Colonial Records of the State of Georgia, Volume X, Part 9

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


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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 ( Agreeable to an order of Coun- cil in that Case lately made) and that he doth also regis- ter the said Grant in the register's Office of the said Province within Six Months from the date thereof that his Majesty may not be defrauded of his Quit Rents part of the prayer of the said Petition is granted vizt the elapsed One hundred and fifty Acres-


Petition of Richd. Wylly cept read and


Read a Petition of Richard Wylly setting forth that he had ordered him in August last five hundred Acres of Land the Warrant for surveying whereof was expired in its Term and the Land not laid out Therefore praying that the Surveyor General might be enabled and ordered to issue a new Precept on the said Warrant that a Plat of the said Land might be returned in Order to his Ob- taining his Majesty's Grant for the same-


RESOLVED That the prayer of the said Petition is


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Granted


granted And that the Surveyor General do issue a new Precept on the said Warrant as prayed for-


Petition of Willm Odam for 200 acres read


and


Read a Petition of William Odam setting forth that he had had one hundred Acres of Land ordered him and was desirous to Obtain an Additional Tract having a Wife two Children and five Negroes Therefore praying for two hundred Acres on the South side of Ogechee about two Miles below Land this day ordered Benjamin Johnson-


Postponed.


ORDERED That the said Petition be postponed until he produces a Certificate of his Character-


Petition of Thos. Castelaw for 150 Acres read


and


Read a Petition of Thomas Castelaw Setting forth that he was then an Inhabitant of the Province of South Carolina and being willing to Settle in this Province was desirous to Obtain Land for that purpose having a Wife ten Children and a Negro Therefore praying for one hundred and fifty Acres on the South Side of a Branch of Briar Creek about eight Miles from Land ordered George Walker


Rejected.


ORDERED That the said Petition be rejected-


Petition of Abram. Lamb for 100 Acres read


and


Read a Petition of Abraham Lamb setting forth that he had had two hundred Acres ordered him and was de- sirous to Obtain an Additional Tract having a Wife and Six Children Therefore praying for One hundred Acres between Land of Edward Barnard Esq' and Land of James Ogleby in St George's Parish on Boggy Gut-


Rejected.


ORDERED That the said Petition be rejected-


Petition of Han. Sheftall for 200 Acres read


Read a Petition of Hannah Sheftal Widow Setting forth that she had some time since ordered her One hun- dred Acres of Land in family Right which was after- wards found not to be vacant That she was possessed in her own Right of three Negroes for which she had Ob- tained no Land Therefore praying for two hundred Acres


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and


in the Parish of St Andrew which Tract was then-to-fore ordered Joseph Gibbons but the time was elapsed in which his Majesty's Grant ought to have been taken out-


Rejected.


ORDERED That the said Petition be rejected the same being this day re-ordered the said M' Gibbons on his Application for that purpose


Lamb's 200 Acres to be sur- veyed before Odam's 300 Acres.


Lamb On a Caveat entred by Abraham Lamb against


agt Abraham Odam's Obtaining a Grant for three Odam hundred Acres in St George's Parish here- tofore ordered the Said Odam the said Lamb having had two hundred Acres ordered him at the Same place the Matter came on this day to be heard And the Board was pleased to Order that Lamb's two hundred Acres be sur- veyed and laid out previous to the three hundred Acres ordered the said Odam And that the Surveyor General do direct the Same Accordingly-


A Grant for 50 Acres in Auga. to pass to Wm. Webster.


ORDERED That his Majesty's Grant for a fifty Acre Lot in Augusta Nº 28 heretofore ordered John Clark do pass to and in the Name of William Webster to whom the said Clark has resigned his Right therein-


His Excellency the Governour signed the following Grants vizt


Grants signed.


To Francis Arthur 140 Acres St Matthews Parish- Jesse Brasher 250 Acres Hugh Kennedy 1171/2 Acres William Mills 250 Acres Claudia Mullryne 500 Acres Abraham Odam Sen' 150 Acres Hannah Polhill Widow 1150 Acres James Stewart Esq" 2000 Acres John Adam Treutlen 50 Acres Josiah Tatnell 500 Acres William Young\ 350 Acres 2 150 Acres


St Matthew's Parish


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Grants signed. To Elizabeth Butler Widow


300 Acres 600 Acres 100 Acres 400 Acres


Eward Barnard 500 Acres


Israel Bird- 150 Acres Thomas Davis 100 Acres


Thomas Goldsmith 300 Acres


William Martin Johnson 700 Acres


Joseph Ironmonger 100 Acres John Adam Treutlen 300 Acres


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St Philip's Parish-


Edward Barnard 500 Acres John McLean 500 Acres


Thomas Maxwell [ 500 Acres


2 500 Acres


William Simpson Esq" 1000 Acres]


