Northwest Georgia History.....
The Settlers poured through Georgia pushing further west. As of 1830, the area in yellow below represented the Cherokee Nation East, the line the Cherokees had pulled back to by treaty. There were Indian, White, Black and mixed bloods all living there. Gold had been discovered in 1829 or earlier. The State of Georgia wanted the Cherokee claims extinguished. The historical and genealogical material of this time period to about 1840 overlapped current County lines. The 23 counties included are:
Bartow (formerly Cass), Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Cobb, Dade, Dawson, Fannin, Floyd, Forsyth, Gilmer, Gordon, Haralson, Lumpkin, Milton (merged with Fulton 1932), Murray, Paulding, Pickens, Polk, Towns, Union, Walker, Whitfield .
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1839 Map |
In the middle map the unnamed colored part of North Fulton is Milton Co. which was cut from Forsyth, Cherokee and Cobb in 1857.
| 1801- 1816 |
SETTLERS AND INTRUDERS ON CHEROKEE INDIAN LANDS 1801-1816 (And
a few other goodies) Abstracted from the Records of the Cherokee Agency in
Tennessee: Correspondence and Miscellaneous Records. National Archives Microcopy
M-208, Rolls 1-7, 13. Transcribed by Janelle Swearingen 1989 See her page at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~janelle/Intruders.htm |
| about 1805 | Federal Road - a Federal Road was built across the Cherokee Nation There is an interesting letter about offering James Vann an "inducement" to let the Federal Government build the road. He had a tavern and ferry where the road came into the Cherokee Nation across the Chattahoochee. It was in present day Forsyth County across from Winn's Ferry.
For a description of where the road ran see
Copy
of a lease made for Vann's Ferry in 1827 |
| pre 1830 |
Men with Indian Wives |
| Emmet Starr's History of Cherokee Indians and Their Legends
and Folk Lore put online by accessgenealogy.com See their page at: http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/starrgen/index.htm |
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| Cherokee Indians from the Carl Vinson Institute of Government http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/cheroke2.htm |
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| Cherokee Phoenix Transcripts
Hunter Library
http://www.wcu.edu/library/CherokeePhoenix/ |
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| 1830 | In 1830 this area was censused as part of one of these five counties
because Georgia did not want to lose the count toward their representation.
To see a map of how the area was added to the counties
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here for a map from segenealogy.com/georgia.
Carroll 1830 Index Online by Wally Smith part of the Carroll County Genweb page DeKalb 1830 Index Online by Vivian Price part of her DeKalb County History Page
Gwinnett 1830 Index Online by S-K Publications
part of the USGenWeb Archives Hall 1830 Entire Census Transcribed by Nancy Crayton.
Habersham 1830 Index Online by S-K Publications
part of the USGenWeb Archives
If you had family in this area in 1830, they will appear on one of the above censuses. If they were white they were counted. If they were Cherokee (and admitted it) they were not. This results in a lot of single men showing who we know had large families and many single women with large families and no husbands. The rule appeared to be that if the mother was white, the children were and if the mother was Indian, the children were considered Indian. |
| 1830 1832 |
Sixth or 1832 Georgia Land Lottery
Access Genealogy. com has put the following book online
HERE
The Cherokee Land Lottery, containing a numerical list of the names
of the fortunate Drawers in said Lottery, With an Engraved Map of Each
District |
| DEC 1831 |
From GA Laws 1831- Section 1:"......that all the territory
lying west of the Chattahoochee river and north of Carroll county, within
the limits of Georgia and which is now attached to and forms part of the
several counties of Carroll, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Hall and Habersham, shall
form one county to be called CHEROKEE........"
Cherokee County, Georgia was formed from Cherokee Nation East. The first election was held in Cherokee County, GA. at the home of Ambrose Harnage in February 1832. |
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1832 |
The Original Cherokee County was split into 10 Counties,
the Additional nine counties were: Cass to 1861 then renamed Bartow Cobb Floyd Forsyth by Donna Parrish Gilmer Lumpkin by Dan Pierce Murray Paulding Union When they split Cherokee County into Ten Counties they had to elect new officers for each county. If a man had been elected for Cherokee County in that first election he carried that position with him to his new county (depending on where he resided) for the remainder ot his term. That would explain why Deed Book A, Forsyth County Records, appears to be the Original Book used in Cherokee County. Oliver Strickland was the first Clerk of Superior Court of Cherokee and he resided in what became Forsyth. |
| 1833 | Walker County was formed |
| 1834 | The counties made from Cherokee County were censused in a special
census. The originals are in the Telamon Cuyler Collection at the University
of Georgia. Online are: Cherokee Forsyth Lumpkin Union |
| 1837 | Dade County was formed |
| 1838 | Chattooga
County was formed Chattooga County by Suzanne Shephard |
| 1840 | Census of Pensioners Revolutionary or Military Services; With the names, ages, and places of residence Returned by the marshalls of the several judicial districts; under The Act for Taking the Sixth Census. Printed 1841. Typed and Reformatted By: Kathy Leigh, July 9, 2001 |
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| 1850 | Gordon | Calhoun |
| 1851 | Whitfield | Dalton |
| 1851 | Polk | Cedartown |
| 1853 | Catoosa | Ringgold |
| 1853 | Pickens | Jasper |
| 1854 | Fannin | Blue Ridge |
| 1856 | Towns | Hiawassee |
| 1856 | Haralson | Buchanan |
| 1857 | Dawson | Dawsonville |
| 1857 | Milton | was Alpharetta |
LINKS
Gary and Michelle's Waterfalls Page including pictures of waterfalls in north Georgia
North Georgia Historical Markers from North Georgia Internet Magazine
"OLD" Walton Co., GA 1803 - 1811 Land in North Carolina once a part of Georgia
MAIL LIST on Yahoo http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nwgahistory
MAIL LIST NWGA-L on Rootsweb
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