Wilkes County

Colonial Georgia 1773-1777 by Marion R Hemperley

The Earliest Settlements in Wilkes County Georgia

By Alex M. Hitz Alex M. Hitz was an attorney at law, who retired after thirty-five years of active practice in Atlanta. In 1956 he was in charge of the Surveyor-General Department under the Secretary of State of Georgia. From 1733 until 1773, the Parish of St. Paul was the most northern territory to which the Province of Georgia could claim any right or title under previous treaties with the Indian Nations. The dividing line between that Parish and the Indian lands began on the Savannah River at the mouth of Little River, and ran thence in a westerly direction […]

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