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Wilkes County Georgia Genealogy Records available to Members Inferior Court Minutes
- 1798-1811
General Indexes to Probate Records
- Estates, A-G.
- Estates, H-L.
- Estates, M-Q.
- Estates, R-Z.
- Will Book C, 1786-1806
Images of Wilkes County Wills
- Pre-1800 (Bonds)
- Bk C, 1786-1806
- 1792-1801
- 1806-1808
- 1810-1816
- 1818-1819
- 1837-1877
Images of Wilkes County Inventories, Appraisements, Sales, 1836 to 1839
295 pages are viewable online of some of the oldest records in Wilkes County. Each page is scanned and easily visible on your computer.Indexes to Deeds
- 1785-1821
Loose Marriages
- 1806-1834
- 1819-1836
Indexes to Marriages
- 1790-1832
- 1832-1856
- 1856-1867
- 1867-1871
Marriages
- Marriage Bonds 1792-1800
- Marriages from newspapers 1885-1886
Maps
- Map of Wilkes County, 1955.
- Original Wilkes County.
- Map of Wilkes County Settlers.
Miscellaneous
- Origins of Early Settlers to Wilkes County
- Members of Sardis Church Members in 1805.
Images of Miscellaneous Wills & Estates
- Anthony, Joseph, Estate (1815) of.
- Arnold, Moses, Estate (1810) of.
- Favor, Henry, guardianship of.
- Favor, John, Sr., Estate (1833) (Image).
- Favor, John, Estate (1850) (Image).
- Favor, John, Inventory (1818).
- Favor, John, Estate (1818) (Image).
- Favor, Matthew, Bond for Estate of John Favor Sr., 1829 (Image).
- Favor, Sanders, Guardians of (1819).
- Keith, George W., Annual Return for the minor children of William A. Keith, deceased, 1850 (Image).
- Marks, John, estate (image) (1800).
- McLane, John, LWT, Bk 1792-1801, pp. 115-117.
- McLane, Mariney, LWT, Bk 1792-1801, pp. 240.
Images of (select issues) Newspapers
- The Washington Gazette
- The Southern Courant
Tax Digests
1789 Tax Defaulters Inferior Court Minutes
- 1798-1811
- 1799-1803
Sarah Porter Hillhouse, the first female editor in Georgia
Pullen family
Traced Genealogies:
Wilkes County Families
Allison Anthony Aycock Banks Billingslea Bird Bond Butler Callaway Catchings Chaffin Coats Cole Collier Cowan Crutchfield Darracott Early Edge Fullilove Gordon Grant Gunnells Hammack Harper Hillhouse Holliday Jackson Leverett Luckett Malone Mercer Miller Mills Milner Morgan McClendon McRee Phillips Richardson Russell Semmes Springer Summerall Tatom Toombs Walton Welborne Williamson Wingfield Wootton Zimmerman Settlers from the Blue Ridge Mountains into Georgia
There was a group of settlers from the old State of Franklin who came to Georgia during the late 18th century. They were from the mountains of North Carolina in Burke and other counties which later became Tennessee. The reason is unknown unless it was due to troublesome Indians throughout the Blue Ridge Mountains. They mostly came to Washington, Georgia (Wilkes County), and settled there. Most of those families who settled in the Blue Ridge Mountains before 1800 had traveled the well-worn Wagon Road out of Pennsylvania westward. They were Germans and Scotch-Irish immigrants.
Newspaper Editors Included Information About Confederate Soldiers
L. R. Miller, one of the Confederate soldiers of Sandersville, won 21 battles. He was wounded twice, one through the body and one in the right foot. Source: The Washington Gazette. July 27, 1887.
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Franklin Genealogy Traced, Part I
Franklin family traced, Part II
Franklin family traced, Part III
The Littleton Family
Names of Families in Wilkes County Ancestor Databases: Wills, Estates, Newspapers, Marriages, Maps
Wilkes County was created in 1777 from ceded lands of Cherokee and Creek Indians. People who resided in Wilkes County are also found in Warren and Oglethorpe Counties. Between 1790 and 1854, the legislature took land from Wilkes County to form Elbert County (1790), Oglethorpe County (1793), Lincoln County (1796), and to help form Warren County (1793), and Taliaferro County (1825). The county seat is Washington, Georgia. Lincoln County should always be researched along with Wilkes. Many of the first settlers came from Virginia and North Carolina to take up the ceded lands (from the Indians) during the late 1700s. Early Settlers: John Heard, William Rasberry, James Gray, David Montgomery, John Marks, Bernard Zimmerman, George Bailey, William Mathis, Solomon Ellis, and others.
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