Partly printed document outlining the surveyed land in Cherokee County, print dated 1832, manuscript dated 1839. 2pp. with a rare attached ribbon & round impressed seal “medallion” dated 1799. Atop is a drawn plot with survey markings in manuscript bordered with an ornate scroll, it reads:
“State of Georgia. The above plat is a representation of that Tract or Lot of land drawn by Abraham Herren of Gays District, Harris County, situate in the Twenty-fourth District of the Third Section, in Cherokee County containing 160 acres…Surveyed on the 13th day of May, 1832, by Joseph Brooks, Surveyor.”
The second page is the actual deed to the land Herren was lucky enough to draw in Georgia Lottery that gave away the land taken from the Indians. Docketed on Reverse:
“Grant to Abraham Herren, Lot 77 –24 –3, Cherokee; Secretary of States office, 17th June 1839.”
In 1830 the Congress of the United States passed the "Indian Removal Act." Georgia used a lottery system to distribute the land taken from the Cherokee Indians. These lotteries were unique to the state; no other state used a lottery system to distribute land.
The land was granted as a result of the Treaty with the Cherokee Nation which ceded to the United States all their land, East of the Mississippi river. In 1838 the United States began the removal to Oklahoma, and in the early summer, General Winfield Scott and the United States Army began the invasion of the Cherokee Nation.
In one of the saddest episodes of our brief history, men, women, and children were taken from their land, herded into makeshift forts with minimal facilities and food, then forced to march a thousand miles. Archival tape used lightly on a few corner fold separations, some toning, mostly Fine. Very Rare. 
$ 750. up
1832 
