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In 1802 Georgia ceded to
the US all the land between the Chattahoochee and the Mississippi River,
in return for a promise from the US to remove all Indians from Georgia's
reserve territory. "By purchase if possible; by pressure if necessary."
By an act of the Legislature in the
year 1803, the new Purchase of lands from the Indians west of the Oconee
River was distributed under the first Land Lottery system. Under it the
public lands as they were from time to time freed from Indian occupancy,
were at public cost surveyed into small lots of uniform size and marked,
numbered and mapped, and the whole returned to the Surveyor's General's
office from whence by Commissioners chosen by the Legislature for the
purpose, caused all the lots to be thrown into the Lottery Wheel, and to
become fortune's gift as well as her own, to her own people. (A.H.
Chappell, Miscellanies of Georgia.)
By the treaty of Ft. Wilkinson in 1802, the
Creek Indians ceded part of the district between the Oconee, and Ocmulgee.
In 1804 at the Creek Agency on the Flint River the Indians ceded the
remaining territory east of the Ocmulgee. Every white man, widow and
orphan resident of this state was entitled to one draw and every
Revolutionary Soldier was entitled to two draws.
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