Person:Aaron Barber (5)

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Written: September 8, 1784, Recorded: June 22, 2786

State of Georgia} Pursuant to a warrant from the Court of Justices Directed to Burke County} THOMAS LEWIS Esqr County Surveyor Dated the 8th day of Septr 1784 and Renewed the 1st day of August 1785 and sign'd by DAVID EMANUEL Esqr one of the senior Justices for the aforesaid County, I have admeasured and laid out unto WILLIAM BARBER (who actually resides in the State and County aforesaid) a tract of land containing two hundred acres situate And being in the County aforesaid on OGEECHEE adjoining Northeasterly by land of THOS LINSON and Northwardly by land of PETER YATES and Westwardly by LAMBERTS BIG CREEK and Southwardly by GREAT OGEECHEE and the other side by land vacant at the time of survey having such Natural and Artificial marks as above delineated and Expressed.

Certified this 22nd day of June 1786 By WILLIS WOOD, D. Surveyor.

JOSEPH BARBER and AARON BARBER, chain bearers.

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Written: April 3, 1786, Recorded: June 21, 1786

State of Georgia} Pursuant to a warrant by the Court of Justices

Burke County } Directed to Thomas Lewis, Esq., County Surveyor dated the third day of April 1786 and signed by Thomas Lewis Junr Esq one of the Senior Justices for the aforesaid County I have admeasured and laid out unto JOSEPH BARBER (Residenture of the State and County aforesaid) a tract of land containing two hundred acres situate and being in the county aforesaid on Ogeeche adjoining southeasterly by land of Quinton Pooler (Tooler, Toober, Poober) Dec'd and southwesterly by land supposed to be Samuel Tomlinson's and on all other sides by land vacant at the time of survey having such Natural and Artificial marks as above delineated and expressed Certified this 21st day of June 1786 By Willis Wood, D Surveyor.

AARON BARBER }

Peter Yates } Chain bearers.

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1788: Headrights granted in Georgia, ST. GEORGE, BURKE AND JEFFERSON County; Bass Boykin, Needham Bryan, Isaac Brinsom, Gideon Bemy, Nancy Bird, Dr Wm Baker, Aaron Barber. GenealogyTrails.com

1846: State of Georgia Emanuel County. This indenture made this the 15th day of Jany in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six between Jordan Flanders of the county and state aforesaid of the one part, and Britton Scott, of the same place of the other part witnesseth that the said Jordan Flanders for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred and forty dollars and 90 cents to him in hand paid at and before the sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged hath granted, bargained, sold and conveyed. I do by these presents grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the said Britton Scott all that tract or parcel of land thereby 350 acres lying and being in the county and state of aforesaid on the East side of the Little Ohoopee River originally granted to Aaron Barber which grant will show its shapes and ----? fully by having reference to the original ---------[unclear] to have and to hold said tract of land unto him the said Britton Scott, his heirs and assigns together with all and ----? the rights, encumbrances and appurtenances thereof to the same in any ----- [unclear]. Signed Jordan Flanders. Witnessed by Richard B. Flanders, John Sumner. Entered Jany 5th day 1848" Rootsweb.com

1.   Yates, Donald N. The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Genealogy and Social History of a Southern U.S. Family; the Story of the Native American-English Yates Family, from Colonial Virginia to Twentieth-century Florida, with Sketches of Pioneer Life and Traditional Stories, including an Account of James & Elisabeth Yates of Heard County, Georgia, together with an Appendix about Southern Language, Numerous Photographs, Charts and Illustrations, not without an Index, viz. of Persons of Surname Bondurant/Bundren, Cooper, Denn(e)y, Fawcett/Fossett, Gates, Goble, Graben, Kimball/ Kimble /Kimbrell/ Kimbrough, Kitchens, McDonald, Mitchell, Redwine, Shankles, and Yates/ Yeat(e)s of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North & South Carolina, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. (Panther`s Lodge Publishers, 1995)
   pg. 73.

   Eli Yates makes his entrance in history on March 4, 1799. On that day, he worked as chain carrier for Peter Yates, an older brother or uncle, as the two surveyed "Pine Land" in Montgomery County, bordering that of Aaron Barber. The land is tract 1251, plat page 73, consisting of 300 acres.