[Sapelo Island (Ga.) survey] /
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| Format: | Map |
| Language: | English |
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Athens, Ga. :
University of Georgia,
1978.
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| Item Description: | "A plan of the Islands of Sappola, containing 9520 acres that is to say, the main island 7700, the island called black Beard 1600, six small islands of little Sappola 220." "Georgia. Pursuant to a warrant from his Excellency Henry Ellis Esqr. Captain General & Governor in Chief in & over his Majestys said province to Us directed bearing date the 2d day of September 1760. We have caused to be admeasured & laid out unto Grey Elliot Esq. the Islands of Sappola purchased by him at public auction the 17th day of May 1760 for the Sum of seven hundred twenty-vie pounds sterling (exclusive of the expences of Surveys & Grants) & so sold by Order of his Excellency the Governor. Bounded to the East & South East by the Ocean, to the So. West by a North branch of the River Alatamaha to the West by Tea Kettle Creek & the Marshes thereof & to the North & North West by Sappola Sound & Sappola River, is Situate in the parish of St. John & contains Nine thousand five hundred & twenty Acres, having such form natural & artificial marks as are above espressed & delineated by the plat thereof Certifyed the 30th day of September in the Year of our Lord seventeen hundred & Sixty, by Henry Yonge, Will DeBrahm, Survr. Gen." "Cartography and interpretations adapted from the original 1760 Map by the Cartographic Services Laboratory, General Research, Office of the Vice President for Research, The University of Georgia, 1978." Shows landowner, land acreage and plats. Cartographic material. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 map ; 54 x 76 cm. |