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Baillie's Plantation

Robert Carnibe Baillie, a son of Colonel Kenneth Baillie, first resided on the Island of Jamaica, but in 1742 he petitioned the Georgia Trustees for 1,500 acres in the Colony of Georgia, to be located on St. Simon's Island, adjacent to the lands of Colonel Mark Carr. He served as a Surveyor for the Midway District in 1755, and in 1760-1766 was a Member of the House to the Governor's Council from St. Andrew's Parish, also serving on the General Assembly. In November of 1771, he was granted an additional 500 acres of land on the Turtle River, on St. Simons Island, which he cultivated with 20 slaves. As he was quite active in His Majesty's politics in the Georgia colony, at the onset of the American Revolution, he refused to stand with the rebels. To make matters more difficult, he had married Mary Ann McIntosh, the only sister of the unpopular General Lachlan McIntosh thought to be sympathetic with the English even though he fought as an American General. So it was that after the war he was declared a traitor, and in 1782 all of his estates were seized and confiscated. While other traitors escaped into Florida, Robert Baillie remained behind. He must have been ill, because he died in 1783, his estate being administered on 16 October 1783 in Liberty County.