1805 Georgia Land Lottery Fortunate Drawers and Grantees

Graham, Paul K.

Genealogy Co.

1805 Georgia Land Lottery Persons Entitled to Draws

This book is an index to the List of Persons Entitled to Draws for the 1805 Land Lottery and is a new transcription of the data in 1805 Georgia Land Lottery, published in 1964 by Virginia S. Wood and Ralph V. Wood. This list represents most of the households in the state in the year 1803 and is an invaluable substitute for Georgia's lost 1800 U.S. Federal Census. 1805 Georgia Land Lottery Persons Entitled to Draws corrects major errors and omissions found in the Wood publication. Using the power of a computer database, this new publication of land lottery participants includes verified and cross-referenced data. No Georgia census index collection is complete without this book. Entries contain: Number, Name and identifying remarks, County of residence, Draw result, Prize result (if a fortunate drawer) Book contains: 23,940 participants, 500 non-participants. 2005, 7x10, cloth, 648 pp.

The Genealogy Company

The 1805 Georgia Land Lottery was the first experiment of its kind in the United States. Partly in response to the Yazoo and Pine Barrens Land Frauds of the 1790s, the people of Georgia decided to distribute newly acquired lands using a lottery, thereby minimizing opportunities for corruption. Land lotteries had been used previously on a limited basis, but the distribution of public lands on a mass scale by lottery is unique to Georgia. New land was surveyed into square lots using public funds and then distributed by chance to eligible citizens. Widows and orphans, classes typically disadvantaged under the headright system, were specifically allowed to participate in the land lottery. As the first of eight Georgia land lotteries, the 1805 Land Lottery served as the operational model for those to follow and established districts and land lots as the foundational units of Georgia's survey system (over the township, range, and section). The purpose of this book is to document the record of title transfer from the State of Georgia to an individual for each land lot distributed through the land lottery process in 1805. The information contained in this book was compiled from a variety of sources, primarily the List of Persons Entitled to Draws, the grant books, and the Numerical List. Sources used that relate to specific events and requests include the Executive Department Minutes, records of the Georgia General Assembly, and three series of land lottery documents. In addition, the List of Fortunate Drawers, the Proceedings and Ledger of Fractions Sales, and the Index Leading to Page were used for verification purposes.

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Researchers studying the people and land of east Georgia should always have a ready map reference to watercourses and militia districts. Those two features are used to identify the location of land and residences, where streams often serve as property boundaries and tax and census records are arranged by militia district. This atlas is a functional research aid, with fifty individual county maps encompassing the entire region granted under the headright land system.

Atlas of East and Coastal Georgia Watercourses and Militia Districts

United States Utility Patents, 1836-1853

This book documents the earliest numbered patents issued by the United States. From the first patent act in 1790 through the summer of 1836, patents were not given a reference number. Instead, they were referred to solely by the name of the inventor and the date of issue. The practice of patents being numbered sequentially began in 1836, with patent number one issued in July. The sequence is still in place today: utility patent 7,000,000 was issued in 2006. In addition to utility patents, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office also designates design and plant patents. Design patents began in 1843 and plant patents began in 1931. The purpose of this book is to provide a record of the number, issue date, inventor, and title of the first 10,000 numbered patents, issued from July 1836 to September 1853. All of the information was abstracted directly from the published patent, rather than using a compiled patent index. The book includes a name index to inventors.

Admission Register of Central State Hospital, Milledgeville, Georgia, 1842-1861

This book contains the admission record for the first 888 patients admitted to the Central State Hospital in Milledgeville, Georgia. The hospital, the state's first mental institution, was authorized in 1837 and opened to patients at the end of 1842. Each patient record begins with a list of basic facts, with their name, county of origin, age, marital status, and other facts depending on the particular patient. The introductory information is followed by a description of symptoms that led the patient to the hospital, along with possible causes of illness. Records end with dates of admission then those for elopement (escape), dismission, or death. The number by each individual is the sequential patient number given in early admission records.

Few places in the United States feel the impact of courthouse disasters like the state of Georgia. Over its history, 75 of the state's counties have suffered 109 events resulting in the loss or severe damage of their courthouse or court offices. This book documents those destructive events, including the date, time, circumstance, and impact on records. Each county narrative is supported by historical accounts from witnesses, newspapers, and legal documents. Maps show the geographic extent of major courthouse fires. Record losses are described in general terms, helping researchers understand which events are most likely to affect their work.

Georgia Courthouse Disasters

Georgia Land Lottery Research

Georgia distributed three quarters of its public lands by lottery. The associated records are important for genealogists and historians who wish to document the land and the people who participated in these events. The grid survey system makes it easy to find land lottery lots today, and land lot numbers are included in legal descriptions of property from the grant to today. Land lot grants and plats form the first record of individual ownership of each tract of land in the lottery areas. This book is designed for researchers who wish to develop a foundational understanding of the land lottery survey system, the lottery process, and the records that provide documentation of this part of Georgia history.The book is a guide to researching the land lotteries on site at the Georgia Archives. After an introduction to the land lottery process and survey system, it includes a chapter outlining strategies for the most common research goals. Each research strategy leads to other chapters that explain major elements of the process in detail. The later chapters explain records of participants, fortunate drawers, grants, and plats. Following the fundamentals, a narrative chapter speaks to the variety of additional records that are important for land lottery research but do not apply to every lot. The final section of the book is organized by land lottery and includes key facts, maps, and records for each original land lottery county.

Georgia Genealogical Society

Georgia Military Commissions, 1798 to 1818

This book documents the name, rank, unit, and commission date of men who served as officers in the Georgia Militia from 1798 to 1818. It is an invaluable resource to anyone conducting research on the people who lived in the state of Georgia during that period, whether or not they were officers in the militia. Beyond documenting military service, the names of local officers are the key to correctly interpreting many historical documents. More than thirty-eight thousand men served as officers in the Georgia Militia between January 1798 and April 1860. This book contains abstracts of the 9,910 officer commissions recorded in the Adjutant General of Georgia’s Military Commission Books from January 15, 1798 to March 13, 1818. Officers found in this list served from the lowest commissioned rank of ensign all the way up to major general. It includes the names of more than 2,600 captains, almost 3,000 lieutenants, and more than 3,200 ensigns. They served in local companies, as well as specialized artillery, dragoon, and cavalry units. The details provided within don't just document military service, but provide crucial information for interpreting all sorts of historical documents in Georgia. Prior to the late-1840s, militia units, including companies, battalions, and regiments, were most often described using the name of the officer in command, even following the institution of a unit numbering system in 1804. With the data in this book, historians and genealogists now have a convenient cross-reference of named officers to numbered units, which will aid in the interpretation of early records like census enumerations, tax rolls, and land lottery documents.

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1805 Georgia Land Lottery Fortunate Drawers and Grantees

1805 Georgia Land Lottery Persons Entitled to Draws

1805 Georgia Land Lottery Fortunate Drawers and Grantees

Atlas of East and Coastal Georgia Watercourses and Militia Districts

United States Utility Patents, 1836-1853

United States Utility Patents, 1836-1853

Admission Register of Central State Hospital, Milledgeville, Georgia, 1842-1861

Georgia Courthouse Disasters

Georgia Land Lottery Research

Georgia Military Commissions, 1798 to 1818