Scope and Contents

This series consists of unpaid accounts presented to the court. The accounts include: (1) the name of the debtor and creditor, (2) the date when the goods or services were contracted, of the article or service contracted (4) and the price of each.

Scope and Contents This series is composed of affidavits or oaths in which the party of the first part making the affidavit promises to perform a service or pay a certain amount of cash or commodities or other things of value to a certain party of the second part.These affidavits include the names of the two parties , a description of the agreement in question and the date of the affidavit. The subjects of these affidavits included the purchase of land, contracting to teach school, defining and surveying plots...

Scope and Contents

These applications were all made by veterans who served in the army or navy of the Confederate States of America. These applications include the name of the military unit in which each veteran served, the type of product he wished to peddle, the age of the applicant and the date of the application.

Scope and Contents

This series consists of apprenticeship records. These are mostly limited to masters' and apprentices' bonds which list the names of each, the date of indenture and usually the names of the parents of the apprentice.

Scope and Contents

This series contains bonds, oaths and commissions of county officers of Gilmer County.

Scope and Contents

These brochures were received by the probate judge. Many of them were prepared by publishing companies, the State of Georgia and companies desiring to acquire business with Gilmer County.

Scope and Contents

This series is composed of cashed checks signed by the ordinary in his official capacity as the administrator of the business affairs of Gilmer County. The checks include the name of payee and the work for which payee was paid and the date of the payment.

Scope and Contents

This series consists of bills of indictment, interrogatories, subpoenas of witnesses and similar court records. Most of these case files are of civil cases and usually involve property disputes. The few criminal cases in this series were included for reasons of convenience. Most civil and criminal case files involving Gilmer County are included in series 1, 2 and 11 within the jurisdiction of the superior court, subgroup 1.

Scope and Contents This series consists of general correspondence between the Probate Judge of Gilmer County and various individuals, part of an official nature, part personal and part of an undetermined nature. Most of the official correspondence deals with solicitations for county business such as the construction of bridges, confederate pensions and the collection of taxes. Most of the personal correspondence concerns the purchasing of goods from manufacturers or distributors for private or semi - private...

Scope and Contents

This series consists of tally sheets, voters lists, ballots, notices, petitions, and other miscellaneous election records held in Gilmer County. The material involves a wide variety of elections from county officers to U.S. Presidential elections. Most of the material relates to stock law elections.

Scope and Contents

This series consists of estate case files of citizens living in Gilmer County for the period listed. Among the documents included in this series are: (1) administrators bonds; (2) letters of administration; (3) inventories and appraisements; (4) sales bills; (5) petitions to sell property; (6) annual returns; (7) letters of dismission; (8) wills and, (9) promissory notes relating to estates.

Scope and Contents

This series is composed of affidavits wherein persons finding animals who have strayed from their owners describe such animals. Some of these affidavits were made by the original owners claiming their property, and others were made by new owners who found and cared for strayed animals and who now claimed them as their property or who wished to be compensated for their care of the animals. Other affidavits were made by two or more potential owners claiming the strayed animals.

Scope and Contents

The documents comprising this series include petitions from minors and others for guardians, guardians bonds, guardianship annual returns, letters of guardianship, letters of dismission from guardianship and similar records.

Additional records available on microfilm.

Scope and Contents

The bonds largely comprising this series were usually issued for a period of one year. They were issued to tavern owners and to persons offering hostelry services to travelers. Each bond issuer agreed to "keep an orderly and decent house and shall not suffer any kind of gaming in his house and shall conform to the several laws now in force for the regulation of taverns and the licensing of persons to sell spiritous liquors."

Scope and Contents

These volumes are used to document the names of registered voters in Gilmer County for the period indicated. The entries are listed by the number of the Georgia Militia District in which they registered and alphabetically within each militia district. Information found in each includes name of registrant, date registered, age, color of skin, whether or not descendant of soldier and occupation.

