In a message dated 11/22/2007 6:47:27 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, dereddi@hargray.com writes: http://content.sos.state.ga.us/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/looseplats&CISOPTR= 8929&REC=6 Thank you!! I was unaware of "chain carriers"!. So interesting and new light on the subject. Inez **************************************Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products. (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001)

Hi Inez, Yes, on surveyed plats there are the: 1 - landowner; 2 - chain carriers - who were often neighbors, kin, or hired help on the farm / plantation (overseer, wheelwright, millwright, etc.); 3 - neighboring landowners (who might be kin or in-laws), including --- a - old neighboring landowners (gone by the time the plat is advertised via public notice), --- b - new neighboring landowners (in the case where the land was sold between the date of the survey and the date when the plat was prepared or advertised). Then, on deeds there are the witnesses - and sometimes those are truly fascinating. For instance, in a 1791 deed between Francis Paris, Sr. and John Michael Burkhalter there is a neighbor named Nicholas 'Rettig' and a witness named Francis 'Rettige'. Francis 'Rettige' later appeared in the county seat of Jacksonboro to attest that he witnessed the sale by JMB of his land to Francis Paris, Sr. (after Screven County had been formed in December of 1793). The thing of this is that Nicholas 'Rettig' is undoubtedly my gggg-grandfather Nicholas Reddick. And Francis 'Rettige' was his brother Francis Reddick. You need to take more than one look at each item. Especially as you become more and more familiar with the surroundings of your ancestors, their kin, and neighbors. So many of the surnames and place-names are so readily mis-interpretable or have changed over time that you can easily be misled. Place-names really do change quite quickly. Thomas Reddick got a 300 acre land grant in 1813 on Brady Branch in Screven County of lands that previously had been granted to William Black prior to the Revolutionary War. Then, in 1847 Thomas had his lands re-surveyed. His lands then included also a parcel originally granted to Robert and Mary Rowan Ivey during the 1790s. Those lands re-surveyed in 1847 were located on Black Creek and near Jackson Branch (which both drain into the Savannah River in the eastern part of Screven County). I'm guessing that the old Brady Branch was renamed either to Black Creek or else Jackson Branch (the two being close together). Of course, this whole picture is complicated by the fact that there is a Brady Branch in the southwest corner of present-day Screven County and which itself empties into the Ogeechee River. I still question my interpretation of where Thomas Reddick got his first 300 acre land grant in 1813. Dale ____________________________________ IKPharo@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 11/22/2007 6:47:27 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, > dereddi@hargray.com writes: > > http://content.sos.state.ga.us/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/looseplats&CISOPTR= > 8929&REC=6 > > > Thank you!! I was unaware of "chain carriers"!. So interesting and new > light on the subject. Inez > > > >