Georgia Gill Headrights and Bounty Grants

 

Submitted by Roy Gill

Index to the Headright and Bounty Grants of Georgia, 1756-1909 / ed. by Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr.  Pub info: Greenville, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1992, c1982.

 Below are listed excerpts of the Headright and Bounty Grants for Georgia before 1820.  This was the time period when the Mississippi Gill brothers of James, Thomas and Robert would have been in GA.  Their passports through Indian lands were granted as follows:

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' Executive Department, Monday 28^th January 1811

On application ordered that Passports be prepared for the following persons to travel through the Creek Nation of Indians to wit,

One for Mr. Joseph Baker with his wife and three children, One for Mr. Lewis Cook with his wife and four children, One for Mr. Vinson Mixon with his wife and six children, One for Mr. Robert Gill with his wife and Messrs, James Gill with his wife and seven children and Thomas Gill with his wife and five children-all from the County of Bulloch in this State, and One for Mr. Nathaniel Day from Edgefield District of South Carolina.

Which were severally presented and signed.'

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Headrights and Bounty Rights for Georgia before 1820

 

Grantee	Location of Grant	Grant Book	Page	Acres Granted	Year of Grant
Days Gill	Richmond	TTT	597	200	1790
James Gill	Bulloch	G.5	367	200	1808
James Gill	Bulloch	G.5	88	200	1807
James Gill	Effingham	UUUU	689	450	1795
Jeremiah Gill	Effingham	H.5	421	250	1811
Jeremiah Gill	Effingham	H.5	422	200	1811
Jno. (John?) Gill	Effingham	BBBBB	50	300	1799
John Gill	Liberty	DDDDD	364	100	1801
Robert Gill	Effingham	AAAA	170	200	1793
Robert Gill	McIntosh	F.5	341	200	1806
Thomas Gill	Effingham	G.5	518	200	1809
Young Gill	Clarke	G.5	258	350	1808

 

On the 1880 census, shown below, for David Gill, one of Thomas Gill' s sons, shows he was born in GA (3/30/1808) while both his Father (Thomas) and Mother were also shown as being born in GA.

 

1880 US census; Grant County AR; Volume 5; Franklin TWP; ED 98; page 212; sheet 26; line 17;No Dw or Fam #; June 10.

David Gill; M 72; Farmer; GA

Mary; F 24; Daughter; MS

 

That is why I firmly believe Thomas, born before 1775, (from census information shown on the 1820 [over 45] Marion Co., MS census and the 1830 [bet. 50-60] and 1840 Rankin Co., MS census) was in GA before the Revolutionary War.  A review of the maps of early GA indicates Bulloch Co. is immediately west of Effingham Co., which is located on the line with South Carolina just across the river from Allendale and Barnwell Cos., SC. Have not been able to tie them with any of the GA or SC Gills.