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The port city of Savannah is in this county.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMable Freeman LaFar and Caroline Price Wilson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1933), 1963, paper, index, 160 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780915156061\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-L0006\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41320475088,"sku":"101-L0006","price":8.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-l0006.png?v=1727799644"},{"product_id":"101-g3162","title":"Georgia 1860 Agricultural Census: Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eComprises the counties of Appling, Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Berrien, Bibb, Brooks, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Butts, Calhoun, Camden, Campbell, Carroll, Cass, Catoosa, Chatham, Charlton, Chattahoochee, Chattooga, and Cherokee\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOften times when an individual was missed on the regular U.S. Census, he would appear on this agricultural census. So you might try checking this census for your missing relatives. Unfortunately, many of the Agricultural Census records have not survived, but some have remained and they yield unique information about how people lived. There are 48 columns of information, six of which are transcribed here: name of the owner, improved acreage, unimproved acreage, cash value of the farm, value of farm implements and machinery, and value of livestock.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLinda L. 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Legal notices such as the above from the following Georgia newspapers are to be found here: \u003cem\u003eGeorgia Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e (Savannah), Jan. 11, 1790 to Nov. 21, 1799 and Jan. 2, 1800 to Jan. 1802; \u003cem\u003eThe Columbian Museum and Savannah Advertiser\u003c\/em\u003e, Mar. 31, 1796 to Nov. 26, 1819; \u003cem\u003eThe Republican and Savannah Evening Ledger\u003c\/em\u003e, July 15, 1808 to Nov. 20, 1805; \u003cem\u003eThe Southern Patriot\u003c\/em\u003e (Savannah), Dec. 22, 1804 to Oct. 25, 1805; \u003cem\u003eThe Southern Recorder\u003c\/em\u003e (Milledgeville), Mar. 18, 1824 to Dec. 17, 1844; \u003cem\u003eThe Georgia Journal\u003c\/em\u003e (Milledgeville), Dec. 17, 1809 to Dec. 11, 1816; \u003cem\u003eThe Southern Centennial and Universal Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e (Augusta), July 6, 1793 to Oct. 24, 1799 and Jan. 9, 1794 to Oct. 24, 1799; \u003cem\u003eThe Augusta Chronicle and Gazette of the State\u003c\/em\u003e, Nov. 9, 1800 to Mar. 14, 1825 and July 24, 1790 to Nov. 19, 1800 and June 5, 1790 to Nov. 15, 1800; \u003cem\u003eThe American Advocate\u003c\/em\u003e, Jan. 13, 1816 to Oct. 3, 1816; and \u003cem\u003eThe Darien Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e, Oct. 22, 1818 to Mar. 14, 1825.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJudge Folks Huxford\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1989\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780893086565\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e117-GA86\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Historical Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31091294929014,"sku":"117-GA86","price":38.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/117-ga86.png?v=1727811064"},{"product_id":"101e-fi0278","title":"1840 City of Savannah, Georgia Census Index","description":"\u003cp\u003eContinues the series.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrances T. 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After Georgia became a Royal Province, fee simple grants giving a clear title to the recipient were required to be made. This publication offers the fourth volume of these royal grants abstracted, covering St. Philip Parish in the modern counties of Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, and Jenkins.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarion R. 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After Georgia became a Royal Province, fee simple grants giving a clear title to the recipient were required to be made. This publication offers the fifth volume of these royal grants abstracted, covering Christ Church Parish in modern Chatham County.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarion R. 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While not all clerks performed their duties to the letter of the law, these source records contain vital identifying information for African-American Georgians long before the Civil War or the watershed 1870 U.S. census. The ensuing registers, varying in their completeness, survive for twenty-one Georgia counties.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIncidentally, the only way to emancipate a slave in Georgia was by an act of the legislature. Antebellum manumissions, though rare, were granted for unusual acts, such as defending an owner's property during a British incursion during the War of 1812, extinguishing a fire at the state capital, and other faithful service.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTranscriptions of the aforementioned registers are available in the \u003ci\u003eGeorgia Free Persons of Color\u003c\/i\u003e series from genealogist Michael A. Ports. This volume in that series consists of transcriptions of the free black registers for Chatham County, Georgia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMr. Ports has arranged the contents of the Chatham County volume in a series of tables, and chronologically thereunder, according to the dates of coverage of the three registers from which they are derived. He has provided an overview of each register, allowing for variations in their original format, references to any gaps in the registers, handwriting irregularities or peculiarities, and so on. In addition to the required information, a few clerks recorded the registrant's height, weight, skin color, and name of their guardian. Persons of a historical mindset will appreciate Mr. Ports' inclusion in the front matter of the wording of salient Georgia laws from 1818 to 1835 that mandated the registration of free Negroes. These are followed by the Georgia manumission statutes enacted after 1798. 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Founded by James Oglethorpe in 1733, Savannah is the oldest city in Georgia and has been a major port since the early 19th century. The historical portion of this material continues up to the time of the original publication in the mid-1880s. The biographical material was submitted by the families themselves, and therefore, is more accurate than some other sources.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cblockquote\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eExample:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eCapt. John Flannery, a prominent banker and cotton factor of Savannah, Ga., was born in Nenagh, county Tipperary, Ireland, Nov. 24, 1835. While in his sixteenth year he came to America, accompanied by his father, landing at Charleston, S.C., in October, 1851....etc...\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/blockquote\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRev. 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The counties for which tax records are provided, with their years of coverage, are as follows: Camden 1794, 1809; Chatham 1806; Glynn 1790, 1794; Hancock 1812; Lincoln 1818; Montgomery 1797, 1798, 1805, 1806; Pulaski 1818; Richmond 1818; Warren 1794, 1805, 1818; Wilkes 1792, 1793, 1794.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor each tax list a great deal of information is provided that cannot be found in any other record source. For example, each tax list generally gives the name of the taxpayer, the name of the adjoining property owner, and the name of the original grantee of land–information impossible to find in a census record and of the utmost importance in genealogical research. In addition, though less relevant genealogically, the tax lists identify the number of slaves attached to the property, the watercourses, the acreage, and the value of the land.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eValuable as they are, when these lists were originally compiled and published by Georgia State Historian Ruth Blair in 1926, they were not published with an index and were almost impossible to use. A dozen years later, however, a new State Historian, Mrs. J. E. Hays, prepared a complete index to all 25,000 taxpayers and adjoining property owners and published it as a 1938 W.P.A. project. The two parts, the 1926 Digests and the 1938 Index, are finally united in this reprint edition which can now claim to be the foremost source in early Georgia genealogy. 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