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 Beyond documenting military service, the names of local officers are the key to correctly interpreting many historical documents.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provided within don't just document military service, but provide crucial information for interpreting all sorts of historical documents in Georgia.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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Graham, Paul K.

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1805 Georgia Land Lottery Persons Entitled to Draws

<p>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.</p>

1807 Georgia Land Lottery Fortunate Drawers and Grantees

<p>Even before the 1805 Land Lottery drawing had begun, pressure was mounting for Georgia to gain control over the remaining land between the Oconee and Ocmulgee Rivers. Less than three months after the conclusion of the 1805 Georgia Land Lottery, the United States purchased 2.2 million acres from the Creek Indians. The 1807 Land Lottery was structured almost identically to the 1805 Land Lottery, continuing the district and land lot survey system and repeating the use of a land lottery to distribute the land. 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 1807.</p>

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Georgia Military Commissions, 1798 to 1818

1805 Georgia Land Lottery Persons Entitled to Draws

1807 Georgia Land Lottery Fortunate Drawers and Grantees