Index To The Headright And Bounty Grants In Georgia From 1756-1909

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By: S. Emmett Lucas, Jr., Pub. 1970, Reprinted 2006, 786 pages, Hard Cover, ISBN #0-89308-017-9. Most of the land in the eastern portion of Georgia was distributed to settlers as Headright grants; the amount of the land given to a person (family) was based upon household size. The act for distributing this land allowed a man to take up to 200 acres upon his own headright, plus an additional 50 acres upon the head of each member of his family and limited any grant to 1000 acres. Based on legislation passed during the Revolutionary War, BOUNTY lands were granted to both veterans and patriots, the later being citizens who had not molested their neighbors families or property, refugees who had served in militia companies outside of the state, militiamen of the state, men who had served in militia companies and to residents who did not leave the state or remove their property in the last eleven months of the Revolution (1781-1782). The information in this index shows: FIRST - the name of th