Scope and Contents This series contains original marriage records of Gilmer County. Information on these licenses includes: (1) name of groom (2) name of bride (3) date license was issued (4) date of marriage (5) name of ordinary (6) name of person performing the wedding ceremony. On the back of most licenses is the book and page where the licenses are recorded. The finding aid includes a complete listing of both bride and groom in alphabetical order by surname of groom. Brides' names are also listed by...

Scope and Contents

This artificial series has been created for the purpose of collecting the miscellaneous records of the Probate Court of Gilmer County because they are too few in number to merit a separate series. The finding aid provides dates of creation and names of the principal parties involved, if indicated.

Scope and Contents

One of the duties of the probate court was to provide general direction in overseeing roads and bridges construction personnel. This series is composed mostly of tablets and other bound volumes. Some of these records include the name of the Georgia militia district in which the roads and bridges personnel worked and some do not.

Scope and Contents

This series consist of petitions to the probate judge to have certain individuals declared insane and thus to have these individuals committed to the state mental hospital at Milledgeville. This series also includes the proceedings of lunacy hearings in which a jury Examined alleged lunatics to determine their sanity and received testimony or affidavits from interested persons.

Scope and Contents

The petitions files comprising this series,include applications for pensions, depositions of others supporting such claims, marriage licenses to support widows' applications for soldiers' pensions, affidavits from physicians that individual claimants were physically unable to perform manual labor and other related documents.

State copy of Georgia Confederate Pension files are available on our website.

Scope and Contents

These records include name of applicant, the kind of pistol involved and the date application was made.

Scope and Contents

Pony homesteads are small homesteads that were exempt from property taxation. The records comprising this series consist primarily of petitions to the ordinary to obtain such exemptions and schedules of property to be so exemptied. These records include: the name of applicant, date of application, a list of property to be exemptied and the taxable value of each piece of property.

Scope and Contents This series contains records of the Poor School. These records include (1) audit reports of the County School Commissioner, (2) teacher's certificates, (3) teacher's accounts for wages and (4) lists of indigent children eligible for participation in the Poor School Fund. The majority of these papers consists of the poor school tuition vouchers which contain (a) the names of the indigent children, (b) the subjects they were taught, (c) the number of days they were in school and (d) the costs...

Scope and Contents

This series consists of receipts. These receipts contain the names of the payer and the payee and the date of transaction. Most of these receipts record fees earned by the probate judge and other county officials for the performance of official duties. The few personal receipts remain a mystery.

Scope and Contents

This series consists of (1) petitions to the ordinary to allow private roads to become public roads, (2) petition to disallow such changes, (3) blueprints for bridges, (4) reports of committees to review such projects and (5) other documents relating to the planning and creation of public roads and bridges in Gilmer County. These projects usually described a certain road as existing between two or more residences or between two or more towns or similar locations.

Scope and Contents

This series is composed of annual and monthly tax statements prepared by the Tax Collector of Gilmer County. These statements contains the amounts collected on both the general tax and the poll tax for a particular year. The series also contains lists of the insolvent tax payers and lists of the paupers of Gilmer County. In the 1890's, the Tax Collector began issuing monthly tax statements and continued to do so in the 20th century.

Scope and Contents

The vouchers comprising this series contain the names of the two principle parties involved in the financial dispute, the amount of money involved and the date of the agreement.

Scope and Contents

The warrants of survey were a form of gaining tax advantages used in Georgia in the 19th century and very similar to the present homestead exemption laws. This series is composed of copies of those surveys in Gilmer County and miscellaneous records relating to land surveys. Researchers may find the original copies of these warrants in the Surveyor General department of the State of Georgia.

Scope and Contents

These petitions to change the lines of the Georgia Militia Districts in Gilmer County were usually requests to make minor changes but sometimes the petitioners would ask that a new district be created. Each includes the names of the districts involved, the name of the parties making the request, a description of the lines to be changed and the date. These petitions are arranged in chronological order and are listed below with the date of request.