Nathan Brownson Historical
Marker
Located on US 17 at Midway Church, Midway,
Ga.
(Text)
NATHAN BROWNSON
Georgia Colonial governor,
trustee of the proposed University of Georgia, physician, Nathan
Brownson became governor of Georgia in 1781, serving until Jan.
1782. Prior to this time Brownson served as a member of the Provencial
[sic] Congress which met in Savannah July 4, 1775. He was, also,
a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1776-1778 and was
surgeon to a Georgia brigade.
Born in Connecticut in 1742,
a graduate of Yale College, Brownson studied medicine and practiced
that profession in his home state, moving to St. John's Parish
(now Liberty County), Georgia in 1764. Active in the cause of
liberty, Brownson became one of the leaders in the revolutionary
cause. He was one of the delegates to the state convention that
ratified the U.S. Constitution in Augusta on 31 December 1787.
Nathan Brownson died in Liberty
County October 18, 1796, being best remembered as governor and
as one of the founders of the University of Georgia.
ERECTED 1992
BY THE GEORGIA STATE SOCIETY
DAUGHTERS OF
THE AMERICAN COLONISTS
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