Wilkes County Inferior Court Minutes

1798-1811

General Indexes to Probate Records

• Estates, A-G.
• Estates, H-L.
• Estates, M-Q.
• Estates, R-Z.
• Will Book C, 1786-1806

General Indexes to Probate Records

• Pre-1800 (Bonds)
• Bk C, 1786-1806
• 1792-1801
• 1806-1808
• 1810-1816
• 1818-1819
• 1837-1877

Indexes to Deeds

• 1785-1821

Loose Marriages

• 1806-1834
• 1819-1836

Indexes to Marriages

• 1790-1832
• 1832-1856
• 1856-1867
• 1867-1871

Marriages

• Marriage Bonds 1792-1800
• Marriages from newspapers 1885-1886

Maps

• Map of Wilkes County, 1955.
• Original Wilkes County.
• Map of Wilkes County Settlers.

Miscellaneous

• Origins of Early Settlers to Wilkes County
• Members of Sardis Church Members in 1805.

Images of Miscellaneous Wills & Estates

• Anthony, Joseph, Estate (1815) of.
• Arnold, Moses, Estate (1810) of.
• Favor, Henry, guardianship of.
• Favor, John, Sr., Estate (1833) (Image).
• Favor, John, Estate (1850) (Image).
• Favor, John, Inventory (1818).
• Favor, John, Estate (1818) (Image).
• Favor, Matthew, Bond for Estate of John Favor Sr., 1829 (Image).
• Favor, Sanders, Guardians of (1819).
• Keith, George W., Annual Return for the minor children of William A. Keith, deceased, 1850 (Image).
• Marks, John, estate (image) (1800).
• McLane, John, LWT, Bk 1792-1801, pp. 115-117.
• McLane, Mariney, LWT, Bk 1792-1801, pp. 240.

Images of (select issues) Newspapers

• The Washington Gazette
• The Southern Courant

Tax Digests

• 1789 Tax Defaulters

Inferior Court Minutes

• 1798-1811
• 1799-1803

Traced Genealogies:
Wilkes County Families

Allison	Anthony	Aycock
Banks	Billingslea	Bird
Bond	Butler	Callaway
Catchings	Chaffin	Coats
Cole	Collier	Cowan
Crutchfield	Darracott	Early
Edge	Fullilove	Gordon
Grant	Gunnells	Hammack
Harper	Hillhouse	Holliday
Jackson	Leverett	Luckett
Malone	Mercer	Miller
Mills	Milner	Morgan
McClendon	McRee	Phillips
Richardson	Russell	Semmes
Springer	Summerall	Tatom
Toombs	Walton	Welborne
Williamson	Wingfield	Wootton	Zimmerman

There was a group of settlers from the old State of Franklin who came to Georgia during the late 18th century. They were from the mountains of North Carolina in Burke and other counties which later became Tennessee. The reason is unknown unless it was due to troublesome Indians throughout the Blue Ridge Mountains. They mostly came to Washington, Georgia (Wilkes County), and settled there. Most of those families who settled in the Blue Ridge Mountains before 1800 had traveled the well-worn Wagon Road out of Pennsylvania westward. They were Germans and Scotch-Irish immigrants.

Newspaper Editors Included Information About Confederate Soldiers

L. R. Miller, one of the Confederate soldiers of Sandersville, won 21 battles. He was wounded twice, one through the body and one in the right foot. Source: The Washington Gazette. July 27, 1887.