Daniel Tucker

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Dan Tucker (February 14, 1740 – April 7, 1818) was a planter and ferryman.

He was born in Virginia, but took up residence on the Savannah River in Elbert County, Georgia, in the place called "Point Lookout". He was a soldier during the revolutionary war, a planter and a minister - but his chief claim to lasting fame was that he may have been the subject of the song "Old Dan Tucker" by Daniel D. Emmett.

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• Find-A-Grave website - most of his story can be read off the placard in one of the pictures there
• Tourist website with a long article about him