Henry THOMPSON, orphan of Matthew THOMPSON, Wilkes County, Georgia, 1803...
This record indicates that a Henry THOMPSON was the son of Matthew THOMPSON, and an orphan, by 1803....
"[WILKES COUNTY, GEORGIA] LOTTERY OF 1803
EXPLANATORY
The land given out in this lottery was obtained from the Creek Indians in a treaty at Fort Wilkinson, June 16, 1802, and included "the Territory south of the Oconee and Altamaha rivers".
This land was divided into three counties, Wayne, Wilkinson and Baldwin. The lots in Wayne consisted of 490 acres each, those in Baldwin and Wilkinson 202 1/2 acres each, three thousand two hundred and forty acres reserved for a town to be called Milledgeville.
Those entitled to draw were every free white male twenty-one years and upwards, and an inhabitant of the state twelve months immediately preceding the passage of this act, who had paid tax, one draw; every free white male having a wife and one or more legitimate children, two draws; all widows having legitimate child or children, two draws; all families of orphans having no parents living, two draws.
No mention is made of military service in this act, and no provision is made for soldiers of any war."
"Thompson, Henry, orphan of Matthew-1 Draw" [1]
[No further enumeration of success of drawing was noted....]
Source Citation and Source Information:
[1] Wilkes County, Georgia Lottery of 1803. The Early Records of Georgia, Volume 1, Wilkes County. Abstracted and compiled by Grace Gillam Davidson. Macon, Georgia, 1933. http://www.giddeon.com/wilkes/books/early-records-of-ga-vol1/...http://www.giddeon.com/wilkes/books/early-records-of-ga-vol1/....