Major John Hatcher
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Major John Hatcher (1757-1835). Near this site is the plantation and grave of John Hatcher, Georgia patriot, Revolutionary War soldier and statesman. Between 1780 and 1800 he served in Candler's Refugee Regiment of Richmond County, the Georgia Militia, Carr's Rangers of Burke County, the South Carolina Militia, and the Lower Battalion of Warren County.
Hatcher served in both the Georgia House of Representatives and Senate, as Justice of the Peace, as a Commissioner of both Warren County Academy and Wilkinson County Academy, as a Presidential Elector in 1820 and 1828, and as a Commissioner in the 1832 Georgia Land Lotteries. 2000.9
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