Thomas Petters Carnes served as a colonel in the Maryland Line during the American Revolution and received bounty land in Franklin County, GA for his service. He was an American

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 lawyer

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 and politician

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 from Franklin County, Georgia

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. He served in the Georgia House of Representatives

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 at Milledgeville, Georgia

Milledgeville, Georgia

Milledgeville is a city in and the county seat of Baldwin County in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is northeast of Macon, located just before Eatonton on the way to Athens along U.S. Highway 441, and it is located on the Oconee River. The relatively rapid current of the Oconee here made this an...

, as a state court judge, and represented Georgia

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 in the United States House of Representatives

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 from 1793 until 1795. Carnesville, Georgia

Carnesville, Georgia

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 is his namesake. Although he considered Athens, Clarke County (created from Franklin County) his home, he died in Milledgeville, Georgia while there.