georgia

CHIEF EXECUTIVE RETURNS FROM WARM SPRINGS. WASHINGTON, D.C. APRIL 10. ...

State of Georgia. By His Excellency Captain-General, Governor, and com...

Blank form of land grant signed by Edward Telfair Governor from 1786-87 giving John Gardiner one thousand acres in the County of Washington, no date. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in t... more

Thomas Jefferson, 1732-86, Notes on Georgia History and Boundaries

A view of Savannah as it stood the 29th of March 1734.

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. 3 copies; 1 copy missing; 1 copy to P&P?

[Plan of New Ebenezer, Ga., 1742, which was settled in 1736 by the per...

Illus. in: S. Urlsperger, ...Nachrichten von der königlich-gross-britannischen Colonie Saltzburgischer Emigranted in America..., 1741-52, vol. 3. Reference copy may be in LOT 4388 D. This record contains unveri... more

A view of the orphan house ... from the great garden gate...

Photograph shows a plan of the orphan house, diagram and title page of the publication. No file print. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Illus. in: An Account of money received ... fo... more

Tybee Island.

Covers part of Tybee Island (Ga.) and part of surrounding islands and waters. Shows buildings and vegetation. Depths shown by soundings. Pen-and-ink, watercolor, and pencil. Oriented with north to the bottom. C... more

A plan of the inlets & rivers of Savannah & Warsaw in the Province of ...

Scale ca. 1:32,000; 220 chains, 80 to a mile & 1/2 mile to an in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the right. Shows area betwee... more

A new & accurate map of the provinces of North & South Carolina, Georg...

Scale ca. 1:2,900,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "No. 60." From the author's A complete atlas or distinct view of the known world. 1752. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1380 Available also th... more

A map of Savannah River beginning at Stone-Bluff, or Nexttobethell, wh...

Scale ca. 1:132,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Annotated with brown ink. Oriented with north to the right. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief shown by hachures. Shows aspects of the phys... more

A new & accurate map of the provinces of North & South Carolina, Georg...

Scale ca. 1:2,900,000. Relief shown pictorially. "No. 60." From the author's A complete atlas or distinct view of the known world. 1752. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1380 Available also through the Libr... more

[Johann Martin Boltzius, 1703-1765; head and shoulders, facing slightl...

Illus. in: Samuel Urlsperger, Americanisches ackerwerk Gottes; ..., Augsburg, 1754-67, vol. 1, frontispiece. Reference copy may be in Biog File. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Capt... more

An exact-plan of George-Town so named by Patrick Graham, Esqr., Presid...

Scale ca. 1:4,700. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Imperfect: Margins torn. Oriented with north to the bottom. Cadastral map. Shows town laid out in lots in a bend of "Great Ogeche River" planned to bec... more

Plano. I descripcion de la costa, desde el Cavo Cañaveral, hasta cerca...

Scale ca. 1:1,000,000. Manuscript, ink and watercolor. Depths shown by soundings. Shoals outlined in green. "N.4" and initials of Dn. Badaraco inscribed under title. Imperfect: Parts of title washed away. LC Ma... more

A map of South Carolina and a part of Georgia. Containing the whole se...

Scale ca. 1:310,000. Relief shown by hachures. Hand colored. "To the Right Honourable George Dunk, Earl of Halifax ... " Includes indexes of propietors of land in South Carolina and Georgia. LC Maps of North Am... more

Karte von Carolina und Georgien zur allgemeinen Geschichte der Reisen.

Scale ca. 1:4,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. "No. 49." From Allgemeine Historie der Reisen zu Wasser und zu Lande. 1758. v. 16. no. 19. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1385 Available also through the L... more

A plann of the town of Savannah in the state of Georgia.

Carte de la nouvelle Georgia.

Scale ca. 1:2,000,000. Prime meridian: Paris. "Tome I, no. 38." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1593 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 651

A new map of North & South Carolina, & Georgia /

Political electricity; or, an historical & prophetical print in the ye...

Detail showing convicts consisting of lords, esquires, and attorneys, in chains, boarding ship, for transport from England to Georgia, under the reign of King George III. Detail of British Museum Cartoon Collec... more

In Congress, May 17, 1775. Resolved that all exportations to Quebec, N...

Photographic copy.; Not in Ford or Evans.; Stamped on verso: 452. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Prin... more

Committee-Chamber, New York 1st May, 1775. Whereas it appears by the p...

Imprint 3.; On verso: S; May 1775. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 108, Folder 18.

