"This book is a guide to researching the land lotteries on site at the Georgia Archives"--Preface.

"The Act of 11 May 1803 established the general process by which the land lottery would operate. The law outlined the creation of three counties and thirteen districts: five districts in Baldwin County, three districts in Wayne County, and five districts in Wilkinson County. Each district was to be surveyed into lots, containing 202.5 acres each in Baldwin and Wilkinson counties and 490 acres each in Wayne County. In the end, 4580 land lots were surveyed. All square (or whole) lots, as well as all islands containing more than 100 acres, were included in the land lottery drawing. All fractions were held out and sold at public auction in 1806"--P. [i].

Even before the 1805 Land Lottery drawing had begun, pressure was mounting for Georgia to gain control over the remaining land between the Oconee and Ocmulgee Rivers. Less than three months after the conclusion of the 1805 Georgia Land Lottery, the United States purchased 2.2 million acres from the Creek Indians. The 1807 Land Lottery was structured almost identically to the 1805 Land Lottery, continuing the district and land lot survey system and repeating the use of a land lottery to distribute the land. The purpose of this book is to document the record of title transfer from the state of Georgia to an individual for each land lot distributed through the land lottery process in 1807.

Georgia Land Surveying History and Law is the first definitive history and analysis of Georgia’s land system and the laws that govern it. The book’s opening section tells the story of the surveyor’s role in transforming Georgia from a frontier to a bounded, populated, and productive colony and state. Paced by anecdotes of surveyors’ wilderness experiences, the narrative traces the evolution of Georgia’s land subdivision system, beginning with the original, and ultimately impractical, scheme of land granting and rectangular land subdivision under the Trustees of the Georgia Colony. The volume then covers the more flexible but easily abused headright procedure, and the subsequent lottery and succession of systematic, rectangular surveys under which most of the state was laid out and granted in the early nineteenth century. Finally, in lay terms supported by meticulous citation of authority, the volume discusses the legal aspects of land surveying, including the interests that make up land ownership, the transfer of real property, the interpretation of property descriptions, the location of boundaries, riparian and littoral rights, and other topics. The book examines every point concerning boundaries found in any Georgia case or statute. Based solidly on primary sources and the author’s fifteen years of experience in land surveying and title abstracting, Georgia Land Surveying History and Law is an exhaustively researched and scholarly reference that will be useful to surveyors, title attorneys, title abstractors, real estate professionals, geographers, cartographers, historians, and genealogists.

"Farris Cadle ... discovered a Georgia law of 1833 that ordered thd fractional (less than 40 acres) land lots of the 1832 Georgia Gold Land Lot Lottery to be drawn from the remaining (losing) tickets of the two 1832 land lotteries. A search of the Georgia Surveyor General Department has turned up the list of some 1,500 Georgia citizens who won the lots dispensed in the forgotten 1833 land lottery."--Introduction, p. 1.

By: Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr., Pub. 1968, reprinted 2022, 382 pages, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-585-8. Unlike other Land Lottery books on Georgia, this book "the 1820" is NOT and will not be available for reviewing on the internet. If you want it, you will need to buy it here in book format. This lottery created 8 new counties: Appling, Early, Gwinnett, Habersham, Hall, Irwin, Raburn, and Walton, which in later years have been further divided into some 48 other counties. This book is arranged in alphabetical order by surname. This book lists 30,000 fortunate drawers. In general, the researcher will be able to gleam many different types of information from the Georgia's Land Lotteries. The eligibility requirements of each of the Lotteries offer genealogist legal evidence of citizenship, resident in Georgia, age, family, and material status, physical infirmities and possibly service in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 or Indian Wars.

Researchers studying the people and land of east Georgia should always have a ready map reference to watercourses and militia districts. Those two features are used to identify the location of land and residences, where streams often serve as property boundaries and tax and census records are arranged by militia district. This atlas is a functional research aid, with fifty individual county maps encompassing the entire region granted under the headright land system.

By: Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr., & Robert S. Davis, Jr. Editors, Pub. 1979, Reprinted 2014, 366 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-156-6. This book is a compilation of the loose petitions, oaths, letters, and other papers of the winners in Georgia's seven Land Lotteries. These winners and/or their heirs are NOT included in ANY of the other Land Lottery Books. These loose papers were omitted from the other land lottery books as their whereabouts were unknown when they were being compiled. These records were shoved into a box as single pages of old loose papers in the basement of the archives. This volume contains information on more than 3,000 individuals.

The Second edition of Georgia Research published by The Georgia Genealogical Society, is an essential guide for anyone researching Georgia ancestors. This comprehensive guide includes a wide array of sources, facts, and data to assist with genealogical and historical research. Included in the guide are sources for each Georgia county along with historical maps plus information on Georgia land lotteries, census schedules, military records, passenger lists, naturalization records, tax records, cemeteries, historic newspapers, Indian records and African American records. Written by experts in Georgia genealogical research, Georgia Research is an indispensable resource for those just starting their search as well as the experienced researcher.