Creek Indian Muscogee County, Georgia Land Grants.

WATSON, James C; Charles J. McDonald.

$2,500.00

Item Number: 146855

Four rare 19th century Creek Indian land surveys and lottery winning land grants. Octavo, partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, each with the official wax seal attached by a pale red ribbon, the collection includes: a Creek Indian document from Washington County, Georgia dated 1827 and signed by Governor Schley; a Creek Indian document from Muscogee County, Georgia for Sara McIntosh, the daughter of Creek Nation chief William McIntosh by his first wife Eliza Grierson; a Cherokee Indian land grant signed by Governor Gilmer; and a Cherokee Indian land grant signed by Governor Mc Donald. In very good condition. The pieces measure approximately 9.75 inches by 8 inches.

The Muscogee, or Creek, people historically resided in what now comprises southern Tennessee, much of Alabama, western Georgia and parts of northern Florida. Most of the tribe were forcibly removed to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) by the federal government in the 1830s during the Trail of Tears, although a small group of the Muscogee Creek Confederacy remained in Alabama. During this period, the state of Georgia began using land lotteries as a means of land redistribution where citizens could register for a chance to win lots of land that had been appropriated by the State of Georgia or the Federal government from the Muscogee and the Cherokee Nation.