Headright Grant of John Swane
The full-text search on FamilySearch.org is a game changer. I am finding things daily that are original records of family or possible family. Back in 2014 I originally came across the Georgia Headright Files on Familysearch and talk about them in this post . Today, thanks to full-text search I came across James and John Swain again here . Here's the actual record for John Swain. What surprised me today -- thanks to my previous Hollingsworth post that I had already forgotten all about -- I find on this document underneath the Plat map, a phrase that says "Sam Hollingsworth _____" (perhaps that word I can't fully read is "land" or "heir". It looks like the names of the neighbors are written around each side of the plat survey and neighboring this land was Sam Hollingsworth -- the very guy, perhaps?, that I decided to mention in my last post in 2023. Here's the transcription: "The 6th of June 1796 I have surveyed for John Swane one hu...
