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Headright and bounty plats of survey, 1783-1909

Headright and lottery plats for Burke and Screven County from 1783 to 1909

More About This Collection

Publisher
RG 3-3-26, Surveyor General - Headright and Lottery Loose Plat File

Date of Original
1783/1909

Subject
Real property--Georgia--Burke County
Real property--Georgia--Screven County
Burke County (Ga.)--Surveys
Screven County (Ga.)--Surveys

Location
United States, Georgia, Burke County, 33.06115, -82.00078
United States, Georgia, Screven County, 32.75059, -81.61193

Medium
plats (maps)
visual works

Description
Beginning in 1783 a head of household living in Georgia could be granted 200 acres of land on his own head-right and fifty acres for each additional family member, including slaves, up to 1000 acres. To acquire a land grant, an applicant obtained a warrant of survey from the land court in the county in which he wanted land. The county surveyor then surveyed the land, made a plat of survey, and forwarded a copy of the plat to the Surveyor General to be recorded. The applicant then applied to the Governor's office for the grant after he paid all office fees. The grant was then issued and recorded. The headright and bounty plats depict a tract of surveyed land. The information includes the physical features of the land; the names of adjoining land owners; the name of the person for whom the survey was made; the number of acres surveyed; the name of watercourse bordering or running through the property; the date the warrant was issued for the survey; the date of survey; and the names of the surveyor and crew. Often the reverse of the plat includes the volume and page in which the plat is recorded.

Metadata URL
http://cdm.georgiaarchives.org:2011/cdm/landingpage/collection/looseplats

Rights Holder
Usage Note: Users may download the images for personal or educational use - students may include images in reports, for instance, and teachers may use the images in the classroom - if the following credit line is included with the image: Courtesy of the Georgia Archives. Each image has a "Cite as" field in the Document Description. Users can form a complete citation by combining the "Title", "County", "Date", and "Cite as" fields for the individual image., Copyright and Publication: Publication and other commercial use require written permission and the payment of a use fee. For further information, contact Steve Engerrand.

Holding Institution
Georgia Archives