Hi John, Yeah, we've already got the Lewis, Reddick, and Wade surnamed folks apparently involved in simultaneous movements from the area of Screven & Burke Counties (Bulloch being immediately adjacent to both at that time) down to what eventually became Brooks County. Let's see, that would be: DeVane; Lewis; Reddick; Rogers; Wade. Anyone else got such a connection from the Ogeechee River (Black Creek, Mill Creek, Ogeechee Creek [aka Little Ogeechee River]) and the Savannah River (Brier Creek, Beaver Dam Creek, Rocky Creek, McDaniel Creek, Little Sweetwater Creek, Buck Creek) areas of easternmost Georgia centrally located between Savannah and Augusta? I'm sure that I'm missing or have otherwise overlooked something! Dale John Davis wrote: > Dale, > You can add the Rogers and Devane families that were temporily in Bulloch > Co before coming down to Lowndes Co (eventually Brooks) in the 1820/30 > timeframe. > I would certainly like to know what event(s) occurred that drew so many > down to south Georgia during that timeframe. > John Davis > Herndon, VA > jocada3@verizon.net > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dale E. Reddick" <dereddi@hargray.com> > To: <gabrooks@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 7:30 PM > Subject: Re: [GABROOKS] Young family of GA > > > >> Hey Carole, >> >> Welcome to the list! >> >> You know, the more that I see shared given names & surnames - then the >> more that I have to think that there may have been an -almost- direct >> connection between the Burke / Screven / Bulloch / Effingham Counties >> area and the Thomas / Brooks / Lowndes / Colquitt Counties area. I am >> beginning to wonder about a shared migration path and eventual shared >> destination for several families. I know that such occurrences weren't >> all that unusual. However, some of the families that eventually ended >> up in Brooks County first settled in other counties after initially >> departing the Screven County area (Nicholas Moses Reddick and perhaps >> his Lewis family in-laws first moved to Dooly County after they departed >> Screven County). >> >> It's all more than just a bit interesting! >> >> Dale >> ___________________________________ >> >> Carole Drexel wrote: >> >>> Len Avera, Good evening. I am a Young descendant from Screven and >>> Bulloch >>> Counties. Are you a Young descendant through the Avera line? I found >>> your >>> name on the Brooks County rootsweb contact list and I am interested in >>> all >>> things pertaining to the Young family of Georgia. My direct line is >>> through >>> James Young, the eldest son of William Young and Mary Henderson, oldest >>> brother to Willis Young, Michael Young, Remer Young, David Young, >>> Elizabeth >>> Young, Lavinia Young, and more <g>. >>> >>> Would love to swap information. >>> >>> Carole Farr Drexel >>> >>> Drexel410@att.net >>>

People likely migrated because of new land availability: 1. In 1818, an organization known as "The Alabama Company of South Carolina", through its agent Stephen Elliott, purchased from the Cahawba Land Office 60,0000 or 70,0000 acres in Lowndes County Alabama, then part of Montgomery County, mostly south and west of Big Swamp. My Henry Bryan of Screven, husband of Honora Bonnell, purchased his first land in Alabama in 1818 and moved. His sons and other family members followed. 2. 1820 Land Lottery After the Creek War (1814), Andrew Jackson demanded the secession of the southern third of present-day Georgia. A second section of land in northeast Georgia was included. This defined the eastern end of the Cherokee Nation for 12 years. The 1820 Lottery included land in Early, Irwin, and Appling Counties in GA. Early, Irwin, Appling counties extended across south Georgia and were created from Creek lands acquired in 1814 by the Treaty of Fort Jackson. The land was granted under the authority of George M. Troup, Governor of Georgia (1823-1827). Here is a copy of the 1820 grant to David Archer of Screven County. http://neptune3.galib.uga.edu/ssp/cgi-bin/tei-natamer-idx.pl?sessionid=7f000 001&type=doc&tei2id=KRC077 Portions of Early County's original boundaries were used to create the following counties: Decatur (1823), Baker (1825), Clay (1854), Calhoun (1854), and Miller (1856). Other counties created from these five counties and falling within Early's original boundaries are: Dougherty (1853), Mitchell (1857), Grady (1905), and Seminole (1920). Also a portion of Thomas County (created in 1825) falls in Early's original boundaries. Irwin County originally embraced part or all of the following counties: Worth, Wilcox, Turner, Ben Hill, Tift, Colquitt, Thomas, Cook, Brooks, Berrien, Lowndes, Echols, Clinch, Lanier, Atkinson, Coffee, Ware, Charlton, Jeff Davis, Bacon, Pierce and Brantly. The original boundaries of Appling county included all or portions of Bacon, Charlton, Clinch, Echols, Jeff Davis, Pierce, Ware, and Wayne Counties. Also, portions of Appling County were used to create the following counties: Pierce (1857), Jeff Davis (1905), and Bacon (1914). In his conveyance of 1827, Stephen Mills of Screven left to his son John a plot of land in Early County, a plot that now is located near Bainbridge in Decatur County. 