Passports

Thanks to Glenna Kinard for sending these records!

Source: "Passports of Southern Pioneers 1770-1823 - Indian, Spanish and other Land Passports for Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Mississippi, Virginia, North and South Carolina" by Dorothy Williams Potter.

Georgia Passports, Pg. 234:

Executive Department
Monday 9th January 1809
On the recommendation of several respectable citizens of the State of South Carolina
ORDERED
That a Passport through the Creek nation be prepared for James Myrick, Henry Myrick, RICHARD GILL, and Daniel Jackson.
Which was presented and signed.

Georgia Passports Pg 276:

Executive Department
Monday 28th January 1811
On application
ORDERED
That passports be prepared for the following persons t travel through the Creek Nation of Indians to wit.
One for Mr. Joseph Baker with his wife and three children, One for Mr. Lewis Cook and his wife and four children, One for Vinson Mixon with his wife and six children, One for MR. ROBERT GILL with his wife and One for Messrs. JAMES GILL with his wife and seven children and THOMAS GILL and his wife and five children - all from the County of Bulloch in this state and One for Mr. Nathaniel Day from Edgefield district of South Carolina.
Which were severally presented and signed.

Georgia Passports, Pg. 296:

Executive Department
Saturday, 7th march 1812
On application
ORDERED
That Passports be prepared for the following persons to travel through the Indian Nations to the Western Country, viz One for Mr. JOHN GILL, with his wife and six children, Mr. John Kysar, with his wife one child and one negro, and Mr. James Faust with his wife six children and nine negroes, the two former and their families from Lexington , and the latter from Richland District, South Carolina. One for Mr. Peter Sandifer with his wife and four children, one for Mr. Edward Chitty, both from Barnwell district South Carolina.
Which were severally presented and signed.

and the same from Debi Murphy via Peggy Beasley:

Passports Issued By Governors Of Georgia 1810-1820 book
page 77. It lists Mr. Robert Gill instead of Gills.
"Passports of southeastern Pioneers 1770-1823"
Georgia
Executive Department
Monday 28th January 1811
On application
ORDERED
That passports be prepared for the following persons to travel through the Creek Nation of Indians to wit,
One for Mr. Joseph Baker with his wife and three children,
One for Mr. Lewis Cook with his wife and four children,
One for Vinson Mixon with his wife and six children,
One for Mr. Robert Gill with his wife
One for Messrs. James Gills with his wife and seven children and
Thomas Gill with his wife and five children - all from the county of Bulloch in this State,
and One for Mr. Nathaniel Day from Edgefield District South Carolina.
Which were severally presented and signed. 653

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