Colonial Records of the State of Georgia, Volume X, Part 22

Author: Candler, Allen D
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: Atlanta, Ga. : Franklin Printing ; Atlanta, Ga. : Chas. Byrd
Number of Pages: 1054

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Petition of Thos Flyming for a Reserve of Land read

and

Read a Petition of Thomas Flyming setting forth that he had had Land granted him and was desirous to Obtain an Additional Tract for the Use of a Saw Mill There- fore praying that One thousand Acres near Mount Pleas- ant to adjoin Land already granted him might be re- served for Eighteen Months-

500 acres re- served.

ORDERED That five hundred Acres of Land be re- served for twelve Months

Petition of Geo. Delegal for 500 Acres read

and

Read a Petition of George Delegal setting forth that he had had five hundred Acres of Land granted him and was desirous to Obtain an additional Tract having a Wife and Sixteen Slaves Therefore praying for five hundred Acres at the head of Turtle River near Land granted at the last Board to John Stevens-

Postponed.

ORDERED That the said Petition be postponed the Petitioner not Attending

Read a Petition of Richard Fitzpatrick setting forth Petition of R. that he was settled in the Province had had no Land Fitzpatrick for 150 Acres read granted him and was desirous to Obtain Land for Cul- tivation having a Wife and four Children Therefore

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and

praying for One hundred and fifty Acres upon the South side of great Ogechee butting and bounding between Land of Elisha Butler and Moses Nunes-

Postponed.

ORDERED That the said Petition be postponed the Petitioner not attending

Petition of John Morris for 100 Acres purch. read

and

Read a Petition of John Morris setting forth that he was Settled in the Province and was desirous to Obtain Land for Cultivation Therefore praying for on Purchase for a Cowpen One hundred Acres in St George's Parish between Lands granted David Cavenalı and Charles Wat- son Esq" and between the great Pond on Ogechee River --

Postponed.

ORDERED That the said Petition be postponed the Petitioner not attending-

Petition of Willm. Taylor for 200 Acres read

and

Read a Petition of William Taylor setting forth that he had been sometime in the Province and was desirous to Obtain Land for Cultivation having a Wife and a Child Therefore praying for two hundred Acres lying on the Beaver dams joining Land of one John Mercer-

Postponed.

ORDERED That the said Petition be postponed the Petitioner not Attending-

& L Sheftall for Barrel's Land read

Read a Petition of Mordecai Sheftall and Levi Shef- Petition of M. tall setting forth that they were the Prior Judgment Creditors of John Barrel late of Savannah deceased and that the said deceased had had a Warrant for about Sev- enty Acres of Land at or near Acton the Plat whereof was returned but the said John Barrel died before the grant for the Same was perfected Therefore praying that a Grant for the same might pass to them or to grant such other Relief in the Premisses as should be tought and (sic) fitt-

Postponed. ORDERED That the said Petition be postponed-

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Read a Petition of Thomas Smart setting forth that Thomas Smart he had been Six Months in the Province had had no Land Petition of for 200 Acres read granted him and was desirous to Obtain Land for Cul- tivation having a Wife and one Negroe Therefore pray- ing for in family Right two hundred Acres lying on the and Beaver dams joining the Upper Line of Thomas Coul- son-

Postponed.

ORDERED That the said Petition be postponed the Petitioner not attending-

Petition of Mark Ratcliff (sic) for 150 Acres read

and

Read a Petition of Mark Ratliff setting forth that he was settled in the Province had had no Land granted him and was desirous to Obtain Land for Cultivation having a Wife and two Children Therefore praying for One hundred and fifty Acres upon the White Mares pond joining M' MªDaniel's Land-

Postponed,'

ORDERED That the said Petition be postponed the Petitioner not Attending-

Petition of Richd. Mims for 100 acres read

and

Read a Petition of Richard Mims setting forth that he was lately come into the Province had had no Land granted him and was desirous to Obtain Land for Cul- tivation having a Wife and a Child Therefore praying for in family Right One hundred Acres upon the South side of Ogechee upon a Branch called Jumping Gully about a Mile below Land petitioned for this day by Thomas Blakeman-

Rejected.

