> > From: "Derrell Oakley Teat" <margaret.teat2@verizon.net> > Date: 2004/08/28 Sat AM 11:07:55 EDT > To: GA-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [GA-Roots] Cherokee Co Land Grant Book > > I'm trying to find information about a book that may be named "Cherokee Land > Grants". Im looking for a land grant to James Madison Hodgens between > 1845-1848. > > If anyone has the book or knows the correct name please let me know. > > Thanks for your time & trouble, > Derrell Oakley Teat > > Where was the land in this 1845-1848 grant? If it was in Georgia, then that is the 1832 Georgia Cherokee Land Lottery. These grants were from lands "ceded" by the Chrokees to the State of Georgia, and included most of North and much of West Georgia down to about present day Carroll County. The 1832 lottery was the last of the Cherokee lands to be granted outright. There is a book titled "The Cherokee Land Lottery" which includes the grants of, I think, 202 1/2 acres per lot. There was a seperate drawing for "gold lots" of 40 acres per lot. There is a copy of this book at the Troup County, Ga., Archives in LaGrange, Ga. The book of regular grants is indexed, but the one for gold lots is not. Hope this helps. Jimmy > >

Jimmy, The land 1845-1848, would it have been a grant to someone from SC? I've been told that James Hodgens stopped in GA from SC, then whatever for moved to AL. The info came from a cousin who cant remember the name of the book & quite frankly Im not sure he even saw the grant. Thanks for your help, Derrell