Muscogee County, Georgia Superior Court Minutes, 1840-1841. (Volume 2) part #1

By: Michael A. Ports, Pub. 2021, 385 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-041-1.

Muscogee County was created in 1826 from lands ceded by the Creek Indians. It lies on the western boundary of the state boarding Alabama along the Chattahoochee River while being encircled by the Georgia Counties of: Harris, Randolph, Chattahoochee, Talbot, Marion and Stewart. The Superior Court of the county had jurisdiction over all criminal matters, civil cases involving title to land, appeals from Inferior Court decisions and Justice’s Courts, divorces, grand juries, naturalizations, and registration of land deeds.