Elizabeth Burney & Son 300 Acres


William Bland 100 Acres


Sylvanus Bird 100 Acres


Nathan Cherry 200 Acres


Daniel Douglass 150 Acres


David Emanuel Jun 100 Acres


James Fletcher 100 Acres


George Galphin 1400 Acres


James Howell 100 Acres


S 100 Acres


Thomas Lewis 2 100 Acres


Roger Lawson 200 Acres


John MCLean 500 Acres


Isaac Perry 100 Acres


James Roberts 82 Acres


Thomas Sims 100 Acres


Gideon Dowse 500 Acres Andrew Johnson 450 Acres William McIntosh 100 Acres


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St Thomas's Parish-


St George's Parish


St David's Parish-


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Grants signed. To John Dobbins S 200 Acres 2 250 Acres James Jackson Robt 7 Crooke and Alex" (800 Acres }St Paul's Parish Mackintosh Francis Macarton & Martin Campbell Lot in Augusta


George Delegal 300 Acres in Christ Church Parish-


John Davis 400 Acres


St John's Parish


Thomas Perkins 200 Acres


Grey Elliott and John Gor-) don 250 Acres


Samuel Lewis 100 Acres Est Andrew's Parish-


Isaac Lewis 100 Acres


Joseph Lewis 100 Acres


John Lightenstone 200 -


Acres St Andrew's Parish- Roderic Mackay 500 Acres


Robert Fanshaw Esq" 1000 Acres


George Fox 200 Acres St Mary's Parish William Jones 500 Acres


Jacob Lockerman 400 Acres South side of the Ala- tamaha-


George Johnson Turner 300 Acres St Patrick's Par- ish ---


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GEORGIA At a Council held in the Council Chamber at Savannah on Friday the 27th March 1767.


Present


His Excellency James Wright Esq"


James Habersham Noble Jones Francis Harris


The Honble


James Edwd Powell Clement Martin | Lewis Johnson James Read


Esqrs


ORDERED On the Application of the Revª John Alex- Twenty five (sic) ander Missionary for the Parish of St John in this Prov- to be paid Mr. ince that twelve Pounds ten Shillings Sterling be paid Pounds ordered Alexander Mis-


sionary of St. him by the Treasurer for half a Years Salary commenc- for half a Years ing the ninth day of September last agreeable to an Act John's Parish salary. of the general Assembly intituled an Act for Stamping imprinting issuing and making current the Sum of Seven thousand four hundred and ten pounds Sterling in paper Bills of Credit which said Act provides the annual Sum of twenty five Pounds Sterling to be paid for the Main- tenance and convenient Support of a Minister for that Parish-


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GEORGIA At a Council held in the Council Chamber at Savannah on Tuesday the 7th day of April 1767-


Present


His Excellency James Wright Esq"


The Honble


James Habersham Noble Jones Jonathan Bryan James Edwª Powell Lewis Johnson James Read John Graham


Esqrs


Read a Petition of James Edward Powell Esq" setting Petition of J. forth that Some time Since he had ordered him One 2000 Acres read thousand Acres of Land on Ogechee River which he had E. Powell for Since resigned to Lieut John Stevens and was desirous to Obtain Land in Lieu thereof Therefore praying for in Lieu as aforesaid One thousand Acres on great Satilla River about a Mile above Land granted Robert Fanshaw and Esq" And also One thousand Acres on Purchase of Marsh Opposite thereto-


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 on his complying with the Order of Council in respect of the One thousand Acres granted On purchase-


Read a Petition of John Milledge Esq' Setting forth that he had lately purchased of one Frederic Myers Some Hammocks in Warsaw River contiguous to which were


Milledge for 130 Acres read


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and


Some Hammocks and Marsh very convenient for him which had never been granted to any Person That he had had Land granted him in Family Right but had several Negroes for whom he had never Obtained any Land Therefore praying for the said vacant Hammocks and Marsh lying contiguous to his said purchased Lands Supposed to contain about One hundred and thirty Acres-


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 Province within Six Months from the Date thereof that his Majes- ty may not be defrauded of his Quit Rents the prayer of the said Petition is granted-


Petition of Eliz. Butler for 500 Acres read and


Read a Petition of Elizabeth Butler Widow Setting forth that she was possessed of a number of Negroes for whom She had Obtained no Land Therefore praying for five hundred Acres at Coonochee joining Land there before granted her ---


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 she doth also register the said Grant in the Register's Office of the said Province within Six Months from the Date thereof that his Majes- ty may not be defrauded of his Quit Rents the prayer of the said Petition is granted-


Petition of Thos. Vincent read


Read a Petition of Thomas Vincent Esq" setting forth that he had twenty Negroes in the Province for whom for 1000 Acres he had never Obtain (sic) any Land Therefore praying for One thousand Acres on the north Side great Ogechee about two Miles above the Mouth of little Ogechee to adjoin four hundred Acres surveyed for John Adam


