- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Affidavit of] Georg Uptain [and] Richard Ellison, 1817 May 17, Jackson County, Georgia / [sworn to] before James Strawn
- Date of Original:
- 1817-05-17
- Subject:
- Indians of North America--Land tenure
Boundaries
Trespass - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- affidavits
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- Affidavit of Georg Uptain (also George Upton) and Richard Ellison of Jackson County, Georgia, dated May 17, 1817. Uptain and Ellison testify that John Camp, also of Jackson County, is living with his family over the boundary line on lands near the Alcovy River, designated as Indian hunting grounds. They provide information regarding Camp's improvements on the land and indicate that he has lived there twelve months. The statement was sworn to before James Strawn, Justice of the Peace.
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. - Local Identifier:
- tcc826
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc826
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc826#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc826/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:
- 1 pages/leaves
- Original Collection:
- Manuscript held by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, Telamon Cuyler, box 67, folder 01, document 01.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
-
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Georgia Jackson County }
Pearsonale apeard [Personally appeared] before me George upton and [deleted text: I [illegible text] ] and Richard Ellison and being duly sworn saith on oath that to there Sertain Knowledg [their Certain Knowledge] that John Camp from Jackson County is liveing [living] and his famly [family] over the boundary line on the indian hunting Ground near the alcofy and has [deleted text: a tolarble ] a good cabbin [cabin] with a punchin floar [puncheon floor] and other Shelters and a cowpen and is Keeping his Stock and has for twelve months [deleted text: p ] past this Sworn to and Subscribed befor [before] me this
17 day of may 1817
[Signed] Georg Uptain
[Signed] Richard Ellison
before me
[Signed] James Strawn JP [Justice of the Peace]