1807 Lottery - This lottery, together with the one in 1805, completed the opening of the large valley area between the Oconee and the Ocmulgee Rivers. In 1807, the first meeting of the Georgia Legislature took place at the new capital of Milledgeville in Baldwin County, another part of the westward thrust of settlement. Land awarded in the 1807 Lottery was the remaining parts of Baldwin and Wilkinson Counties and Wayne County. Name County Mil.Dist. Dist./Lot Drew Land Poythress, Thomas (Orphans of) Burke Sharp's 22/44 Wilkinson Poythress, Francis (Orphans of) Hancock Coffee's 24/290 Wilkinson Poythress, Elizabeth Hancock Coffee's 6/31 Wilkinson Grant award #209 of 22nd District of Wilkinson County. All of District 22 is in present Laurens County. Grant was taken up and deed issued May 8, 1809. It is 99.9% certain we will not find the downstream transfer of this deed. Wilkinson is one of Georgia's most completely "burned" counties.