1827 Georgia Land Grant

[itzyoboyandrew]

Picked this up at a antique store for 4$
Date on one of the pages is 1827

It has 3 names mentioned:
Thomas Abercrombie
Carlton ?ilborn
Daniel Newman

It’s a grant for 202 and a half acres of land in Monroe County Georgia.
It also says it’s the scale of 20 chains. (Something with when they used surveyor chains)

 

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[hucklburry]

My house, the front of it, is listed as built in 1820, its a hand hewn log cabin, been added on to two times. I traced back the ownership, I have 2 acres, but it used to be 130 acres, and the oldest I can find is the US landgrant of 1820 for it. It was hard to make the jump from the local archives to the Federal, but I found it here and printed a copy of mine:

https://glorecords.blm.gov/default.aspx

It looks like Georgia info might not be complete (maybe because you have the paperwork??), but worth looking around

 

[itzyoboyandrew]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Newnan

Apparently misread the land grant. Its Daniel Newnan not Newman.

He was the secretary of georgia from 1823 to 1827 and also a major general over the Georgia militia.

 

[GaRebel1861]

Here is one from Lee County Georgia dated the same year as yours - 1827. It is signed by then Governor Rabun.

 

[Clay Diggins]

It's an interesting bit of history. Nice find.

There were more than six million land grants issued so they aren't exactly rare. The Georgia grants were a big mess with a lot more grants being written than there was land to be sold.

If the patent were valid and complete with the chain of successions and assigns it would have value as fee to property. That's obviously not the case. It might hold special value for the families of the original grantees if you can find them.

Essentially the only value beyond that is in the eye of the beholder. They aren't rare so the old condition, condition, condition rule applies. Your's isn't in very good condition so it's worth only what a buyer will pay. You paid $4 for it so that's the established value unless you find a buyer who will pay more.