Dale.. Burke co as you know covered a large area at one time case in point some my descendant got land grants that were later in Jefferson co. The moving of county land lines has been confusing for us researchers.. burke co at one time covered alot of present day Jefferson, Warren and parts of others. Prior to 1800 it gets worst.......Happy Hunting.......Jones ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dale E. Reddick" <dereddi@hargray.com> To: <gascreve@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 3:26 PM Subject: [GASCREVE] Another William Taylor land survey & plat from 1788 > Hi Folks, > > Here's another plat prepared for William Taylor in 1788. It was > situated near Kemp's Branch on the north side of Brier Creek. This > would have been near Solomon Kemp (either the Tory or his son who became > Sheriff of Screven Co.), east of present-day Hiltonia - most likely. > This plat for 100 acres is also adjacent to a land parcel he already has. > > I used the search function at the GA SOS archives webpage to look > through results of searching with the phrase "Brier Creek". I also > checked the phrases "Briar Creek" and "Bryar Creek". This brings up > results from the upper portion of Screven County (in early years this > was Burke County) and through much of Burke County. > > Dale E. Reddick > > ----------------- > > http://content.sos.state.ga.us/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/looseplats&CISOPTR=11528&REC=6 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > >