The map is confusing because part of it was even missing (right in the middle).... The biggest clue you gave in this last note was the Land District 28th. That was over in Twiggs --- on the Ocumulgee River --- just like you said!! I apologize because I named the river wrong --- the map we have on-line... http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/wilkinson/photos/landlots.htm is showing ONLY Wilkinson Land Lots....and those Land Districts would have been 3, 4 5, and a small part of 26, 23, and 27. And the river on the East side is the Oconee. (I apologize for my poor Georgia Geography! The Land Districts all used the numerical sequence 1- 240, etc. so you do have to be very careful when you're looking at the maps to be sure you are following within the same Land District. Sometimes those Land Lot numbers will fall right next to each other --- but when you look closely the Land District line falls between them. http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/hallsmap.htm This map shows the Land Districts through out Georgia....not shown are the land lots within each district. We NEED one for TWIGGS county ---- if anyone has it. At 10:09 AM 2/9/2003 -0500, [email protected] wrote: >I have been contacted by a Wilkinson County rootsweb member to explain how >I obtained the land grant. I was very lucky to have found a person who >inherited the original land grant. They made a copy for me. I have read >the GA Archives web site and understand that they have copies, also. The >reason I am interested in the location of this land is this. According to >the grant the land was surveyed in June of 1807 but my gggGrandfather >registered the land on May 9, 1810. He ended up living on the Oconee >River below Dublin in Laurens County. This is obviously not the land he >got in the grant. He was in Burke county when he won the land. So I want >to "follow the land" to see if I can figure out if he even ever lived in >Wilkinson County (in the area that is now Twiggs County). > >I looked at the Wilkinson County web site map but I am confused. With my >grant there is a map of sorts. It shows the lot 221 in the 28th district >(his lot) and it is surrounded by the following -- lot 220 on the top, lot >222 on the bottom, lot 211 to the right, and lot 233 to the left. I can't >find such a lot on the map on the web site. Are the larger numbers on the >map the districts? If so it appears that district 28 is not on the >map. Appreciate your help. Sandy > >In a message dated 2/9/2003 8:13:25 AM Eastern Standard Time, >[email protected] writes: > > >>http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/wilkins.htm >> >>Poldi Tonin has provided us with >> >>a land lot map on-line.... >> >>The "Swamp" probably indicates that it is on land on the "waterway" of the >>Oculmugee River..... and from the map I think it is off one of the >>branches.... >> >>I'm sorry but I don't have a map that shows me the names of those >>streams....but hopefully someone will. >> >>If anyone has later maps which identify these streams, creeks, whatever.... >>I'd be glad to post it on-line as well. >> >>I would just love to be able to post more Land Grants on-line. Sandy can >>you share how you obtained that one? I believe all the land grants are in >>the Atlanta Archives, correct? >> > Virginia Crilley