White-Habersham County GaArchives Church Records.....Mossy Creek Methodist Campground Copyright Date 1832
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ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE State of Georgia, PASSED IN
MILLEDGEVILLE AT AN ANNUAL SESSION IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER
1832.

1832 Vol. 1 Page 36
AN ACT to incorporate the Mossy Creek Methodist Campground in the county
of Habersham, and to appoint trustees for the same.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia
in General Assembly met, and is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, 
That Elisha 
Askew, Jacob Ducket, Andrew Dorsey, David McCallum and Clemands Quillian,
and their successors in office be, and they are hereby declared to be a body
corporate, by name and styles of the trustees of the Mossy Creek Methodist
Camp Meeting Ground, in the county of Habersham, and they are hereby
declared capable of suing and being sued, and of using any and all legal
means for defending any property which said trustees may hold, claim or demand.

And be it further enacted, That when any vacancy or vacancies may occur in
the board of trustees aforesaid, by death, resignation or otherwise, such 
vacancy or vacancies
may be filled by a majority of trustees.

And be it further enacted, That the said trustees or successors in office, 
shall not
be able to purchase any property or own in virtue of this act, except the 
property of the Camp
meeting ground, and the property thereunto belonging to aforesaid, but to
have full power to defend the same;  any law, or usage to the contrary
notwithstanding.

Asbury Hull,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Thomas Stocks,
President of the Senate

Wilson Lumpkin,
Governor

Assented to, December 24, 1832

Additional Trustees Appointed in 1834:
James Quillian, Junior, Elijah Starr, Vincent Sears

Additional Trustees appointed in 1840:
Thomas Brock, James Quillian, Vincent Sears, Anselem R. Jarrard
Andrew Dorsey

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University of Georgia



Additional Comments:
Church Records for Habersham, where the incorporation occurred in 1832, and 
White county, when Mossy Creek became part of White County in 1857.


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