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The town is named Jennings for the people who settled it.

Many of Hamilton County's settlers migrated from Georgia and The Carolina's.

One such settler was George Jennings, who was born in Cambridgeshire, England in 1790.

George Jennings had two sons, William and George.

Local tradition associates the name of the town of Jennings with the family.

The Jennings family settled above Micco Town on the Alapaha river.

Indian tribes lived at Micco Town.

From 1825 to 1842-seventeen years of trial and hardship were experienced by those who lived in Hamilton County.

The Jennings family pursued the even tenor of its way and helped by their exertion and example in building up the county and driving the native Americans from its borders.

As did other families.

According to the field notes of Thomas White, who surveyed the Hamilton County regions in 1825, the Jennings area was rich in fertile soil, but was sparsely populated.

Some of the early inhabitants who purchased land were James S. Lewis, Dixon T. Cross, and Jerimiah B. Smith.