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From: "Maryellen" <>
Subject: Re: [SC-OPD] GA Bountys Hitz IV
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:34:13 -0400
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By the acts of January 23, 1780, February 17, 1783, February 25, 1784, and
February 22, 1785, emigrants from other states were encouraged to come into
Georgia and take out free headright grants, but Revolutionary soldiers were
not given any favor or consideration over any other prospective settler.
Ex-soldier and civilian stood on the same footing, and each was granted a
quantity of land commensurate with the number of heads (meaning wife,
children and slaves) in his family, the minimum grant being 200 acres to a
bachelor, and the maximum grant being 1,000 acres.

In the third (1820),16 fifth (1827)17 and sixth (1832)18 land lotteries a
Revolutionary soldier was, under certain conditions, allowed to put in for
two draws, as compared to the ordinary citizen's one draw. Although this was
a preference, it certainly was not a bounty, as the drawing of land was
purely a matter of chance. If he became a fortunate drawer on either or both
of his chances and if he paid grant fees, the veteran would receive a grant
to a land lot, which grant would show after his name the abbreviations Rev.
Sol. or R.S.

Those who are interested in reading the legislative enactments and
deliberations which provided for bounty grants are referred to the
following:

Date Source Date Source
January 1776 Resolution of Council of Safety February 6, 1784 Minutes
of Executive Council. Ibid., 587.
June 3, 1777 Resolution of Council of Safety February 20, 1784
Minutes of Executive Council. Ibid., 594.
March 1, 1778 Resolution of Council of Safety February 25, 1784 Act
of General Assembly, Sections IV, XI, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII. Watkins, Digest,
291-95.
January 23, 1780 Act of General Assembly. Watkins, Digest, 232. March
2, 1784 Minutes of Executive Council. Candler, ed., Revolutionary Records
of Georgia, II, 605.
August 18, 1781 Resolution of General Assembly. Candler, ed.,
Revolutionary Records of Georgia , III, 11. March 23, 1784 Minutes of
Executive Council. Ibid., 624.
August 19, 1781 Resolution of General Assembly April 2, 1784 Minutes
of Executive Council. Ibid., 627.
August 20, 1781 Act of General Assembly. Watkins, Digest, 238 April
2, 1784 Minutes of Executive Council. Ibid., 628.
January 12, 1782 Resolution of General Assembly. Candler, ed.,
Revolutionary Records of Georgia, III, 73. April 6, 1784 Minutes of
Executive Council. Ibid., 789.
January 24, 1783 Minutes of General Assembly. Ibid., 236. April 12,
1784 Minutes of Executive Council. Ibid., 792.
February 13, 1783 Minutes of General Assembly. Ibid., 281. July 15,
1784 Minutes of Executive Council. Ibid., 667.
February 17, 1783 Minutes of General Assembly. Ibid., 298. July 16,
1784 Minutes of Executive Council. Ibid., 669.
February 17, 1783 Act of General Assembly, Section II. Watkins,
Digest, 259. February 22, 1785 Act of General Assembly, Sections I, IV,
VIII-X. Watkins, Digest, 308-11.
July 29, 1783 Resolution of General Assembly. Candler, ed.,
Revolutionary Records of Georgia, III, 385. February 13, 1786 Act of General
Assembly. Watkins, Digest, 327.
January 23, 1784 Minutes of Executive Council. Ibid., II, 580

EXHIBIT A
Governor's Certificate (No. 871)

These are to certify, That Drury Cade, a Captain in Militia, is entitle to
Five Hundred Acres of Land, as a Bounty, agreeable to an Act and Resolve of
the General Assembly, passed at Augusta the 19 August 1781. As per
certificate of E. Clark, Col. Given under my hand, at Savannah, the 25th Day
of March in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-four.

Attest D. Rees Secty Jno. Houstoun

Bounty Warrant (No. 1942)

To Joseph Pannill, Esq. Surveyor for the County of Washington: You are
hereby authorized and required to admeasure and lay out, or cause to be
admeasured and laid out, unto Drury Cade, Captn., a Tract of Land, which
shall contain Five Hundred and Seventy Five Acres, in the said County of
Washington Taking especial care that the same has not heretofore been laid
out to any other Person or Persons; And you are hereby also directed and
required to record the Plat of the same in your Office, and transmit a Copy
thereof, together with this Warrant, to the Surveyor General, within the
Term of three Months from this Date. Given under my hand, this Seventeenth
Day of May 1784.

Secretary's Office. Certified John Habersham

By D. Rees Depty Secty Presdt. E. C.

EXHIBIT B
Governor's Certificate (No. 872)

This is to certify, That Drury Cade, Refugee, is entitled to Two Hundred and
Fifty Acres of Land, as a Bounty, agreeable to an Act and Resolve of the
General Assembly, passed at Augusta the 19 August 1781. As per certificate
of E. Clark, Coln. Given under my Hand at Savannah, the 25th Day of March in
the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eight-four.