ORDERED That the said Petition be rejected-

His Excellency the Governour laid before the Board A Letter read a Letter of M' George Galphin Relating to the Indians relative to the Settled upon Oconee River whose Hutts were lately fm Mr. Galphin Indians whose Huts were burnt. burnt by the Settlers' on little River And also inclosing . a talk sent by those Indians to the Nation a List of the

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dered the In- dians.

goods lost by them on this Occasion was also Inclosed and a demand was made of a Cagg of Rum for each of Recompense or- the Indian Houses Burnt, the Board taking into Con- sideration the friendly appearance of the Talk Sent by them to the Nation Unanimously advised his Excellency to have the Quantity of Rum demanded by them fur- nished by M' Galphin on the Governments Acct --

Mention, being also made in the Same Letter that the His Excelly. proposes that Mr. Galphin be tend when the is settled be: tween us and the Indians. Indians Understood the line proposed to be run in pur- desired to at- suance of the Treaty at Augusta in 1763 should go from boundary Line the Fork of Upton's Creek upon little River instead of (where is generaly understood) the Fork about twenty five Miles further up the said River by which Means Many of the Tracts of Land already Granted will be on the Indian Side of the Line His Excellency proposed to the Board that M' Galphin and some other Gentlemen should be desired to attend when the said Line is Run in Order if possible to Convince the Indians that the upper fork was understood at the Treaty to be the place from whence the said Line should begin and to have the said Line Run Accordingly which the Board Unani- mously approved of-

A Petition of Sundry Families to prevent Residents A Reserve 12000 acres of River ordered to be reserved for Sundry families from of in Orange County in the Province of North Carolina but lately from Pensylvania was presented to the Board and read setting forth that they were desirous to remove North Carolina. into and become Settlers in this Province and praying that a Reserve of Land for that purpose might be made for a certain time from the trading Path on Briar Creek (the Indian Line) to the Mouth of the Kioca from thence up Savannah River to the Mouth of little River and then to continue along the Indian Line to the Place of beginning And Joseph Stubbs one of the Petitioners being present was heard on the Subject Matter of the said Petition Whereupon It is Ordered that a Reserve

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be made for the Petitioners until the first day of Feb- ruary next of twelve thousand Acres of Land adjoining the Indian Line from little River and in Case ten Fam- . ilies of them shall by that time come in apply for and settle upon the said Lands Then a further Reserve shall be made of the Residue of the said twelve thousand Acres for the Space of Eleven Months then next follow- ing that is to say until the first day of January 1769-

ORDERED That Capt Thomas Goldsmith be directed to give an Account which of his Majesty's Officers have made any demand upon him on Account of the Grant made to him of Lands upon his Majesty's Proclamation and that if he has any Complaint to make against any of the Officers of the Crown for not paying due Obedi- ence to the said Proclamation that he make such Com- plaint in Writing-

His Excellency the Governour signed the following Grants vizt

Grants signed.

To James Brantley 200 Acres David Greene 200 Acres

James Goodall 211 Acres David Howell 150 Acres George Harnage 100 Acres Abraham Lamb 200 Acres Thomas Maxwell 350 Acres. Wm MeDonald 250 Acres Thomas Morgan 100 Acres James Roberts 150 Acres Reason Whitehead 200 Acres John Young 250 Acres

St George's Parish

John Bradford 250 Acres Paul Fulton 100 Acres

SI00 Acres

John Grant 1350 Acres

St Andrew's Parish

Charles McDonald 100 Acres John Wetherspoon 100 Acres Abraham Williams 1000 Acres

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Grants signed. To James Butler 300 Acres Benjamin Fox 250 Acres John Raddick 300 Acres Thomas Young 662 Acres

