Georgetown
SC-17. Site of town purchased May 9, 1791 from Abraham Harris, Rowland Bevins, and Joshua Pepper, and laid out for county seat of Sussex County in accordance with Act of General Assembly of January 29, 1791. Names Georgetown in honor of George Mitchell, for several sessions Speaker of State Senate and prominent member of commission […]
Georgetown
SC-18. Site of town purchased May 9, 1791 from Abraham Harris, Rowland Bevins, and Joshua Pepper, and laid out for county seat of Sussex County in accordance with Act of General Assembly of January 29, 1791. Names Georgetown in honor of George Mitchell, for several sessions Speaker of State Senate and prominent member of commission […]
Georgetown
SC-46. Site of town purchased May 9, 1791 from Abraham Harris, Rowland Bevins, and Joshua Pepper, and laid out for county seat of Sussex County in accordance with Act of General Assembly of January 29, 1791. Names Georgetown in honor of George Mitchell, for several sessions Speaker of State Senate and prominent member of commission […]
Georgetown
SC-36: originally installed in 1933. Site of town purchased May 9, 1791, from Abraham Harris, Rowland Bevins, and Joshua Pepper, and laid out for county seat of Sussex County in accordance with Act of General Assembly of January 29, 1791. Named Georgetown in honor of George Mitchell, for several sessions Speaker of State Senate and […]
Georgetown
RG# 7100 Once the dispute was settled which determined the boundary lines for Sussex County, the citizens of the newly-defined county would soon petition for the county seat to be moved to a more central location. In January 1791, An ACT for removing the Seat of Justice from Lewes to a more central part […]
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