Land Deed Genealogy of Hancock County, Ga

Hancock County was created in 1793 from Greene and Washington Counties. It is surrounded by present day counties of: Baldwin, Greene, Glascock, Putnam, Taliaferro, Warren, and Washington. This book contains abstracts of Deed Books A-E which covers the years 1794-1802. This book should be quite useful as all federal census for Georgia were lost from 1790-1820. This book contains original marriage records of Hasper County, 1816-1914; wills, 1809-1907; estate files, 1809-1907; misc. pension records, 1812-1920; superior court cases, 1809-1922; inferior court cases, 1804-1902; county court files, 1860-1913; justice of the peace court case files, 1802-1935; Poney Homestead (debt & tax exemptions) records, 1867-1907; land grant records, 1799-1823; original deeds, 1808-1903; misc. unbound records, 1808-1935 (amnesty, oaths, apprenticeships, citizenship oaths, correspondence, estrays, inquests, merchant's invoices, defaulting jurors, jurors, court of ordinary, deeds-slaves, misc. deeds, motes, mortgages, etc., interrogatories, registrations - free persons of color); bound original records at the GA. Archives; and other records (inc. microfilm) at the GA. Archives (an inventory).Marsh, Helen Crawford is the author of 'Land Deed Genealogy of Hancock County, Ga ', published 1997 under ISBN 9780893086626 and ISBN 0893086622.