this is really interesting information!!mvto for sharing it..in my own searches found folks coming from SC,and even KY coming into what is now S AL and NW FL..this clears up a bit of the fog! Sandi Perry > From: creek-southeast-request@rootsweb.com > Subject: CREEK-SOUTHEAST Digest, Vol 4, Issue 215 > To: creek-southeast@rootsweb.com > Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:01:39 -0600 > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Political boundary changes can confuse ancestor searches! > (TalliyaSoutheast@aol.com) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:58:53 EDT > From: TalliyaSoutheast@aol.com > Subject: [CREEK-SOUTHEAST] Political boundary changes can confuse > ancestor searches! > To: creek-southeast@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <c8d.54007a2c.3816403d@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Well, you learn something every day. I thought I was an expert on the > history of Georgia and the states of the Southern Highlands, but I just got a > surprise. The first chapter of Part III of my books on the Southern > Highlands is all maps and their analysis. > > The northern half of Georgia was officially part of South Carolina until > after the Revolution. Now, the Colony of Georgia CLAIMED the northern > half, but all maps made outside of Savannah, showed the region being part of > South Carolina. At the close of the Revolution, someone in Congress was > offered an option to buy Home Depot stock cheap, and therefore got Congress to > see Georgia's point of view. <kidding> > > Just to be sure that I wasn't getting senile, I went to the county > library and asked for the official state history book used in Georgia classrooms. > Sure enough, it does NOT mention that Augusta, GA and the Creek Capital > of Coweta, were both in South Carolina according to maps adopted by the > British Crown. Georgia created a huge county on the frontier - Wilkes County - > that actually was in South Carolina's territory. In fact several Colonial > Georgia counties were according to the Crown, in South Carolina. > Apparently, settlers who moved from South Carolina and North Carolina to the north > Georgia frontier called it South Carolina, while immigrants coming through > Savannah, called it Georgia. > > In other words, you might have ancestors from that period who say they > lived in South Carolina, but actually lived in what we now know as Georgia. > > My family had always been confused because my earliest recorded Creek > ancestor, Mahala Bone, in the 1760s, moved with her family from a Creek village > on the Catawba River between Chester and Lancaster, SC to another Creek > community on the frontier. The location sure sounded like NE Georgia. My > grandmother always said that the original location of their mother town was > just north of Savannah, but that it moved upstream before the Revolution. > Now it all makes sense. > > By the way, all English, French and Spanish maps do not mention the > Cherokees until 1690. Prior to that decade, English and French maps show the > Apalachee occupying the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia, and the land > between the Nantahala Mountains and the Blue Ridge in North Carolina. The > Kusa's are shown occupying the Cohutta Mountains. Various Koasati and Yuchi > towns occupy the Tennessee River Valley and the Rickohockens controlled NW > North Carolina and SW Virginia. French maps show that the Apalachicola - > Creeks occupied NW Georgia until 1763, when France was defeated by England. > English maps don't show all western North Carolina and far eastern Tennessee > being controlled by the Cherokees until 1748. West of and north of the > Tennessee was always Chickasaw country. Even then all of the Indians EAST of > the Brevard Fault in the North Carolina mountains were either Coweta > Creeks, Yuchi or Shawnee. The farthermost east Cherokee settlements were two > tiny hamlets on the French Broad River near modern day Asheville, NC > > When the Cherokees invaded northern Georgia in 1755, it was thought by > everybody, but the folks in Savannah to be part of South Carolina. However, > the Creeks, Chickasaws, Aplachee's and Yuchi's living in northern Georgia > were allied with the Colony of Georgia, not South Carolina. South Carolina > signed a treaty with the Cherokees in 1755 giving them what is now northern > Georgia in return for fighting the French. The towns that the Cherokees > attacked were English allies - but Georgia-English allies. What the South > Carolinians were really doing, is cementing their claim to the region by > eliminating natives, who would want to be in the Colony of Georgia. > > By the way, despite what the historical markers and Cherokees tell you, > after initial success with a surprise attack on Taliwa, the Cherokees > suffered catastrophic losses when the Upper Creeks counter-attacked. An > official British Army map made in late 1755, shows all of the western and > southern Cherokee towns abandoned by late 1755. The Cherokees sent offers for > peace to the Upper Creeks, and even considered changing sides. The British > panicked and sent wagon loads of blankets saturated with small pox pus to > the Cherokees. As a result of the intentional smallpox plague, the Cherokees > lost about a third of their population. By 1757, they were in a bloody > war with England, their former ally. > > Richard T. > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the CREEK-SOUTHEAST list administrator, send an email to > CREEK-SOUTHEAST-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the CREEK-SOUTHEAST mailing list, send an email to CREEK-SOUTHEAST@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CREEK-SOUTHEAST-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of CREEK-SOUTHEAST Digest, Vol 4, Issue 215 > *********************************************** _________________________________________________________________ New Windows 7: Find the right PC for you. Learn more. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pc-scout/default.aspx?CBID=wl&ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_pcscout:102009