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.)

Silas Mercer - The 500 acre plat surveyed for Silas Mercer is found in Plat Book
A, page 29. The warrant for the survey, dated April 25, 1784, was issued by a
Land Court of Wilkes County, presided over by Stephen Head Esq., Senior Justice.
The survey was executed on May 30, 1784 by Sanders Walker D.S. The grant was
issued to Silas Mercer on July 15, 1784 by Governor John Houstown and it was
registered on July 16, 1784. (Grant Book DDD, page 159) Aside from the size of
the plat, the most striking feature is the depiction of a branch of Hardin’s
Creek that cuts through the middle of the plat. Other plats identify this branch
as Mercer Creek. (See Andrew Wilson and Buckner Duke.) The neighbors appearing
around the survey are John Querns in the northwest, Sanders Walker in the east,
and Andrew Wilson, John Mulkey and Ignatius Few along the south. Silas Mercer
served as Minister of the Gospel at Phillips Mill Baptist Church and was the
father of Jesse Mercer.

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