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Subject: [ADAIR] Re: James Adair the author & Sir Wm. Johnson
Date: 12 Nov 2002 22:48:02 -0700
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Have any of you folks seen this deed?
Deed, from: Georgia Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 8 April, 1963, p. 434.
Colonial Conveyance Book CC, p. 729,
Lease agreement signed by 22 Indian Kings, Chiefs, headmen and warriors of the lower and upper Creek Nations to Jonathan Bryan of Georgia. dated October 28, 1774, executed in "Indian Creek Nation, North America." leases to said Byron of land by name of Lochewa and Appalache old fields. bounded west by Gulf of Mexico and the Apalachee River on North by line drawn from point on said river where the Cattanoochee and Flint Rivers meet, to the source of the St. Maryes River and from thence southwest course on direct line to the Gulf of Mexico and being part of the lands owned by the Creek Nations. Witnesses, James Adair, Hugh Bryan, Seaborn Jones. [for L 100 and great regard for Byron and year rental of 100 bushels of corn. Probated by Adair and Jones in Granville Co., S. C. before Adrian Mayer, J. P.
NOTE: The defined limits was from the present day southwest corner of Georgia south to the Gulf of Mexico and to the east by a corridor on the north by roughly the present day Georgia/ Florida line to the Atlantic and in the south on a similiar line crossing Florida somewhere above present day Gainesville.
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