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and


Trieutlen on either Line that might be found conven- ient-


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 Province within Six Months from the Date thereof that his Majes- ty may not be defrauded of his Quit Rents the prayer of the said Petition is granted-


Petition of Jno. Mullryne for 200 Acres read


and


Read a Petition of John Mullryne Setting forth that he had then-to-fore Land granted him in Family Right but was possessed of many Negroes for whom he had Obtained no Land Therefore praying for two hundred Acres at a place called the Beaver Dams which said Tract was then-to-fore ordered for John Conyers and the Plat whereof was remaining in the Surveyor Gen- 'eral's Office elapsed in respect of the Time in which a Grant for the Same ought to 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 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 Jno. 500 Acres read


and


Read a Petition of James Theodore Rossell Esq" set- ting forth that he had upwards of twenty Negroes in the Province for whom he had Obtained no Land Therefore praying for Five hundred Acres Pine Land on the South Side of the Alatamaha bounding Easterly on Land laid out for a College and Southerly on a River called Mac- kay's River-


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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 the said 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 Agnes Bryan for 550 Acres read


and


Read a Petition of Doctor James Cuthbert Guardian of Miss Agnes Bryan (postponed the 6th January last) Setting forth that the said Miss Bryan was an Inhabi- tant of the Province and had nine Negroes therein and was desirous to Obtain Land on their Behalf having had none granted her Therefore praying for Five hundred and fifty Acres on little Ogechee to include four hundred Acres formerly petitioned for by Henry Myers-


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 she doth also register the said Grant in the Register's Office of the said 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 John Jones setting forth that he had Petition of John Jones for 200 Acres read been many Years in the Province has had no Land grant- ed him and was desirous to Obtain Land for Cultivation having a Wife and Child Therefore praying for two hun- dred Acres of Land at a Place called Dickinson's Neck to adjoin Land of William Thomas Harris which said and Tract was some years since ordered to Joseph Piercy but no Grant had been taken out for the Same-


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 Registers Office of the said Province within six Months from the Date thereof that his Majes- ty may not be defrauded of his Quit Rents the prayer of the said Petition is granted-


Petition of Robt. Baillie for 1000 Acres Purch. read


and


Read a Petition of Robert Baillie Setting forth that he was desirous to Obtain a Tract of pine Land for the con- veniency of cutting Lumber Therefore praying for on Purchase one thousand Acres of Pine Land on the South Side Sapalo River to join Land of Burgon Bord and Land of one Bates-


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 Province within six Months from the Date thereof that his Majes- ty may not be defrauded of his Quit Rents the prayer of the said Petition is granted on his complying with the Or- der of Council respecting Lands granted on Purchase-


Petition of for 500 Acres read


and


Read a Petition of Nicholas Horton setting forth that in December last he had ordered him Five hundred Acres of Land which on going to survey appeared not vacant Therefore praying for in Lieu thereof five hundred Acres on the South Side Briar Creek to join Lands ordered Johnson & Wylly and Land of William Colson and Sa- rah Bevill in St George's Parish-


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 Province within six Months from the Date thereof that his Majes- ty may not be defrauded of his Quit Rents the prayer of the said Petition is granted-


Read a Petition of Samuel Elbert setting forth that he


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Petition of Saml. Elbert for 450 Acres read


and


was born in the Province and carried on Business therein and was desirous to Obtain Land having eight Negroes and no Land then granted him Therefore praying for four hundred and fifty Acres being two adjoining tracts of three hundred and One hundred and fifty Acres in St Da- vids Parish then-to-fore ordered Mungo Graham deceased and for which no Grants had passed-


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 Province within six Months from the Date thereof that his Majes- ty may not be defrauded of his Quit Rents the prayer of the said Petition is granted -


Read a Petition of Lewis Turner setting forth that Lewis Turner some time since he had ordered him Five hundred Acres Petition of for 500 Acres read of Land on Ogechee which afterwards appeared to be in the Indian Boundaries That he had a Wife five Children and eleven Negroes and only had one hundred and twenty nine Acres of Land granted him Therefore praying for in Lieu of the said Five hundred Acres, Five hundred Acres and on the South Side great Satilla about a Mile and half above the upper trading House --


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 Province within six months from the Date thereof that his Majes- ty may not be defrauded of his Quit Rents the prayer of the said Petition is granted provided the Land be within the Boundaries of the province-


Petition of John Barrel for 300 Acres read


Read a Petition of John Barrel setting forth that he had been eighteen Months in the Province had had no Land granted him and was desirous to Obtain Lands for


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and Cultivation having a Wife two Children and one Negro Therefore praying for three hundred Acres on the north side of Turtle River to adjoin Land of Robert Savage-


