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Note: 1805: From "1805 GA Land Lottery" by Virginia J Wood and Ralph V Wood Contributed by Jerry E Davis. Edward Hatcher, 361, B, Columbia Henry Hatcher, 1681, B, B, Richmond James Hatcher, 516, B, B, Elbert Jerimiah Hatcher, 517, B, Elbert Jesse Hatcher, 1322, B, P, Jefferson John Hatcher, 1713, B, B, Richmond John Hatcher (Major), 1868, B, B, Warren John Hatcher, 2027, B, B, Washington Josiah Hatcher, 111, B, B, Burke Josiah Hatcher, 881, P, B, Greene Robert Hatcher, 515, B, Elbert Valentine Hatcher, 1107, B, B, Jefferson William Hatcher, 313, B, B, Elbert *************************************** 1818: AUGUSTA CHRONICLE December 6th, 1818, p 2 Now in Richmond Jail Jim about 20 years of age 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, dark complected says he belongs to Edward Hatcher of Columbia County Geo. The owner is requested to come forward, receive property and pay final charges and take him away. Wm. Lampkin Jailer *************************************** 1819: BURKE COUNTY MILITIA FEBRUARY 25, 1819 Mustor Roll of the Second Class of the 2nd Brigade - 1st Division Georgia Militia - 2nd Company, 7th Regiment 2nd Company Capt. Jeremiah Lewis Lieut. Charles Clark Ensign Peter Lyon Hatcher, Thomas Hatcher, Edward ******************************************* 1831: Genealogical Abstracts for the Georgia Journal (Milledgeville) Newpaper Vols. 1-5, 1809-1840 Abstracted and Compiled by Fred R. Hartz, Emilie K. Hartz and Tad Evans, 1990-1995. May 19, 1831 Grand Jury, Burke Superior Court, May Term, 1831. Edward Hatcher ****************************************** 1832: COMMISSIONERS: HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS GEORGIA D. A. R. Edward Hatcher and George Miller Mentioned as The Commissioners of Waynesboro Academy in 1832, estate inventory of Job Aldrich dec'd Mar 5, 1832. Ouachita County Public Library 1834: Burke County, Georgia Equity Court Records 1834-1852, p. 1-13 State of Georgia. In Equity In the Superior Court of Burke County. To the Honorable the Judge of the Superior Court fot the Middle Circuit holding Jurisdiction in Equity. Humbly complaining show unto your Honor your orator John Gordon of the County of Burke and State aforesaid. That Edward Hatcher and Emily Few of the County of Burke by their Bill of complaint lately filed in this Superior Court of said County of Burke have stated set forth and charged in substance that in the year eighteen Hundred and thirty the said Edward and your orator agreed to join in the purchase of the Judgements then existing against Thomas S Few decd. and under the said Judgements to buy a certain negro man named Stephen then the property of the Estate of the said Thomas S Few Decd. and that in pursuance of said agreement the said Edward and your orator did purchase said Judgements and under said Judgements did purchase said negro and that the said negro was to be kept by the said Edward and your orator until they were repaid the money they expended on the said purchase and then to convey the said negro man to the said Emily that the said negro was purchased under the said agreement and the Bill of sale taken in the name of your orator who took possession of the said negro that the said agreement and upon _______(?) made to the consent of the said Emily and that the said Edward paid towards the purchase of the said Judgements Five Hundred and Fifty Dollars and that the said Emily has advanced to your Orator three Hundred and fifty Dollars towards reimbursing him his expences for said negro and interest thereon and they charge that your Orator had made from the labour of the said negro more than enough to repay him the purchase money and interest and they call upon this Honorable Court to compel your Orator to join the said Edward in making a conveyance to said Emily of the said negro man and to account for the profits of the said negro. Now your Orator expressly charge that there was no such agreement in existance as that set forth in the said Bill of Complaint of the said Edward and Emily nor ___ed(?) and fact was there any agreement in existance between the said Edward and your Orator in relation to the said negro man at the time the said negro man was sold to wit in July 1830 nor was there ever any contract or agreement of any kind in relation to the said negro man Stephen between your orator and the said Emily nor has the said Emily ever paid to your orator one cent on account of the purchase of the said negro man Stephen. Your orator states and expressly charges that soon after the death of the said Thomas S Few Decd. your orator anxious to aid the said Emily the widow of the said Thomas S. and a relation of your Orator did agree with the said Edward to join him the said Edward in the purchase of the Judgements against the said Thomas S Few and under the Judgements to buy the said negro Stephen and after they had repaid themselves for the money laid out in the said purchase from the hire or labour of the said Stephen that the said Edward and your Orator would convey the said Stephen to the said Emily for her own use without receiving any consideration from the said Emily. That to convey these intentions into effect your orator and the said Edward