Wilkes County GaArchives Photo Document..... Little River Plat 
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                                        Little River Land Plats

        (All plats cited are from the records of the Surveyor General’s Office
in the State of Georgia.)

Robert McGinty - The 300 acre plat surveyed for Robert McGinty is found in Plat
Book G, page 248. The warrant for the survey, dated June 6, 1785, was issued by
a Land Court in Wilkes County, presided over by Absalom Bedell Esq., Senior
Justice. The survey was executed on June 10, 1785 by William Downs D.S., and
Samuel Creswell, Chief Surveyor. Curiously, this land was once surveyed under an
"old" warrant, No. 692. The grant was given to Robert McGinty on October 12,
1785 by Governor Samuel Elbert and it was registered on October 14, 1785. (Grant
Book III, page 90) Robert’s land is bordered by Little River on the north and
Absalom Bedell on the east. Absalom Bedell was married to Ruth Jackson. She was
the aunt of Deborah Jackson, the wife of Robert McGinty.  John Querns and John
Lang form the neighbors on the west. The southern boundary, where Thomas
Wingfield and Silas Mercer will appear on the mosaic, is not labeled. There are
two interesting features to this plat. One is the southeastern corner formed by
a pine, shrub oak, and a pine. These same markers appear on the plat of Thomas
Wingfield and help to tie the tow plats together. The second is the northwestern
corner where the property line is shown moving South at a 45 degree angle away
from Little River. The Wilkes County/Taliaferro County line runs in this same
direction as it crosses Little River. I think the western edge of Robert McGinty
is in fact the Wilkes County Line of today.

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