The Royal Governor and Council held court in Savannah, Georgia, and the minutes of their proceedings were recorded in these journals, until the American Revolution began. A new settler would appear before the Council to petition for a land grant within the colony of Georgia. These petitions contain details of the family size, former residence of the petitioner, time of arrival, names of adjoining landowners and neighbors, and improvements on the property. Volume 3 covers much of the Scots-Irish migration from Ulster to Queensborough township, and the establishment of the Quaker community of Wrightsborough on the fringe of upper Georgia. Volume 4 leads up to the Revolution in Georgia, covering the settling of the Creek Nation in the Ceded Lands. Volume 5 covers the beginnings of the Revolutionary War in Georgia 1774-1776 and includes information from Governor James Wright's Letterbook, numerous newspaper entries from Georgia, South Carolina, and Belfast, Northern Ireland, as well as records from the British Public Record Office in England. Volume 6 gives details of life in Savannah during the British seige, and the fall of Savannah into Loyalist hands during the Revolution 1778-1779. NEW VOLUME 7 1780 covers the oppressive life in Georgia under British rule, Cornwallis's destructive campaign through the South - real-time stories of plundering, starvation and loss reveal Georgia's history like we never studied it in school!
Vol. 1 1753-1760
Vol. 2 1761-1767
Vol. 3 1768-1771
Vol. 4 1772-1773
Vol. 5 1774-1777
Vol. 6 1778-1779 Savannah under Seige
Vol. 7 1780 Civil War in the Ceded Lands