S' Philip's Parish

James Jones 200 Acres Thomas Maxwell 200 Acres

John Martin $350 Acres

2150 Acres

S' David's Parish

Robert Savage 150 Acres

Lachlan McGillivray Garden Lots

Peter Reitter 50 Acres

Christ Church Parish

Paula Sunier 100 Acres

Lenoard Claiborne Jun" [ 150 Acres St Paul's Parish 2900 Acres

Thomas Peacock [700 Acres? 100 Acres

St John's Parish

William Gambell 450 Acres St Thomas Parish

John Mullryne 200 Acres St George & St Matthew's Parish

James Bruce 100 Acres St James's Parish 20 c r-vol 10

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GEORGIA At a Council held in the Council Chamber at Savannah on Thursday the 17th day of Sept™ 1767

Present His Excellency James Wright Esq"

The Honble James Habersham 1

Noble Jones- Lewis Johnson James Read-

Esqrs

The Commissary's Account of Contingent Expences Accounts of contingent Ex- penses and of from Midsummer 1766 to Midsummer 1767 and the the Silk Culture Account of Expences of the Silk Culture for the present audited.

Year were laid before the Board Audited and passed-

GEORGIA At a Council held in the Council Chamber at Savannah on Tuesday the 6th October 1767

Present

His Excellency James Wright Esq"

The Honble

James Habersham Noble Jones Francis Harris James Mackay James Edwd Powell Grey Elliott Clement Martin John Graham --- Lewis Johnson

Esqrs

Read a Petition of Elisha Butler setting forth that in

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Petition of Elisha Butler to rnn his Land in pticular Manner read

and

May last he had ordered him One thousand Acres of Land in the Parish of St Philip for the Purpose of a Saw Mill. That upon Surveying the Same upwards of three hundred Acres appear to have been totally Stript of Timber by a Hurricane Therefore praying that he might be permitted to run the said Tract of Land in Such Manner as to Leave out the useless Land-

Granted.

RESOLVED That on Condition only that the Petitioner doth take out a Grant for the said Land within seven Months from this Date and that he doth also Register the said Grant in the Register's Office of the said Prov- ince within Six Months from the Date thereof that his Majesty may not be defrauded of his Quit Rents the prayer of the said Petition is granted-

Read a Petition of John Wertsch setting forth that he Petition of John Wertsch read had had granted him Two hundred Acres of Land and for 100 Acres tyas desirous to Obtain an Additional Tract having a Wife and three Negroes Therefore praying for One hun- and dred Acres Over great Ogechee on black Creek a Quar- ter of a Mile above Land of John Flerl Jun™

Granted.

Petition of Patrick Reily for 1000 Acres read and

Read a Petition of Patrick Reily setting forth that he was lately arrived in the Province in Order to become a Settler and was desirous to Obtain Land for that pur- pose having twenty Negroes Therefore praying for One thousand Acres on great Satilla River at a Place there called Bull's Head Bluff-

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Granted.

Petition of Wm. O'Bryan for 600 Acres read

and

Read a Petition of William O'Brian setting forth that he was settled in the Province and was desirous to Ob- tain Land for Cultivation having Seventeen Negroes and no Land yet granted him Therefore praying for Six hundred Acres of Pine Land for Lumber to be upon the head Lines of Land ordered Matthew Roche and John Patten about thirty five Miles up Savannah River-

Granted.

RESOLVED That on Condition only that the Petitioner doth take out a Grant for the said Land within seven Months from this Date and that he doth also register the said Grant in the Register's Office of the said Prov- ince within Six Months from the Date thereof that his Majesty may not be defrauded of his Quit Rents the prayer of the said Petition is granted-

Petition of Wm. Moore for 60 Acres r

and

Read a Petition of William Moore setting forth that he was settled in the Province had had no Land granted him and was desirous to Obtain Land for Cultivation having a Wife and four Negroes Therefore praying for three hundred and fifty Acres on little Satilla to adjoin Land there lately ordered Matthew Mauve-

Granted.

