- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Affidavit of] George Upton, Isaac Awtrey [and] Francis 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
Morris, James - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- affidavits
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- Affidavit of George Upton, Issac Awtrey, and Francis Ellison, dated May 17, 1817 in Jackson County, Georgia. The three men report that James Morris and his family are living across the boundary line near the Alcovy River on lands designated as Indian hunting grounds. They testify regarding his improvements on the land and state 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:
- tcc827
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc827
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc827#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc827/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 02.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
-
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Georgia Jackson County }
pearsonally apeard [personally appeared] before me George Upton and Isaac Awtrey francis Ellison and being duly Sworn Saith on oath that to there Sertain [their Certain] Knowledge that James Morris is living and his famley [family] over the boundrey [boundary] line on the indian hunting Ground near the alcofy, and has a tolarble [tolerable] good cabbin [cabin] and a cowpen there keeping his Stock, and has ben [been] for twelve months Past [deleted text: [illegible text] ]
this Sworn to and Subscribed to before Me this
17 day of May 1817
[Signed] James Strawn [unclear text: JP ]
[Signed] George upton
[Signed] Isaac awtrey
[Signed] Francis Ellison