Caroline méridionale et partie de la Georgie,

Scale ca. 1:325,000. Relief shown by hachures. Hand colored. Shows internal boundary lines. Inset: Cours de la rivière d'Hudson avec la comunication avec le Canada par le Lac Champlain jusqu'au Fort Chambly par... more

Plan of Amelia Island in East Florida, north point of Amelia Island ly...

[Taking of Savannah in Dec. 1778]

Scale ca. 1:21,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Oriented with north to the bottom. Relief shown by hachures. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1574 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a r... more

A draught of South Carolina and Georgia from Sewee to St. Estaca.

Scale ca. 1:450,000. Oriented with north to the left. Depths shown by soundings. Annotated in ink "M(232)4 H87." Includes "Instructions for the coast of South Carolina, Georgia, and the coast of St. Augustin." ... more

[Taking of Savannah in Dec. 1778.

Scale ca. 1:12,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Oriented with north toward the lower left. Shows disposition of American defenders and British and Hessian attackers. LC Map... more

[Savannah and its environs.

Scale ca. 1:24,000. Title from manuscript catalog of Peter Force map collection. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north toward the lower left. Relief shown by hachures. Shows the siege of S... more

Rutledge Edward to Thomas Jefferson, February 12, 1779, Aid for Georgi...

Aid for Georgia

I [blank] do solemnly swear ... allegiance to his Majesty King George...

Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 14, Folder 16d.

Siège de Savannah fait par les troupes françoises aux ordres du généra...

Scale ca. 1:27,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink, watercolor, and gilt. Relief shown by shading. Pictorial map. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index to points of ... more

The deposition of Captain James M'Alpine, Commander of the Schooner Po...

Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 110, Folder 13.

Roads and country that Col. Campbell marched thro'--Ebenezer to August...

Scale ca. 1:175,000. Title in part from accompanying manuscript text. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Hand colored. Shows roads parallel to the Savannah River. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1573 ... more

Plan of the French and rebells sieg[e] of Savannah in Georgia, in Sout...

A new and accurate map of the province of Georgia in North America.

Shows trails and paths used for trading as well as general locations of Native American tribes. Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. From: Universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure. April, 1779, v. 64, ... more

Powder magazine in Fort Prevost at Savannah.

Sketch of the northern frontiers of Georgia, extending from the mouth ...

Scale ca. 1:110,000. Relief shown by hachures. Oriented with north toward the upper right. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1570 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. In... more

[Map of the coast of Georgia, bordering on Camden and Glynn counties, ...

Scale ca. 1:70,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. LC copy imperfect: lower right corner missing. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially and by shading. Soundings shown in fathoms a... more

[Savannah River & Ogeechee River].

Shows the Savannah River from the Georgia coast north to Augusta and the Ogeechee River from the coast north to "Old Town." Title and date from Peter Force map collection checklist. Oriented with north towards ... more

[Savannah.

Scale ca. 1:4,800. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Unfinished plan. Watermark: J. Whatman [and a horn within a shield with JW below] Oriented with north toward the lower right. On verso: My M. Blimes. LC Maps of North... more

[Savannah.

Scale ca. 1:4,800. Manuscript, pen and ink. Unfinished plan. Watermark: J. Whatman [and a horn within a shield with W below] Oriented with north toward the lower right. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1583... more

Sketch of the northern frontiers of Georgia, extending from the mouth ...

[Savannah & its fortifications.

Scale ca. 1:5,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and pencil. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Relief shown by hachures. Shows fortifications. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1580 Available also throug... more

[Savannah.

Scale ca. 1:4,800. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Watermark: J. Whatman [and a horn within a shield with JW below] Oriented with north toward the lower right. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1582 ... more

Ft. Provost in 1781.

Scale 1:960; 80 ft. to an in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Relief shown by hachures. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1589 Available also through the L... more

A map of East and West Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana : with the isla...

Plan of Savannah and its environs in 1782.

Scale 1:12,000; 1,000 ft. to an in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Relief shown by hachures. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Shows fortifications. LC Maps of North America, 1... more

Fort Provost in 1782.

Scale 1:960; 80 ft. to an in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Relief shown by hachures. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1590 Available als... more

Plan of Savannah and its fortifications in 1782.

Scale 1:6,000; 500 ft. to an in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Relief shown by hachures. Has watermark. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1586 Available ... more

Plan of Savannah & its environs in 1782.

Scale ca. 1:12,000; 1,000 ft. to an in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congres... more

Georgia. House of Assembly, 15th July 1783. Ordered that his honour th...

Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 14, Folder 14.

The West Indies, including part of Virginia, North Carolina, East Flor...

