| | Thumbnail | | Creator | Date | Title / Author / Date / Location | Price | | | Description |
| 7952 |  | Details | Hill, William | 1786 |
| Rare Headright Plat of Cedar Island Oconee River Georgia |
|
Hill, William |
|
| 1786 |
| LOC:78 |
| $450.00 | Hill--William | Rare-Headright-Plat-of-Cedar-Island-Oconee-River-Georgia | A fascinating, post revolutionary-war era pen and ink manuscript survey/headright plat (1) for 600 acres at Cedar Island, Oconee River, Georgia. The grant was made to Charnel Wallace for his service to the USA during the Revolutionary War. Survey dated March 20, 1786.
<br><br>North of Cedar Island ownership of the lands is noted by the surveyor as "Indian Land." In 1786 the Oconee River corridor lay at the heart of Washington County’s shrinking frontier: the county had been created in 1784 from recent Creek cessions and initially stretched between the Ogeechee and Oconee, attracting Revolutionary War grantees, but on February 3, 1786 the legislature carved Greene County from its northern portion even as Creek leaders contested Georgia’s claims east of the Oconee.<br><br>
The text reads:
<div class="indenttextblocksingle">
"Pursuant to a warrant under the hand of the Honorable Jared Irwin (2), esquire Senior Justice presiding at ? ? in Washington County dated March 6, 1786 was surveyed for Charnill [Charnel] Wallis [Wallace] (3), who resides in this state a tract of land containing six hundred acres on Oconee River called Cedar Island having such form and marks as are expected in the above plat. Surveyed March 20 1786 by ? Hill D.S. certified by Samuel Camp pro surveyor. [Signed] Thomas McCall Surveyor General (4)."</div>
<br>
The precise location of Cedar Island is unclear. There is an area around Athens, Georgia near the Oconee River called Cedar Shoals but that area was never a part of Washington County, Georgia.<br><br>
Notes<br><br> |