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Fox for 100 & 150 Acres read

and

Read a Petition of Benjamin Fox setting forth that he had had five hundred and fifty Acres of Land granted him and was desirous to Obtain an Additional Tract having a Wife two Children and Eight Negroes There- fore praying for One hundred Acres in Family Right and One hundred and fifty Acres adjoining on Purchase bounding South westerly and Part Easterly on Lands purchased by the Petitioner at a Place called the two holes upon little Ogechee-

Granted.

RESOLVED That on Condition only that the Petitioner doth take out Grants for the said Land within seven Months from this Date and that he doth also Register the said Grants in the Register's Office of the said Prov- ince within Six Months from the Date thereof that his Majesty may not be defrauded of his Quit Rents the prayer of the said Petition is granted-

Petition of Matthias Ash for 400 Acres read

and

Read a Petition of Matthias Ash setting forth that he had heretofore Obtained a Grant for four hundred Acres of Land which was since deemed a Part of the Province of South Carolina and was desirous to Obtain Land in Lieu thereof having a Wife and five Negroes Therefore praying for four hundred Acres on the South Side great Satilla near a Place called the old Town-

Granted.

Petition of John Waters for 150 Acres read

Read a Petition of John Waters setting forth that he had been some Years in the Province had had no Land granted him and was desirous to Obtain Land for Culti-

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and

vation having a Wife Therefore praying for One hun- dred and fifty Acres in Hallifax District to join Land of James Roberts on a Branch called crooked Branch-

Granted.

Petition of James Garvey for 200 Acres read

and

Read a Petition of James Garvey setting forth that he had faithfully served his Majesty as a Non-commis- sioned Officer in his Majesty's royal Regiment of Foot commanded by Lieutenant general James St Clair and was desirous to Obtain Land in Virtue of his Majesty's royal Proclamation being regularly discharged There- fore praying for Two hundred Acres upon the head of Rocky Creek to adjoin Land granted William Downey-

Granted.

Petition of Geo. Eason for 150 Acres read

and

Read a Petition of George Eason setting forth that he had been nine Months in the Province had had no Land granted him and was desirous to Obtain Land for Cul- tivation having a Wife and six Children Therefore pray- ing for One hundred and fifty Acres upon David's Spring to adjoin Land of John Lott Jun" and James Fletcher-

RESOLVED That on Condition only that the Petitioner

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Granted.

doth take out a Grant for the said Land within seven Months from this Date and that he doth also Register the said Grant in the Register's Office of the said Prov- ince within Six Months from the Date thereof that his Majesty may not be defrauded of his Quit Rents the prayer of the said Petition is granted-

Read a Petition of Richard Burford setting forth that Richd. Burford he was lately come into the Province had had no Land Petition of for 150 Acres read granted him and was desirous to Obtain Land for Culti- vation having a Wife Child and Negroe Therefore pray- and ing for One hundred and fifty Acres upon the North Side Ogechee about a Mile above John Goldwire's Line-

Granted.

tition of S Prethro for 150 Acres read and

Read a Petition of Solomon Prethro setting forth that he had been Many Years in the Province had had no Land granted him and was desirous to Obtain Land for Cultivation having a Negroe Therefore praying for One hundred and fifty Acres upon the upper Beaver Dams at a Place called Howell's Cabin-

Granted.

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Petition of Pe- ter Stedler for 100 Acres read

and

Read a Petition of Peter Stedler setting forth that he had been some Years in the Province had had no Land granted him and was desirous to Obtain Land for Culti- vation having a Wife three Children and one Negroe Therefore praying for two hundred Acres in St George's Parish lying near the Kings Road to include the Bay joining the front upper Corner of Land whereon he was settled-

Granted.

