Miles Gathright
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Miles H Gathright (abt. 1748 - 1815)

Miles H Gathright
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Research Notes by Jeff Narvil

Henrico County, Virginia

1774. 23 May. "Miles Gathright Jr" petitioned with Anne Gathright, William Gathright, John Gathright and Jacob Ferris over concerns property lines at Chickahominy Swamp would be disturbed.[1]

Mecklenburg County, Virginia

1777. 12 Aug. A deed dated by William & Martha Douglas to Thomas Booth states that Miles & Elizabeth Gathright once bought the land (which included a mill) from Jeremiah Russell before selling it to Douglas.[2]

Bedford County, Virginia

1780. 4 Oct. He co-witnessed the Will of Francis Worley with John Nicholls and Samuel Banks.[3]

1780. 26 Nov, With John Nicholls, he proved the will of Francis Worley and both also posted security.[4]

1783. 28 Dec. He witnessed the will of Flayle Payne; Francis Worley, whose will he had also witnessed, had a son named Flayll Worley; Falyle Payne's executor was Flayl Nichols; Archibald Nichols and William Macay also witnessed.[5]

1784. 26 July. With with William Macay, he proved the will of Flayle Payne.[6]

1784. 25 Oct. With Arch Nicholls and Daniel Brown Jr also appraised the estate of Flayle Payne.[7]

1785. 27 June. Miles Gathright and wife Elizabeth sold for £245 to James Casy 284 acres on both sides of the south fork of Hunting Creek.[8]

1785. 21 July. Sarah (Gathright) Mozley (1770-1831) was married by Rev Nathaniel Shrewsberry to Edwin Mozley (abt.1764-abt.1820).[9]

Wilkes County, Georgia

1787. 1 May. Filed for 183 acres (later in Greene County) that was granted in 1790 for Revolutionary War Service.[10][11][12][13]

1787. 6 Sep. Filed for 200 acres that was granted in 1790 for Revolutionary Service.[14][15][16][17]

1789. 12 Sep. His wife Elizabeth joined Phillips Mill Baptist Church on this date, but there is no record he was involved in the church; this church is in Rayle located between Washington and Union Point on Georgia Highway 44.[18]

1790. 13 Feb. He witnessed a deed between Benjamin Riden and John Haynes for land along the north fork of the Little River.[19]

1790. The US census for Georgia has not survived, but he and Edwin Mozley (abt.1764-abt.1820) defaulted on their taxes in Captain Pope's District.[20]

1790. Dec. Miles Gathright of Wilkes County sold his 193 acres in Greene County to James Ward for £40.[21]

1792. 17 Jan. He sold (for £20) 200 acres in the Little River watershed to William Swanson.[22]

1793. 1 Jan. He and his neighbors (many from Franklin County, Georgia) petitioned Governor Telfair:[23]

To His Excallancy Edward Telfare Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the state of Georgia
We your humble Petitionors do once more presume to beg from your mercyfull hands, some protection for our Disstress'd women and Children, as their Lives With our own are daly Expos'd, to savage Barbarety. It is not long since we ware Leaping with Joy, by reason of the Encouragment You gave us, Even went as far as to pass an act for our Relief, with the Aprobation of your Honnor, and the particulars Came back to us in the publick papers, and from all this Encouragement, we have embodyed our helpless famelies and Stood Sentry
Around them, Impatiently waiting your good aid and assistance, as we thought as assurance of it, but Alass what is the the Last Account lamentable indeed to people in our situation the former orders Countermanded by Your Honner. What Cou'd be worse to our feelings than this or what must be the Concequence, Why, Undoubtedly Death must be the fatal Concequence; if not by Tommehock(then) by famine for when our Small stake of Provisions that we are Hudled round is Exausted where is the Support of another year why none maid nor any likelyhood of makeing, We further wish if it be your Good Pleasure to inform us who or what person or persons have been the Instigation of Removeing Your Good Will from our Relief, it must Certainly have been some ill minded person or Raskill that have self Interests in View, & Not feeling for the innocent Fronteers, but their Reward is pointed out and the black Account of Murder Stands Charg'd Against them.
Since Mr. Wofford Started Last to Augusta with the Talke of the Noted Villain Shuagee, their has been a Number of Horses taken by the Indians from our fronteer Settlements, five of which ware taken from his fort, & an Abundance of Indian Signs seen by our Spies Which we have to keep at at Our Own Exspence Whilst the fronteers of South Carolina are well garded with men and Sufisient Supply of every nesecery of Life & all at the Publicks Exspence where their Nesessity is none in Comparison to Ours.