Scale ca. 1:6,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1713 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2

The West Indies, including part of Virginia, North Carolina, East Flor...

Scale ca. 1:6,000,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: London. Relief shown pictorially. Second state : Hispaniola is no longer divided into French and Spanish sections and an explanatory note has been deleted. L... more

Thomas Jefferson to Georgia Delegates in Congress, December 27, 1786

Georgia Delegates in Congress to Thomas Jefferson, August 21, 1786, Cl...

Claim by Chevalier de Mezieres on Oglethorpe Estate in Georgia

U.S. Reports: Penman, et al. v. Wayne, 1 U.S. (1 Dall.) 348 (1788)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 1; Dallas Volume 1; September Term, 1788; Penman et al. versus Wayne

Thomas Jefferson to Georgia Delegates in Congress, February 7, 1788

[Cartouche showing cherubs celebrating the founding of the new nation]...

Print shows cherubs unrolling a scroll inscribed "New Map of the States of Georgia South and North Carolina Virginia and Maryland including the Spanish Provinces of West and East Florida from the latest surveys... more

... An act to alter the times for holding the Circuit Courts of the Un...

Caption title: at head of title: Congress of the United States: at the second session. Begun and held at the City of New-York, on Monday the fourth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety.; Signed... more

An act to continue an act intituled, "And act declaring the assent of ...

Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 216, Folder 2a.

Thomas Jefferson to United States District Attorney of Georgia, Novemb...

U.S. Reports: Chisholm, Ex'tor., v. Georgia, 2 U.S. (2 Dall.) 419 (179...

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 2; Dallas Volume 2; February Term, 1793; Chisholm, Ex'r. versus Georgia

Thomas Jefferson to Savannah, Georgia, Merchants, August 27, 1793

... An act for erecting a lighthouse on the island of Seguin in the di...

Caption title: At head of title: Third Congress of the United States: at the first session, begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the second of December, one thous... more

Georgia, from the latest authorities

Scale ca. 1:3,000,000. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and London. Relief shown pictorially. Shows the present states of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. "Engraved for Carey's American edition of Guthrie's Geogr... more

Georgia, from the latest authorities.

Scale ca. 1:3,000,000. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and London. Relief shown pictorially. "Engraved for Carey's American edition of Guthrie's Geography." Shows the present states of Georgia, Alabama, and Missi... more

U.S. Reports: Hills v. Ross, 3 U.S. (3 Dall.) 184 (1796)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 3; Dallas Volume 3; February Term, 1796; Hills et al Plaintiffs in Error; versus Ross.

A plan of the city of Savannah : with a drawing of the part of the cit...

Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north toward lower right. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Select buildings shown pictorially. Annotations in pencil. Minor tears around edges of sheet repaired by conservatio... more

U.S. Reports: Cotton v. Wallace, 3 U.S. (3 Dall.) 302 (1796)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 3; Dallas Volume 3; August Term, 1796; Cotton Plaintiff in Error, versus Wallace.

U.S. Reports: Hamilton v. Moore, 3 U.S. (3 Dall.) 371 (1797)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 3; Dallas Volume 3; August Term, 1797; Hamilton versus Moore.

U.S. Reports: Williamson v. Kincaid, 4 U.S. (4 Dall.) 20 (1800)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 4; Dallas Volume 4; February Term, 1800; Williamson, Plaintiff in Error, versus Kincaid.

These are to certify that [blank] or bearer, is entitled to one share ...

Signed by George Sibbald. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 14, Folder 16e.

Georgia Republican extra, Savannah, 25th April, 1804. Judge Bowen havi...

Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 14, Folder 17.

U.S. Reports: Ex parte Hurst, 4 U.S. (4 Dall.) 387 (1804)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 4; Dallas Volume 4; October Term, 1804; Hurst's Case

Joseph Bryan, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile

Title devised by Library staff, other information from Miles. Trimmed to image. Dexter, 486 Published in: Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical profile portrait in America / Ellen G. Miles. Washington, D.C. : Nation... more

Georgia Legislature to Thomas Jefferson, December 6, 1806, Printed Res...

Printed Resolutions

Thomas Jefferson to Georgia Senators and Representatives, December 10,...

Thomas Jefferson to Governors of Orleans, Georgia, South Carolina, Mas...

Thomas Jefferson to Georgia Senators and Representatives, February 3, ...

The state of Georgia.

Relief shown pictorially. "Gridley, sc." From: Samuel Lewis Atlas, 1817. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and London. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Map by which the Creek Indians gave their statement at Fort Strother o...

