Georgia Colonial Records: Difference between revisions

==Online Records==

*[https://vault.georgiaarchives.org/digital/collection/corp '''1754-1777'''- Estate records from estates probated in the Colony of Georgia]. Georgia Archives Virtual Vault. Index and images.

*[https://vault.georgiaarchives.org/digital/collection/test3 Colonial Conveyances]. Georgia Archives Virtual Vault. Index and images.

Early churches in Georgia included Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, Quaker, Anglican, Reformed, and Congregational congregations.<ref>Christina K. Schaefer, ''Genealogical encyclopedia of the colonial Americas : a complete digest of the records of all the countries of the Western Hemisphere'' (Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, c1998), 549-56. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39622039 WorldCat (Other Libraries)]; {{FHL|822639|item|disp=FHL book 929.11812 D26 1998}}</ref> Church records can be helpful in finding christening, marriage, and burial records. For more information about what colonial church records are available, search in the specific county of research. Below are listed published works or collections that are relevant to the state of Georgia.

*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&query=%2Bkeywords%3AHenry%20%2Bkeywords%3ANewman%20%2Bkeywords%3ASalzburger%20%2Bkeywords%3ALetterbooks ''Georgia Baptists: Historical and Biographical''] by J.H. Campbell, (Macon, GA: J.W. Burke and Co., 1874, film 1033617).

===Colonial Georgia Law===

*[https://archive.org/details/digestoflawsofst1802stat/page/n6 ''Digest of the Laws of the State of Georgia: From its Settlement as a British Province in 1755 to the Session of the General Assembly in 1800 Inclusive...With a Copious Index to the Whole''] by Horatio Marbury and William H. Crawford, (Savannah, GA: Seymour, Woolhopter and Stebbins, 1802, film 0203234).

===Court Records===

===Land Records===

From 1732-1755, Georgia land records were part of a trusteeship where lands were given to males and their heirs. Land was distributed by headright and bounty grants after 1756.<ref>Christina K. Schaefer, ''Genealogical encyclopedia of the colonial Americas : a complete digest of the records of all the countries 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>

===Manuscript Collections===

*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=The%20Colonial%20Records%20of%20the%20State%20of%20Georgia ''The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia''] (Atlanta: Franklin Printing, 1904-1916, except where indicated) is a 32 Vol. series  with published records for Georgia

*''Arredondo's Historical Proof of Spain's Title to Georgia: A Contribution to the History of the Spanish Borderlands'' by Herbert E. Bolton, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1925).

*''The Spanish Missions of Georgia'' by John Tate Lanning, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1935).

==References==