Jefferson County Georgia Superior Court Minutes Volume I

The Georgia General Assembly created Jefferson County on February 20 1796 from parts of Burke and Warren counties making Louisville the seat of its new government. The Superior Court of the county had jurisdiction over all criminal matters civil cases involving title to land appeals from Inferior Court decisions divorces grand juries and registration of land deeds. This volume of Superior Court minutes begins October 11 1796 and continues through May 5 1800. The transcription comes from the microfilm photographed by the Genealogical Society of Salt Lake City Utah and available at the Georgia Department of Archives and History in Morrow. The transcription maintains the general format of the minutes but presents the case citations and lists of jurors and witnesses in a standard and consistent format. In all compiler Michael Ports has identified between four and five thousand inhabitants of Jefferson County--judges jurors plaintiffs defendants witnesses--during this period of investigation.