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Granted.
RESOLVED That on Condition only that the Petitioner doth take out a Grant for the said Land within two Months from this Date and that he doth also register the said Grant in the Register's Office of this Province 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 Frans. Harris for 1000 Acres read
Read a Petition of Francis Harris Esq" setting forth that he had Land granted him but was possessed of twen- ty Negroes for whom he had obtained no Land Therefore praying for one thousand Acres on the Buffelo Swamp to
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adjoin Land granted Henry Bourquin the Land prayed for to be laid out in adjoining Tracts of five hundred Acres each, and Grants for the same to pass in the Name of Francis Harris his Son and Elizabeth Harris his Daughter --
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 this Province 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. Spalding for Grant to pass read
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Read a Petition of James Spalding setting forth that he had purchased of John Campbell (Son and Heir of John Campbell late of Frederica in this Province deceased) all his Right and Title of in and to a Town Lot in Freder- ica aforesaid with the Garden and Farm Lots thereunto belonging formerly allotted to his said Father deceased Therefore praying that the Truth of the Premisses appear- ing he might be permitted to take out his Majesty's Grant for the Premisses in his own Name and that the Sur- veyer General might be ordered to prepare and certify a Plan thereof for that purpose-
Granted.
RESOLVED That on Condition only that the Petitioner dothi take out a Grant for the said Land within two Months from this Date and that he doth also register the said Grant in the Register's Office of this Province 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-MIT George Houstoun attending and proving the Sale and Execution of the Receipt for the Consideration Money
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Read a Petition of William Porter setting forth that he Wm. Porter for Was settled in the Province had had three hundred Acres Petition of 200 Acres read of Land granted him and was desirous to obtain an addi- tional Tract having a Wife five Children and five Negroes Therefore praying for two hundred Acres in Christ and Church Parish at a Place called black Creek to adjoin- Land of Michael Boreman on the North West Side-
Postponed.
ORDERED That the further Consideration of the said Petition be postponed till Petitioner attends
Petition of John Quinlin
read
Read a Petition of John Quinlin setting forth that he had been seven Years in the Province had had no Land for 150 Acres granted him and was desirous to obtain Land for Cultiva- tion having a Wife Therefore praying for one hundred and fifty Acres in Christ Church Parish to adjoin Land and there granted William Young-
Postponed.
ORDERED That the further Consideration of the said Petition be postponed till Petitioner gives an Account of his Character-
Petition of John Stewart
read
Read a Petition of John Stewart setting forth that he was settled in the Province had had no Land granted him for 150 Acres and was desirous to obtain Land for Cultivation having six Children and (sic) Negroes Therefore praying for one hundred and fifty Acres in St Paul's Parish to adjoin Lands of one Lambecker between- Booth's Branch and and Kioka Creek-
Postponed.
RESOLVED That the further Consideration of the said Petition be postponed 'till Petitioner attends, and untill it appears that it is not in the Lines of Wrightsborough-
Read a Petition of Jacob Lewis setting forth that he had lately ordered liim One hundred Acres of Land which
Petition of Jacob Lewis for 150 Acres read was afterwards found not to be vacant Land, that he was possessed of three Negroes Therefore praying (in Lieu
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of the said one hundred Acres) for One hundred and fifty Acres on Lewis's Island Alatamaha to adjoin Land of Samuel Lewis West, and Land of Samuel Lewis and Abraham Lewis North, and Land of Isaac Lewis East.
Postponed.
ORDERED That the further Consideration of the said Petition be postponed
Petition of Aaron Moore for 200 read
and
Read a Petition of Aaron Moore setting forth that he had been many years in the Province had had one hundred Acres and fifty Acres of Land granted him and was desirous to obtain an Additional Tract having a Wife a Child and three Negroes Therefore praying for two hundred Acres at a Place called the three Runs opposite Mount Pleas- ant near or to adjoin Land there granted Philip Box
Rejected.