purchased as they (then) supposed all the Judgments against the said Thomas S. and had the said negro levied on that soon afterwards and before the day of sale your orator discovered that they had not purchased all the Judgments against the said Thomas S. _______(?) had they purchased the oldest and that there were executions older than any they had purchased in favour of N Sarnes(?) & Co against the said Thomas S Few and that to carry their agreement into effect they must purchase these older Judgments your orator anxious to carry into effect his said agreement called upon the said Edward and requested him to aid in buying them and declined having any thing further to do in the matter saying that the Land of the said Thomas S. would make him safe. Your orator then told the said Edward that if he refused to aid in buying the said older Judgements himself the said Edward refusing to and in buying the said older Judgements or acting any further in the matter your orator then on this day of _____(?) the said Edward first Due notice purchased the said negro man Stephen for his own use and paid said older Judgements to all which the said Edward assented. And your Orator charges that after the day of sale and before the Bill of sale was executed for the said negro man Stephen your orator yet willing that the said Edward should come in and that the original agreement might be continued told and offered to the said Edward that if he would pay his part of the said older Judgement that the purchase should be under the original agreement when the said Edward again refused to pay one cent towards the said older Judgement or to have any thing further to do with the said matter. And your orator further states that a long time since the said purchase the said Edward called upon your orator for a settlement in relation to the Judgements purchased by the said Edward and your orator when the said Edward and your orator made a settlement and agreed viz Your orator was to keep the said Judgement and negro man Stephen and to pay to the said Edward the amount paid by time and interest deducting the amount collected on the said Judgements by the said Edward and in pursuance of said settlement so made your orator was to pay on account of and for the said Edward to one EZEKIEL WILLIAMS of said County three Hundred Dollars and accordingly your orator made the necessary arrangements with the said EZEKIEL and your orator and the said Edward were to meet and pass final receipts but the said Edward failed so to do and soon filed the said Bill of Compliant. Your orator was ready to comply with the said settlement on his part and is now ready so to do by paying the said Edward the amount with interest paid by him deduction the amount with interest paid by him deducting the amount collected by him on said Executions which is all the said Edward is in Equity and good conscience entitled to receive. Your orator charges and states that during the lifetime of the said Thomas S Few at the special instance and request of the said Thomas S. and the said Emily your orator purchased at Sheriff's sale a negro woman named Hetty sold as the property of the said Thomas S. and advanced nearly all the purchase out of his own funds and immediately made a conveyance of the said negro to the said Emily and that your Orator was to be repaid by the said Thomas S. and Emily that the said Thomas S. departed this life without doing so and that after his death the said Emily undertook and promised to pay your orator for the said Emily and for sundry articles of necessaries furnished to said Emily by your orator and your Orator charges and states that all the money ever paid by the said Emily to your Orator was to repay him the money advanced for said negro woman and said Horse and necessaries that she never paid to your orator one cent on account of the negro Stephen. And your orator charges expressly that the money that the money [repetition is correct] received by your orator ____(?) Judgement in favour of the said Emily against JOSEPH BUSH and WADE BROWN was settled for with the said Emily as aforesaid in the repaying your Orator the money due him on account of the negro woman horse and necessaries and not one cent on account of Stephen. And yet notwithstanding the premises the said Edward and Emily claim the said negro man Stephen and call upon the Honorable Court to enforce the said claim. All of which actings and doings of the said Edward and Emily and their pretended claim are contrary to right Equity and good conscience and lend to the manifest wrong and injury of your orator. In tender consideration whereof and for as much as your Orator can only have full and ample relief in Equity Your Orator prays your Honor that the said Edward and Emily may fully and distinctly upon their corporal oaths answer the charges and statements contained in this Bill of Compliant in order that your Orator may use the same in his defense in their said Bill and that your Orator may have such other and ample relief as he may in Equity be entitled to. May it please your Honor to grant the writ of subpoena to be directed to the said Edward and Emily commanding them on a certain day under a certain pain personally to be and appear before the Superior Court in and for the County of Burke then and there to answer the complaint of your Orator and to stand to and abide the order and decree of said Court. And as in duty your orator will ever pray &c Mulford Marsh Compts Sol ************************************************* Burke County, Georgia Equity Court Records 1834-1852, p. 1-13 John Gordon Compt Edward Hatcher and Emily Few Defendants} Cross Bill for Discovery &c The complainant exapts to the answer of the Defendants on the following grounds viz. 1st. For that the Defendants do not deny nor admit there was not such and agreement in existance at the time of the sale of the negro in dispute as they have set forth in their Bill between the complainant and the Defendant Hatcher. 