Correction: In the below message I said Howard Community was in Harris County, but I reread Virginia's message and Howard Commuity is in Taylor County, Georgia. I am sorry for the mistake. Sandra Hi Lee, Thank you so much for your help.  Altho it helps, it makes it a bit more confusing. So as the Captains name's changed, so did the Captain 's District. I've have wonderful instructions as to how visit Harris County and maps from Virginia Crilly.  Virginia wrote me that Howard was a community in Harris County. I am trying to  pin Howard down so I will know where the Land (1827) might have been.  I am trying to zero in on my gr grandpapa's land and Virginia Crilly has gone above and beyond her duty. Rex2 of Harris County has been a great help also with his knowledge of Harris County. There are no maps with Howard Community, I wonder if  anyone remembers  Howard Community in Harris. Thank you for your reply and helping me. Sandra maiden name Waldrop Geoergia

Hi Sandra, In your original post you noted: > My gr grandpapa : 1827 Georgia Land Lottery > District: 15 > Lot: 138 > County: Muscogee And you noted in a later response: > Correction: In the below message I said Howard > Community was in Harris > County, but I reread Virginia's message and Howard > Commuity is in Taylor County, > Georgia. I am sorry for the mistake. Sandra I located the Howard Community in Taylor Co., (using Tiger mapping) and compared it's location to Land Lottery District 15 (on the STATE OF GEORGIA - ORIGINAL AND 1895 COUNTIES AND LAND LOT DISTRICTS which I acquired from the Georgia Archives) and guess what?! It appears that all the environs of the Howard Community in Taylor Co. were part of the 15th Land Lottery District. Oh and BTW... Land Lottery Districts and Militia Districts are two entirely different animals. I'm going to introduce a third piece of location data that I use and that is the watershed where the land was. This piece of info is commonly found in Deed Records and Tax Lists of the time. You can use the combination of Land Lottery District, Militia District and Watershed data to zero in with a fair degree of accuracy on where the land was. Some words of warning though... This is by no means easy as creek names tend to change over time. If you can't initially find your target creek, follow it to it's confluence with a larger stream or river. Often times you'll find it thereabouts. For example: All the tributaries of Shoulderbone Creek (of Greene and Hancock Counties) have been named something else over time, but they all empty into the the Oconee River as one creek, and there it's known as Shoulderbone. Also I hope you know that you're bordering dangerously close to another obsessive-compulsive subset of genealogical research and that is area research! :-) Hope this helps, Lee __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com