Birth and Early Years
Bulloch was born near Savannah, Georgia, the only surviving child of Major James Stephens Bulloch and Esther Amarintha Elliot, daughter of Senator John Elliott . After the death of his mother, his father enrolled James in private school in Hartford, Connecticut. Major Bulloch then married Martha (Stewart) Elliott on May 8, 1831. She was the second wife and widow of Senator John Elliott. James and Martha had four children: Anna Bulloch; Martha Bulloch; Charles Irvine Bulloch, who died at age two years nine months; and Irvine Bulloch.
In 1838 Major Bulloch moved his family to Cobb County in the upper Piedmont to become a partner with Roswell King in a new cotton mill there. In what would become Roswell, Georgia, the major had a grand home built, with the labor of craftsmen and slaves. When it was completed in 1839, the major and his family moved into Bulloch Hall.
Major Bulloch, a planter, also had land in cotton cultivation. After his death, in 1849 Martha Bulloch still held 31 enslaved African-Americans, according to the Slave Schedules.
James D. Bulloch married Elizabethe Caskie in 1851. After her death, he married Hariott Cross Foster in 1857, and they had five children.
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