2nd. For that they do not deny nor admit that there never was any contract between the complainant and the Defendant Emily in relation to the negro man Stephen nor do they deny nor admit that the Defendant Emily has never paid any thing to the complainant. 3rd. For that the said Edward does not admit nor deny that the Complainant ___(?) the Defendant Edward that if he refused to aid in buying said older Judgement that the complainant would purchase the said negro man Stephen for his own use and pay the said himself. In that the Defendant Edward does not admit or deny that complainant called on the said Edward after the day of the sale of said negro and offered to said Edward that if he Edward would his part of the older Judgements that the purchase should be under the original agreement. For that he said Defendant Edward does not admit nor deny the settlement charged in the Bill to him been made between the complainant and the Defendant Hatcher. For that the Defendant Emily doed not admit nor deny that she was bound to pay the Complainant the Balance of the amount complainant paid for the Girl Hetty nor does she admit nor deny that all the money paid by the said Emily to this Defendant was on account of money advanced for this negro Hetty by this Complainant and for other articles furnished her. Nor does she admit nor deny that the money received by this complainant on a Judgement in favour of said Emily against JOSEPH BUSH and WADE BROWN was settled for with said Emily in repaying the complainant the money due him for the negro woman Horde and necessaries and not one cent on account of Stephen. George Schley Mulford Marsh Sols for compt ********************************************* 1835: TRUSTEE: History Of Burke Co., GA, Page 166 7. Pleasant Grove Academy was chartered by the State Legislature in 1833, the second in Burke after the Burke Academy. Pleasant Grove was a settlement near Hancock's Landing on the Savannah River. A report to the Governor dated October 17, 1835, was signed by five trustees: John Gordon, L. F. Powell, Wade Brown, Hardy Perry, and E. J. Hatcher. Enrollment totaled 32 boys and 15 girls. The boys ranged in age from five to twenty-two; the girls from seven to twelve. [ HISTORY OF BURKE COUNTY, GEORGIA 1777-1950 by Albert M. Hillhouse.] ************************************************************ Index to Georgia Poor - School and Academy Records 1836-1850 (Arkansas History Commission) INTRODUCTION This volume indexes the pre-1851 material contained in a group of poor (public) school and academy records which were submitted to the state of Georgia by local officials as a basis for allocating school funds. The records, after passing through various hands, were ultimately sent to the Governor. The establishment of and public funding for Georgia's educational institutions were first called for in the constitutions of 1777 and 1798::1 Until 1817 the only schools funded were county academies. The state provided financial assistance, especially under the 1792 law for distribution of income from the sale of land confiscated from British sympathizers and the 1818 Land-lottery act. Some laws enacted later than 1817 were concerned solely with academies, but usually acts concerning free (public) schools and academies were combined. On 18 December 1817, the legislature passed the first Free School Act, in which $250,000 was appropriated "for the future establishment and support of free schools throughout the state. New acts appeared almost yearly to fund and regulate academies and free schools. As early as 1796 academy officials were required to account to the Governor for the use of state funds. By 21 December 1821 officials of both free schools and academies were required to "make full and accurate report" of the amounts received by their counties. A year later funds were distributed to both the poor schools and the academies. Lists of poor children had been returned, and academy trustees were required to keep accounts and to report annually. An act defining disbursement of academy and poor-school funds, passed in 1828, required "a list of names, ages, and sexes of the poor children and scholars respectively educated in the county, and at their academy. In later years, sometimes merely the number of children eligible for tuition was to be submitted; sometimes lists were required. As of 1840, information about any poor children taught in academies was required to be reported. It should be noted that the group of records here indexed by no means