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Shortly
after Wayne County's creation in 1803, the 1805 Georgia Land
Lottery was held to attract settlers from the settled
coastal areas of Georgia and immigrants from North and South
Carolina. These settlers paid $419.60 for 490 acres of land.
A bachelor was allocated one draw. Married men with
wife/child and widows with a minor child got two draws. This
land was on the thin strip of land that was originally
defined as Wayne County. Many of the early settlers lived in
the middle part of the strip around where the Big and Little
Satilla Rivers crossed it. This "Tallassee" strip went from
the Altamaha River to the St. Marys River (current Florida
state line). Much early activity in Wayne County was
centered around Waynesville (now Brantley County), where the
county seat was before moving to Jesup.
Some of the pioneers of
Wayne County have been identified as:
- Stephen
Crews
- Jabez Dowling
- William Drawdy
- Thomas Fullwood
- James Harper
- David Highsmith
- John Howell
- James Jones
- James Knox
- Reddic Knox
- Jessie Mizell
- Joshua Mizell
- John Munden
- James Ratliff
- Jacob Raulerson
- Frederick Robeson
- Charles Smith
- Robert Stafford
- James Strickland
- John Strickland
- Levi Strickland
Sources:
Pioneers of Wiregrass
Georgia Volume I by Folks Huxford
Wayne County, Georgia Its
History and Its People edited by Bobby M. Martin. Published
by The Press-Sentinel Newspapers, Inc - 1990.
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