United States, Georgia, Cherokee County, 34.24393, -84.47621838-12-27This document is a land grant with map and survey report for a plot in Cherokee County, Georgia granted to Jacob Waldburg on December 27, 1838. The land was granted pursuant to an act of the Georgia assembly called, "An act to lay out the gold region in the lands at present in the occupancy of the Cherokee Indians, into small lots, and dispose of the same by separate lottery," passed December 24, 1831. Waldburg's plot was granted by authority of George R. Gilmer, Governor of Georgia (1829-1831, 1837-1839), though a note on the back casts doubt on the legitimacy of the grant.Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2001, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.text/htmlimage/jpegkrc164engMode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: AT&T DjVu browser plug-in needed to view images of documents.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/Manuscript held by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, Keith Read, box 28, folder 10, document 01.Cherokee Indians--Land tenureReal property[Land grant with map for plot in] Cherokee County, Georgia, 1838 Dec. 27 / [authorized by] George R. Gilmer, Governor [of Georgia]Text