includes all extant school records for Georgia; it includes only those which appear on two reels of microfilm ( #9-518 and -519, Georgia Dept. of Archives and History). Other similar records are to be found in some county courthouses and other repositories, including the Georgia Archives, and some have been published. The reports in this group of records vary considerably in format. Some list the names of children, often (though not always) with age, grade level, attendance records, and subjects studied. Others list parents or guardians, together with the number: (but usually not the names) of eligible children. Other records contain the names of teachers with salary due and, sometimes, names of pupils taught. Also included are various other records, chiefly accounts of disbursements by trustees or other officials. On the microfilm, the documents are arranged alphabetically by county and then by type of school (poor/public school or academy). Within these groups, the records are arranged chronologically and then by district, if specified. Undated documents are found at the end of each county's records. The dates for the documents were taken from the documents themselves but are sometimes a bit inexact because of a lack of consistency among the statements within the documents. A few records were dated approx- 1 imately; others cover more than one year or overlapping terms. It is highly recommended that a researcher, after locating a desired name in the index, study the entire document carefully for additional and more precis information. In the index which follows, all names, with no other data, have been transcribed for all pre-1850 documents and for all undated lists. (Please note that the microfilm contains a number of post-1850 documents which have not been indexed) The reference after each name refers to the location of the name on the microfilm. For example, an entry reading �Smith, Mary, 18-7-44� would indicate that the name �Mary Smith� appears in Folder 18, image 7, dated 1844. The folder number indicates the county: 2,3 Baldwin 31,32 Hancock 61 Muscogee 4,5 Bibb 33 Heard 64 Rabun 6 Bryan 34,35 Henry 69 Upson 7 Bullock 36 Jackson 70 Ware 8 Burke 37-44 Jasper 71,72 Warren 9 Butts 45-54 Jones 73 Washington 16-18 DeKalb 55 Lee 74 Wayne 22-24 Gilmore 56 Lincoln 75,76 Wilkes 29 Gwinett 58 Madison 77,78 Wilkinson 30 Habersham 59 Monroe In the index, names have been presented as spelled in the original documents, with cross references. Consequently, the reader is urged to search carefully and imaginatively under all possible alternative spellings. Note: For a more detailed history of poor schools and academies, pleasure refer to a History of Public Education in Georgia, 1734-1976, edited by Oscar H. Joiner (Columbus, S.C.: R.L. Bryan Co., c. 1979). HATCHER Ann S., 8-12-35 Eliza, 74-2-33 James, 55-2-45, 74-3-33 E. J., 8-10-35 Hamilton , 55-2-45 Josiah H., 8-12-35 E. W., 8-12-35 J. H., 8-12-35 Martha, 74-2-33 T. J., 8-12-35 William, 74-3-33 ************************************************************ 1840: DEATH Georgia Obituaries 1740 - - 1835 by: Jeanette Holland Austin Edward Hatcher Born: 1793 Died: 27 September 1840 Burke County, Georgia DEATH: SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, CHARLESTON, S.C. Mariages and Obits from early Georgia newspapers page 258: Edward Hatcher died at his residence in Burke Co, Ga. on the 27th ULT, Mr. Edward Hatcher in his 47th year, leaves his wife and five children. October 19, 1840 ****************************************** AUGUSTA CHRONICLE SATERDAY MORNING 12 DECEMBER 1840, p. 2 EXECUTOR'S SALE. On the 29th December will be sold, at the plantation of Edward Hatcher, deceased, in Burke county, all the perishable property belonging to said deceased, consisting of Mules, two yoke of Oxen, Plantation Tools, Fattened Hogs, &c. The Plantation will be rented, and the Negroes hired, at the same time. dec 12-w3t A. J. Lawson, Ex'r. ******************************************* DAILY CHRONICLE & SENTINEL AUGUSTA, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 18, 1842 PAGE 4 EXECUTOR'S SALE. WILL be sold on Tuesday, the 3d day of January, 1843, at the court bouse in Burke county, under authority ot the last will and testament of Edwaid Hatcher, late of said county, deceased, the following very valuable landed estate, viz: one thousand one hundred and forty acres, more or less, of valuable oak and hickory and swamp land, lying in said county on Briar creek. The above tract has about five hundred acres of cleared land, with about one hundred acres oi swamp land ditched and ready for clearing, with a convenient and commodious dwelling, and all necessary out buildings for forty or fifty negroes, new and commodious, also barns and stables and a new gin house and lever packing press. The plantation is about 26 miles from Augusta, near the road leading by Ray's bridge to Waynesboro, and is esteemed oue of the most productive places in the county. Also, two hundred acres of productive pine land more or less, lying near Boggy Gut in said county, with a very good dwelling house, a good kitchen and outhouses. This place is about 7 mile* from the former place, and is considered very healthy, as a summer retreat. Persons wishing to purchase