Habersham County Wills and Estates
After the Creeks and Cherokees were removed from Georgia, a land
lottery was held for the purpose of drawing land. In Habersham, the
draw was for 250 and 490 acres. Many settlers came from Virginia,
Maryland and North Carolina. Ancestor Researchers should also search the
records in Rabun, Banks, White and Cherokee Counties. Thus, Habersham
County was created in 1818 and was named for Joseph Habersham,
Revolutionary War Soldier and US Postmaster General, a direct descendant
of the prominent James Habersham, first settler to Savannah. It lies
in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North East Georgia. The
first white inhabitants inhabited lands which came from the Indian
cessions of 1818 and 1819. They settled along the banks of the county's
four major rivers, the Chattahoochee, Soque, Tallulah, and Tugaloo.
When gold was discovered in northeast Georgia, this resulted in the
Cherokee removal of 1838. Parts of the original county lands were given
to Banks, Cherokee, Lumpkin, Rabun, Stephens, and White counties,
decreasing Habersham County to 278 square miles.
Habersham County Records Available to Members of Georgia Pioneers
Digital Images of Habersham County Wills 1824 to 1848
Testators:Adams, James; Allan, A. M.; Allan, Hannah; Allan,
James; Askew, Josiah; Ayres, Nathaniel; Brewer, Henry; Brock, Moses;
Burns, Martha; Carr, Kinchen; Cash, Howard Sr.; Davidson, Frederick;
Deavors, George; Edwards, Enoch; England, Joseph; Freeman, Jeptha;
Gazaway, Thomas; Hackett, Robert; Holcombe, Sherwood; Holeman, Henry;
Horton, Edwin; Hughs, William; Hunter, James; King, John; Kinsy, Peter;
Martin, Elizabeth; McIntyre, John; McKinney, Elizabeth; McKinney,
Mordecai ; Mize, Zachariah ;Morgan, Samuel Sr. ;Morris, John ; Phillips,
Fanny ;Popham, John ;Powell, Miriam ;Powell, Thomas; Russell, David;
Starr, Elijah; Stephens, Hezekiah ; Wallers, Clement ;Wofford, James
;Wofford, William H.
- Habersham County Estates 1820-1850.(abstracts)
- Habersham County Minutes 1842-1853. (abstracts)
Indexes to Probate Records
- Index to Habersham County Inventories, Appraisements, Sales, 1819-1928.
- Index to Habersham County Annual Returns, Vouchers, 1879-1957.
Habersham County Marriages from newspapers 1885-1886.
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Genealogists should research the Cobb, Cherokee, Floyd, Hall and Forsyth
County records for ancestors in this section of Georgia, as many
families travelled together, intermarried, etc. Hall County was created
in 1818 from lands ceded by the Cherokee Indians on July 8, 1817 in the
Treaty of the Cherokee Agency. Additional Cherokee lands were ceded to
Georgia on Feb. 27, 1819 in the Treaty of Washington which included the
western portions of Habersham and Hall counties. In 1820 a land lottery
was held for lucky drawyers, which granted 250 acres of land. It was
named for Lyman Hall (of Connecticut), one of Georgia's three signers of
the Declaration of Independence. 
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