FootNote
The new kid on the block, FootNote is known for digitizing historical
documents... many of which are genealogical gems. With naturalizations,
city directories, war records, newspapers, town records, etc... this new
kid is quickly being recognized as an alternative to Ancestry.
While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
In 1802 Georga ceded to the US all the land between the
Chattahoochee and the Mississippi River, in return for a promise from the US
to remove all Indians from Georgia's reserve territory. "By purchase if
possible; by pressure if neccessary."
By an act of the Legislature in the year 1803, the new Purchase of lands
from the Indians west of the Oconee River was distributed under the first
Land Lottery system. Under it the public lands as they were from time to
time freed from Indian occupancy, were at public cost surveyed into small
lots of uniform size and marked, numbered and mapped, and the whole returned
to the Surveyor's General's office from whence by Commissioners chosen by
the Legislature for the purpose, caused all the lots to be thrown into the
Lottery Wheel, and to become fortune's gift as well as her own, to her own
people. (A.H. Chappell, Miscellanies of Georgia.)
By the treaty of Ft. Wilkinson in 1802, the Creek indians ceded part of the
district between the Oconee, and Ocmulgee. In 1804 at the Creek Agency on
the Flint River the Indians ceded the remaining territory east of the
Ocmulgee. Every white man, widow and orphan resident of this state was
entitled to one draw and every Revolutionary Soldier was entitled to two
draws.