Three Companies of Horse men would be Sufisient to Gard our Fronteers, Stationed in three Different Places, one at a place known by the Name of Bowens Place, another at Norrises Place & a third at the Corokee Mountain; at each of those Places their is a Sufisiency of winter food, to support their Horses, with a Careful Conductor Shou'd it Please Your Excellancy to Grant Our Request we shall try to Stand Our Ground, Other Ways we must of Necessity fly for our Lives, The Western fronteers of Franklin Cty.'
from Sir Your Humble Servant By the Bareor Capt. Phillip Martain Who can inform you Particulars Jany 1st 1793
"M. Gaithright"

1794. His wife Elizabeth was dismissed from Phillips Mill Baptist Church.[24] She must have passed away soon thereafter.


Richmond County, Georgia

1795. 29 Aug. He married Mary Collins:[25]

Marriage - Miles Gathright to Mary Collins


Jackson County, Georgia

1796. 4 Oct. His was the 5th name drawn by Judge Taliaferro at first session of the Superior Court to serve at the next session.[26]

1797. 21 Oct. For $30, he purchased 180 acres bordered by the Millers on Sandy "Creak" originally granted to Susanna Gardner.[27]

1797. He claimed 200 acres in Oglethorpe County (granted 1800) for Revolutionary War service.[28][29][30][31]

1798. He paid tax on 200 acres on Millstone Creek in Oglethorpe County and 180 acres on Sandy Creek in Jackson County.[32]

1798. He served as a grand juror.[33]

1798. He was paid $15.75 by Jackson County for maintaining an unidentified orphan child.[34][35]

1799. April. He and his neighbor John Espy were appointed as justices of the peace.[36][37]

1799. 6 July. He swore his Oath of Allegiance to the State of Georgia to support the Georgia and United States Constitutions.[38] In his capacity as a justice of the peace, he attested many deeds recorded in Jackson County.[39] Toward the end of the next decade he is no longer described as a Justice of the Peace in the real estate records.

1800. The 1800 US census for Jackson County, Georgia has not survived, but he served as a grand juror there.[40]

1801.12 July. He sold the 200 acres on Millstone Creek in Oglethorpe County, Georgia to Bennett Wilson as Witnessed by Wilson Woodroof, Elisha Woodroof and Clifford Woodroof and proven before Joshua Glass (J.P.) on 27 January 1804.[41]

1801. He served on a specially-convened jury that found for Solomon Strickland against James Rogers.[42]

1801. He served as a grand juror.[43]

1802. For $242, he bought 121 acres in the Mulberry River watershed from Benjamin Porter (of Wilkes County, Georgia) (Recorded 15 March 1802).[44]

1802. 24 June. He sold his neighbor John Espy enough land to permit Espy to create a millpond on Sandy Creek; the deed was not recorded until 17 Sep 1812.[45] That same day, he purchased (for $75) 53 acres in the Sandy Creek watershed "at the head of said Gathrights spring branch" from John Espy.[46] Two days later, he purchased (for $400) a 400 acre tract in the Walnut Fork watershed from George Weatherby.[47]

1802. October. He filed a defamation suit against Notley Maddox:[48]

"The petition of Miles Gathright humbly sheweth that your petitioner is a good true & honest citizen of the County of Jackson as or is said & as such from the time of his birth hath sustained behaved & governed himself & hath been reputed had & taken to be of good name, fame, credit & reputation & your petitioner now is & has for a long time been a Justice of the peace for the County aforesaid & has continued & lived during his whole life free & unsuspected of any kind of maintenance, Malpractice in office as Justice of the peace, Stirring up Strife or in any wise misbehaving in office as Justice of the peace aforesaid untill one Notly W. Maddox well knowing all & singular the premises aforesaid but greatly envying the happy state & condition of your petitioner, contriving & maliciously intending to hurt Injure & degrade your petitioner in his good name fame & Credit & cause him to be reputed a person that would stir up strife, be guilty of Maintenance & Malpractice in office as Justice of the peace, & to bring your petitioner in to danger of Suffering the pains & penalties of the Law on the first day of March in the year one thousand Eight hundred & two at the house of James Stuart in a certain discourse which he the said Notley W. Maddox then & there had with divers good citizens of said State concerning your petitioner as Justice of the peace as aforesaid & at divers other times & places, he the said Notly W. Maddox then & there did falsely, maliciously, openly & publickly say relate & publish of your petitioner in the presence & hearing of divers good & worthy citizens of said State these false Scandalous & opprobrious words to wit, that one William Good applied to you for credit in his store & said he could not pay untill he collected money from Notly W. Maddox & your petitioner told said William Good he would trust him if he would sue the said Maddox & that before him financing before your petitioner as Justice of the peace that he would back him in the suit & wait untill it as collected, & he could prove it, meaning thereby that your petitioner had been guilty of malpractice in office as Justice of the peace & also meaning that your petitioner had been guilty of Maintenance & Stirring up Strife amongst the good Citizens aforesaid, thereby meaning also that your petitioner was unfit for the Office of Justice of the peace. By reason of speaking & publishing of which said false scandalous & opprobrious Words your petitioner is greatly scandalized injured & hurt in his good name, fame, credit & reputation aforesaid & has fallen into such scandal & infamy among his neighbors & other good citizens to the damage of your petitioner five thousand dollars. [signed] L. Alen [Attorney for the Plaintiff]"

1802. November. He and Notley Maddox co-witnessed the Will of Isaac Hill, Jr.[49][50]

1802. As justice of the peace, he entered a default judgment against William Daniel who had been unable to attend the hearing due to his wife's illness; judgment was reversed on appeal.[51]

1802. He paid tax 847 acres on the Walnut River, Mulberry River and Sandy Creek.[52]

1802. He served as a grand juror.[53]

1803. 13 Aug. For $500, he bought 287½ acres in the Appalachee River watershed from the heirs of Jacob Gray; Witnessed by John Cash and Edmond W. Taylor and conveyed by Absalom Gray and Jonathan Gray.[54]

1804. 24 Feb. As administrator of the estate of Jacob Gray, he brought suit in Columbia County, Georgia to clear title to Gray's lands and foreclosed on an enslaved woman and her child (Hanney and Moses) belonging to Henry Evans to satisfy a debt owed Gray.[55][56][57][58]

1804. 27 Aug. For $400, he sold 187½ acres in the Appalachee River watershed (from the Gray estate) to James Spratlin as witnessed by John G. Pittman, James Pittman (Justice of the Inferior Court) and Edmond W. Taylor.[59]

1805. Both his draws in the 1805 Land Lottery were unsuccessful.[60]

1806. 5 March. Because his suit against Notley Maddox either failed or he withdraw it, he paid $6 in court fees.[61]

Jones County, Georgia

1808. 26 Jan. For $500, he purchased 202½ acres in Lot 10 of 11th District of Baldwin County, Georgia from Rachel West of Randolph County, Georgia (Recorded 21 Feb 1809)[62]

1809. February. For $400, he sold these 202½ acres to Littleberry Shields of Franklin County, Georgia.[63]

Jackson County, Georgia

1809. 3 Nov. He witnessed the will of neighbor Nathaniel Trout.[64]

1810. 1 Jan. Referred to as Major Miles Gathright on a list of unclaimed mail recipients at Athens, Georgia.[65]

1810. The 1810 US census for Georgia has not survived, however he paid tax in Jackson County on 965 acres.

1811. June. He declined the opportunity to become a Justice of the Inferior Court of Jackson County (perhaps expecting to relocate); this position is currently known in Georgia as a County Commissioner.[66]

1812. 3 Apr. The Athens Post Office reported he had failed to claim and pay postage on mail waiting for him.[67]

1812. 2 Oct. John Blackstock published notice of foreclosure on 400 acres belonging to Miles in the Walnut Fork watershed to satisfy a debt owing to Blackstock.[68]