Ordered to be reserved


ORDERED That the said Land be reserved for twelve Months-


Petition of John Barrel for 40 Acres read


and


Read a Petition of the said John Barrel Setting forth that he had had no Land granted him and was desirous to Obtain Land having a Wife two Children and one Negro Therefore praying for forty Acres bounding North and North East on Land of Christopher Ring South and West on the Barony Line and East on Nicholas Haner .-


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 regis- ter the said Grant in the Register's Office of the said Province within six Months from the Date thereof the prayer of the said Petition is granted-


Petition of Han. Sheftall for 150 Acres read


and


Read a Petition of Hannah Sheftall Widow setting forth that at the last Board she did petition for an elapsed Tract of Land containing two hundred Acres which had been then-to-fore ordered Joseph Gibbons which Petition was rejected as the said Gibbons at the Same Time pre- ferr'd a petition for the. Grant passing in his own Name That she was possessed of three Negroes and had Ob- tained no Land Therefore praying for One hundred and fifty Acres in Christ Church Parish which Tract was then- to-fore ordered and Surveyed for William Norman the Fiat whereof was laying in the Secretary's Office elapsed.


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 she doth also register the said Grant in the Register's Office of the said Province within six Months from the Date thereof that his Majes-


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


Petition of Robt. Hatcher for 100, 200 & 200 Acres read


and


Read a Petition of Robert Hatcher setting forth that he had had only one hundred Acres of Land ordered him and was desirous to Obtain an Additional Tract having a Wife five Children and four Negroes as before proved Therefore praying for One hundred Acres to join the Other One hundred Acres ordered him and also two hundred Acres to join Land of the Widow Cashell and two hundred Acres at a place called Bassett's Island lying on each side of a Tract of Land he had purchased of Edward Barnard-


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 Province within six Months from the Date thereof that his Majes- ty may not be defrauded of his Quit Rents the prayer of the said Petition is granted


Petition of John Claicler for 100 Acres read


and


Read a Petition of John Claicler Setting forth that he was lately come into the Province had had no Land grant- ed him and was desirous to Obtain Land for Cultivation having a Wife and eleven Children Therefore praying for One hundred Acres on Kenyon's Creek about three Miles above Augusta joining Land of Thomas Red-


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 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 Robert Graves setting forth that he


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Petition of Robert Graves for 100 Acres read


and


had been above two Years in the Province had had no Land granted him and was desirous to Obtain Land for Cultivation having a Wife and three Children Therefore praying for One hundred Acres on little River about seven or eight Miles above the Mouth and to include a Small Improvement whereon he lived-


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 Registers Office of the said Province within six Months from the Date thereof that his Majes- ty may not be defrauded of his Quit Rents the prayer of the said Petition is granted-


Petition of James Graves for . 200 Acres read


and


Read a Petition of James Graves setting forth that he had been about two Years in the Province had had no Land granted him and was desirous to Obtain Land for Cultivation having a Wife and Child Therefore praying for two hundred Acres about eight Miles above the Mouth of Little River and lying on the said 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 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 LeRoy Hamond (sic) for a Reserve of Land for two Persons fm. Virginia.


Read a Petition of Le Roy Hammond setting forth that Wood Tucker and Joel Threewits were arrived with their Families consisting of Wives children and Slaves from Virginia that they went before the Magistrates at Au- gusta and proved their Family Rights and Obtained Cer- tificates which Certificates the Petitioner inclosed in a. Letter lately to the Clerk of the Council but the same had not come to hand That he was well acquainted with the


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Parties and knew they had more family rights then (sic) the Land they asked for amounted to, but could not then charge his Memory with the Particulars Therefore pray -. ing that there might be reserved for the said Wood Tuck- er four hundred Acres on the Waters of Euchee Creek about twelve Miles above Augusta and three Miles dis- tant from a Brick House built by one Moses Dias, and three hundred Acres for the said Joel Threewits about two Miles from the said Tucker's Land only till such time as Petitioner could hear of his Letter or the Parties could get new Certificates And that Warrants might issue in the mean Time (in Consideration of the great distance) to lay out and ascertain the Same-


Granted.


ORDERED That the said Land be reserved as prayed for-


Read a Petition of Patrick O'Bryan Setting forth that Petition of Pat- he had had no Land granted him in the Province and was desirous to obtain Land for Cultivation having a Wife Therefore praying for One hundred and fifty Acres lying and within five Miles of Augusta to join Land granted Thom- as Red-


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 Registers Office of the said 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 Moody Burt setting forth that he Petition of Moody Burt for and had ordered him Some time Since two hundred Acres of 200 Acres read Land in St Paul's Parish which had been since ordered to other Persons and therefore resigned his Title thereto and desired to Obtain Other Land in Lieu thereof There- fore praying for (in Lieu as aforesaid) two hundred º cr-vol 10




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