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==Online Records==


*{{FSC|213227|item|disp='''1751-1788'''- Original colonial wills}}. Images only
== Sources ==
*{{FSC|309455|item|disp='''1750-1829'''- Colonial records of Georgia}}. Images only.
*{{FSC|209572|item|disp='''1752-1767'''-Shipping lists for Georgia}}. Images only. ''Lists the captains and owners of ships.''
*{{FSC|309432|item|disp='''1754-1778'''- Early colonial records of Georgia : including wills, letters of administration, inventories of estates, letters of guardianship, probate and administration letters, minutes, appraisements, etc.}}. Images only.
*[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.
*[https://vault.georgiaarchives.org/digital/collection/p17154coll1 Colonial plats and warrants]. Georgia Archives Virtual Vault. Index and images.
*[https://vault.georgiaarchives.org/digital/collection/cwb Colonial will books]. Georgia Archives Virtual Vault. Index and images.
*[https://vault.georgiaarchives.org/digital/collection/cw Colonial wills]. Georgia Archives Virtual Vault. Index and images.


==History==
== 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 countries of the Western Hemisphere'' (Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, c1998), 549-56. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39622039 WorldCat (Other Libraries)]; {{FSC|822639|item|disp=FS Catalog book 929.11812 D26 1998}}</ref>
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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<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)]; {{FSC|822639|item|disp=FS Catalog book 929.11812 D26 1998}}</ref>
<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>
==Resources==
==Statewide Records and Resources==
===Church Records===
Early Colonial Records available at the Georgia State Archives in Atlanta (1754-1778), film 0158964 ff.
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)]; {{FSC|822639|item|disp=FS Catalog 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.
*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


*{{FSC|178356|item|disp=''Henry Newman's Salzburger Letterbooks''}} by George Fenwick Jones, (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1966).
*Original colonial wills, 1751-1788 (film 0840408).
*[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).
Published records of wills and estates:
*{{FSC|74661|item|disp=''The Episcopal Church in Georgia, 1733-1957''}} by Henry Thompson Malone, (Atlanta: Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Atlanta, 1960).
*[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).
*{{FSC|537743|item|disp=''A Bibliography of Georgia Methodism''}} by Harold Lawrence, (Tignall, GA: Boyd Publishing Co., 1981).
*[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).
*{{FSC|583171|item|disp=''A Brief History of Early Methodist Societies and Meeting Houses in the Broad River Valley of Georgia''}} by John Wright Boyd, (Washington, GA: Wilkes Publishing Co., 1986, fiche 6103873).
*[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).
*{{FSC|180250|item|disp=''A History of the Presbyterian Church in Georgia''}} by James Stacy, (Elverton, GA: Press of the State, 1912, fiche 6103873).
==Land Records==
*{{FSC|712702|item|disp=''A Story of the Southern Synod of the Evangelical and Reformed Church, 1740-1968''}} by Banks J. Peeler, (Salisbury, NC:Southern Synod of the Evangelical and Reformed Church, 1968).
*{{FSC|178495|item|disp=''The Moravians in Georgia, 1735-1740''}} by Adelaide L. Fries, (1905, Reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1967, film 1425607).


===Colonial Georgia Law===
==Church Records==


*{{FSC|450687|item|disp=''The Earliest Printed Laws of the Province of Georgia, 1755-1770''}} by John D. Cushing, 2 Vols., (Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier, 1978).
==Manuscript Collections==
*[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===
== Additional Readings ==
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== References ==


* {{FSC|180094|item|disp=''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).
[[Category:Georgia,_United_States]] [[Category:Colonial Records]]
*{{FSC|175740|item|disp=''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).
*{{FSC|32144|item|disp=''Index to Probate Records of Colonial Georgia, 1733-1778''}}, (Atlanta: R.J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation, 1983).


===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)]; {{FSC|822639|item|disp=FS Catalog book 929.11812 D26 1998}}</ref>