Twiggs County, Georgia

1813. 9 Nov. ―"Resolved, that Miles Gathwright and James Ware, be appointed Commissioners of the public buildings for the County of Twiggs, in the place of John Hardin and Lovey B. Smith, resigned."[69]

1815. May. "At the town of Marion in the county of Twiggs, will be sold…valuable lots adjacent to said town. In point of beauty and convenience of excellent water, there is no situation superior to this in the Ocmulgee circuit." (Signed) Miles Gathright...[70]

1815. 10 Nov. "We recommend to the Legislature...to take into consideration the improvement of the navigation of the rivers Oconee and Ocmulgee…We recommend…not to grant a charter for the Milledgeville Bank in its present shape…(Signed) Miles Gathright, Foreman..."[71]

1815. He must have passed away about 20 November.

1815. 29 Nov. "―Resolved, that James Hutchison be and is hereby appointed a Commissioner of the public buildings of the County of Twiggs, in the place of Miles Gathwright, deceased." [72]

1816. 23 Jan. "―Georgia, Twiggs County, Whereas Lewis Calfrey applies for letters of administration on the estate of Miles Gathright, late of this county, deceased, Given under my hand this 23rd day of January,1816…(Signed) Micajah Fulgham, C.C.O."[73]

1816. 25 June. "Will be sold on the 25th of June next, at the late residence of Miles Gathwright, deceased, in Twiggs County, all the personal property of said deceased…(Signed) Mary Gathwright, Adm‘x."[74]

1818. August. By this time his widow Mary Ann (Collins) Gathright (abt.1776-1818) has married Lovett B Smith (administrator de bonis non) who sold all the personal property of Miles Gathright, late of Twiggs County; consisting of horses, cattle, hogs, sheep.[75]

1819. January. “Sale. Will be sold the first Tuesday in January next, at the courthouse in Marion, Twiggs County, all the negroes belonging to the estate of Miles Gathright, deceased….(Signed) L.B. Smith, Adm’r de bonis non.”[76]

Jackson County, Georgia

1818. September. Guardians were appointed for the orphans of Miles Gathright - William Mathews appointed guardian for Elizabeth; William M Gathright appointed as guardian for Louisiana, Maria, Obadiah Fox, Eunice, Miles Franklin and William Croam.[77]

1819. November. “Will be sold first Tuesday in November next, at the courthouse in Jackson County, 40 acres belonging to the Estate of Miles Gathright, deceased...Sold by an order of the Court of Ordinary of Twiggs County. August 18, 1819"[78]

