In 1790 Wilkes Co., GA Tax Digest he (listed as Jahew Pew) is in Capt. John Collier's District (now Dist. 172 of Taliaferro Co.) and owned 500 acres of land in Wilkes and Washington Co. Also in this district are Jesse Pew, Mary, David, Samuel, James and, William Kinman, Amos and Isaac Stewart and John McGinty. Received 287 acres of bounty land in Washington Co. for Rev. War service. Drew a land lot in the 1805 GA land lottery. Moved to Jasper Co., GA (then called Randolph Co.) where he lived on the Ocmulgee River a few miles north of GA Hwy. 16. This land is now covered by Lake Jackson. He moved to Upson County and raised dairy cattle on land now occupied by Smyrna Church in the northern part of the county west of Hwy. 19. He made cheese from the milk which he carried to Macon to sell. According to an undated late 1830's Upson Co. Tax Digest he owned 405 acres in Upson Co., 202 1/2 acres in Lee Co. 767 in Jasper Co. and 152 1/2 acres in Butts Co. (land lot 152, 1st Dist.). Various deeds are found in the records of the above counties showing where his wife and children divided his property among themselves after his death.
Pugh, Jehu, trustee for orphs. of Jesse Pugh
Jehu Pugh was born 1760-66 in NC, moved to Ga. with his parents, later moved to Jasper Co., GA and finally to Upson CO., GA where he died about 1837