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Paul H. Wilkins was born in the year 1768, in the Savannah area. He presumably grew to manhood in this locale and took up the carpenters trade as a young man. With the passing of his father in 1789, young Paul struck out on his own to make his fortune during this great era of opportunity that was creating a new nation. He became active in the building and real estate business and obviously possessed and aptitude for making sharp land and business deals. Through the advantage of the free land lottery he accumulated vast land and property holding in the outlying areas of Liberty County. Ho became respected citizen and planter and was a devoted family man that actively participated in the church and public affairs of the Sunbury-Midway-Savannah community. His accidental passing, in his late sixties, left a virtual empire of land and slave resources to his surviving children.
Publication Date
8-2-1979
Recommended Citation
Silva, J. R., "Paul H. Wilkins: Planter, Citizen of Early Coastal Georgia" (1979). Savannah Biographies. 111.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sav-bios-lane/111