1827. His orphans drew in the Land Lottery.[79]

Sources

  1. ↑ No source in the notes
  2. ↑ Mecklenburg County, Virginia Deed Book 5: 97
  3. ↑ Joida Whitten, Abstracts of Bedford County, Virginia Wills, Inventories and Accounts 1754-1787: 111 (The Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas, Texas)
  4. ↑ Joida Whitten, Abstracts of Bedford County, Virginia Wills, Inventories and Accounts 1754-1787: 147 (The Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas, Texas)
  5. ↑ Joida Whitten, Abstracts of Bedford County, Virginia Wills, Inventories and Accounts 1754-1787: 147 (The Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas, Texas)
  6. ↑ Joida Whitten, Abstracts of Bedford County, Virginia Wills, Inventories and Accounts 1754-1787: 147 (The Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas, Texas)
  7. ↑ Joida Whitten, Abstracts of Bedford County, Virginia Wills, Inventories and Accounts 1754-1787: 152 (The Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas, Texas)
  8. ↑ Bedford County, Virginia Deed Book 7, 1780-1787: 518-519
  9. ↑ Bedford County, Virginia Processioners Book, 1796-1812, Reel 58, p 215, VA State Archives
  10. ↑ Ross Arnold and Hank Burnham, Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers Volume 2: 230
  11. ↑ William C Stewart, Gone to Georgia: 184
  12. ↑ Rev Silas Emmett Lucas Jr, Index to the Headright and Bounty Grants of Georgia 1756-1909 (Georgia Genealogical Reprints (1970))
  13. ↑ Bess Vaughn Clark, Twiggs County, Georgia Abstracts: Records of a Burned County: 219
  14. ↑ Ross Arnold and Hank Burnham, Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers Volume 2: 230
  15. ↑ William C Stewart, Gone to Georgia: 184
  16. ↑ Rev Silas Emmett Lucas Jr, Index to the Headright and Bounty Grants of Georgia 1756-1909 (Georgia Genealogical Reprints (1970))
  17. ↑ Bess Vaughn Clark, Twiggs County, Georgia Abstracts: Records of a Burned County: 219
  18. ↑ Jimmie Tucker Franklin, Church Histories: Phillip’s Mill Baptist Church, Wilkes County, Georgia 1785-1850: 9
  19. ↑ Michal Martin Farmer, Oglethorpe County, Georgia Deed Books A-E 1794-1809: 24 citing Oglethorpe County, Georgia Deed Book A 1794-1796: 195
  20. ↑ Frank Parker Hudson, Wilkes County, Georgia Tax Records 1785-1805 (1996): 213
  21. ↑ Freda Turner, Greene County, Georgia Land Records & Deeds 1785-1810 (recorded May 1792
  22. ↑ Michal Martin Farmer, Wilkes County, Georgia Deed Books A-VV 1784-1806: 286 (Farmer Genealogy Company (1996)), citing Wilkes County, Georgia Deed Book II 1792-1794: 421
  23. ↑ No source in the notes
  24. ↑ Jimmie Tucker Franklin, Church Histories: Phillip’s Mill Baptist Church, Wilkes County, Georgia 1785-1850: 27
  25. ↑ Frances T Ingmire, Richmond County, Georgia Marriage Records 1785-1849: 21
  26. ↑ Teresa Wilson Dunn & Vivial Phillips Walls, Jackson County, Georgia Superior Court Records 1796-1803: 48 (WH Wolfe Associates, Alpharetta, Georgia (1994))
  27. ↑ Faye Stone Poss, Jackson County, Georgia Deed Abstracts Books A-D 1796-1808: 64 (Wolfe Publishing, Fernandina Beach, Florida (1998)), citing Jackson County, Georgia Deed Book B 1799-1801: 41-42
  28. ↑ Ross Arnold and Hank Burnham, Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers Volume 2: 230
  29. ↑ William C Stewart, Gone to Georgia: 184
  30. ↑ Rev Silas Emmett Lucas Jr, Index to the Headright and Bounty Grants of Georgia 1756-1909 (Georgia Genealogical Reprints (1970))
  31. ↑ Bess Vaughn Clark, Twiggs County, Georgia Abstracts: Records of a Burned County: 219
  32. ↑ Jackson County, Georgia Tax Digest 1798, Samuel Kilough's District
  33. ↑ Teresa Wilson Dunn & Vivial Phillips Walls, Jackson County, Georgia Superior Court Records 1796-1803: 74, 100, 109, 144, 151, 163 (WH Wolfe Associates, Alpharetta, Georgia (1994))
