Publications
1805 Georgia Land Lottery Fortunate Drawers and Grantees
Paul K. Graham
2004
The Genealogy Company
Decatur, Georgia
As the first of eight Georgia land lotteries, the 1805 Land Lottery served as the operational model for those to follow and established districts and land lots as the foundational units of Georgia's survey system (over the township, range, and section). The purpose of the book is to document the record of title transfer from the State of Georgia to an individual for each land lot distributed through the lottery process in 1805.
1805 Georgia Land Lottery Persons Entitled to Draws
Paul K. Graham
2005
The Genealogy Company
Decatur, Georgia
This book is an index to the List of Persons Entitled to Draws for the 1805 Land Lottery and is a new transcription of the data in 1805 Georgia Land Lottery, published in 1964 by Virginia S. Wood and Ralph V. Wood. This list represents most of the households in the state in the year 1803 and is an invaluable substitute for Georgia's lost 1800 U.S. Federal Census.
The book corrects major errors and omissions found in the Wood publication. Using the power of a computer database, this new publication of land lottery participants includes verified and cross-referenced data. No Georgia census index collection is complete without this book.
More Information
To read the introductions, browse the names, and buy the books, please visit www.1805georgialandlottery.com.