Title from dealer's description.

Manuscript in English on paper; single sheet.

Verso of the document is blank.

Handwritten in cursive script in black ink, dated "3rd Sept. 1834."

Document signed by William Harris.

"This handwritten document dated '3rd Sep. 1834,' is testimony from a case related to the Georgia Land Lottery of 1833 in which 'unused' Cherokee land was distributed to white settler and speculators ... Nancy Cordery a Cherokee, married a white man named Parker Collins (who is listed in the Reservation Roll for 1817) and lived on Cherokee land along the Chattahoochee River, where Parker operated a ferry until his death in June of 1833. Shortly before, their daughter, Susan, married a white man, William Harris. The couple inherited the Collins land, but chose not to remain on it, instead renting it to a tenant. The state of Georgia considered the land as no longer occupied by Cherokees and included in it in the Land Lottery of 1833, where it was won by a man named Tate. After a series of quick sales, the property ended up in the hands of James McGinnis, who also owned land on the opposite bank. It would appear that the Harris’s lost their case as today the road crossing the river at the old ferry site is named McGinnis Ferry Road (See Shudburn's Cherokee Planters in Georgia 1832-1838)."—Dealer’s (Read'Em Again Books) note.

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