The Militia Districts of Georgia underwent a "name" change during the 1820s. During that itme, Militia Districts names evolved from the name of the Captian of the Dist. to numeric names like you'll find on later Census and Tax Records. The name change wasn't a single event in time and happened through-out the decade (depending on the county.) In Greene Co., for example, the 1822 tax list has both the Captian's name and the numeric designation. Oh yeah.. As you might expect, during the time that the Captian's name was used as the Dist. name, the Dist. name would change when it's Captian did. So a measure of care should be exercised when evaluating Dist. data from this time frame as location data. Hope this helps Lee Nelson --- Scalawag1867@aol.com wrote: > Dose anyone know what "Captain District: Caruthers" > means. > > My gr grandpapa : 1827 Georgia Land Lottery > District: 15 > Lot: 138 > County: Muscogee > > Name: Green Berry Waldrop > > 1827-1840 Harris, Talbot, Muscogee County > > Also three other drawing in Muscogee County, > Georgia. > > Thanks, > > Sandra > maiden name Waldrop > Georgia > > > ==== GEORGIA Mailing List ==== > If you wish to unsubscribe from the Georgia list, > send only the word > UNSUBSCRIBE to GEORGIA-l-request@rootsweb.com or if > you are on the Digest > List to GEORGIA-d-request@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion > online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com