Wilkes County GaArchives Photo Document.....Little River Land Plats 
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Joel Phillips (#1) - The large 950 acre plat surveyed for Joel Phillips is found
in Plat Book G, page 288. The warrant for the survey, dated April 20, 1783, was
issued by a Land Court of Wilkes County presided over by Stephen Heard Esq.,
Senior Justice. The survey was executed on April 10, 1784 by William Downs D.S.
and Samuel Creswell, C. Surveyor. The land had been warranted previously on Old
Warrant No. 809. The grant was issued to Joel Phillips on December 9, 1784 by
Governor John Houstown and it was registered on December 14, 1784. (Grant Book
FFF, page 90) This is the plat that contained the first building of Phillip’s
Mill Baptist Church. The runs from the confluence of Kettle Creek and Little
River, and along Little River for over a mile and half to the west. The
following neighbors are shown around Joel Phillips: Edward Hagan is on the east,
John Lang and vacant are on the south, Reuben Phillips and vacant are on the
west, and Peter Strozier and John Conner are on the north.

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