Coward's would be the militia district. Not necessarily meaning he was active in the militia. Militia district is a political subdivision of the county, somewhat like a township. In Georgia it is difficult to follow the naming of the districts. Each has a number (i.e. 175 in your other example), but generally were called after the name of the local captain. Which of course changed from time to time. Somewhere along the way, the names sort of became fixed, but without a consistency of when nor how. Sometimes a captain's name stuck, sometimes a geographic name such as Sweetwater District. -----Original Message----- From: Nimrodkiss@aol.com [mailto:Nimrodkiss@aol.com] Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 11:44 PM To: GAMURRAY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MURRAY] Cherokee Land Lottery 1832 Hi Listers Can someone help me figure out what the Lottery List means? 1. 7th District First Section # 321. Samuel Carter, Coward's, Lowndes Does this mean Samuel was living Lowndes Co and he was in village of Coward's or is Cowards the name of a branch of service he was in? I notice some give 175th, Lee *. I figure they were in a military group and came from Lee Co. Is this correct? Thanks Jan ==== GAMURRAY Mailing List ==== --- Author Retains Copyright --- -- Copyright 2002 Author -- All Rights Reserved Post to List: GAMURRAY-L@rootsweb.com http://www.selfroots.com Unsubscribe request To: GAMURRAY-L-request@rootsweb.com ARCHIVES: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl