Resources for Learning More about McIntosh County
Current map of McIntosh, Liberty, Long, and Chatham Counties (credit: The Sherpa Guides)
Location of McIntosh County within Georgia
1911 Map of McIntosh County (Rand McNally)
Genealogy Resources for McIntosh County
Panelists for the June 12, 2022 McIntosh County Genealogy Live Panel
Eunice Moore, Butler Island Descendant and Co-Operator of the Burning of Darien Museum
Griffin Lotson, Gullah-Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Vice-Chairman, 7th generation McIntosh County native, author of Kumbaya,
Missy Brandt-Wilson, Butler Island Coalition Member, Burning of Darien Museum Co-Operator
Dr. William H.A. Collins, Burning of Darien Museum Co-Operator, Board Member of Harris Neck C.J.P.
Adolphus Armstrong, Low Country Georgia DNA Project Coordinator, Former President of Moran Family Reunion, & Co-Founder of UJIMA Genealogy of Coastal Georgia
Terri Ward, Front Porch Genealogist, Moran Family Reunion Historian, & Co-Founder of UJIMA Genealogy of Coastal Georgia
Stacy Cole, Researcher and creator of the website TheyHadNames.Net, president of the Coastal Georgia Genealogical Society
Coastal Georgia Genealogy Websites:
GlynnGen.com (by Amy Hedrick, amylyn@glynngen.com)
TheyHadNames.net (by Stacy Cole, jnscole@yahoo.com)
FamilySearch Wiki for McIntosh County Genealogy Resources
Local Genealogical and Historical Societies
Ujima Genealogy of Coastal Georgia
Coastal Georgia Genealogical Society
Lower Altamaha Historical Society
Coastal Georgia Historical Society
Liberty County Historical Society
Butler Island Links and References
The Coalition to Save Butler Island (Learn more about the fight to save the Butler Island site!)
Articles
A Journalist’s Contemporary Account of the Weeping Time, the largest slave auction in U.S. history
The Weeping Time in The Atlantic, 2014
The Archaeology of Afro-American Slavery in Coastal Georgia by Theresa Singleton
Books
Bailey, Anne C., The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History
Bell, Malcolm, Major Butler’s Legacy: Five Generations of a Slaveholding Family
Kemble, Fanny, Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation in 1838-1839
Leigh, Frances Butler Leigh, Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War
Sullivan, Buddy, All Under Bank: Roswell King, Jr. and Plantation Management in Tidewater Georgia, 1819-1854
Other
Butler Island Overseer’s Reports 1803-1830
Butler Island Lists of Enslaved People
The Weeping Time; Butler Slave Auction Listing and Statistics by Annette Holmes
History of McIntosh County
Bailey, Cornelia Walker, God, Dr. Buzzard and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Island, Georgia
Cooper, Melissa L. Cooper, Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination
Duncan, Russell, Freedom’s Shore: Tunis Campbell and the Georgia Freedmen
Greene, Melissa Fay, Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction
Johnson, Michele Nicole, Sapelo Island’s Hog Hammock (about the Gullah Geechee community of Sapelo Island)
Lotson, Griffin, Kumbaya: The World’s Most Famous Song
Local historian and author Buddy Sullivan has written many books about the history of McIntosh County and surrounding areas, including:
Darien and McIntosh County
Sapelo Island (Images of America)
Sapelo: People and Place on a Georgia Sea Island
Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater: A New Revised Edition
Darien, Georgia: A History of the Town & Its Environs
From Beautiful Zion to Red Bird Creek: A history of Bryan County, Georgia
Richmond Hill
Notes from Low County Georgia: History, Ecology & Perspective
Twentieth Century Sapelo Island: Howard E. Coffin & Richard J. Reynolds