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Top half of a land grant to James Tarrentine for 202.5 acres in the first district of Baldwin County, Georgia. Date is approximate, based on treaty date noted in document.
Transcription
State of Georgia By His Excellency: John Milledge Governor and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of this State, and of the Militia thereof. To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting: Know Ye, That in pursuance of the several acts passed by the General Assembly to make distribution of the lands, obtained from the Creek Nation of Indians by the United States Commissioners in a treaty entered into at or near Fort Wilkinson, on the sixteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and two; and by virtue of the powers in me vested; I have given and granted, and by these presents, in the name and behalf of the said state, Do give and grant unto James Sarrentine of the County of Hancock his heirs and assigns forever; all that tract, lot, or parcel of land, containing two hundred two and an half acres, situate, lying and being in the First district, Baldwen County, in the said State, and butting and bounding North East
Creation Date
6-16-1802
City
Hancock
County
Baldwin County
Creator Life Dates
1757-1818
Keywords
Georgia, fragment, deed, land, lands, Creek, Creek Nation, Baldwin County, 1802, James Tarrentine, acres, acreage, Indians, First Nations, Native Americans
Resource Identifier
080306-07
Date Digital
2-18-2014
Document Type
Manuscript
Disciplines
History | Indigenous Studies | Legal | United States History
Publisher
Wofford College
Format (medium)
manuscript
Format (IMT)
Language
En-us
Digitization Specifications
800ppi 24-bit depth color; Scanned with an Epson 15000 Photo scanner with Epson Scan software; Archival master is a TIFF; TIFFs converted to PDF with Adobe Acrobat XI Pro.
Source
The original from which this digital representation is taken is housed in The Littlejohn Collection at Wofford College, located in the Sandor Teszler Library.
Recommended Citation
Milledge, John, "Fragment of a deed distributing 202.5 acres of land "obtained from the Creek Nation of Indians" in Baldwin County, Georgia to James Tarrentine 1802." (1802). Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection. 129.
https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/129
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