Note: The following is one of a series of columns looking at the first road systems in Georgia and Bulloch County. In the “Reports of the Majority and Minority of the Committee of the Senate on the Post Office and Post Roads” (1835), it was revealed that “between April 1, 1829, and Sept. 1, 1834, there had been 1,340 postmasters removed from office.” In addition, many stagecoach mail contractors also failed to deliver the services they had agreed to provide, as promised, if at all.