Land Lottery Records

Between 1805 and 1833, Georgia distributed the Lottery, the largest land in the United States, eight times. The lottery follows a simple pattern.

The General Assembly approved the lottery, adopted an act showing who is entitled to participate and the corresponding grant

The land to be distributed was investigated and placed in the region and place. The surveyor sends the district and lot number to the governor's office.

The target citizen registered his name in his county. These names were sent to the state governor of the state capital. From the second draw, the name is copied to a strip called "ticket" and placed in the bass drum called "wheel".

Zones and lot numbers are located on different wheels. (First, since blank tickets are added to this wheel, the number of votes is equal to the number of people drawn.)

The governor appointed members to take a name plate from one wheel and a region / ground ticket from another wheel. If the area / lot ticket is blank, he / she has not received a fee. If the ticket contains region / place number, he / she will receive parcel prize. Tickets containing numbers are called 'lucky lucky draw'. Subsequent lotteries (after 1820), if no blank tickets were added to the prize round, individuals whose names were held in the second round were considered to be blank

Anyone who receives Lucky Draw can earn a bonus on his draw after paying a subsidy. If he does not distribute the grant, the lot will go back to the state and sell that person at the best price.

The history and law of Grisland land investigation, by Farris Cadle. (Athens: Georgia University Press, 1991)

Georgia State Survey Headquarters, Marion Hemperley. (Atlanta: Secretary of State of Georgia, 1982)

Please click on the link to see the summary of the lottery of each land, its qualification requirements and other information.

These lottery tickets are state-specific and no other country uses the lottery system to distribute the land. Even for individual lotteries, the lot size is quite different. The largest distribution is 805 acres in 1805 and 1820 land lottery in 1805. The smallest site is the prime location of 40 acres distributed during the 1832 Gold Lottery. See also Georgia Land Record. Prior to 1803, Georgia had distributed the land in an upright system. Designed to ban corruption, the system actually encourages it. During the initial administrative period, the government abused the system and created what is commonly called Yazoo Land Fraud today. These abuses led to the adoption of the lottery system in May 1803 under the guidance of the governor of John Mileage. The first lottery under the new system took place in 1805

Almost three quarters of the state of Georgia is now distributed under this lottery system. During the 27-year land allocation under the system, lottery rules and methods were essentially unchanged. Applicants can be white men over the age of 18 (or 21 depending on the lottery), orphans, or widows. The cost depends on the lottery and the size of the lottery you acquired, but in general they will only bear the cost of operating the lottery. After Click War (1814), Andrew Jackson demanded a one - third split in the southern part of Georgia today. The second land in the northeastern part of Georgia was called the logging of land in 1817 and was called the logging of land in 1819. This defines the east end of the Cherokee State for 12 years.