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View Tree for Dionysious OliverDionysious Oliver (b. 1735, d. 1869)

Dionysious Oliver (son of Frances Oliver) was born 1735 in Elbert County, Georgia, and died 1869. He married (1) Mary Anne Winfrey in Virginia, daughter of Valentine Winfrey. He married (2) Jane Jackson.

 Includes NotesNotes for Dionysious Oliver:
He, Dionysious, moved to Elbert County, Georgia which was then part of Wilks County. He served in the Revolutionary War as Captain of Privateer also with General Lincoln at the seiges of Savannah and Augusta, also battles of King's Mountain and Kettle Creek in Wilks County. Captured by the British. Told of many hardships. Home place was on Beaver Creek near Seuchcomb Meeting House where he died and was buried. Also had place in Wilks County on the south side of the Broad River in the Flatwoods, about 31/4 miles above the mouth of the Wahatchee River. There was a fort nearby called the "Block House" now Washington.

Was one of the most enterprising of the early settlers of Georgia. He was a pioneer realtor. No other early settlers caught the vision of the possibilities of tobacco culture and the consequent prosperity.

He was born in Petersburg, Virginia in 1735, son of Thomas Oliver and Mary McCarthy. In 1758 he married Mary Anne Winfrey, daughter of Valentine Winfrey of Chesterfield County, Virginia. Before 1779, they moved through South Carolina to Wilkes County, Georgia. In August that year he was a member of the grand jury in the court of Ayer the terminer held in the home of Jacog McClendon, Sr. by order of the Executive Council of Augusta, for the purpose of trying 9 tories, who were hanged a few days later.

In 1784, Dionysious Oliver gave bond to keep a ferry at the fork of the Broad and Savannah Rivers, where Thomas Carter formerly had a ferry. He sold this ferry to his son, John, in 1787.

The first tax digest of Wilkes County 1785, shows him as living in Captain Raglands District, owning 5000 acres of land. His sons Peter and John were also slave and land owners in that district. The Legislature passed an act February 3, 1786 authorizing Dionysious Oliver to build a warehouse on his land at the fork of the Broad and Savannah Rivers for the inspection and storage of tobacco. This warehouse was the nucleus of the town later called Petersburg in honor of his old home in Virginia.

More About Dionysious Oliver and Mary Anne Winfrey:
Marriage: Virginia.

Children of Dionysious Oliver and Mary Anne Winfrey are:
  1. +James Oliver, b. 1767.
  2. +Peter Oliver, b. 1763.
  3. Dionysious Oliver, Jr., b. 1768.
  4. Thomas Winfrey Oliver.
  5. William Oliver.
  6. Eleanor Oliver.
  7. Florance Oliver, b. 1775.
  8. +Martha Oliver.
  9. Frances Oliver.
  10. +John Oliver, b. June 1765, Petersburg, Virginia, d. December 24, 1816.

Children of Dionysious Oliver and Jane Jackson are:
  1. Jackson Oliver.
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