First Troop of Rangers, Georgia

 The Recreated First Troop of Rangers, Province of Georgia
 during the period of the Seven Year's War

Ron Shephard, Captain of the Troop

     
 

 

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Bibliographic references on the history of the Georgia Rangers

 

Cashin, Edward J. Colonial Augusta: "Key of the Indian Countrey". Macon, Ga: Mercer University Press, 1986.

 

Clark, Murtie June. Colonial Soldiers of the South, 1732-1774. Baltimore, Md: Genealogical Pub. Co, 1983.

 

Dandridge, John. Account Books. 1764.

Davis,  Robert S. "Georgia's Colonial Rangers." Historical Society of the Georgia National Guard Journal 8(3) (Spring/Summer, 2001): 11-14. (Available online at: http://www.hsgng.org/pages/gacolonialrangers.htm)

 

Davis,  Robert S. "The Georgia Provincial Rangers." Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly 18 (1982): 139-51

Elliott, Daniel T. Argyle, Colonial Fort on the Ogeechee (LAMAR Institute Publication Series Report 38). Published by US Dept. of Defense Legacy Resource Management Program. 1977. (available online at: http://www.stewart.army.mil/ima/sites/directorates/dpw/fscr/ftargyle.pdf)

Georgia cavalry, and Alexander McC. Duncan. Roll of Officers and Members of the Georgia Hussars and of the Cavalry Companies, Of Which the Hussars Are a Continuation, with Historical Sketch Relating Facts Showing the Origin and Necessity of Rangers or Mounted Men in the Colony of Georgia from Date of Its Founding. Savannah, Ga: Morning news, 1906.

Jackson, Harvey H., and Phinizy Spalding. Forty Years of Diversity: Essays on Colonial Georgia. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984.

Johnson, James M. Militiamen, Rangers, and Redcoats: The Military in Georgia, 1754-1776. Macon, Ga: Mercer University Press, 1992.

 

Milledge, John. Milledge Family papers. 1742.

 

Reid, Stuart. British Redcoat: 1740-1793. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2003.

 

Troxler,  Carole Watterson.  “Refuge, Resistance, and Reward: The Southern Loyalists' Claim on East Florida”  The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 55, No. 4 (Nov., 1989), pp. 563-596   (article consists of 34 pages) Published by: Southern Historical Association

Documents of the British Possessions of East and West Florida. 1762.

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