Shows Alabama and Georgia from the Tombigbee River in the west to the southern Great Smoky Mountains and the Savannah River in the east and indicating U.S. Army forts in that region. Relief shown by hachures. T... more

The state of Georgia.

Relief shown pictorially. "Gridley, sc." From: Carey's General atlas, 1818. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and London. LC Trails, 42 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

A map of Mexico, Louisiana, and the Missouri Territory : including als...

Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes notes, ill., and tables of coordinates and other statistical data. Imperfect: Backed... more

Georgia resolutions. In the House of representatives Wednesday, 20th D...

Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 14, Folder 18.

Notice: I hereby forewarn all persons against crediting my wife, Delil...

Bilingual notice in English and Cherokee stating that William McConnell will no longer pay the debts of his wife Delilah McConnell as she has left him. Item in: Cherokee phoenix. New Echota [Ga.] : Isaac H. Har... more

Log house in the forests of Georgia

Engraving by W.H. Lizars, after sketch with the camera lucida by Capt. Basil Hall. Illus. in: Hall, Basil, Forty Etchings, from Sketches made with the camera lucida, in North America, in 1827 and 1828, Edinburg... more

U.S. Reports: Patterson vs. the Rev. Jenks et al., 27 U.S. (2 Pet.) 21...

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 27; Peters Volume 2; January Term, 1829; William Patterson, Plaintiff in Error vs. the Rev. Willis Jenks et al. Defendants in Error

Map of the state of Georgia, drawn from actual surveys and the most au...

Relief shown pictorially. Includes a table showing counties with the distance between the counties' "chief towns" and Milledgeville. Shows land districts and includes numbers of land lots. "Entered according to... more

A map of the second section of that part of Georgia now known as the C...

Covers Marietta region (Ga.) including portions of the present-day Cobb, Fulton, and Cherokee Counties. Original in Surveyor General Department, Office of Secretary of State, Atlanta, Ga. Available also through... more

A map of that part of Georgia occupied by the Cherokee Indians, taken ...

Relief shown by hachures. Mounted on paper. Annotations in ink and pencil. Fold-lined. Some losses along folds and at lower left edge. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. ... more

Georgia, from the latest authorities

Covers the southeast United States from northern Georgia south to northern Florida and west to the Mississippi River. Shows general locations of Native American tribes. Relief shown pictorially. In lower margin... more

U.S. Reports: Ex Parte Madrazzo, 32 U.S. (7 Pet.) 627 (1833)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 32; Peters Volume 7; January Term, 1833; Ex Parte Juan Madrazzo

U.S. Reports: Winn and others v. Patterson, 34 U.S. (9 Pet.) 663 (1835...

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 34; Peters Volume 9; January Term, 1835; Elisha Winn and others, Plaintiffs in Error v. William Patterson

Southern ideas of liberty

An imaginative portrayal of the violent suppression of abolitionist propagandizing and insurrectionism in the South. The print may have been stimulated by several instances during the early 1830s of hanging, ta... more

U.S. Reports: Tarver v. Tarver and Others, 34 U.S. (9 Pet.) 174 (1835)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 34; Peters Volume 9; January Term, 1835; Benjamin J. Tarver, Appellant v. Samuel B. Tarver, Charlotte Tarver and Patience Gibson

Wilson Lumpkin, Governor of Georgia from life & on stone by Chas. Fend...

Print shows Wilson Lumpkin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left; includes a facsimile signature. 34 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. Publication date based on copyright statement on item. I... more

Wilson Lumpkin, Governor of Georgia from life & on stone by Chas. Fend...

Print shows Wilson Lumpkin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left; includes a facsimile signature. Title from item. Publication date based on copyright statement on item. Stamped on verso: 43309. St... more

U.S. Reports: Bank of Augusta vs. Earle, 38 U.S. (13 Pet.) 519 (1839)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 38; Peters Volume 13; January Term, 1839; Bank of Augusta, Plaintiffs in Error, vs. Joseph B. Earle, Defendant in Error - The Bank of the United States, Plaintiffs in Error, vs.... more

Map of Georgia & Alabama exhibiting the post offices, post roads, cana...

Detailed map showing relief by hachures, drainage, township and county boundaries, cities and towns, canals, roads, and railroads. Scale ca. 1:650,000. From his The American Atlas (London, J. Arrowsmith, 1839) ... more

A map of the Georgia Rail Road and the several lines of railroad conne...

Map of the southeastern United States indicating drainage, relief by hachures, place names, roads, canals in blue, Georgia Railroad in red, "R.R. completed & in progress" in yellow. "R.R. chartered & proposed" ... more