This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RAY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Xd.2ADE/1434.1 Message Board Post: Ross, If the date in your query is correct, you probably will have a difficult time finding a record of this event. The town of Columbus was founded in 1828. Muscogee County was created in 1826 from lands the Native Americans were forced to give up by treaty. Are you perhaps looking for Columbia County (formed 1790)?