - 1832

Martha A. Talbert was born about 1780 in Wilkes County, Georgia and died about 1832 in Early County, Georgia. Dates for birth and death are estimated. She lived to be about 52 years old.

Marriage	7/19/1809	GA (Baldwin County)	29 yrs old
Name: Esum D. Franklin Spouse: Martha Talbert Marriage Date: July 19, 1809 Marriage County: Baldwin Marriage State: Georgia
Census	8/7/1820	GA (Baldwin County)	40 yrs old
page # 1, line # 6 - Esom D. Franklin -Males - Under 10: 4, Males - 45 and over: 2, Females - Under 10: 2, Females - 10 thru 15: 1, Females - 26 thru 44: 1
Census	1/1/1830	GA (Houston County)	50 yrs old
page 29, line#25 - Esom D. Franklin - Males - 5 thru 9: 2, Males - 10 thru 14: 2, Males - 15 thru 19: 2, Males - 60 thru 69: 1, Females - Under 5: 1, Females - 10 thru 14: 2, Females - 40 thru 49: 1

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Age	Date	Event
2	1782	The British evacuate Savannah on in July.
4	1784	Franklin and Washington Counties are formed.
5	1785	Burbon County formed.
6	1786	Greene County was created the same year Oglethorpe dies.
8	1788	Bourbon County Act rescinded.
9	1789	December 21 - Governor Telfair signs first Yazoo Act selling 20,000,000 acres of and for $207,000 or about one cent per acre to. The Yazoo Companies attempted to pay in worthless paper money and Georgia refuses to transfer the land. The Virginia Yazoo, headed by Patrick Henry, even had the unmitigated gall to attempt to pay in worthless Georgia paper money. The South Carolina Yazoo Company sues Georgia in the U.S. Supreme Court to compel delivery but the suit fails when Georgia is able to obtain ratification of the eleventh amendment to the U.S. Constitution on February 7, 1795.
10	1790	Columbia and Elbert Counties are created.
10	1790	Alexander McGillivray, a mixed-blood of the Upper Creek Nation cedes the Altamaha lands to the Oconee. This treaty -- Treaty of New York -- is signed by President George Washington.
13	1793	Hancock, Bryan, McIntosh, Montgomery, Oglethorpe and Warren Counties formed. This same year, the Fugitive Slave Act is passed.
14	1794	General Clarke surrenders ending the Oconee War.
15	1795	Governor Mathews signs the Second Yazoo Act selling somewhere between 35,000,000 and 50,000,000 acres of land for $500,000.
21	1801	Clarke and Tatnall Counties formed.
22	1802	Georgia formally cedes western claims for its southern boundary at the 31st parallel -- which will become a border between,GA, FL and AL. GA's western border reaches to the Mississippi River.
23	1803	Between 1803 and 1811 a horse trail is established connecting Milledgeville, Georgia to Fort Stoddert, American outpost north of Mobile. This is expanded into a road and called The Federal Road by 1811.
27	1807	December 10 - Jasper, Jones, Laurens, Morgan, Putnam, and Telfair Counties formed.
28	1808	Pulaski County created.
29	1809	Twiggs County formed.
31	1811	Tecumseh visits the Creek Indians living in what will become Georgia and Alabama to try to persuade them to join his fight against the flood of white settlers. Some towns join forces with Tecumseh and become known as "Red Sticks".
31	1811	Madison County created.
32	1812	The Creek tribes in southern Alabama and Georgia find themselves under increasing pressure from white settlers. Led by Chief Weatherford, they accepted an alliance with Tecumseh and are nicknamed "Red Sticks".
32	1812	Emanual County formed.
33	1813	During 1813-14, Muskogee-speaking Creeks leave GA and move into areas in Northern FL in response to the Creek Civil War (also known as the Red-sticks War).
37	1817	First Seminole war begins as Georgia backwoodsmen attack Indians just north of the Florida border. !817-1818. General Andrew Jackson invades the area.
39	1819	Rabun County formed.
40	1820	December 20 - Campbell and Randolph Counties formed.
41	1821	May 15 - Dooly, Fayette, Henry, Houston, Monroe and Newton Counties formed.
42	1822	December 9 - Bibb, Dekalb and Pike Counties formed.
43	1823	December 8 - Decatur County formed.
44	1824	December 15 - Upson and Ware Counties formed.
45	1825	Baker, Lowndes, Thomas, Butts and Taliaferro Counties formed.
46	1826	January 24 - Treaty of Washington abrogates Treaty of Indian Springs. The Creeks cede a smaller area and are allowed to remain on their lands until January 1, 1826.
47	1827	December 14, - Harris, Marion, Meriwether and Talbot.
50	1830	Cherokee, Heard, and Stewrt Counties are formed.
51	1831	Sumter County is formed.
52	1832	December 3 - Bartow, Cobb, Crawford, Floyd, Forsyth, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Murray, Paulding, and Union Counties formed.

Age	Date	Event
3	1783	The hot air balloon is invented by Michel and Montgolfier and the first people in modern history fly at an altitude of 1800 m.
5	1785	The power loom was invented by Cartwright to produce cloth.
13	1793	The cotton gin was invented by Whitney.
19	1799	The Rosetta Stone was discovered
20	1800	The first battery was invented by Volta
27	1807	The first steamboat was invented by Fulton
34	1814	The first locomotive engine was created by Stephenson
50	1830	The first railroad is constructed between Liverpool and Manchester, England

Age	Date	Event
20	1800	NEWS HEADLINES: Seat of U.S. government moves from Philadelphia to Washington DC
31	1811	NEWS HEADLINES: Tecumseh's emerging Indian Confederacy is defeated at the Battle of Tippecanoe in Ohio. Afterwards, Tecumseh and his brother travel from their Shawnee homes in the north to recruit and unify the southern Indians.
32	1812	NEWS HEADLINES: War of 1812 begins and will continue for until 1814. Some call it the Second War of Independence because the US fights Great Britain to a stalemate, Americas independence was assured.
48	1828	Gold is discovered in Georgia.

Age	Date	Event
7	1787	Constitution of the United States is signed
13	1793	Alexander McGillivray, the head of the Creek Indian Nation, dies. A restlessness begins to grow among the Indians in what is now Georgia, Alabama and Northern Florida as town chiefs via for the vacant leadership role.
14	1794	The United States establishes the Navy
18	1798	Mississippi Territory organized from Georgia's western land claims. It includes what will later become portions of Mississippi, Alabama and Northern Florida,
23	1803	Louisiana Purchase from France (who secured it from Spain) gives the US a huge new territory and the port of New Orleans.
24	1804	The Seminole warrior later known as Osceola is born near Tuskegee, AL.
25	1805	Federal Road project begins after the Creek Indians give the U.S. permission to develop a �horse path� through their nation that will provide better mail delivery between Washington City (DC) and New Orleans. Soon settlers are traveling and settling along this path to settle the southern frontier.
26	1806	Lewis and Clark Expedition, which began in 1804, ends. News of the rich lands to the west begins to spread.
31	1811	By 1811 the new "Federal Road" (which started as a horse path) is filled with a steady flow of white settlers into Creek Indian Territories. The Spanish begin to fan hostile sentiments among the Indians.
40	1820	The Act of April 24, 1820 abolished the land purchase credit system, fixed the price of public lands at $1.25 per acre, and set the minimum purchase at 80 acres. After a person purchased land, a final certificate was issued by the land office and sent to Washington DC to be verified and signed by the President -- a time consuming process. Public lands were most typically available through US treaties with Indians who agreed to be removed from their homelands.
50	1830	Indian Removal Act signed and the moving of eastern Indians west of the Mississippi begins.

Age	Date	Event
3	1783	Peace established at Versailles between France, England, Spain and United States; Britain cedes all lands west to the Mississippi River
7	1787	Catherine the Great leads Russia into war with Turkey
8	1788	Russia begins war with Sweden
9	1789	French feudal system is abolished with the Declaration of Rights of Man. Outbreak of hostilities in France with the fall of the Bastille on July 14; Revolution in Austrian Netherlands declares independence as Belgium
12	1792	French Revolutionary Wars begin and the French royal family is imprisoned the following year
13	1793	Marie Antoinette is executed; Fugitive Slave Act passed; Roman Catholic faith is banned in France; France declares war on Britain and Holland.
15	1795	White Terror and bread riots in Paris
16	1796	Napoleon marries Josephine de Beauharnais
17	1797	Napoleon proclaims the Venetian Constitution, founds Ligurian Republic in Genoa

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Esom Franklin
Born about 1770 and died about 1841.
They were married 7/10/1809.

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The Children of Martha A. Talbert

63 years old

Francis Marion Franklin
Born in Baldwin Co., Georgia on June 10, 1817 and died in Veron Parish, Louisiana on September 6, 1889. He was 72 years old.

At age 44 he enlisted as a Private in Capt. Thigpin's Company (Milton Dragoons) of Florida Volunteers.

Francis married Gatsey and had eight Children:
Eliza (1837 FL) married John T. Hal...

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