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Burke County (Ga.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Burke County legal records

 Collection — 1 box
Identifier: MSS-105
Scope and Contents

The majority of the documents are indentures recording sales or transfers of land in Burke County, Georgia.

Dates: Created: 1768-1848; Other: Date acquired: 09/14/1984

Burke County legal records & correspondence

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-395
Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of miscellaneous legal records and correspondence relating to individuals and families in Burke County, Georgia. The majority of documents relate to the buying and selling of real estate, and includes deeds, trust deeds,  and plot maps describing property lines. Also included are indentures, and letters related to these legal arrangements.

Dates: Created: 1782-1856; Other: Majority of material found in 1800-1856

Geological maps of Georgia counties

 Collection — 15 items
Identifier: MPS-029
Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of geologic maps from 12 Georgia counties, including: McDuffie, Lincoln, Columbia, Glasscock, Emanuel, Jefferson, Jenkins, Richmond, Screven, Burke, Wilkes, and Taliaferro.

Dates: Created: 1947

Georgia counties road map

 Collection — 1 item
Identifier: MPS-038
Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of a single copy of the "New road map of Richmond, Burke, Screven, Jenkins, Emanuel, and Bulloch Counties, S.E. Georgia. The map depicts roads in the above counties, with a scale in miles. It was published by the Hudgins Company in Atlanta, Georgia, 1911.

Dates: Created: 1911

Miscellaneous legal papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-006
Scope and Contents

Collection includes: slave bills of sale, Georgia land deeds; including Cherokee,  Wilkes, Richmond, Columbia, Greene, Wilkinson, Jefferson, Burke, Screven, Washington, and Early Counties, and cities Augusta and Savannah, South Carolina land deeds; including Edgefield, Granville, Effingham, Barnwell, and Aiken Counties and Beech Island and Newberry District, Georgia Legal Papers, South Carolina Legal Papers, and Confederate and Military Papers

Dates: Created: 1732-1922; Other: Majority of material found in 1800-1893; Other: Date acquired: 02/14/1978