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From Georgia Laws 1832       Wilson Lumpkin 1831-1835  was Governor.
An ACT to add parts of Habersham and Hall to the county of Cherokee, and to divide said county of Cherokee into 10 counties and to provide for the organization of the same.
Section 22. And be it further enacted that the First, Second, Third and Fourteenth Districts of the County of Cherokee, shall form and become one county to be called Forsyth.

The land in Forsyth County was given away in the 1832 Land Lottery of Cherokee County.  For information about who could draw land see Land Lots  All the lots in Forsyth County were 40 acres which is 1/4 mile by 1/4 mile.

The land was obtained from the Cherokee Indians by treaty. Although the land was distributed, all the Cherokees had not removed (some never did)  and the new property owners either sold to those occupying it or dispossessed them of it.

For the persons who drew  see pages 80 thru 119 in Garland Bagly's History of Forsyth County 1832 - 1932 Volume 1.

Many of the land lottery winners sold their land sight unseen. Others were levied on and the property sold to pay judgments against them.

The First Election was to be held "the first Monday in March next  (3/4/1833) at the place where William Hammons now lives".

Mr.  (Hubert) Francis always wondered where William Hammons (Hammond)  lived in 1833. If anyone finds out let me know. Many of you that knew Mr. Francis , know how much work he did on researching old locations. We spent hours discussing where something or somebody was at that time. If the name is familiar, you'll find him credited with the research for the 1st Chapter of Don Shadburn's Pioneer History of Forsyth County. Mr. Francis was from Sandy Springs, but he had a lake house off of Shady Grove Road near Young Deer Park. 

Oliver Strickland had been the Clerk of Superior for Cherokee County and Deed Book A of Forsyth contains many pages which were assignments of persons lottery draws (Like selling your lottery ticket).

Robert Davis located this census in the Telamon Cuyler Collection at the University of Georgia and submitted a typed copy to the NWGa Quarterly I believe it was.  
Garland Bagley went to Athens and brought back a photocopy of the original handwritten booklet for me to transcribe for our Census Book. It also appears in Pioneer History and History Volume 1 .   Wm. W. Vaughan who certified it was the second surveyor of the County. He appears in a family history in Gwinnett County Families.

Also, in 1834 they laid out the Town of Cumming.    
I spent hours and days going through the vaults of the Clerk of Superior Court reading old deeds for references to town lott or lotts.
A Receipt Docket of the Inferior Court Justices is located in the Probate Judges Office, where they recorded the first sales.

At this time period there was also the platted Town of Shady Grove, located where Shakerag is shown today. (This reference from Forsyth County deeds.)

The Information I used in my Census Index book was Head of Household, Cherokees, Slaves and Whites by Marriage. Those census people asked a lot more questions than I used. For example: how many bushels of wheat did you grow? how many of corn? How many read Cherokee? How many read English? etc.  

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