  34. ↑ Teresa Wilson Dunn & Vivial Phillips Walls, Jackson County, Georgia Superior Court Records 1796-1803: 94 (WH Wolfe Associates, Alpharetta, Georgia (1994))
  35. ↑ Jackson County, Georgia Inferior Court Minutes for County Purposes 1799-1800: 3
  36. ↑ Teresa Wilson Dunn & Vivial Phillips Walls, Jackson County, Georgia Superior Court Records 1796-1803: 102 (WH Wolfe Associates, Alpharetta, Georgia (1994))
  37. ↑ Jackson County, Georgia Inferior Court Minutes for County Purposes 1799-1800: 21-22
  38. ↑ Faye Stone Poss, Jackson County, Georgia Early Court Records 1796-1831: 105 (WH Wolfe Associates, Alpharetta, Georgia (1994)), citing Jackson County, Georgia Inferior Court Minutes for County Purposes 1799-1800: 27
  39. ↑ Faye Stone Poss, Jackson County, Georgia Deed Abstracts Books A-D 1796-1808: 87, 101, 107, 112, 121, 133, 138 (Wolfe Publishing, Fernandina Beach, Florida (1998))
  40. ↑ Teresa Wilson Dunn & Vivial Phillips Walls, Jackson County, Georgia Superior Court Records 1796-1803: 74, 100, 109, 144, 151, 163 (WH Wolfe Associates, Alpharetta, Georgia (1994))
  41. ↑ Michal Martin Farmer, Oglethorpe County, Georgia Deed Books A-E 1794-1809: 24 citing Oglethorpe County, Georgia Deed Book D 1800-1806: 284
  42. ↑ Teresa Wilson Dunn & Vivial Phillips Walls, Jackson County, Georgia Superior Court Records 1796-1803: 120 (WH Wolfe Associates, Alpharetta, Georgia (1994))
  43. ↑ Teresa Wilson Dunn & Vivial Phillips Walls, Jackson County, Georgia Superior Court Records 1796-1803: 74, 100, 109, 144, 151, 163 (WH Wolfe Associates, Alpharetta, Georgia (1994))
  44. ↑ Faye Stone Poss, Jackson County, Georgia Deed Abstracts Books A-D 1796-1808: 134 (Wolfe Publishing, Fernandina Beach, Florida (1998)), citing Jackson County, Georgia Deed Book C 1801-1802: 187-188
  45. ↑ Faye Stone Poss, Jackson County, Georgia Deed Abstracts Books E-G 1808-1822: 137 (Library of Congress # 00-190609 (2000)), citing Jackson County, Georgia Deed Book E 1808-1812: 657
  46. ↑ Faye Stone Poss, Jackson County, Georgia Deed Abstracts Books A-D 1796-1808: 150 (Wolfe Publishing, Fernandina Beach, Florida (1998)), citing Jackson County, Georgia Deed Book C 1801-1802: 274
  47. ↑ Faye Stone Poss, Jackson County, Georgia Deed Abstracts Books A-D 1796-1808: 185 (Wolfe Publishing, Fernandina Beach, Florida (1998)), citing Jackson County, Georgia Deed Book D 1803-1808: 197
  48. ↑ Teresa Wilson Dunn & Vivial Phillips Walls, Jackson County, Georgia Superior Court Records 1796-1803: 149, 199-200 (WH Wolfe Associates, Alpharetta, Georgia (1994))
  49. ↑ Jackson County, Georgia Wills & Estate Records 1796-1813: 69-70
  50. ↑ Faye Stone Poss, Jackson County, Georgia Early Court Records 1796-1831: 32 (WH Wolfe Associates, Alpharetta, Georgia (1994))
  51. ↑ Teresa Wilson Dunn & Vivial Phillips Walls, Jackson County, Georgia Superior Court Records 1796-1803: 287 (WH Wolfe Associates, Alpharetta, Georgia (1994))
  52. ↑ Belinda E Savadge, 1797-1802 Tax Digest Jackson County, Georgia Volume 1: 233-234
  53. ↑ Teresa Wilson Dunn & Vivial Phillips Walls, Jackson County, Georgia Superior Court Records 1796-1803: 74, 100, 109, 144, 151, 163 (WH Wolfe Associates, Alpharetta, Georgia (1994))
  54. ↑ Faye Stone Poss, Jackson County, Georgia Deed Abstracts Books A-D 1796-1808: 199 (Wolfe Publishing, Fernandina Beach, Florida (1998)), citing Jackson County, Georgia Deed Book D 1803-1808: 173
  55. ↑ Faye Stone Poss, Clarke County (Athens), Georgia Newspaper Abstracts 1808-1820: 113 (Snellville, Georgia (1999)), citing Foreign Correspondent & Georgia Express, Volume III, Number 132 5 Jan 1811
  56. ↑ Faye Stone Poss, Jackson County, Georgia Deed Abstracts Books E-G 1808-1822 (Library of Congress # 00-190609 (2000)), citing Jackson County, Georgia Deed Book F 1812-1818: 335-336
