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== Sources == | |||
== History == | |||
The first European settlements in Florida were in 1566 on Santa Catalina by the Spanish. A British settlement was founded at Fort King George (Darien) in 1721. In 1732, a charter was granted by the British Crown to create the colony of Georgia.<ref>Christina K. Schaefer, ''Genealogical encyclopedia of the colonial Americas : a complete digest of the records of all the counties of the Western Hemisphere'' (Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, c1998), 559. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39622039 WorldCat (Other Libraries)]; {{FHL|822639|item|disp=FHL book 929.11812 D26 1998}}</ref> | |||
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| width="25%" bgcolor="#cc9999" align="left" |'''Earliest Church Records''' | |||
| width="25%" bgcolor="#cc9999" align="left" |'''Earliest Land Records''' | |||
| width="25%" bgcolor="#cc9999" align="left" |'''Earliest Court Records''' | |||
| width="25%" bgcolor="#cc9999" align="left" |'''Earliest Newspapers''' | |||
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<ref>Christina K. Schaefer, ''Genealogical encyclopedia of the colonial Americas : a complete digest of the records of all the counties of the Western Hemisphere'' (Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, c1998), 183, 192. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39622039 WorldCat (Other Libraries)]; {{FHL|822639|item|disp=FHL book 929.11812 D26 1998}}</ref> | |||
==Statewide Records and Resources== | |||
Early Colonial Records available at the Georgia State Archives in Atlanta (1754-1778), film 0158964 ff. | |||
*Wills, 1754-1777 | |||
*Letters of administration, 1755-1771 | |||
*Inventories of estates, 1754-1770 | |||
*Letters of guardianship, 1757-1777 | |||
*Probate, administration, letters, minutes, appraisements, 1771-1775 | |||
*Inventories, probate, 1776-1778 | |||
*Original colonial wills, 1751-1788 (film 0840408). | |||
Published records of wills and estates: | |||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/180094?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Abstracts of Colonial Wills of the State of Georgia Wills, 1733-1777,''] by National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the state of Georgia, (Atlanta, Georgia : Town Comm. of the Nat. Soc. of Colonial Dames of America, Georgia, 1962). | |||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/175740?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''In the Name of God, Amen: Georgia Wills, 1733-1860, an Index of Testators to Wills of Georgia Recorded in Colonial Will Books and in Loose Will Collections, 1733-1777 and Wills Recorded or on File in County and State Offices, 1777-1860''] by Ted O. Brooke, (Atlanta: Pilgrim Press, 1976, film 1036842). | |||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/32144?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Index to Probate Records of Colonial Georgia, 1733-1778''], (Atlanta: R.J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation, 1983). | |||
==Land Records== | |||
==Church Records== | |||
==Manuscript Collections== | |||
== Additional Readings == | |||
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== References == | |||
[[Category:Georgia,_United_States]] [[Category:Colonial Records]] | |||