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Notes for Zachariah Phillips

Source: Early Records of Georgia vol 1 and 2, Grace Gillam Davidson, Call Number: F292.W7D384x, Silas Emmett Lucas, Publisher, Georgia. 1932. Reprint 1968
Wilkes county was named for John Wilkes, a member of Parliament who opposed the policy of Great Britain towards the American Colonies which brought about the Revolutionary War. It was created 1777 from the northern part of Saint Paul's Parish, and lands acquired by the Royal Governor, Sir James Wright, from the Creek and Cherokee Indians in payment of their debts to the Indian traders, and called the "Ceded Lands." The treaty was signed at Augusta, June 1, 1773, by Governor Wright and John Stewart, His Majesty's sole agent for Indian affairs in the Southern District of America.
The first Land Court for granting the "Ceded Lands" was held at Augusta Sept. 27, 1773. Other Courts were held at Dartmouth, Wrightsborough, Broad River and Augusta until June 1775.
Originally Wilkes embraced all of Elbert county, cut off 1790, all of Oglethorpe, cut off 1793, part of Warren, 1793, all of Lincoln, 1796, part of Greene 1802, part of Talliaferro 1825 and 1828.
A number of years after the close of the Revolution there appears a House Resolution by which it appears that it had come to the attention of the House that certain papers and records concerning the issuance of the Ceded Lands were in possession of one, Joseph Maddock and the said Maddock was ordered to turn them over to the Representative in the House from his County, Geene County. Nothing further appears, and evidently Maddock did not surrender them at that time. Maddock was probably the same, or a son of the Joseph Maddock who, with Jonathan Sell, brought the Quaker colony from Orange County, N. C.; to Wrightsborough in 1768.
Records of the Court of Land Commissioners, APPOINTED BY GOVERNOR WRIGHT TO ISSUE THE
"CEDED LANDS"--1773 to 1775, A List of Persons who have Applied to the Commissioners Appointed by his Excellency Sir. Jas. Wright Barronet to receive Vouchers; and have Obtained liberty to Settle on the Lands Ceeded to His Majesty:
P 14, Entries at Wrightsborough Continued, 13th. November 1773
BURNEY, JOHN--N. C., a wife 2 sons and 2 daus. from 10 years to months old. 200 acres north side Little river opposite mouth of Killgore's
creek.
PHILLIPS, ZACHARIA--N. C., a wife 4 sons and a dau. from 20 to 3 years old. 500 acres on Lick creek at a spring where he has built a cabbin.
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Source: Revolutionary Soldiers Receipts for Georgia Bounty Grants, book in Wilkes County, GA courthouse, p 73, 500 acres, #901, Wm Downs for Capt Zack Phillips
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Source: Index to Land Grants 1784-1839, Wilkes County, GA, book at courthouse, Book DDD, p 96, 500 acres Little River in 1784, p 121, 200 acres Little River 1784
Book FFF, p 111, 100 Ponders Creek 1784, p 117, 300 acres Ponders Creek 1784
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Source: Georgia's Landmarks, Memorials and Legends, Lucian Lamar Knight, Byrd Printing Co, Atlanta, GA, 1913, Vol 1 p 765-767
Georgia's Quaker Colony Files A Protest - "From a protest ,signed by most of the inhabitants of Wrightsboro, repudiating the resolutions passed on August 10, 1774 by the hotheaded patriots of the coast, almost a full list of the early settlers can be obtained. There was comparatively little hostility to England in this part of the Province. The district had just been purchased from the Indians by Gov. Wright, who had promised the settlers every protection against the savages." On the list of signers was Joel and Zacahariah Phillips
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Anson County, North Carolina, Abstracts of Deeds,
DB 7, p 192-93, September 5, 1761, William and Zachary Phillips, 260 acres to Joseph Oats S side Pee Dee conveyed to Phillips January 18, 1754 Wit: Joel and Elizabeth Phillips
DB 3, p 123-24, February 8, 1764, Zachary and wife Mary to Julius Holley, W side of Cains Cr, part of a grant to Joseph Phillips in 1756
p 283-284, Jan 29, 1765, William Pickett of Anson sold land on S side Pee Dee, below the mouth of Brown Cr part of deed from Zachary Phillips to Joseph Oats September 5, 1761
p 287, October 8, 1765, Zachery Phillips of Anson, to William Phillips, Junr. for 50 pounds land on Goulds fork, grant to sd. Zachery November 23, 1764
April 9, 1770, Joshua Morgan sold land on S side of Pee Dee River, border, Zachariah Phillips
July 4, 1770, Zachariah Phillips, planter and wife Mary (Anson Co) to WIlliam Holley for 110 pounds, 300 acres on RIchardson Cr;, border e bank of the creek a little below mounth of Bull Br granted April 28, 1768 to Zachariah Phillips, border land granted William Phillips jr, Dec 22, 1768
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Source: Georgia's Roster of the Revolution, Compiled under Authority of the Georgia Legislature by Lucian Lamar Knight, state Historian and Director of the Department of Archives and History, 1920, Index Printing Co., Atlanta, Ga, p 142, "Certificates of Service in American Revolution" Listed twice
Phillips Zachariah, certificate of Elijah Clarke, Col., Feb. 2, 1784. Warrant 907. 2d certificate to Capt. Zachariah Phillips, Elijah Clarke, Col., Feb. 2, 1784. Petitioner prays 287.5 acres in Washington Co
Phillips, Zachariah. Certificate of Elijah Clarke, Col., Feb. 2, 1784. Petitioner prays 575 acres in Wahington Co. Warrant 1377. Capt. Zachariah Phillips prays head rights of 400 acres in Wahington co. for self, wife, five children and 2 negroes.
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