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The land that would form Burke County was ceded to the English
by the Creeks in the Treaty
of Savannah on May 21, 1733, confirmed and expanded by agreements
of 1735 and 1736. By an act
of March 15, 1758, the colonial legislature created seven
parishes. With the outbreak of the American Revolution, Whig
forces took control of government in Georgia. On Feb. 5, 1777,
they adopted the state's first constitution -- the Constitution
of 1777. Art.
IV of that document transformed the existing colonial parishes
into seven counties, with Indian ceded lands forming an
eighth county. Burke County, which was third on the list and
thus is considered Georgia's third county, consisted of Saint
George parish (see
map). The county was named for Edmund Burke, a member of
the British Parliament who championed the rights of the American
colonies.
Between 1793 and 1905, the legislature took land from Burke
County to help form the new counties of Warren and Screven (1793), Jefferson
(1796), and Jenkins (1905), and to add area to Richmond County
(1841).
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