Revised January 14, 2000
Cherokee Nation East in Georgia became Cherokee County, Georgia originally covering all the Cherokee Land in North Georgia. This page is about the area before it was Georgia and some of the early changes to convert it, thru the splitting into the 10 original counties.
From GA Laws 1831- Section 1: "........that all the territory lying west of the Chattahoochee river and north of Carroll county, within the limits of Georgia and which is now attached to and forms part of the several counties of Carroll, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Hall and Habersham, shall form one county to be called CHEROKEE........."
White people in the Cherokee Nation in 1830 will be shown on the census of one of the above counties.
First Election was to be held the first Monday of February, 1832 at the home of Ambrose Harnage.
1832 Election Page by Renee' Gore
The Act of December 3, 1832 divided original Cherokee County into ten counties; but in the drawing of the Lottery and in the granting of the land and gold lots, they were treated only as in Cherokee.
See state page for lottery rules See map. 1828 map 1834 map
The Counties
| Genweb Pages | Other pages | 1834 census |
| Cass | ||
| Cherokee | Cherokee County 1834 | |
| Cobb | ||
| Floyd | Genconnect Boards Floyd | |
| Forsyth | Forsyth County History | Forsyth County 1834 |
| Gilmer | ||
| Lumpkin | Lumpkin County 1834 | |
| Murray | ||
| Paulding | ||
| Union | Union County 1834 |
Articles and Websites
| Early Settlers Article | Abstractions from old NW Georgia Newspapers |
| Family Legends | Treasure Hunting Stories |
| Vann's Ferry Lease | Donna's
Alphabetical Index
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Cherokee Indian Records
It was necessary for the Federal Government to extinguish the Cherokee Indian claims. They took a census of the Cherokees East of the Mississippi. (1835) This census is known as the Henderson Roll. Click here for a link to the index.
To view maps of the shrinking Cherokee Nation, click here.
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