Bonaventure Plantation, Savannah

Josiah Tattnall was born at Bonaventure, on his father's plantation near Savannah in 1762. His father and grandfather were Tories who fled to England during the American Revolution, their estates being confiscated. His father was Josiah Tattnall, Sr. of Beaufort, South Carolina who had settled on St. Augustine's Creek alongside his father-in-law, Colonel John Mullryne. Josiah, Sr. married Mary Mullryne and many of the old oak trees in the cemetery were planted in the shape of the letters "M" and "T". In 1771, Mullryne and Tattnall owned over 9,000 acres stretching from Ebenezer to Sunbury.