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| Henry Thompson in Jones County, Georgia
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| In 1811, Henry Thompson paid taxes in Jones County, Georgia, in Captain Thomas Gordon’s District, on 202 ½ acres on Potato Creek in Jones County, granted to Thompson, adjoining Turk, who adjoined Brooks.47
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| | Henry Thompson paid taxes in Jones County, in 1816, in Captain Hansford’s District, No. 305: one poll, 11 slaves, 202 ½ acres granted to Thompson, on Potato Creek, adjoining John Calhoon who lived on Cedar Creek. Henry Thompson also paid taxes on two pleasure wheels for Thomas Blanks.48
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| | Potato Creek in Jones County appears to be near present Taylor Creek about one and a half miles northeast of Fortville in the eastern part of the county. This was in the 9th District of Jones County, less than eight miles from Clinton. Fortville is on the Fortville-Milledgeville Road, County Road 97. It is now in Georgia Militia District 358.
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| | Henry Thompson was included in the 1820 census of Jones County, Georgia. This is the only census Henry appeared in, because the Georgia census records for 1790, 1800, and 1810 are lost. The only surviving list is the 1800 census of Oglethorpe County. 1820 Jones County: Henry Thompson - 2 white males between 10 and 16; 0 white males between 16 and 18; 2 white males between 16 and 26; 1 white male over 45. 1 white female under 10; 1 white female 10 to 16; 1 white female over 45. 8 persons engaged in agriculture. 10 slaves.49
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| | On 2 January 1823, in Jones County, Georgia, Micajah Mathews sold to Henry Thomson, both of said county, for $700, tract in Jones County, in the 9th District, part of Lot 153, 100 acres, adjoining Horton. Witnesses: Dennis Nickerson, William Harris. Recorded 2 September 1826.50
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| | Henry Thompson’s orphans drew a lot in the 1827 Georgia Land Lottery. Henry Thompson’s orphans of Bredlove’s District, Jones County, Georgia, drew Lot 182 in Section 2, District 23, 202 ½ acres. This lot was in Muscogee County, Georgia, when it was drawn. It is now in Talbot County. The four orphans were James, John, Marshall, and Salatha Thompson.
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| 47 Carolyn White Williams, History of Jones County, Georgia (Macon, Georgia, 1957), p. 722.
| | 48 Jones Co., 1816 Tax List, Georgia Archives.
| | 49 1820 U.S. Census, Jones Co., Ga., p. 140. Henry Thompson.
| | 50 Jones Co., Ga., Deed Book N, 1825-1827, p. 210-211.
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