*{{FSC|706261|item|disp=''Early Miscellaneous Land Records of Georgia''}} by Christine Aldridge, (Nacodoches, TX: Partin, 1994).
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*{{FSC|174892|item|disp=''Abstracts of Georgia Colonial Conveyance Book, C-1, 1750-1761''}} by Frances Howell Beckemeyer, (Atlanta: R.J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation, 1975).
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*{{FSC|76882|item|disp=''Entry of Claims for Georgia Landholders, 1733-1755''}} by Pat Bryant, (Atlanta: State Printing Office, 1975).
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*{{FSC|436514|item|disp=''An Index to English Crown Grants in Georgia''}} by R. J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation, (Spartanburg, South Carolina : Reprint Co. Publishers, c1989).
| width="25%" bgcolor="#cc9999" align="left" |'''Earliest Land Records'''
*{{FSC|338974|item|disp=''An Index to Georgia Colonial Conveyances and Confiscated Lands Records, 1750-1804''}} by R.J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation, (Atlanta, Georgia : R.J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation, c1981).
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*{{FSC|174941|item|disp=''Index to the Headright and Bounty Grants of Georgia, 1756-1909''}}, (Vidalia, GA: Genealogical Reprints, 1970).
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*{{FSC|139193|item|disp=''Abstracts of Georgia Colonial Book J, 1755-1762''}} by George Fuller Walker, (Atlanta: R.J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation, 1978).
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*{{FSC|667284|item|disp=''Georgia land Owner's Memorials: 1758-1776''}} by Eve Bondurant Warren Weeks, (Danielsville, GA: Heritage Papers, 1988).
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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>


*[https://www.georgiaarchives.org/ Georgia State Archives in Atlanta].
*[https://georgiahistory.com/ George State Historical Society] in Savannah. See ''Checklist of Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts in the Georgia Historical Soceity'' by Lilla M. Hawes, (Sacannah: The Society, 1976).
*[http://taylorfoundation.org/ The R.J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation] in Atlanta.
*[https://www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/ Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library], University of Georgia, Athens.
*[https://gapines.org/eg/opac/library/MGRL-WA Washington Memorial Library, Stevens-Davis Memorial Collection], Macon.
*[http://web.library.emory.edu/ Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University], Atlanta.


==== Other ====


*[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
== References ==
*{{FSC|706261|item|disp=''Early Miscellaneous Georgia Records''}} by Christine Aldridge, (Nacogdoches, TX: Partin, 1994).
*{{FSC|576249|item|disp=''Emigrants from Great Britain to the Georgia Colony''}} by Jeannette H. Austin, (Riverdale, GA: The Author, 1970, film 1597743).
*{{FSC|359047|item|disp=''The Georgians: Genealogies of Pioneer Settlers''}} by Jeannette H. Austin, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1984).
*''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).
*{{FSC|271620|item|disp=''A List of the Early Settlers of Georgia''}} by E. Merton Coulter and Albert B. Saye, (1949, reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983, film 1421844).
*{{FSC|160453|item|disp=''The Fledgling Province: Social and Cultural Life in Colonial Georgia, 1733-1776''}} by Harold E. Davis, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1976).
*{{FSC|92051|item|disp=''Georgia Genealogy and Local history: A Bibliography''}} by James Edwards Dorsey, (Spartanburg, SC: The Reprint Co., 1983).
*{{FSC|291405|item|disp=''Colonial Georgia Genealogical Data, 1748-1783''}} by William H. Dumont, (Washington, DC: National Genealogical Society, 1971).
*{{FSC|389473|item|disp=''Genealogical Material from Legal Notices in Early Georgia Newspapers''}} by Folks Huxford, (Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1989).
*{{FSC|481506|item|disp=''The Germans of Colonial Georgia, 1733-1783''}} by George Fenwick Jones, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1986).
*{{FSC|509663|item|disp=''The Georgia Dutch : from the Rhine and Danube to the Savannah, 1733-1783''}} by George Fenwick Jones, (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1992).
*''The Spanish Missions of Georgia'' by John Tate Lanning, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1935).
*{{FSC|307581|item|disp=''The Story of Georgia and the Georgia People, 1732-1860''}} by George G. Smith, 2nd ed., (1901, reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1968, film 0908502)
*{{FSC|45499|item|disp=''The Seed That Was Sown in the Colony of Georgia: The Harvest and the Aftermath, 1740-1870''}} by Charles Spalding Wylly, (1910, reprint, Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1983, film 0929227).


==References==
[[Category:Georgia,_United_States]]
<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)]; {{FSC|822639|item|disp=FS Catalog book 929.11812 D26 1998}}</ref>
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[[Category:Colonial Records]]
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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.[1]

Earliest Church Records Earliest Land Records Earliest Court Records Earliest Newspapers
1733 1732 1751 1763

[2]

Statewide Records and Resources[edit | edit source]

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:

Land Records[edit | edit source]

Church Records[edit | edit source]

Manuscript Collections[edit | edit source]

Additional Readings[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]


Earliest Church Records Earliest Land Records Earliest Court Records Earliest Newspapers
1733 1732 1751 1763

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References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ 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. WorldCat (Other Libraries); FHL book 929.11812 D26 1998
  2. ↑ 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. WorldCat (Other Libraries); FHL book 929.11812 D26 1998
  3. ↑ 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. WorldCat (Other Libraries); FHL book 929.11812 D26 1998
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