Camden County, Georgia Inferior Court Minutes, 1794-1815.

By: Michael A. Ports, Pub. 2018, 270 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-981-8..

Camden County was one the original 7 counties of the state. It was created in 1777 and is located in southeastern corner of the state boarding the Atlantic Ocean. The Inferior Court tried any civil case except those involving title to land. The court had jurisdiction over county business matters, such as care for the poor, building and maintaining the courthouse, jails, roads bridges and ferries, issuing liquor licenses, nominating justices of the peace, performing naturalizations, appointing guardians, authorizing apprenticeships & indentures, maintaining a register of wills and administering county funds. The Clerk of the Inferior Court kept minutes of the foregoing proceedings–every one of which places individuals in Camden County at a particular point in time