Habersham County, GA

History

Habersham County was created on Dec. 18, 1818, by an act of the General Assembly (Ga. Laws 1818, p. 27). That legislation also created Gwinnett and Hall counties — all from lands ceded by the Cherokee Indians on July 8, 1817 in the Treaty of the Cherokee Agency. Additional Cherokee lands were ceded to Georgia on Feb. 27, 1819 in the Treaty of Washington, and in an act of Dec. 21, 1819, the legislature added some of ceded land to the western portions of Habersham and Hall counties (Ga. Laws 1819, p. 23). Remaining unallocated Cherokee lands ceded in 1817 and 1819 were added to Habersham and other Georgia counties in 1828 and 1829 (Ga. Laws 1828, p. 88 and Ga. Laws 1829, p. 98). (Later, portions of Habersham County were used to create the following counties: Cherokee (1831), Lumpkin (1832), White (1857), Banks (1858), and Stephens (1905).
Source: GeorgiaInfo

Modern Day Adjacent Counties

Rabun County - north
Oconee County, South Carolina - east
Stephens County - east
Banks County - south
Hall County - southwest
White County - west
Towns County - northwest

Gleanings from

• Habersham Co., GA - Deed Records
  • 1824 Deed - Asa Reaves to Honor Cagle
• US Federal Census - Habersham Co., GA
  • 1830 Census - Habersham Co., GA
    • Asa Reeves