First Settlers in Georgia, Volume 7, Abstracts of English Crown Grants in St. Andrew Parish, 1755-1775. Evans, Liberty, Long, McIntosh, and Tattnall Counties

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From 1732 until the Georgia charter was resigned to the English Crown in 1752, all leases of land made to settlers could not be mortgaged, sold, or otherwise disposed of. After Georgia became a Royal Province, fee simple grants giving a clear title to the recipient were required to be made. This publication offers the seventh volume of these royal grants abstracted, covering the counties of Evans, Liberty, Long, McIntosh, and Tattnall.

"These Royal Grants, in the Georgia Surveyor General Department of the Office of the Secretary of State, begin in 1755. The three year gap between 1752 and 1755 is variously explained by historians, but in any case, the latter year is the first date for the grants. There are some 5000 of these recorded."