Petition of H. Matthewson for 300 Acres read

and

Read a Petition of Hugh Matthewson setting forth that he had had ordered him three hundred Acres of Land which on going to Survey was found not to be vacant Therefore praying for in Lieu thereof Three hun- dred Acres on the North side great Satilla River to join Land of David Palmer-

Granted

RESOLVED That on Condition only that the Petitioner doth take out a Grant for the said Land within seven Months from this Date and that he doth also register the said Grant in the Register's Office of the said Prov- ince within six Months from the Date thereof that his Majesty may not be defrauded of his Quit Rents the Prayer of the said Petition is granted-

Petition of Jas. Westley for 100 Acres read

Read a Petition of James Westley setting forth that he had had Land granted him and was desirous to Obtain an Additional Tract having a Wife and Six Negroes

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and

Therefore praying for One hundred Acres on the back of the Canes within Six Miles from Darian to adjoin Land of the Widow Grant and one Houstoun-

Granted

Petition of Henry Sharp for 200 Acres read

and

Read a Petition of Henry Sharp setting forth that he had had ordered him Two hundred and fifty Acres of Land on Bark Camp Creek on a Branch of Ogechee which on going to Survey was found not to be vacant Therefore praying for in Lieu thereof Two hundred Acres on Ogechee to join Land ordered Eisom Roberts-

Granted.

Petition of Robt. Hudson for 400 Acres read

and

Read a Petition of Robert Hudson setting forth that he had had four hundred and fifty Acres of Land granted him and was desirous to Obtain an Additional Tract having a Wife five Children and Twelve Slaves There- fore praying for four hundred Acres on Briar Creek joining Land of Richard Begley to be run in a long Square down the Creek to include One hundred Acres before ordered James Stewart but since elapsed in the Surveyor general's Office-

RESOLVED That on Condition only that the Petitioner

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Granted.

doth take out a Grant for the said Land within seven Months from this date and that he doth also register the the said Grant in the Register's Office of the said Prov- ince within Six Months from the Date thereof that his Majesty may not be defrauded of his Quit Rents the prayer of the said Petition is granted the Land neverthe- less to be laid out Agreeable to the Instructions given by the Surveyor General to his Deputies-

Petition of Chas. Hudson for 100 Acres read

and

Read a Petition of Charles Hudson setting forth that he had had granted him One hundred Acres of Land and was desirous to Obtain an Additional Tract having a Wife three Children and two Negroes Therefore pray- ing for One hundred Acres upon Barton's Branch to adjoin Land of Robert Hudson and Richard Scruggs-

Granted.

RESOLVED That on Condition only that the Petitioner doth take out a Grant for the said Land within Seven Months from this Date and that he doth also register the said Grant in the Register's Office of the said Prov- ince within Six Months from the Date thereof that his Majesty may not be defrauded of his Quit Rents the prayer of the said Petition is granted-

Wertman for 250 Acres read

Read a Petition of Ludwig Wertman setting forth Petition of L. that he had had One hundred Acres of Land granted him and was desirous to Obtain an Additional Tract having a Wife four Children and two Negroes There- fore praying for Two hundred and fifty Acres in St Mat- and thew's Parish in the Fork of Townsends Spring Branch-

Granted.

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Majesty may not be defrauded of his Quit Rents the prayer of the said Petition is granted-

Cavenah for 150 Acres read

Read a Petition of David Cavenah setting forth that Petition of D. he had had One hundred Acres of Land granted him and was desirous to Obtain an Additional Tract There- fore praying for on Purchase One hundred and fifty and Acres on the Turkey Pond near Ogechee for the use of a Cowpen-

Granted

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Colonial Records of the State of Georgia, Volume X, Part 22

Author: Candler, Allen D Publication date: 1904 Publisher: Atlanta, Ga. : Franklin Printing ; Atlanta, Ga. : Chas. Byrd Number of Pages: 1054

Author: Candler, Allen D
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: Atlanta, Ga. : Franklin Printing ; Atlanta, Ga. : Chas. Byrd
Number of Pages: 1054