Finding Aids @ Georgia Archives

This series contains original correspondence of the Sheriff's Office of Walton County. Of questionable historical value, the majority of this fragmented correspondence, comprised of notes and letters, is primarily between the sheriff of Walton County and other counties concerning escaped prisoners and politics.

This series contains original correspondence of the Solicitor of the County Court of Walton County. Of questionable historical value, the majority of this fragmented correspondence, comprised of notes and letters, was written by attorneys regarding their client's cases. The cases generally concern the (1) principal witness being unable to attend court (2) Fi Fas, (3) collection of past due accounts and (4) related topics.

This series contains original miscellaneous papers of the Tax Collector's Office of Walton County. The papers include tax Fi Fas and returns for poll, state and county taxes and for local school levies. This series has records that are also found in the Superior Court, Probate Court, State Court, Justice of the Peace Court and County Commissioner's Office.

This series contains a bound ledger book of the County Treasurer's Office of Walton County. The services rendered to the county. Also accounted for are the monies received from the sale of liquor licenses.

Broadsides, post cards, and letters concerning primarily persons who had escaped from west Georgia convict work camps. The items are addressed to the Chief of Police in Selma, Alabama, and contain physical descriptions and criminal histories of the persons.

Detailed and expressive letters from Akin to his friend during a time when both men had left their homes to take refuge in Elberton and Brooks County, Georgia, respectively. Akin wrote about family relations, medical services, religious affairs, politics, states rights, his philosophy concerning slaves, and various disasters. He was able to give Land a complete account of the Union Army's destruction of Cassville.

Warren's school roll book, 1869-1886, and papers relating to the Redbone community. Also includes a copy of an 1860 map of the area.

This series contains bound volumes of Court of Ordinary records containing county officers oaths and performance bonds, peddlers’ licenses and liquor retailers oaths. Also mixed within one of these volumes is business concerning the Board of Commissioners.

This series contains several unbound photocopies of marriage records given to the Archives by a private donor. The records consist of both licenses and certificates included on the same document. Information on the licenses includes name of the groom, name of the bride and date license was issued. The certificates give the date of the marriage, name of the Ordinary and name of the person performing the wedding ceremony.

Letters from Fanny S. Wood and various Reece relatives in Cherokee County, Georgia; W. O. Fincher in Whitfield County, Georgia; and Sallie, Doskie Haynes' sister, in Clarke County, Georgia.

Letters written during the Petersburg Campaign of the Civil War by a member of 6th Regiment Georgia Volunteers, Company I, who reported on many of the men in his company.

A collection of family correspondence from Walker and Washington Counties, Georgia, with additional letters from a merchant's wife in Alabama and Carrollton, Georgia; a schoolboy in Kirkwood, Georgia; schoolgirls at Shorter College in Rome, Georgia; and businessmen in Atlanta. In addition, there are Walker County, Georgia, deeds, legal records, and other papers connected with the Warthen, Marsh, Allgood, Sparks, and Wicker families.

Record of goods and services sold by Coleman, including liquor and wood. Most of the 1860 entries are for shoemaking and tannery services. Many of the earlier entries concern the hiring out of hands, horses, and wagons.

1913 Letter from, W.S. Marsh disapproving request for issuance of Marriage license for daughter Minnie Lee; 1913, Letter from M.A. Brown disapproving request for issuance of Marriage license for daughters Jessie Mae and Evie Pearl; 1915, Letter from Ms. Hasrtley disapproving, request for marriage license for son Arlie Lawson; 1913, Letter from J.D. Newnan disapproving request for marriage license for daughter Vera Milem

This series contains a bound letter book compiled by the Clerk of the Court of Ordinary of Washington County. A good portion of this book is undecipherable as the pages were made of a very thin rice paper and through the years the ink has faded making my entries highly illegible.

This series contains unbound marriage records consisting of marriage licenses and consent to marriage forms. 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, and (6) name of person performing the wedding ceremony.

This series contains unbound bands and applications of the Court of Ordinary concerning the licensing of a person to carry a pistol. The applications give the applicant's name, make and caliber of pistol or revolver and its serial number. The bonds, required under the Acts of 1910, obliged a person who applied for a pistol toters license to put up the sun of $100 as a payment for binding himself to use the pistol for only proper and legitimate purposes.

This series contains bound digests of wild lands containing the (1) name of landowner, (2) post office address, (3) number of acres of land, (4) district number, (5) county where the land is located, (6) total value of land and (7) amount of tax assessed.

This series contains bound indexes of the head right grants containing the (1) book volume, (2) name of grantee, (3) amount of acreage owned, (4) location of land, (5) date land was granted and (6) page where grantee is located in head right grant book. The grant books these indexes refer to are located in the Surveyor General’s Office in the Archives.

This series contains a bound volume of tax defaulters which gives the name of the tax payer, the date, the amount of money on which defaulted and remarks on its payment. At the end of the volume is a page which contains some other matter and is now unidentifiable.

Account book listing sales of fertilizer by a business in Gwinnett County, Georgia.

This series contains bound volumes of miscellaneous records consisting mainly of estate records but also including records relating to commissioner's minutes, peddler's licenses and the regulating of corporations. Some of the records are merely indexes to volumes the Archives unfortunately does not have. There are a few oversize volumes that have been placed outside Box 1.

This series consists of unbound fragments of correspondence of the U.S. Army occupation forces in Georgia after the Civil War. The documents relate principally to reports of federally regulated elections held in several Georgia towns during Reconstruction and financial reports as of November 30, 1865, on the Western and Atlantic's indebtedness and purchases from the United States government.