First Settlers in Georgia, Volume 8, Abstracts of English Crown Grants in St. David's, St. Mary's, St. Patrick's, and St. Thomas's Parishes, 1755-1775 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780788427572)

From 1732 until the Georgia charter was resigned to the English Crown in 1752, all leases of land made to settlers could not be mortgaged, sold, or otherwise disposed of. After Georgia became a Royal Province, fee simple grants giving a clear title to the recipient were required to be made. This publication offers the eighth volume of these royal grants abstracted, covering the counties of Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Glynn and Wayne.

"There are recorded in the Georgia Surveyor General Department a total of 21 grants for 13,650 acres made by South Carolina in May and June, 1763, in the area south of the Altamaha River. ... Georgia, after gaining control of the region south of the Altamaha River and creating parishes to cover the area, recognized the South Carolina grants and declared them legal in Georgia ... After careful study of the Carolina grants, it was ascertained whenever possible just what parish they later fell into and it has been so noted in this study."