Dear Linda and Kids, Some information from "The Georgia Genealogist" on the Wafford Settlement - unfortunately I do not know which issue, but there must be an index. Nancy Guest jguest@alltel.net >From "County Records, Franklin County, Wofford Settlement" MILITIAMEN AND SETTLERS: The Story of Franklin County's Wofford Settlement "The trials and tribulations of frontier citizens was never more apparent than the saga of Georgia's Wofford Settlement, located on the boundary of Franklin County in the Cherokee Territory. William Wofford, from whom the settlement took its name, was born in Maryland in 1728, and in early life moved with his family to the Spartanburg area of South Carolina. During the Revolution many patriots from the region were forced to flee the Tories and took refuge in the upper Catawba River region of North Carollina. They erected a fort called Fort Charles. With the close of the Revolution, many moved across the Savannah River into the newly opened lands of Georgia. Here every man could receive a headright of 100 acres for himself and 50 acres for each member of his family or slave. Wofford joined this migration and came to Georgia. His first known land purchase was in Franklin County on 12-21-1792 when he bought a tract granted to Joseph Martin Russell on 3-17-1786 in the fork of Nancy Town Creek and Middle Fork of Broad River. To occupy and hold the land required fighting the Cherokee Indians, so probably their first act was the construction of a fort. This "station," as it was then called, is described by the state's Adjutant General in a tour of the frontier in 1793, at which time there were 4 or 5 families in residence. During the period following the Revolution, Georgia made numerous grants of land to both citizens on headright, and soldiers, in the region called Franklin County. Unfortunately for all concerned, some of these grants were "given" by the state for lands clearly located in Cherokee Indian territory. Thus settlers with bona fide state grants occupied and improved lands only to find when the federal government ran the boundary that these tracts belonged to the Cherokees. We see many of these men named in the militia lists and petition which follows, whose grants have been printed earlier under the names of Franklin County grantees. "An undated map drawn by William Wofford for the benefit of the Governor, George Mathews, shows the various major settlements along the frontier about 1795. We can pinpoint some of the locations on modern maps through the creek names. Also, Currahee Mountain, standing at Toccoa, Ga., is shows, and Col. Jones' Fort is on the site of Fort Lamar, Madison Co., Ga., and Blacks Fort just west of my home on the Jackson-Madison County line. Wofford included the presumed boundary of Franklin with the Cherokee Indians, and also the Franklin-Wilkes dividing line. Unless otherwise noted, all of the documents transcribed below are on file at the Georgia Department of Archives, Atlanta, GA 30334." This article is much longer, naming many of the settlers in the Wafford Settlement. I think I have copied enough to show that the Wafford Settlement was not within the boundaries of present-day Walton County, or even the original Walton --- perhaps "old Walton." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----Original Message----- From: Linda Laminack <gabby@etinternet.com> To: GAWALTON-L@rootsweb.com <GAWALTON-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, January 27, 2000 10:11 PM Subject: [GAWALTON] Wafford Settlement >Does anyone have any info on the Wafford Settlement? >My gr gr gr grandfather owned 250 acres of land in Walton Co & I wonder if >it wasn't in this area? >LindaJ > >