Rural Felicity

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Overview

1360 acre tract in Hazzards Neck was given by the State of Georgia to John Hardee for distinguished service in the Revolutionary War.

Southern bank of Little Satilla River

1787

Hardee, Hull, Berrie, Russell, Cone, Dilworth

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Black Point Plantation, Clinton Plantation, Hermitage Plantation, Hull Plantation called Little York, Laurel Isle, Spring Bluff, and Yellow Bluff

Major John Hardee, Thomas Ellis Hardee, John Hais Hardee, Noble Andrew Hardee, William Joseph Hardee, George Washington Hardee

The plantation house had stout foundation walls of tabby, a mixture of sea shells, lime and water which, when dry, becomes hard as rock. The foundation had a watertight stucco finishing layer, rising twelve feet from the ground two stories of well-constructed cypress or oak planking. Rooms flanked a central breezeway, and breezes from the river "refreshed the entire home...At the back of the house was a piazza running nearly the whole length of that side of the house.

The Camden County Census of 1830 indicates that among them, Major Hardee and his sons, Thomas Ellis and Noble Andrew, owned 114 slaves.

After the death of Major John Hardee in November 1838, his son, George Washington Hardee, was made executor of his father's will and assumed management of Rural Felicity, at the age of 33. After the death of his mother, Sarah Hardee, on October 1, 1848, George Washington Hardee, moved to Florida on the Suwannee River.

Camden County, Georgia - Camden's Challenge, A History of Camden County, Georgia, Compiled by Marguerite Reddick, Edited by Eloise Bailey, Virginia Proctor, 1976, page54
Three Southern Families, A History of Connecting Hardee, Jones and Davis Families of Coastal North Carolina, Lewis J. Hardee, Jr., 1994