1821 Land Lottery, Fortunate Drawers, Wilkinson County

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1821 Georgia Land Lottery Registers. 1 - 7 **Fortunate Drawers, Wilkinson County**
Register No. 1 Abner Woodall; Arthur Randol; Joel Jackson; Wm Davis; Thos Sherrer Joseph Yaborough; John F. Simmons; Frederick Doeman; Lewis Mobley; Jesse Brown, Sen.; Samuel Etheridge; John Malpress; Brady's orphans; Thos McGinty Register No. 2 Jacob Boon; John Winters; Jas Welch Philomon Conoly; Philip Pitman; Mills Jackson; Jas Wade; Jas Smith F Creek; Wm Harden	Register No. 3 Cader Keaton; Rafael Bell; Jesse Thrower John J. Stanton; Deen Rye's orphans; Violetter Rutler, wid; Wm Willoby; Wm Jenkins; John Ward; Samuel Meredith Ezekial Veasey; Elisha Holt; ordan Williams Wm Smith, jr; Benj Stubbs; Lawder Mims Robert Salter; John D Perdue; Samuel Howard; Patrick McCallum	Register No. 4 John Grantham; Henry W Shows; Amos Barnes; Margaret Guery, wid; James Burns Thos Garrison's orps; Nathan Jackson Richard Sherrer; Amos Kings; Jas Baggett's orps; Samuel Sanders; Jas Mckay; Geo Shinholster; Smith's orphans Register No. 5 Bryant Collins; Sally Majors, wid; Renney J Smith; Benjamin Mains; John English
Register No. 6 Wiliam Baker, sen; Jas Howel; Jas G Davis Adam Benan; Wm Lindsey; John Hancock; Martin Young; Susannah Fountain, wid; Mary Passmore, wid; Winlock Pearson; John Gatlin; Daniel M. Hall	Register No. 7 Stephen Harris; John Bowen, sen; Buxdei Bell' Joseph C??; Wm O Baskins; Jacob Shiver, jr ; David Adams; Abner Woodall John Morrow; Daniel Childers; Moore Avers; Thomas Gray, jr; Charles Porter Reason Jenkins Additions: Whitmell Currey; Henry Fountain; Martin Chester; James Branan; Stephen Evans Augusta Chronicle August 6, 1821

Authority: Act of May 15, 1821
Year of Drawing: 1821
Date of Drawing: November 7, 1821-December 12, 1821
Former Creek Indian Land, To dispose of and distribute the lands lately acquired by the United States for the use of Georgia, of the Creek Nation of Indians, by a treaty made and concluded at the Indian Spring, on the eighth day of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-one; and to add the Reserve at Fort Hawkins to the county of Jones.
Counties
Dooly: 16 districts (1-16)
Fayette: 4 districts ( 6,7,9,14)
Henry: 18 districts (1-18)
Houston: 16 districts (1-16)
Monroe: 15 districts (1-15)
Size of Land Lots
Dooly: 202 ½ acres (2970 feet square)
Fayette: 202 ½ acres (2970 feet square)
Henry: 202 ½ acres (2970 feet square)
Houston: 202 ½ acres (2970 feet square)
Monroe: 202 ½ acres (2970 feet square)

source: Augusta Chronicle and Gazette, November 26, 1821; Georgia Archives