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The Gold Lottery of 1832 was the seventh lottery of the Georgia Land Lotteries, a lottery system used by the State of Georgia between the years 1805 and 1833 to redistribute annexed Cherokee land. It was authorized by the Georgia General Assembly by an act of December 24, 1831 a few years after the start of the Georgia Gold Rush .
The lots were 160 acres in size. Registration for the lottery occurred in the four months after the Governor's proclamation of February 20, 1832, with drawings occurring in 1832. Fortunate drawers from the previous Georgia land lotteries were excluded, as well as any person who had mined for gold or other metals in Georgia since 1 June 1830 ...
1827 Land Lottery — Signaled the end of the Muscogee presence in Georgia. Land was taken in Carroll, Coweta, Lee, Muscogee, and Troup counties. 1832 Land Lottery — This lottery, along with the 1832 Gold Lottery, gave the Cherokee Nation to Georgia settlers, sparking the "Trail of Tears."
The Philadelphia Mint received more than half a million dollars in gold from Georgia in 1832. [3]: 28 The state of Georgia held the Gold Lottery of 1832 and awarded land, which had been owned by the Cherokee, to the winners in 40-acre (16-hectare) tracts. The Philadelphia Mint received $1,098,900 in gold from Georgia between 1830 and 1837.
After the Cherokee Nation was driven off their land, the Georgia Land Lottery of 1832 took place, which granted 40-acre (160,000 m 2) plots of land to Georgia residents who were fortunate enough to win the lottery.
The Georgia Resolutions of 1827 were a response to the Cherokee's refusal to cede their ... 1827 Land Lottery; 1832 Land Lottery; Gold Lottery of 1832; 1833 Fractions ...
In Georgia's Gold Lottery of 1832, Philip J. Crask won 40-acre (160,000 m 2) Lot 929 in District 18 of the Second Section and paid $18 grant fee. [3] In 1837, Lot 929 was sold at an auction for $12.50 to John Boyle, who in 1845 sold it for $500 to Charles J. McDonald of Cobb County, a former governor of Georgia, and Colonel James Rogers of ...
The lots varied in size, but the fractional lots left over from the 1832 Land Lottery were smaller than 100 acres and were taken from the 60 land districts and 33 gold districts in Georgia. The fractional lots resulted from irregular boundaries that had prevented measurements of square lots of land.