- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Petition with report] 1789 July 25, Savannah [to] the Governor and [Executive] Council, Augusta / Owen Owens
- Creator:
- Owens, Owen
- Date of Original:
- 1789-07-25
- Subject:
- Indians of North America--Claims against
Land grants - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- petitions
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This document is a petition from Owen Owens to the Governor of the State of Georgia and the Executive Council, dated Savannah July 25, 1789, in which Owens requests the approval of a land grant for 2,000 acres in Glynn County, Georgia. Owens indicates that the appropriate land court could not be held in the county since the inhabitants had fled as a result of alleged attacks by the surrounding Indians. Also included is the report of the committee that considered and ultimately approved the petition.
Digital image of original manuscript, scanned by the University of Georgia Libraries in 2000, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. - Local Identifier:
- tcc312
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc312
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc312#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc312/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Telamon Cuyler, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 4 pages/leaves
- Original Collection:
- Manuscript held by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, Telamon Cuyler, box 41, folder 07, document 01.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
-
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July 25, 1789 Georgia,
To the honorable the Governor and Council, sitting at Augusta.
The Petition of Owen Owens, Sheweth,
That your Petitioner received from the County Surveyor of Glenn, a Plot & Warrant for 2,000 acres of Land in said County, regularly executed in the different County Offices, which he forwarded to the Surveyor General, who returned it to your Petitioner informing him at the same time that there was a law now in force, by which no more than 1000 acres could be carried into a Grant.- Your petitioner then dispatched a Mr. Thomson (who surveyed the Land) to Glenn County to make the necessary alterations; who on his return inform'd [informed] your Petitioner that he had divided & run the Line of the 2,000 acres, into two equal Parts of a 1000 [unclear text: each ], (which he said he had done at a great risque from the Indians)- but that he had failed in two different attempts to call a Land Court to get the Warrant divided, from the County's being altogether deserted by the Inhabitants, who had dispersed so much over the Country, that it was impossible to get a sufficient number together, for any public purpose.- Your Petitioner therefore seeing that there was little probability for a length of time, of being able to succeed in getting
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the Warrant divided, petitions your honorable Board to allow him two Grants of a 1000 acres each, for said Land according to Mr. Thomson's last Return.
And Your Petitioner, as in duty bound,
Will ever pray, &c. [et cetera]
[Signed] Owen Owens
Savannah,
July 25, 1789
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The Committee to whom was referred the petition of Owen Owens
Report
That as the County of Glynn it abandoned and the inhabitants thereof drove from their respective places of [unclear text: residance ] [added text: by the ravages of the Indians ] and no Land Court can possibly be convened in said County
Therefore recommend that two plots of 1,000 acres each be passed [illegible text] Surveyor Genls [General's] Office on the Warrant of 2,000 Acres, and on the return of [unclear text: Mr ] Thomson the Deputy Surveyor of said County
[illegible text] Mr. [unclear text: Clay ] Wylly [unclear text: Wm. [William] ] Gibbons
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Petition
Owen Owens
Mr Gibbons
[unclear text: Christmas ]
[unclear text: Irwin ]
Order taken
14th August 1789.
Petition of Owen Owens