ORDERED
That the said Petition is rejected-
His Excellency acquainted the Board that altho' some Mr. Barnard or- of the Gentlemen at Augusta on the Removal of the dered to have the Use of the Officer's House and other Buildings at Fort Augusta. Soldiers from Fort Augusta had expressed a desire of having permission to make Use of the Officer's House as a Court House, and of one of the Flankers as a Prison, and said they would make a regular Application to him for that purpose; Yet they have omitted so to do, And that MT Barnard (to whom the Care of the said Fort had been committed on the Troops going away ) had informed him that the Garden Fence was pulled down and that he was apprehensive the Buildings would suffer and there- fore proposed that if he might be permitted to make use of the officer's House and the Buildings in the said Fort he would keep the Fort and other Buildings in as good re- pair as the same were when the Troops were withdrawn and that he would also keep the forty two Stand of Arms perfectly clean and in good Order and Condition, And that the said Fort and Buildings together with the Arms should be delivered up by him in like good order and Con- dition immediately whenever requested or otherwise de-
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sired that he might be entirely disengaged from any Charge or Care of the said Fort -His Excellency ob- served that M' Barnard's proposal in the general situation of Things seemed to him to answer every Purpose re- specting either the Fort, the Buildings or the Arms and desired the opinion of the Board thereon, Who were clearly and unanimously of opinion with his Excellency, and advised the Granting M' Barnard's Request on the Conditions stipulated-
It is therefore Ordered That M' Barnard have the use of the Officer's House and other Buildings in Fort Au- gusta accordingly-
Mr Maddock and some others having applied to his Road ordd. to Excellency to have their Road laid out It is therefore Or- be marked out fm Wrights- borough to the public Road.
dered That M' Edward Barnard do run out and Mark a Road from Wrightsborough Township in St Paul's Parish in the most convenient manner to the nearest Pub- lic Road-
His Excellency observing that he was apprehensive A Letter order- that the Justices of the Parishes of St Paul and St George ed to the Jus- tices of St. Paul and St. were sometimes imposed on by Persons who applied to George not to them for Certificates of their Characters in order to ob- grant certifi- cates of Peo- ple's Charac- Quarterly Courts. tain Lands to settle upon in this Province, Proposed that ters but at their no such Certificates for the future should be given but at the Quarterly Courts of Conscience appointed to be held by the said Justices for those Parishes And that the fol- lowing Letter should be sent to the said Justices for their future Guidance therein- Which the Board greatly ap- proved of-
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LETTER
At a Council held in Savannah on Tuesday the Ist August 1769-
Gentlemen
Copy of Letter.
I am directed to acquaint you that his Excellency in Council was this Day pleased to order that the Justices of your Parish do not henceforth give Certificates to any Person or Persons for the purpose of their obtaining Land in this Province or Swear them to the Number of Family but only at the Time of holding your Quarterly Court of Conscience And that every Certificate then given is to be signed by all the Justices Present : And no Cer- tificate will be received at the Council Board after the sec- ond Court Day from the Date of this Letter unless the same be signed by at least two Justices at such Court of which you will be pleased to inform such Persons as may apply hereafter to you and govern yourselves accord- ingly- I am &c
Land not to be granted betw. ORDERED That no Land be granted to any Person be- the lower trad- tween the lower trading Path and the Settlement of ing Path and Wrightsbor- ough.
Wrightsborough untill further Orders-
Two hundred acres ordd. John Jones in Wrightsbor.
On the Application of John Jones one of the Settlers in Wrightsborough Township It is Ordered that two hun- dred Acres of Land in that Settlement be granted him on Purchase to consist of the Slips of Vacant Land lying be- tween the Tracts already Surveyed for Richard Jones, John Stubbs and the said John Jones, And in Case the same do not contain that Quantity the Residue of the said two hundred Acres to be run out at the Head of the said John Jones's Tract-
His Excellency acquainted the Board that M' Carr the Collector of Sunbury the Security pro- posed by him Collector at Sunbury had formerly wrote to him respect- for due Execu- Ing the Security which the Commissioners of the Cus- tion of his of- fice approved. tomis at Boston had required of him to be given for the
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due execution of of (sic) his Office, whom they expected should be persons that his Excellency could Certify to be of sufficient Ability ; That M' Carr had then nominated two Persons, Viz' Button Gwinnett and Samuel Miller for that Purpose desiring his Excellency's Approbation ; But M' Carr had since informed his Excellency that the said Button Gwinnett declined being his Security; where- upon M' Carr nominated Thomas Goldsmith and the said Samuel Miller- The Board were of Opinion that the Persons nominated by M' Carr were of Sufficient Ability.
New Warrants ordered for 2000 acres to his Excelly.
ORDERED That new Warrants do issue for surveying two Thousand Acres of Land at a Place called Corn- parch'd Swam for his Excellency the Governour in two Tracts, the one to contain fourteen hundred Acres the other six hundred Acres. In Lieu of the like quantity ordered his Excellency on the seventh of March last at the same Place to be laid out in two Tracts of equal Quantity And that the Secretary do prepare the same accordingly.
