HISTORY OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN OF GEORGIA
by McLendon, Samuel G
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- 0871521741
- ISBN 13
- 9780871521743
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Using all the early land grants and other records of the state, McLendon, who was secretary of state in Georgia at the time he wrote this book, put together a valuable study of Georgia's land disposition history dealing specifically with the lands acquired from the Creek and Cherokee Indians and the Georgia western lands in largely what is now Alabama and Mississippi. He discusses the headright and land lottery counties. Particular emphasis, however, is on the Yazoo Land Fraud, a massive fraud perpetrated by several Georgia governors and the state legislature from 1795-1803 by selling large tracts of land to insiders at absurdly low prices. Major companies involved in this were the Georgia Land Company, the Georgia Mississippi Company, the Upper Mississippi Company, and the Tennessee Company. Earlier companies involved were the South Carolina Yazoo Company, the Virginia Yazoo Company, and the Tennessee Yazoo Company. Lists of landowners and those involved in the various transactions make the volume also useful for genealogical research.
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- The Reprint Company Publishers (US)
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- Title
- HISTORY OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN OF GEORGIA
- Author
- McLendon, Samuel G
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 5
- Edition
- Print on Demand Edition 2009
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0871521741
- ISBN 13
- 9780871521743
- Publisher
- Orig. pub. Atlanta 1924. Reprinted 1974
- Place of Publication
- Spartanburg, Sc
- This edition first published
- 1974
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- South Carolina; Georgia; Mississippi; Alabama; Tennessee;
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