ZUB'LY, .Joss JOACHIM (1725-8I). A Swiss American clergyman, born at Saint Gall, Switzer land. He was ordained to the Presbyterian min istry about 1744, subsequently emigrated to America, held a pastorate for some time in South Carolina, and in 1760 became the first regular pastor of the Independent Presbyterian Church in Savannah, Ga. He was a man of profound learning. was an able speaker and a skillful writer, and had a great influence among the people of Georgia. In the pre-Revolutionary controversies between the American colonies and the British Ministry, he was a vigorons partisan of the colonists, and both as a speaker and as a pamphleteer greatly aided their cause in Georgia. He was an active member of the Provincial Con gress of Georgia in 1775. and was sent as one of Georgia's delegates to the Continental Congress in the same year. 'Though opposed to the acts of the British Ministry and in favor of armed re sistance, he contended against independence, and, after being detected in a questionable corre spondence with Sir James Wright, the royal Gov ernor of Georgia, he fled from Congress, and became an open Loyalist in Georgia. in 1777
he was banished from Savannah, and his prop erty was confiscated. Be then lived in South Carolina fur a time. and after Wright was re instated as Governor of Georgia returned to Savannah, where he remained until his death. His publications include: The Real Christian's Mope in Death (1756) : The Stamp Act Repealed (1706); in Humble Inquiry into the Vat I re of the Dep. ndrney of the inerican Colonies upon the Parhamint of Great Britain and the Riyht of Parliament to Lay Taxes on the Said Colonies (1769), his best known pamphlet; and The Lau, of Lib( rty (1775),