Thomas Stocks Surveying Diary, Typescript
Scope and Contents
Undated typescript of an 1818 diary kept by Thomas Stocks of Greene County, Georgia, in which he described the survey of the Georgia - Tennessee line near Nickajack Creek with James L. Gaines and Joseph Cobb of Tennessee. Includes a brief account of his lodgings and travel from his home to Murray County, Georgia.
Dates
- no date
Creator
- Stocks, Thomas, 1786 - 1876 (Person)
Biographical / Historical
Thomas was born in Georgia to Catherine Heard and Isaac Stocks from Virginia. He became commissioner of the Georgia Boundary Commission, formed in 1817. For most of his life he was a farmer in Greene County, Georgia.
Extent
1 folders
Language of Materials
English
General
Typescript donated by Dr. Thaddeus Brockett Rice of Greene County, Georgia, circa 1930. Original diary located in GReene County, Georgia in 1977.
- Title
- Thomas Stocks Surveying Diary, Typescript
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Georgia Archives Manuscript Collections Repository
5800 Jonesboro Rd
Morrow GA 30260 United States