Attest D. Rees Secty Jno. Houstoun

Bounty Warrant (No. 246)

To Jno. Gorham Surveyor for the County of Franklin:

You are hereby authorized and required to admeasure and lay out , or cause
to be admeasured and laid, unto Drury Cade, a Tract of Land, which shall
contain Two Hundred eighty seven & ½ Acres, in the said County of Franklin
Taking especial Care that the same has not been laid to any other Person or
Persons ; And You are hereby also directed and required to record the Plat
of the same in your Office, and transmit a Copy thereof, together with this
Warrant, to the Surveyor General, within the Term of Three Months from this
Date. Given under my Hand, this Seventeenth Day of May, 1784.

Secretary's Office Certified John Habersham

By D. Rees Dept Secty Presdt. E. C.

Exhibit C
Petition

To the Honourable the President and the Members of Council, now sitting in
Augusta for the Purpose of granting Lands in the two new Counties of
Franklin and Washington. The Petition of William Campbell, a Citizen of the
State aforesaid Sheweth That your Petitioner is entitled to 287 ½ Acres of
Land , as a Bounty for his Services, pursuant to the Certificate hereunto
annexed; That your Petitioner is desirous of taking up the said Lands in the
County of Washington. May it therefore please your Honourable Board to grant
your Petitioner Two Hundred Eighty Seven and a half Acres of Land in the
County of Washington on the Right aforesaid, and on his complying with the
Terms mentioned in the late Land Act; and your Petitioner will pray.

Wm. Campbell

Certificate of Commander of District

This is to certify, That William Campbell hath stedfastly done his duty,
from the time of passing an Act at Augusta, towit, on the 20th of August,
1781, until the total Expulsion of the British from this State; and the said
William Campbell cannot, to my knowledge or belief, be convicted of
plundering or distressing the country; and is therefor, under the said Act,
entitled to a Bounty of Two Hundred and Fifty Acres of good Land, free from
taxes for ten years. Given under my hand, at Savannah the Second day of
February 1784. By his order

H. Freeman Elijah Clark, Coln.

Governor's Certificate (No.368)

These are to certify, That William Campbell, Citizen, is entitled to Two
Hundred and fifty Acres of Land, as a Bounty, agreeable to an Act and
Resolve of the General Assembly, passed at Augusta the 20th August 1781. As
per certificate of Elijah Clark Colo. Given under my Hand, at Savannah, the
25th Day of February in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and
Eighty-four.

Attest

D. Rees Secty. Jno. Houstoun

Bounty Warrant19

To Joseph Pannill Surveyor for the County of Washington. You are hereby
authorized and required to admeasure and lay out, unto William Campbell a
Tract of land , which shall contain Two Hundred & eighty seven 1/2 Acres, in
the said County of Washington Taking especial Care that the same has not
heretofore been laid out to any other Person or Persons; And you are hereby
also directed and required to record the Plat of the same in your Office,
and transmit a Copy Thereof, together with this Warrant, to the Surveyor
General, within the Term of three Months from this Date. Given under my
Hand, this Seventeenth Day of May 1784.

Secretary's Office Certified John Habersham

By D. Rees Secy. Presdt. E.C.

Endnotes
1.. L. L. Knight, Georgia's Roster of the Revolution.
2.. E. M. Coulter. A Short History of Georgia (Chapel Hill, 1933), 121-22.
3.. Louise Frederick Hays, Hero of Hornet's Nest (New York, 1946), 174.
4.. Franklin County and Washington County, created February 25, 1784.
5.. Allen D. Candler, ed. Revolutionary Records of the State of Georgia (3
vols., Atlanta, 1908), II, 667.
6.. Robert and George Watkins. A Digest of the Laws of the State of
Georgia. (Philadelphia, 1800), 311.
7.. Letter of June 2, 1784 from David Rees, Secretary of Executive Council
to Governor John Houstoun. Original in possession of the Georgia Historical
Society, Savannah.
8.. Watkins, Digest, 290.
9.. Candler, ed. Revolutionary Records of the State of Georgia, II, 587.
10.. Candler, ed. Revolutionary Records of the State of Georgia, III, 73.
11.. Watkins, Digest, 238.
12.. Section II of Act of February 17, 1783. Watkins, Digest, 259.
13.. Section IX of Act of February 22, 1785. Watkins, Digest, 311.
14.. S. G. McLendon. History of the Public Domain of Georgia (Atlanta,
1924).
15.. See footnote 1, ante.
16.. Act of December 15, 1818.
17.. Act of June 9, 1825.
18.. Acts of December 21, 1830 and December 24, 1831.
19.. William Campbell, Citizen, also procured Warrant No. 67 Duplicate
during the riot of May 29th, 1784 and then used both the original and
duplicate warrants to obtain two surveys and grants. Grant Book GGG, pp. 24,
253. In Georgia Archives.

( One aside observation here...later veterans got more than 287 1/2 acres, a
bit more, and there was compensation to the tune of something like 6 1/2
acres to the earlier holders...had to be a nightmare to straighten out. As a
further note, one of the biggest fraudulents was Patrick Henry of "give me
liberty" fame. He was a major factor in attempting to sell a large portion
of the state of GA to neighboring states cheaply. This was know as the Yazoo
Land Fraud.M.H.)



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