Gwinnett

Gwinnett County Wills, Estates, Marriages

The Creeks and Cherokees occupied this land until they ceded it to the State of Georgia in 1789 and 1790. Gwinnett County was named after Button Gwinnett, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Governor of Georgia, who died from wounds on May 19, 1771, after dualling in the streets of Savannah with General Lachlan McIntosh, commander of the American forces during the Revolutionary War. Persons who drew in the 1827 and 1832 land lotteries settled in Gwinnett County. The early settling families were: Andrews, Ambrose, Addison, Bracewell, Bridges, Bruton, Bullock, Burton, Burns, Brandon, Carter, Carroll, Choice, Chester, Cosley, Connelly, Cowan, Day, Deaton, Dover, Edwards, Dyer, Durham, Dunlap, Etheridge, Edwards, Glaze, Garmany, Franklin, Freeland, Flowers, Gresham, Gray, Holcombe, Howell, Jackson, James, Kicker, Killian, Kinney, Knight, Lankford, Lester, Light, Lockridge, Martin, Malone, Mann, McKinney, McGinnis, Maynard, Montgomery, Norton, Owen, Pace, Plunkett, Pool, Perkerson, Rakestraw, Rowden, Spruce, Snow, Terrell, Terry, Thomas, Tait, Warbington, Waits, Venable, Vinyard, Wells, Wiley, Whitehead, and others.

Marriages

  • 1827-1837
  • 1835-1837 Loose Marriages
  • 1843-1864 (Index)
  • 1871-1882 (Index)
  • 1885-1886 (Newspapers)
  • 1892-1910 (Index)
  • 1895-1908 (Index)

Indexes to Probate Court Records

  • Inventories and Annual Returns, Books 10-14, 1872-1895
  • Inventories and Appraisements 1856-1866
  • Inventories and Appraisements 1886-1897

Images of Inferior Court Minutes 1820-1832

Images of Inferior Court Minutes 1819-1861

Images of Wills 1846-1886 Book D, oldest surviving Will Book.

Names of Testators: Amanda M. Adams, John Armistead, A. A. Arnold, William L. Atkinson, Sarah Bagwell, Martha Bailey, William Bailey, Anthony W. Bates, Joseph M. Baxter, John G. Bennett, John J. Bennett, Lovick Bettis, David Bolton, M. M. Bolton, John A. Born, Joseph M. Bowers, Meshack Boyce, Jeffers Bradford, Cashwell Brand, William E. Brand, James Braswell, Tandy H. Brown, Vinson Brownlee, Franklin P. Buchanan, John Bugg, Maria Mackay Burtchell, John L. Burrell, Charles Burson, Daniel M. Byrd, William Davis Byrd, John Cain, John Caloway, Gille Camp, Catharine H. Churchhill, Sterling Clark, Austin W. Cole, Levi M. Cooper, George W. Craig, John E. Craig Sr., Robert Craig, Burton E. Crawford, Robert B. Eckles, Robert Etheridge, James Flowers, Sarah Fountain, Samuel H. Freeman, Marsha Furguson, William Galloway, James Garner, James Garner Sr., Lucretia Garner, John J. Glover, William J. Gober, Marcus L. Gordon, Robert M. Gower, Sarah M. Gower, Robert J. Goza, Lourina Griswell, Thompson Hale, Martha T. Hamilton, Sanford Hannah, Thomas C. Hardigree, Jerry Harris, James Harrison, James Hawthorn, Harrison Head, Lucinda Higgins, Silas Higgins, C. H. Hopkins, John Hopkinns, Luther F. Hopkins, Evan Howell, Thomas Hunter, Andrew J. Hutchins, Nathan Hutchins, William S. Ivie, William G. Jacobs, Kincheon Jenkins, Polly Ann Johnson, Stella Julian, W. T. Kilgore, John King, John Knight, David Langley, James Lanier, Curtis C. Lankford, Zachry J. Lee, Daniel Liddell, Charles H. Linsey, Daniel Lockridge, Hugh D. Lowe, Mary E. Lowe, Amos Lowry, Thomas Maguire, William Maltbie, Elisha Martin, John Martin, Lucy B. Martin, Alexander M. Mason, Charley Mason, William A. Massey, Thomas Matthews, Telford McConnell, John McCurly, Darling P. McDaniel, Eli J. McDaniel, James McDaniel, John S. McElvany, John McMillan, Rhesa McMillan, Thomas Mewborn, Goodwin Miller, Mark Miller, Rache Miner, George W. Mitchell, Middleton Montgomery, Kinchen Mooneyham, John Morrow, John Walker Nash, Robert B. Nash, Harrison Nix, Azariah Noel, Frances L. O’Kelly, Jesse Osborn, Samuel S. Peden, William J. Peeples, William F. Perry, Elijah Pittard, James W. Plummer, John H. Pounds, Turk Rakestraw, Samuel Rawlins, John R. Richards, Mary A. Richardson, Andrew Martin Ross, James S. Russell, William J. Russell, Washington Rutledge, Sanford A. Scales, William Scales, William D. Sexton, Eliza Simmons, James P. Simmons, John Simms, Emily Simonton, James Stanley, Jorden Stanton, George Stephenson, Reason D. Stephens, Van R. Stevenson, Henry P. Thomas, Sivilinett Thomas, William Thrasher, Isaac Tinsey, John Morris Tullis, Howell H. Upchurch, Columbus Webb, Joshua Westbrook, James Wheeler, Richard Whiteworth, Mary Whitworth, Hosea Williams, William P. Williams, Anderson Windsor, Richard D. Winn, Sherwood Wise, Andrew Wood.

Images of Wills 1888-1916 – Names not listed due to space.

Indexes to Probate Records

  • Estates (Bench Docket) 1856-1878
  • Estates (Bench Docket) 1874-1885
  • Inventories & Appraisements 1856-1866; 1886-1897
  • Accounts & Annual Returns 1869-1866; 1874-1878;
  • Annual Returns & Vouchers 1872-1876; 1876-1878; 1878-1880; 1880-1885; 1885-1889; 1889-1895

    Civil War Records

    • Pension Roll 1917-1925
    • Confederate Rosters 1861-1865

    Miscellaneous

    • Cemetery Book of Haynes Creek Primitive Baptist Church
    • 1851 Chapman Rolls of Gwinnett County Cherokees
    • Supreme Court Decision of 1832 by Chief Justice Marshall in case of Samuel A. Worcester, Plaintiff in Error

    Traced Genealogies: Gwinnett County Families

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The Chesser-Williams House

This home once stood on the Braselton Highway between Old Peachtree Road and Gravel Springs Road and was known as the Chesser Williams House. It was recently moved to the campus of the Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center. The parlor features a beautiful stencil painting that has a magnificent medallion motif on the ceiling and the room is outlined with an apple pattern. Over the mantle is a free-hand painted landscape portrait that shows a pastoral scene. The additional painting was placed in the hallway of the home and features the same apple pattern.

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