Early Records of GA, Vol. I
                            By Grace Gillam Davidson

Wilkes Co.

Land Lotteries 1803-1806-1819-1821-1827-1832

Lottery of 1803

EXPLANATORY

The land given out in this lottery was obtained from the Creek Indians in the
treaty at Fort Wilkinson, June 16, 1802, and included “the Territory south of
the Oconee and Altamaha Rivers”. This land was divided into three counties,
Wayne, Wilkinson and Baldwin. The lots in Wayne consisted of 490 acres each,
those in Baldwin and Wilkinson 202.5 acres each, three thousand two hundred
and forty acres reserved for a town to be called Milledgeville.

Those entitled to draw were every free white male twenty-one years and upwards
, and an inhabitant of the state twelve months immediately preceding the
passage of this act, who had paid tax, one draw; every free white male having
a wife and one or more legitimate children, two draws; all widows having
legitimate child or children, two draws; all families of orphans having no
parents living, two draws.

No mention is made of military service in this act, and no provision is made
for soldiers of any war.

Georgia, Wilkes Co. We the Justices of the Inferior Court viz: BENJAMIN
PORTER, JAMES ANTHONY, THOMAS MOUNGER and RICHARD WORSHAM having met the 13th
day of June 1803 at the court house agreeable to the Governor’s Proclamation
for the purpose of receiving the names of the inhabitants of the county and
the draws to which they are entitled by an Act of the General Assembly passsed
May 11, last, Do hereby certify that the persons hereinafter named are
entitled to the number of draws designated by the figures one and two opposite
their names, viz:

p 308:   GEORGE BRYANT, 2 draws
p 312:   ARCHIBALD BRIANT, 2 draws
p 315:   NATHAN BRIANT, 2 draws
p 315:   LITTLE BRIANT, 2 draws
p 316:   WILSON BRIANT, 2 draws
p 326:   JESSE BRYANT, 2 draws




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