{"title":"Georgia: Wilkes County","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"102-8477","title":"Georgia Free Persons of Color, Volume II: Appling, Camden, Clarke, Emanuel, Jones, Pulaski, and Wilkes Counties, 1818-1865","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn 1818 statute of the Georgia legislature required all free persons of color to register with the inferior court of their county of residence. According to the statute, county clerks were required to inscribe each freed man or woman by name, age, place of birth, residence, year arrived in Georgia, and occupation. 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. (By the way, 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\u003eThis volume is a transcription of the free black registers for the Georgia counties of Appling, Camden, Clarke, Emanuel, Jones, Pulaski, and Wilkes Counties. Mr. Ports has arranged the contents of the record books in a series of tables, county by county and chronologically thereunder. A full-name index at the back of the volume provides for easy searching. Because the recording styles of the county clerks differ from one another, or from year to year, the author has provided an overview of the registers he found in each county, 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. Finally, since, in theory, the freedmen and women were required to register themselves every year after 1818, researchers will be able to track the whereabouts or disappearance of individuals over time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael A. 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It lies in the Northeastern portion of the state along the Savannah River just across from Anderson and Abbeville Counties, South Carolina. The first settlers started arriving in the area from Virginia and the Carolina's and continued on as land grants were being issued from service in the Revolution War. The 1820 census lists 1078 Heads of household; the 1830 some 1080; the 1840 some 961; the 1850 some 1180 and the 1860 census a total of 911 Heads of household in Elbert County. The 1850 Wilkes County Census has some 734 Heads of Household.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIrene S. 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It is the parent county, in whole or part, for Elbert, Greene, Hart, Lincoln, Madison, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, and Warren counties.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContents of Volume 1 (409 pages): Ceded Lands, 1773-1775; Mixed Records, Wills, 1777-1819, 1819-1836; Inventories and Appraisements, 1784-1812; Minutes of Inferior Court; Returns of Administrations and Guardians Book 1, 1809-1816; Remnant of Oldest Deed Book, 1784-1785; Deed Books, 1785-1790; Land Court Records, 1786-1792; Land Lotteries, 1805, 1807, 1820, 1821, 1827, 1832; Paschal family Bible Record; Index.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContents of Volume 2 (421 pages): Minutes of First Court; Tax Digest, 1785; Deed Books GG and HH; Will Books, 1819-1836; Index to Will Book II, 1837-1877; Returns of Estates; Returns of Administrators and Guardians; Original Marriage Bonds, 1792-1816; First Marriage Book, 1792-1834; Index These volumes jointly contain the names of over 42,000 individuals.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGrace Gilliam Davidson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1933), 2017, cloth, 844 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780893080068\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e117-GA14\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Historical Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39987067355254,"sku":"117-GA14","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/117-ga14-1500px.png?v=1777314539"},{"product_id":"117-ga67","title":"The Wilkes County [Georgia] Papers, 1777-1833","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilkes County is Georgia's oldest county, being the first of the original eight created by the first state constitution in 1777. The Federal Census of 1790 revealed that one-third of the population of Georgia was living in Wilkes County. Since 1790, lands that once were part of Wilkes County have been used to create all or parts of present-day Elbert, Hall, Lincoln, Madison, McDuffie, Oglethorpe, Taliferro, and Warren. This book is a collection of never-before-published abstracts of collections of Wilkes County loose marriages, estates, poor school, military, land, court, state, and other records from libraries and archives throughout the South. NONE of these original papers abstracted here were available to Grace G. Davidson in compiling her famous: Early Records of Georgia, Wilkes County\". Most of these papers were removed from Wilkes County by private individuals and were \"Lost\" to researchers until they turned up in manuscript collections throughout the South.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Scott Davis, Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1979), 2019, paper, 338 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780893081706\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e117-GA67\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Historical Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39987074236534,"sku":"117-GA67","price":38.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/117-ga67-1500px.png?v=1777314606"},{"product_id":"117-ga68","title":"The Supplement to Wilkes County Papers, 1773-1889","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis new book by Robert S. Davis is also a collection of never-before-published abstracts of collections of Wilkes County. Material contained within this volume: Estate Records, Inferior Court Cases, Justice of the Peace Case Files, Land Court Minutes, Lists of soldiers who fought at the Battle of Kettle Creek 1779, Records of Ceded Lands of Original Wilkes County, Early Settlers, Superior Court Minutes, Tax Digest 1785, and more Loose Wilkes County, Georgia records.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Scott Davis, Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1999), 2013, paper, 164 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780893084110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e117-GA68\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Historical Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39987077185654,"sku":"117-GA68","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/117-ga68-1500px.png?v=1777314607"},{"product_id":"101e-fi0202","title":"Wilkes County, Georgia Marriage Records, 1792-1832","description":"\u003cp\u003eContinues the series.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrances T. 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This book is divided into 2 parts with the first dealing with the persons and events that pertain to Wilkes County. There is a complete and detailed account of the battle that took place at Kettle Creek on Feb. 14, 1779. Also included are the Loyalists trials of Ninety-Six in 1779 and the prisoner list of Ninety-Six Jail in 1779. There is a Full documented list of soldiers so far known to have been in Kettle Creek, both patriot and loyalists. The second part of this book deals with Burke County's participation in the Revolution. The author has included lengthy articles on colonial St. George Parish, Burke County, in the American Revolution, the battle of Burke County Jail, documents about the militia, the war in South Carolina fought by Burke Countians, the Battle of Briar Creek, John Twiggs, John Jones, John Thomas, John Dooley, Col. 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At the outset, the volume describes the initial contact with the indigenous Cherokees, the founding of the county and its courts, and Wilkes County in the Revolution-with particular attention given to the Battle of Kettle Creek. The concluding part of the book concerns the principal figures in the establishment and growth of schools and churches in Wilkes County, particularly Methodism. The intervening chapters are given over to Wilkes County genealogy and biography, with chapters on the buyers and sellers of lots and the early settlers of the county. The work as a whole is crowded with references to ministers, officials, teachers, and soldiers, so much so that an index of more than 2,000 entries was created by Mrs. Hays to encompass them. Edited, Annotated and Indexed, with an Introduction by Louise Frederick Hays.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEliza A. 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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\n\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\n\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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