Georgia Land Lottery Research

Georgia Land Lottery Research
Author: Paul K. Graham
Publisher: Georgia Genealogical Society
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2010
Genre: Counties
ISBN: 0978991613

"This book is a guide to researching the land lotteries on site at the Georgia Archives"--Preface.

1807 Georgia Land Lottery Fortunate Drawers and Grantees

1807 Georgia Land Lottery Fortunate Drawers and Grantees
Author: Paul K. Graham
Publisher: Monoceros Press
Total Pages: 626
Release: 2021-02-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781947809048

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.

The 1833 Land Lottery of Georgia and Other Missing Names of Winners in the Georgia Land Lotteries

The 1833 Land Lottery of Georgia and Other Missing Names of Winners in the Georgia Land Lotteries
Author: Robert Scott Davis
Publisher: Southern Historical Press
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1991
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780893083380

"Farris Cadle ... discovered a Georgia law of 1833 that ordered thd fractional (less than 40 acres) land lots of the 1832 Georgia Gold Land Lot Lottery to be drawn from the remaining (losing) tickets of the two 1832 land lotteries. A search of the Georgia Surveyor General Department has turned up the list of some 1,500 Georgia citizens who won the lots dispensed in the forgotten 1833 land lottery."--Introduction, p. 1.

1805 Georgia Land Lottery Fortunate Drawers and Grantees

1805 Georgia Land Lottery Fortunate Drawers and Grantees
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2004
Genre: Georgia
ISBN: 9780975531204

"The Act of 11 May 1803 established the general process by which the land lottery would operate. The law outlined the creation of three counties and thirteen districts: five districts in Baldwin County, three districts in Wayne County, and five districts in Wilkinson County. Each district was to be surveyed into lots, containing 202.5 acres each in Baldwin and Wilkinson counties and 490 acres each in Wayne County. In the end, 4580 land lots were surveyed. All square (or whole) lots, as well as all islands containing more than 100 acres, were included in the land lottery drawing. All fractions were held out and sold at public auction in 1806"--Page [i].