Ga. Gold treasure

[reconjack]

Im looking for some help in the Atlanta area to find--not hunt for 400,000 in gold that was lost in 1826. This gold was paid out to Chief william McIntosh for land in the Ga. area, Im retired and can spent time at this, Look up info. on Chief McIntosh in ga.and see what you think ?? then E-Mail me if think its worth looking at. [email protected]

 

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[lou423]

check the book georgia's treasure hoards....this book has leads on many lost caches of that state...you can find it at your public library or buy it from soclum books and maps...check their web-site...good luck....let us know if you find it...he...he...

 

[gldhntr]

this the story you are talking about ? '' Carroll County Georgia - History



Chief McIntosh
Before January 24, 1826, the land that is now Carroll County belonged to the Creek Indians, one of the so-called Five Civilized Tribes. More specifically, the local Indians were called the Lower Creeks because they were served by the south fork of a trail used by white traders. Politically organized and open to changes in culture and civilization brought by the Indian Agent Benjamin Hawkins, they were bitterly opposed by the Upper Creeks of Alabama, who zealously resisted change. In the Creek Indian War of 1813-14, General Andrew Jackson raised an army composed mostly of militia men and Lower Creek Indians to defeat the militant Upper Creeks.

The leader of Jackson's Indian troops was one of this area's most illustrious and affluent men, Chief William McIntosh. He was called "White Warrior" and was the son of a Scottish father and a Creek mother. Never knowing his white father, the younger McIntosh was reared as an Indian and rose through the ranks to be Speaker of the Lower Creek Nation, an office that brought him into association with five presidents: Jefferson, Jackson, Madison, Monroe and John Quincy Adams. He earned recognition as a plantation owner who also owned a tavern and operated a ferry. He was one of the few prominent Creek chiefs who understood the practicality of exchanging all Creek Indian lands in Georgia for land in the west. He was under extreme pressure from the United States government and from his white first cousin, Georgia Governor George M. Troup, to vacate the area to white settlers. Despite the fact that the Upper Creeks had vowed to kill anyone who signed away more land, Chief McIntosh and eight minor chiefs signed a treaty on February 12, 1825, relinquishing all the Creek lands in Georgia, with the government paying the Creeks a total of $400,000 for improvements on their ceded lands. Before dawn on April 30, a band of about 200 Upper Creek warriors, led by Menewa, set fire to his plantation home - Lockchau Talofau and killed McIntosh, afterwards looting or destroying all his property. Because of the controversy, the February treaty was declared void by the Senate, but another treaty, signed by only a few chiefs, relinquished the Creek lands on January 24, 1826.

The Creek Indians were ordered to give up the land by September 1, and in late 1826 surveying of the new land cession began. The act that created Carroll County was passed on December 11 and it was named for Maryland's Charles Carroll, the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence. This 66th Georgia county enclosed in its original boundaries all of present-day Carroll County as well as the southern part of Haralson and Douglas counties and the part of Heard and Troup lying west of the Chattahoochee. As was commonplace in those days, the land was distributed in a lottery held in the state capital at Milledgeville in 1827. Because of the public ferry at McIntosh's home site, that one square mile area known as the "McIntosh Reserve" was withheld from the lottery. (Today, the McIntosh plantation site remains preserved as the "McIntosh Reserve" and is the location of the annual McIntosh Festival each October.) One winner who came to view the land he had drawn offered the lot to a Carrollton innkeeper for a night's lodging; the innkeeper refused.

On March 8, 1827, lot number 128, which would contain Carrollton's public square, was surveyed by Ulysses Lewis, who noted that it was "second quality oak and hickory land." In May, the first Carroll Inferior Court was convened on lot 115 near Sand Hill, and the place called "Old Carrollton" was briefly designated the county seat. On November 14, 1829, the county seat was moved to its present site, and on December 22, the legislature incorporated the town as Carrollton.

 

[gldhntr]

where he was after recieving the $ 400,000.00 payment till he went home and was executed by the creeks..........................................George Michael Troup was Governor of Georgia from 1823 to 1827. During Governor Troup's administration the treaty with the Creek Nation was negotiated by the United States Government for the cession of the territory of which Troup County now is a part. The treaty was signed at Indian Springs, Georgia, on February 12, 1825, by commissioners on the part of the United States Government and by William McIntosh, President and Head Chief of the Creek Nation. This territory, which included the land between the Flint and Chattahoochee Rivers, was purchased for the State of Georgia for $400,000 and other considerations.

After signing the February 12, 1825, treaty, William McIntosh remained at Indian Springs to settle his personal affairs and to accumulate his personal belongings. In August of 1825 he returned to McIntosh Reserve, his home in Carroll County, Georgia. A number of Indian Chiefs awaited him and in accordance with Creek Law, they executed him. Chief McIntosh had violated the enactment that no further cession of territory would be made except by unanimous consent of all members of the Assembly.

 

[gldhntr]

possible reason for execution........................................................ The infamous Treaty of Indian Springs ceding the last Creek lands in Georgia is signed by Chief William McIntosh. (Argument continues as to whether he signed the treaty believing it was in the best interests of his people in mind or whether he was bribed.) Whatever his motivation, he is consequently assassinated by his own people. The treaty is declared illegal by the federal government, but Georgia authorities disagree. They press harder for removal.

 

[gldhntr]

home now a park.............................Fall Festival at McIntosh Reserve. (The McIntosh Reserve is a Carroll County Park located at the site of the home of Creek Indian Chief William McIntosh.)

 

[CaptainRobin]

I'd suggest follow-up research on this one... I KNOW it isn't there.

William McIntosh was never paid the $400K -- the money was to be paid over I believe a ten year period and to the Creek Nation -- not McIntosh. McIntosh was to be paid $25K for his property, but I can find no indication he was. This info was gleaned from reading the government's record of the treaties with the Creek Nation (more than one). The treaty signed by McIntosh was not recognized by either the Creeks or the US. Georgia was clammoring for annexation of the Creek lands and went forward with their agenda. Dates of the legend are inconsistant with actual govt records.

There's a pretty good work on Chief William McIntosh by George Chapman, well researched, primary source for the book was govt records, copies of the treaties, etc. that paints a very convincing picture this trove never existed.

Robin

 

[jrobi]

I'm in.