  57. ↑ Faye Stone Poss, Jackson County, Georgia Early Court Records 1796-1831: 43 (WH Wolfe Associates, Alpharetta, Georgia (1994))
  58. ↑ Jackson County, Georgia Wills & Estate Records 1796-1813: 92
  59. ↑ Faye Stone Poss, Jackson County, Georgia Deed Abstracts Books A-D 1796-1808: 198-199 (Wolfe Publishing, Fernandina Beach, Florida (1998)), citing Jackson County, Georgia Deed Book D 1803-1808: 170
  60. ↑ Wood, Virginia S. and Ralph V. Wood, The 1805 Georgia Land Lottery: 122
  61. ↑ Teresa Wilson Dunn & Vivial Phillips Walls, Jackson County, Georgia Superior Court Records 1796-1803: 200 (WH Wolfe Associates, Alpharetta, Georgia (1994))
  62. ↑ Jones County, Georgia Deed Book A: 201-202
  63. ↑ Jones County, Georgia Deed Book A: 203-204
  64. ↑ faye Stone Poss, Jackson County, Georgia Will Abstracts Books A & B 1803-1888: 16 (Wolfe Publishing, Fernandina Beach, Florida (1995)), citing Jackson County, Georgia Will Book A 1803-1860: 31-32
  65. ↑ Faye Stone Poss, Clarke County (Athens), Georgia Newspaper Abstracts 1808-1820: 64 (Snellville, Georgia (1999)), citing Foreign Correspondent & Georgia Express, Volume II, Number 83 6 Jan 1810
  66. ↑ Library of the Department of History and Archives, Morrow, Georgia, Individual Card File on "Miles H Gathright"
  67. ↑ Faye Stone Poss, Clarke County (Athens), Georgia Newspaper Abstracts 1808-1820: 134 (Snellville, Georgia (1999)), citing Georgia Express, Volume IV, Number 193 3 Apr 1812
  68. ↑ Faye Stone Poss, Clarke County (Athens), Georgia Newspaper Abstracts 1808-1820: 158 (Snellville, Georgia (1999)), citing Georgia Express, Volume V, Number 219 2 Oct 1812
  69. ↑ Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia passed at Milledgeville at an Annual Session in November and December 1813, p 85
  70. ↑ Fred R and Emilie K Hartz, Genealogical Abstracts from the Georgia Journal (Milledgeville) Newspaper, 1809-1840 Volume One, 1809-1818: 379, citing Georgia Journal (Milledgeville, Georgia) 29 Mar 1815
  71. ↑ Fred R and Emilie K Hartz, Genealogical Abstracts from the Georgia Journal (Milledgeville) Newspaper, 1809-1840 Volume One, 1809-1818: 474, citing Georgia Journal (Milledgeville, Georgia) 15 Nov 1815
  72. ↑ Georgia Laws 1815, p 35
  73. ↑ Fred R and Emilie K Hartz, Genealogical Abstracts from the Georgia Journal (Milledgeville) Newspaper, 1809-1840 Volume One, 1809-1818: 506, citing Georgia Journal (Milledgeville, Georgia) 31 Jan 1816
  74. ↑ Fred R and Emilie K Hartz, Genealogical Abstracts from the Georgia Journal (Milledgeville) Newspaper, 1809-1840 Volume One, 1809-1818: 544, citing Georgia Journal (Milledgeville, Georgia) 15 May 1816
  75. ↑ Fred R and Emilie K Hartz, Genealogical Abstracts from the Georgia Journal (Milledgeville) Newspaper, 1809-1840 Volume One, 1809-1818: 873, citing Georgia Journal (Milledgeville, Georgia) 30 Jun 1818
  76. ↑ Fred R and Emilie K Hartz, Genealogical Abstracts from the Georgia Journal (Milledgeville) Newspaper, 1809-1840 Volume One, 1809-1818: 939, citing Georgia Journal (Milledgeville, Georgia) 27 Oct 1818
  77. ↑ Faye Stone Poss, Jackson County, Georgia Early Court Records 1796-1831: 254-255 (WH Wolfe Associates, Alpharetta, Georgia (1994)), citing Jackson County, Georgia Minutes of the Court of Ordinary 1800-1822: 204-205
  78. ↑ Bess Vaughn Clark, Twiggs County, Georgia Abstracts: Records of a Burned County: 184
  79. ↑ Faye Stone Poss, Clarke County (Athens), Georgia Newspaper Abstracts 1826-1829:40, citing The Athenian Volume I, Number 14 6 Apr 1829
  • 1790 U.S. Census Reconstructed Records, 1660-1820
  • Georgia, Property Tax Digests, 1793-1892
  • Georgia Tax Index, 1789-1799
  • Georgia Marriages, 1699-1944

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