will do well to examine the premises. Also, on the 5th day of January next, at the pine land place, the household and kitchen furniture, and stock of cattle, &c., belonging to said estate at that place. Terms on the day of sale. ALEXANDER J. LAWSON, Ex'r. November 1,1842. ******************************************** Courtesy of Nel Hatcher 1846: INDENTURE Georgia Burke County} This Indenture made this Thirty first day of October in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and forty Six between Alexander J. Lawson Executor of the last Will and Testament of Edward Hatcher late of said County deceased of the first part, and John C. Poythress surviving executor of the last Will and Testament of George Poythress late of the Territory (now State) of Florida & Trustee of Mrs. Mary Cheeseborough formerly Mrs. Mary Mandell, the wife of William B. Cheeseborough and the children of the said Mary of the second part all of said County and State. Whereas by virtue of an Order of the Honorable the Inferior Court of Ordinary, due and legal notice having been first made by publication according to Law, the said Alexander J. Lawson as executor aforesaid did on the Sixth day of February in the year of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred forty four being the first Tuesday of the Month, expose at public outcry at the Court House in said County of Burke during the legal hours of Sale the following tract or parcel of Land, hereinafter described as the property of the estate of the said Edward Hatcher deceased aforesaid and whereas the said John C. Poythress executor and Trustee as aforesaid being the highest and best bidder became the purchaser of said tract or parcel of Land having bid the price or sum of Five Thousand Dollars. Now This Indenture Witnesseth that the said Alexander J. Lawson as executor as aforesaid in pursuance of the authority aforesaid vested in him by the Court of Ordinary aforesaid & by the will of the said Edward Hatcher deceased as aforesaid and in consideration of the said sum of Five Thousand Dollars to him in hand paid by the said John C. Poythress at and before the sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged hath granted bargained and sold and conveyed and by virtue of these presents doth grant bargain and sell release and convey unto the said John C. Poythress executor and trustee as aforesaid & to his executors administrators and assigns all that tract or parcel of Land containing Eleven Hundred & thirty three acres more or less lying and being in said County of Burke aforesaid on the north side of and bounded by Briar Creek on the South adjoining lands of John B. Gordon the Misses Tomlins and the Estate of Hardy Perry deceased and of Floyd Crockett but upon this special trust as contained in the will of the said George Poythress deceased as aforesaid & subject also to such other uses & trusts as are in said Will contained & expressed viz. in trust to the said John C. Poythress as executor and trustee aforesaid his executors administrators & assigns to suffer and permit Mary E. Mandell now Mary E. Cheeseborough to receive and use for her sole and separate use free from the control or contracts of her husband or husbands the income and profits of the said tract of Land as aforesaid for and during her natural life and upon this other and further trust limitation and condition that should the said Mary E. depart this life leaving child or children in life then and in that case on the demise of the said Mary E. the aforesaid tract or parcel of Land to vest and remain in said child or children share and share alike their heirs and assigns in fee simple forever, but should the said Mary E. depart this life childless then in that case the aforesaid tract of Land shall go to vest and remain in such children of Lewis Poythress of the State of Virginia (the brother of George Poythress deceased as aforesaid) as may be in life at the death of the said Mary E. Cheeseborough, their heirs and assigns in fee simple forever. To Have and to hold the aforesaid tract or parcel of Land with all & singular the rights members and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining unto him the said John C. Poythress executor & Trustee as aforesaid his executors administrators & assigns for the uses and trusts aforesaid in as full and ample a manner and by all the maniments of title by which the same was holden by the said Edward Hatcher deceased as aforesaid in his lifetime. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto attached my name and affixed my seal the day and year first before written. A. J. Lawson Exr. of Edward Hatcher decd. Signed Sealed & delivered in presence of Edward Garlick William B. Douglass Tho. Moore Berrien, Notary Publick Recorded 12th March 1857 Deed Book 12, page. 140 -1 HARD COPY ON FILE NOTE ALEXANDER J. LAWSON IS THE FATHER-IN-LAW OF ELOISE LOUISA VIRGINIA BROWN LAWSON DAUGHTER OF JAMES WADE BROWN ************************************************** Hatcher Cemetery: Travel from Waynesboro toward Augusta on Hwy 56, Turn right onto paved road after passing the Frank M. Cates Bridge. Cemetery is 2 miles futher on left in a pasture about 1/2 mile from road.
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