Creek Indian Muscogee County, Georgia Land Grants.

LUMPKIN, Wilson; George M. Troup; George Gilmer.

$3,000.00

Item Number: 146854

Four rare 19th century Creek Indian land surveys and lottery winning land grants signed by 3 different Georgia Governors. Octavo, eight pages partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, the collection includes: grant for land lot 156 in Muscogee County, Georgia, surveyed in 1826 and granted in 1832 to David Maw, signed by Wilson Lumpkin at the bottom edge, official wax seal attached by a pale red ribbon; grant for land lot 167 in Muscogee County, Georgia, surveyed in 1826 and granted in 1832 to James Bridges, signed by Wilson Lumpkin at the bottom edge, official wax seal attached by a pale red ribbon; grant for land lot 160 in Muscogee County, Georgia, surveyed in 1826 and granted in 1827 to Joseph Lockaler, signed by Georgia Governor George M. Troup at the bottom edge, tied with a pale red ribbon but missing the official wax seal; grant for land lot 166 in Muscogee County, Georgia, surveyed in 1826 and granted in 1830 to Widow Martha Sayer, signed by Governor George Gilmer at the bottom edge, official wax seal attached by a pale red ribbon. In very good condition with some toning, a few closed tears. 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.