Creek Indian Muscogee County, Georgia Land Grants.

WATSON, James C; Charles J. McDonald.

$2,500.00

Item Number: 146848

Rare 19th century Creek Indian land surveys and lottery winning land grants. Octavo, four pages partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, the surveys are dated December 7th and 9th, 1826 and sketch out the areas of land in Muscogee County, Georgia purchased by James C. Watson. Signed by then Governor Charles J. McDonald with the state wax seal attached by a pale red ribbon. The grants are dated December 13th, 1839 and grant lots 164 and 186 mentioned in the surveys to James C. Watson. The lots referred to in these grants are valuable pieces of land with direct access to the Chattahoochee River that runs across the property. 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.