Petition of Thos. Savage for 400 Acres read
Read a Petition of Thomas Savage setting forth that he was settled in the Province had had no Land granted him and was desirous to obtain Land having Ten Ne- groes Therefore praying for four hundred Acres in St Philip's Parish near or to adjoin Land there of Elizabeth Butler-
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 this Province 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-
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His Excellency the Governour signed the following Grants signed. Grants Vizt
To Joseph Butler 800 Acres William Way 200 Acres } In St John's Parish-
Samuel Clark 150 Acres David Cater 200 Acres
William Fox 100 Acres
James Galaspel 200 Acres George Jarman 100 Acres John Mulkey 100 Acres Elijah Sapp 100 Acres
Thomas Sims 100 Acres
Joel Walker 300 Acres Isaac Wimberly 150 Acres
In St George's Parish-
Richard Fox 200 Acres In S' David's Parish- William Fox 200 Acres
William Chandler 250 Acres- In St Paul's Parish-
Alexander Findlay) & 300 Acres In Christ Church Parish.
James Saymour
Samuel Stiles 500 Acres In St Philip's Parish-
James Mackay 500 Acres Samuel Miller 500 Acres
John McCulloch Jun' 100 Acres In St Andrew's Parish
Joseph Oswell 300 Acres Thomas Reddy 150 Acres John Simpson 150 Acres -i
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GEORGIA At a Council held in the Council Chamber at Savannah on Tuesday the 5th September 1769 -
Present His Excellency James Wright Esq"
James Habersham Noble Jones
The Honble ¿ Francis Harris Esqrs
Grey Elliott James Read
Petition of Clemt. Martin Junr. for 1000 Acres read
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Read a Petition of Clement Martin Jun' Esq' setting forth that he had lately ordered him One thousand Acres of Land in St Matthew's Parish (in Lieu of other Land he had resigned) but the same could not be found vacant Therefore praying for in Lieu thereof One thousand Acres on the Alatamaha to adjoin a Tract of eight hun- dred Acres there before ordered him-
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 this Province 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 James Read for 10002Acres read
and
Read a Petition of James Read Esq' setting forth that he was desirous to obtain an additional Tract of Land for Cultivation being possessed of Twenty Negroes for whom he had no Land Therefore praying for one thousand Acres on three Man Swamp in St Matthews Parish near Spirit Branch to adjoin Land this Day petitioned for by Christ- tian Zipperer to be laid out in an Oblong the Swamp be- ing narrow-
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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 this Province 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 L. McGillivray for 1000 Acres read
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Read a Petition of Lachlin McGillivray setting forth that he had Land granted him various Times, and was desirous to obtain an additional Tract having Twenty Negroes for whom he had obtained no Land Therefore praying for one thousand Acres to adjoin the upper Line of Land lately laid out to him in the Fork of Finhalloway and the Alatamaha-
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 this Province 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 John Rae for 200 Acres read
and
Read a Petition of John Rae setting forth that he had had Land many Times granted him but was possessed of more than four Negroes for whom he had obtained no Land Therefore praying for two hundred Acres in St Paul's Parish to adjoin South East a Tract already or- dered him the North Side of MeBean's Swamp on Savan- nah River- The Land prayed for was said to have been heretofore Surveyed for William Daubney ; but if so, was long since elapsed in respect of the Time in which a Grant for the same should have been taken out-
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
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said Grant in the Register's Office of this Province 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 Nathan. Hall for 1000 Acres (Purch.) read
and
Read a Petition of Nathaniel Hall setting forth that before he went to England lately he had a reserve of One thousand Acres of Land ordered him on Purchase but the same afterwards appearing to be Land that had before been ordered to Benjamin Finley deceased and by him devised to his Children Petitioner resigned his Right thereto and Grants had since passed to the said Finley's Executors for the purposes of the Will Therefore praying that in lieu thereof he might have granted him on Pur- chase as aforesaid One thousand Acres near the Indian Line near the upper Hoopie Path, and about four Miles Southerly of Land laid out to his Excellency the Gov- ernour-
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 this Province 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 Chas. Odensell for 650 Acres read
and
Read a Petition of Charles Odensell setting forth that he had been eighteen Months in the Province had had no Land granted him and was desirous to obtain Land for Cultivation having a Wife ten Children and fifty Ne- groes Therefore praying for three hundred Acres in St Andrew's Parish to adjoin Land there lately ordered Brice M^Cleland And three hundred and fifty Acres in the same Parish upon Snuff Box Branch surrounded by vacant Land and about five Miles from the Widow Me- Cleland's Land-
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Granted.
