Georgia Land Lottery, 1827

Source Information

Ancestry.com. Georgia Land Lottery, 1827 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997.

Original data: State of Georgia. Recorder Office. Official Register of the Land Lottery of 1827. Milledgeville, GA, USA: Grantland & Orme, 1827.

About Georgia Land Lottery, 1827

Georgia began in 1805 to offer land to its citizens through lotteries. These lotteries often serve as useful substitutes for the lost federal census returns for the early 1800s in the state. The 1827 lottery dispensed lots in Carroll, Coweta, Lee, Muscogee, and Troup counties. Search this database for thousands of Georgians who were "fortunate drawers" in this unique land dispersal.

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Georgia, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890

This database contains indexes to the Georgia (U.S.A.) portions of the 1820-1830 and 1850-1870 U.S. Federal Censuses as well as to the 1840 Pensioners List, 1860 Slave Schedules, 1890 Veterans Schedules, and other early census and tax records.. Information contained in these indexes can include name, state, county, township, year of record, and name of record set.