Georgia Genealogical Magazine

By: Caroline P. Wilson, Judge Huxford & Rev. S.E. Lucas, Jr., Pub. 1976, Reprinted 2017, 416 pages, New Index, ISBN #0-89308-019-5. This book is the joining together of two separate works: "Annals of Georgia Vol. #2" and various legal records that appeared within the Georgia Genealogical Magazine between 1961-1975 that covered Effingham County. Records within this book are: Effingham County Deeds 1767-1806; Marriages 1757-1857; Wills 1826-1854; Court minutes 1827-1850; Miscellaneous Records from Ordinary's Office 1791-1834 & 1850-1865, these records contain such things as: administrations, wills, guardianships, deeds of gifts, gifts of personal property and other proceedings; and lists of residents who drew land in the 1805, 1807, 1820 & 1821 Land Lotteries. Other records covering surrounding areas: Alachua County, FL wills 1836-1858; Duval County, FL. marriages 1825-1859; Bulloch Count, GA. marriages 1795-1842; Camden County, GA. marriages 1819-1842; Columbia County, GA. marriages 1806-1812; Screven County, GA. Wills 1808-1850 and Screven County, GA. marriages 1835-1860.

The series is based on British records of the development of the colony of Georgia from the King's take-over in 1755 through the evacuation in July 1782. It includes all of the surviving journals of the colonial Council, the Governor's letterbooks, lists of seamen on the British ships stationed at Savannah, the French-Rebel siege in 1779 taken from personal journals, translations of Hessian journals.