RESOLVED That on Condition only that the Petitioner doth take out a Grant for the said Lands within seven Months from this Date and that he doth also register the said Grants in the Register's Office of this Province with- in 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 John McLean for 500 Acres read
and
Read a Petition of John McLean setting forth that he had five hundred Acres of Land ordered him at last Board, had had in the whole two Thousand five hundred and sixty Acres and was desirous to obtain an additional Tract having a Wife seven Children and fifty two Slaves Therefore praying for five hundred Acres in St Mary's Parish on the south side great Satilla to adjoin Land there ordered Edward Ball and about two Miles from Land ordered him last Board- to be laid out in an Ob- long-
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 this Province 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 Ann Fitch Wid. for 500 Acres read
Read a Petition of Ann Fitch Widow setting forth that she had had granted her only one hundred and eighty Acres of Land and was desirous to obtain an additional Tract having twenty seven Slaves Therefore praying for five hundred Acres on Uchee Creek in St Paul's Parish near Locust Hill to include a Tract of four hundred Acres called Wood Tucker's which if ever surveyed is now elapsed-
Granted.
RESOLVED That on Condition only that the Petitioner doth take out a Grant for the said Land within seven
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Months from this Date and that she doth also register the said Grant in the Register's Office of this Province within six Months from the Date thereof that his Maj- esty may not be defrauded of his Quit Rents the Prayer of the said Petition is granted-
Read a Petition of Nathaniel Johnson setting forth that Petition of Nath. Johnson he had been in the Province and would be there again in for a Reserve of two Months at farthest with Negroes in order to settle and Land read improve Land Therefore praying for a Reserve for twelve Months of five hundred Acres in St Philip's Parish on the Main Branch of Black Creek near or to adjoin Land of and Jane Campbell ---
Granted.
ORDERED That the said Land be reserved as prayed for
Petition of Francis Arwin for 200 Acres
read
and
Read a Petition of Francis Arwin setting forth that he had had Land granted him in Family Right but was yet possessed of four Negroes for whom he had obtained no Land Therefore praying for two hundred Acres in Christ Church Parish to adjoin a Tract of Land there Purchased by him of David Montaigut which he was now settling-
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 this Province within six Months from the Date thereof that his Majesty mav not be defrauded of his Quit Rents the Prayer of the said Petition is granted-
Petition of And. Darling for 30 Acres read
Read a Petition of Andrew Darling setting forth that he had had Land granted him in Family Right but had a Child and two Negroes for whom he had obtained no Land Therefore praying for thirty Acres to adjoin East- ward on Land late of James Harley which Petitioner
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had purchased. South west on the Glebe at Midway and Northward on Land granted Nathan Way-
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 this Province 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 Stirk setting forth that he had Petition of John Stirk for ordered (sic) five hundred Acres of Land and was desirous 500 Acres read to obtain an additional Tract having a Wife a Child and six Negroes Therefore praying for five hundred Acres on the South Side of great Ogechee to adjoin Land there or- dered Joshua Stafford and to include One hundred Acres and heretofore ordered and surveyed for Silvanus Bird and elapsed-
Granted.
RESOLVED That on Condition only that the Petitioner doth take out a Grant for the said Grant (sic) within seven Months from this Date and that he doth also register the said Grant in the Register's Office of this Province 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 David Dicks setting forth that he had had three hundred Acres of Land granted him and was desirous to obtain an additional Tract having a Wife and fifteen Negroes Therefore praying for two hundred and fifty Acres in S' Matthew's Parish to include two hundred Acres heretofore ordered and surveyed for Philip Alman which was elapsed in respect of the Time in which his Majesty's Grant for the same should have passed for the same-
Petition of David Dicks for 250 Acres read and
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Granted.
RESOLVED That on Condition only that the Petitioner doth take out a Grant for the said Land within seven Monthis from this (sic) and that he doth also register the said Grant in the Register's Office of this Province 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-
Woodland for 100
Read a Petition of James Woodland setting forth that Petition of Jas. he had had Land granted him in Family Right having been many Years in the Province but had a Child and a Negroe for whom he had obtained no Land Therefore praying for One hundred Acres on Skidoway Island at a and Place called Chinkapin Thicket to adjoin Land of Inigo . Jones eastward, and Land of Roger Kelsal westward-
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 this Province 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 T. Quarterman for 300 Acres read
and
Read a Petition of Thomas Quarterman setting forth that he had had six hundred Acres of Land ordered him and was desirous to obtain an additional (sie) having a Wife four Children and eighteen Slaves therefore praying for three hundred Acres to adjoin five hundred Acres or- dered him at the last Board, it being for a Reservoir of Water to be laid out in an Oblong-
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 this Province with- in six Months from the Date thereof that his Majesty
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may not be defrauded of his Quit Rents the Prayer of the said Petition is granted-
Read a Petition of Thomas Shruder Esq" setting forth Thos. Shruder that he was desirous to obtain a Tract of Land on Pur- Petition of for 500 Acres (Purch.) read chase, which if granted he engaged immediately to settle and improve the same Therefore praying for, on Pur- chase, for the purpose of an immediate Settlement, five hundred Acres on the South Side of Coonochee about five and or six Miles below Land granted Charles Mearn.
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