Note: The following is part of a series of columns looking at the founding and general history of southeast Georgia and Bulloch County. It was recorded in “A Digest of the Laws of the State of Georgia” (1800) that “Drury Jones, Andrew E. Wells, Stephen Denmark, Joseph Rogers and John Cook be…appointed commissioners with full and ample powers,” in Bulloch County. Their first task: “Erect a Court House and jail (for) the permanent seat (of the government) of Bullock.”