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| In 1800 and 1801, Isham Meadows, Jr. paid taxes in Wilkes County, in Capt. John Bethune’s District RR on 125 acres in Wilkes County, on Stephens Creek, adjoining Ewing Morrow, granted to John Cargile. In 1802, Isham Meadows, Jr. paid taxes on this same land in Capt. Stephen Gatlin’s District RR in Wilkes County.73
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| | In 1802, the Stephens Creek neighborhood of Wilkes County, Georgia, was cut off into Greene County. The Meadows lived in Greene County, after 1802. Isham Meadows, Jr. registered for the 1805 Georgia Land Lottery while living in Greene County.74
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| | Isham Meadows, Jr. drew land in the 1807 Georgia Land Lottery while living in Moore’s District, Greene County. He drew Lot 61 in the 17th District of Wilkinson County, Georgia.75
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| | Isham Meadors, Jr. paid taxes in Greene County, in 1809 in Moore’s District on 100 acres on Stephens Creek, granted to Cargile. Isham’s son, Ransom Meadows, paid taxes in 1809 in Moore’s District on 125 acres on Stephens Creek, adjoining Stephens, granted to Thompson. Ransom’s land was the land that had belonged to Isham Meadows, Sr., his grandfather.
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| | Isham Meadows paid taxes in 1815 in Greene County, Georgia, in Willis’s District. On 6 December 1815, in Greene County, William Stevens of Greene County, sold to Starling Acree, for $1000, 192 acres in Greene County, on Stephens Creek, adjoining Isham Meadows. Witnesses were Nathaniel Acree, Edward Meadows, Ransom Meadows, and Thomas Lyne, J.P.76
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| | Isham Meadows left Greene County, Georgia, between 1815 and 1820, and moved to Alabama. Isham Meadows, age 60 to 70, and his son, Ransom Meadows, age 40 to 50 lived in Lowndes County, Alabama, when the 1830 census was taken.
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| 73 Hudson, Wilkes Co., Ga., Tax Records, p. 924, 1033, and 1067.
| | 74 Wood, 1805 Georgia Land Lottery.
| | 75 Lucas, The Second or 1807 Land Lottery of Georgia, p. 99.
| | 76 Greene Co., Ga., Deed Book FF, 1816–1818, p. 35. Recorded 18 March 1816.
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