Tom, You're raising some interesting questions, and I hope someone else can also shed light on this. I'll give you what I know anyway. 1)It is unusual for the Census report to use the 17th District which is a Land District which does border Harris County.... usually Census pages and enumerators used the GMD (military district) #s....and these would be for that section 689, 904, 894, 688. These are in numerical order through the entire state according to when the Military District was formed.....so the top and bottom ones, i.e. 689 and 688 were the first ones settled. As they had more people then the 894 was created and later 904. Where did you copy what you typed in? Was it from the microfilm or published some where? 2)When Talbot was formed in 1827...it said, "starting at the southeast corner of Lot #193 in the 17th District, etc. I don't have a Talbot County land lot map...but if someone else does maybe they can help us out with exactly where that was in relation to the county. I don't see any notation that any more land ever came from Harris to become Talbot.... 1840 Census, Talbot County Henry Bailey Sr- Talbot Co- 197 - No (twp?) listed (Harris C0) Georgia -1850 From census index Oliver H P Bailey- Talbot Co-237- 17th District (Harris Co) Question: was the 17th District actually a part of Harris County at one time or is the information in error? All the Bailey folks except Oliver had left Talbot by 1850. It's possible Oliver may have been related to Henry Bailey, Sr. Is there a land expert on the list? **** Is there a Grantor/Grantee Index that exists for the period 1836-1858? **One of the drawbacks of doing research in land in Talbot is that there is no master index ....each volume beginning with 1827, would have it own index. This makes it very difficult to research unless you can spend alot of time in the courthouse....or order the films from LDS. Or is there line item detail, age groups and gender, for the 1840 without having to order film? ** The 1850 census has been published. WE NEED the 1840 census to be done and put on-line.... so if anyone does look at even a portion of the census, please record it and share it with everyone. Virginia