KENNETH BAILLIE of Liberty County

KENNETH BAILLIE, planter of a rice plantation in Liberty Co., also owned timber lands and two town lots in Sunbury, Ga., as well as over 1000 acres on St. Mary's Island where his home stood, which he called "Baillie's Island" (located on Medway River). In The Colonial Records of Georgia, by Candler, Renneth Baillie states that General Oglethorpe's plan to cap tute Gugus ti ne would have succeeded had it not been for the cap rains of the boats who did not capture Spanish vessels, which would have prevented the Spanish from coming into Augustine with guns and provisions. While in England, he reported on the cultural conditions of the soil and complaints from settlers for not being permitted negro slaves to work their land. Georgia

Issue of Kenneth Baillie and Elizabeth Mackay, his wife:

1. Alexander Baillie, who petitioned in 1752 for 100 acres on Long Island, near the Medway River. He and his wife, Hester Jane (who d. 8/13/1794) lived on their plantation in McIntosh Co., Ga., called "Laurel Hill."
   
   
2. Robert Carnibe Baillie, lived on Island of Jamaica, but 500 acres in Colony of Georgia, on St. Simon's Island, adj. lands of Mark Carr. In 1755 he was a Surveyor for the Midway District, and /17/1760 qualified as a Member of the House to the Council of the Governor from St. Andrew's Parish. In 1761 he served in the General Assembly and 11/1771 was granted 500 acres on Turtle River, St. Patricks Parish, where he used 20 slaves to cultivate it. Robert was active in His Majesty's politics helping in the affairs of the Council of the Governor in Georgia. When the Revolutionary began, he took the side of England, therefore, in 1782, be was declared a traitor and his estates were seized and confiscated. Robert m. Miss Mary Ann McIntosh, the only sister to General Lachlan McIntosh, who d. 1 /23/1803 st her home on the Sapelo River in McIntosh Co. Children: Claudia Baillie d. 5/24/1806 and Jane Baillie d. at Riceboro, Ga. 4/17/1809. 411 from Georgia newspaper records.
   
   
3. Jean Baillie m. Andrew Darling, a Merchant at Sunbury, Ga., Liberty Co.
   
   
4. Ann Elizabeth Baillie b. 7/27/1749 Liberty Co., Ga., m. 9/19/1765, d. 7/23/1807, Savannah, Ga. m. Dr. John Irvine, b. 9/15/1742 Drum, Scotland, which is located slightly southwest of Aberdeen, d. 10/15/1808 Savannah, Georgia, migrated to America in 1764.
   
   Chatham Co., Ga. Deed Bk C, P. 119
   
   1/27/1787 Elizabeth Fleming, age 16 and Helen Fleming, age 15, daughters of the late David Fleming of Sunbury, Ga., deed, who formerly lived in Edinburgh, Scotland, choose Dr. John Irvfne of Sunbury, Ga. and John Wallace, Merchant of Savannah, as guardians. They are entitled, along with their sisters, Jean Fleming and Beatrix Fleming, as nearest of kin to their deceased uncle, Lt. Walter Boswell, late of Edinburgh, to his estate, and that of their father.
   
   
5. Jane Baillie.
   
   
6. Ann Baillie.