BEGATS AND BEQUEATHALS

Or, Subtitled: “John Lauderdale of Pendleton County in the State of South Carolina but late of Wilkes County in the State of Georgia planter”

My previous posting about John Lauderdale (1745 – 1830/1840) ended with a brief discussion of his claim for bounty land in recompense for his service as a Georgia Refugee soldier during the Revolution, and of how the claim was honored. As another previous posting notes, on 25 May 1784, John wrote and signed a petition for 250 acres of bounty land in Franklin County, Georgia. The posting I’ve just linked has a digital image of John’s note requesting this land. As the posting linked at the head of this paragraph states,

John Lauderdale’s bounty-land claim was honored and he did receive a land grant in Franklin County, Georgia. On 26 May 1784, a warrant for a survey of 287½ acres of bounty land for him was issued, and on 3 February 1785, the land, which was on Bear Creek in Franklin County, was surveyed. On 12 October 1785 the land grant was made.