3. The Forbes Land Company settled its claims with the US and land opened up in Florida. Stephen Mills widow and children purchased land and migrated to Leon County following his 1827 death. Thomas Mills purchased land beginning in 1826, the Burney uncles beginning in 1827, Archibald and Jane Burney Gordon Mills beginning in 1828. Spanish Land Grant Claim Survey Map, ca. 1818 (From: United States Board of Land Commissioners, Confirmed Spanish Land Grant Claims, 1763-1821, Series S990) Hand-colored plat maps such as this one by Surveyor Robert McHardy are among the documents used to establish ownership of land in Florida after it became a territory of the United States in 1821. The U.S. Board of Land Commissioners was established in 1822 (3 U.S. Statute 709, May 8) to settle all outstanding Spanish land grant claims in the territory that Spain ceded to the United States the previous year. The Board set up offices in Pensacola and Saint Augustine to determine the validity of all titles and private claims to these lands and either supported or rejected the claims based on its review of the documents submitted by claimants. This series is comprised of claims files containing those supporting documents, including petitions or memorials to a governor for land; surveys or plats; attestations; deeds of sale, gifts, wills, bequests, and exchanges; and translations of original Spanish land documents. http://www.floridamemory.com/FloridaHighlights/LandGrant.cfm SDL -----Original Message----- From: gascreve-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:gascreve-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Dale E. Reddick Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 10:48 PM To: gabrooks@rootsweb.com Cc: gabulloc@rootsweb.com; gascreve@rootsweb.com; gaburke@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [GASCREVE] [GABROOKS] Migration to south Georgia Hi John, Yeah, we've already got the Lewis, Reddick, and Wade surnamed folks apparently involved in simultaneous movements from the area of Screven & Burke Counties (Bulloch being immediately adjacent to both at that time) down to what eventually became Brooks County. Let's see, that would be: DeVane; Lewis; Reddick; Rogers; Wade. Anyone else got such a connection from the Ogeechee River (Black Creek, Mill Creek, Ogeechee Creek [aka Little Ogeechee River]) and the Savannah River (Brier Creek, Beaver Dam Creek, Rocky Creek, McDaniel Creek, Little Sweetwater Creek, Buck Creek) areas of easternmost Georgia centrally located between Savannah and Augusta? I'm sure that I'm missing or have otherwise overlooked something! Dale John Davis wrote: > Dale, > You can add the Rogers and Devane families that were temporily in Bulloch > Co before coming down to Lowndes Co (eventually Brooks) in the 1820/30 > timeframe. > I would certainly like to know what event(s) occurred that drew so many > down to south Georgia during that timeframe. > John Davis > Herndon, VA > jocada3@verizon.net > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dale E. Reddick" <dereddi@hargray.com> > To: <gabrooks@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 7:30 PM > Subject: Re: [GABROOKS] Young family of GA > > > >> Hey Carole, >> >> Welcome to the list! >> >> You know, the more that I see shared given names & surnames - then the >> more that I have to think that there may have been an -almost- direct >> connection between the Burke / Screven / Bulloch / Effingham Counties >> area and the Thomas / Brooks / Lowndes / Colquitt Counties area. I am >> beginning to wonder about a shared migration path and eventual shared >> destination for several families. I know that such occurrences weren't >> all that unusual. However, some of the families that eventually ended >> up in Brooks County first settled in other counties after initially >> departing the Screven County area (Nicholas Moses Reddick and perhaps >> his Lewis family in-laws first moved to Dooly County after they departed >> Screven County). >> >> It's all more than just a bit interesting! >> >> Dale >> ___________________________________ >> >> Carole Drexel wrote: >> >>> Len Avera, Good evening. I am a Young descendant from Screven and >>> Bulloch >>> Counties. Are you a Young descendant through the Avera line? I found >>> your >>> name on the Brooks County rootsweb contact list and I am interested in >>> all >>> things pertaining to the Young family of Georgia. My direct line is >>> through >>> James Young, the eldest son of William Young and Mary Henderson, oldest >>> brother to Willis Young, Michael Young, Remer Young, David Young, >>> Elizabeth >>> Young, Lavinia Young, and more <g>. >>> >>> Would love to swap information. >>> >>> Carole Farr Drexel >>> >>> Drexel410@att.net >>> ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GASCREVE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message