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Thanks for your reply - please feel free to post this inquiry on the Baldwin County GAGenWeb forum, and I would appreciate your doing so.
I have not received any other responses regarding the Gillah Freeney land, but I have been able to determine that it most likely lay on Camp Creek, not far from Scottsboro. From about 1807 to 1811 Gillah Freeney was living on the land of his uncle, Tillman Buckner, on Camp Creek. This was a land lot originally granted to John Bunkley, though I do not know its number (it's probably near lot number 200, Baldwin District 1). Around 1810 Tillman Buckner died and apparently left his nephew with about half of that land lot, which contained at least one mill. Although he advertised the land and mills for sale in 1814, he seems not to have had any takers, and he kept the land until 1817. He then moved to another tract of 200 acres on the Oconee River in 1818, and then he died the following year.
This is all the information I have gathered on the location of Gillah Freeney's mills. They were definately on Camp Creek, and almost certainly on the land lot granted originally to John Bunkley - and if I ever get to spend any time at the Georgia Archives I hope to find out which lot that was. Any help you might be able to give me in this search would be much appreciated!
By the way, since you asked about maps, I have been using various maps from the Baldwin County Tax Assessors office, and a copy of a 1908 map of the county, which is quite useful, though it doesn't show any old mills on Camp Creek.
Thanks,
Mark Byington
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