Another possibility is that the lucky drawer didn't come forth with the funds to "claim the land" -- thus forfeiting the whole thing, and then it was "granted" to another person. They used the terms "drawn by" and "granted to" on some of those records to clarify that. http://www.sos.state.ga.us/archives/rs/lotteries.htm This is a complicated page... but it does give the facts. And from that page it is worth it to click to each YEAR lottery, so you can see who all was eligible, and what lands were involved. If anyone can get to the microfilm or the actual lottery pages, I'm sure there were some errors in the transcription of many of the pages that we now have in published books. Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:12:11 -0600 From: Terry Jackson <jacksont@otelco.net> To: GEORGIA-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <40512A8B.6060408@otelco.net> Subject: Re: [GEORGIA] Joel Jones - 1805 Land Lottery Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I found an Atha Henderson, resident of DeKalb Co., Ga who drew a lot in Lumpkin Co. during the 1832 Gold Lottery. When I looked at the microfilm, the name N. Harbin also appeared. I'm told that it's possible she sold the draw to N. Harbin and he was the redeemer. This may have happened in your case. Terry