And after the Revolutionary War, Georgia claimed all land west to the Mississippi River, until the Federal Government started making some sense, after the Constitution in 1789... >From: "Harriet Imrey" <himrey@ntelos.net> >Reply-To: GEIGER-L@rootsweb.com >To: GEIGER-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [GEIGER] Heirs of Ulrich Kegar Deed to Christopher Bunce (16 >Jan 1814) >Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 20:01:40 -0400 > >The 300 acres that the Geiger children sold was a GA grant. Here's the >Memorial on it, from Mary Bondurant Warren, Ed., Georgia Land Owners' >Memorials, 1758-1776 (Danielsville GA: Heritage Papers, 1988): > >Ulrick Kegar, 300 acres, St. Philip's Parish, 2/100, 7-18-1767. Bounded on >NE by Great Ogeechee River, SE by Fred'k Resta, other sides vacant. >Granted >to self 6-2-1767. Signed by John Wertsch for Ulrick Geiger. > >The many grants made by SC during the 1760's for "land westward of the >Alatamaha" (including a couple to Michael and to Jacob Geiger of >Charleston) >were not actually a mistake, since this was considered part of SC. Just as >"Virginia" was believed to extend westward to the Mississippi River. That >Oglethorpe colony called "Georgia" was a blip in the middle of a great big >South Carolina! > >----- Original Message ----- >From: <bzb@houston.rr.com> >To: <GEIGER-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 7:38 PM >Subject: Re: [GEIGER] Heirs of Ulrich Kegar Deed to Christopher Bunce (16 >Jan 1814) > > > > I'm not sure where this fits into things... but I found a deed from the >state of SC to John Geiger (after researching, I found that for a few years >before Rev War, SC was mistakenly doing this.) The land was on the Ogechee >in GA. I believe this to be the land that the children later divide. > > > >==== GEIGER Mailing List ==== >Check out our GEIGER homepage at: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~geiger/ > >============================== >Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > _________________________________________________________________ Watch LIVE baseball games on your computer with MLB.TV, included with MSN Premium! http://join.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200439ave/direct/01/