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| + | {{Citation:The Cherokee Land Lottery - Forward, page 1.jpg}} |
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| + | =Notes= |
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| + | <pre> |
| + | F O R E W O R D |
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| + | The last or 1832 Land Lottery of Georgia, made available for distribution and settle- |
| + | ment that part of the Cherokee Indian Nation which was in Georgia. This was a |
| + | large area generally north at the Chattahoochee River in the north west and north |
| + | central parts of the state. There were two distinct areas involved in this Lottery. One |
| + | part was the area referred to as the gold lots, lying along the south boundary of the |
| + | subject area, and the other part was referred to as the land lots. This book deals |
| + | only with the land lots as shown on the map following the Foreword. |
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| + | Georgia's western and northern boundary had been established in 1802 by the |
| + | cession of her western territory, from the Chattahoochee River to the Mississippi, to |
| + | the United States. Although this cession had provided for the peaceful removal of |
| + | all Indians within these boundaries, in 1828, the Cherokee still remained. Despite the |
| + | fact the Cherokee were a peaceful and agricultural people, in that year Georgia |
| + | extended her jurisdiction over them and named the area Cherokee County. Shortly |
| + | thereafter, the General Assembly, by the Acts at December 21, 1830 and December |
| + | 24. 1831. authorized the land to be surveyed and distributed by Lottery to citizens or |
| + | Georgia. In 1832 the surveyors laid oft the area in four sections, the sections into |
| + | land districts about nine miles square, and the land distracts into land lots of 40 |
| + | and 160 acres respectively. |
| + | |
| + | While the surveying was being carried out, those persons who had lived in Georgia |
| + | three years immediately prior to the Acts or the General Assembly, registered to draw |
| + | in the Lottery in their counties of residence. Their names, together with the numbers |
| + | or the lots and districts, were sent to Milledeville, then the capital at the state, |
| + | and on specified days tickets from two wheels or drums were drawn simultaneously. |
| + | one from the wheel holding the name tickets and one from the drum holding the |
| + | land lot tickets. In this way, a person knew which lot he had drawn and it he |
| + | subsequently paid to the state a grant tee or $18.00, a grant was issued to the lot |
| + | he had drawn. This grant from the State or Georgia was his title to the lot and from |
| + | that time he could do whatever he wished with his property, although the state did |
| + | not require that he live on it or cultivate it. |
| + | |
| + | Revolutionary War veterans were given extra draws and were indicated by the |
| + | letters “R.S." written after their names. Many other classifications are indicated by |
| + | initials, such as widows, insane, orphans, idiots, legitimates. etc. Ordinary married |
| + | men with their families, or bachelors, etc, are not designated by any initial. All |
| + | citizens participating in this and other Lotteries had to take only an ORAL oath when |
| + | they registered to draw. Consequently. there are no written records as to what they |
| + | may have said about themselves and their families. |
| + | |
| + | Immediately alter the Lottery or 1832 was held, the whole area or Cherokee County |
| + | was divided into ten counties. i.e., Cass [which was renamed Bartow in 1861), Cher- |
| + | okee. Cobb. Floyd. Forsyth. Gilmer, Lumpkin, Murray, Paulding and Union, all of |
| + | which were created in 1832. However, the original survey and grant records in the |
| + | Surveyor General Department of the Office of the secretary or state, always use the |
| + | name or the original county-Cherokee. |
| + | |
| + | The 1832 Land Lottery opened up the last area within the present boundaries at |
| + | Georgia. which heretofore had not been available to the white settlers and was |
| + | participated in try more persons than any other Lottery.</pre> |
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