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Carroll County land records began in 1827, the year the county government was established.
There is not much to tell. From Land Lottery papers, James Morgan had a fortunate draw of District 5, Lot 140 on May 21, 1827 and the lot was granted to him on September 28, 1827. There is no record of the payment, but to receive the grant he had to pay a grant fee of eighteen dollars to the state.
The deed records show that on October 2, 1827 the lot was sold by James West, sheriff of Carroll County to Robert Shaw (Deed Book A, page 8). There is nothing in the deed book or the Inferior Court minutes to indicate on what authority West sold the property other than to mention that it was drawn by James Morgan of Richmond County. The transaction was recorded on November 1, 1827.
James West did make several other similar sales in October, November, and December 1827 implying that he may have been acting as an agent, a common practice in all the Georgia lotteries. Carroll County was organized on May 7, 1827 and the first Inferior Court was convened on May 31, 1827 and one could imagine that many legal papers went unfiled in the early days of Carroll County government or were unwritten and sealed by a handshake.
Apparently Robert Shaw sold the property to James N. Wright but the deed was never recorded. Wright sold the north half of the lot to William Michael on October 20, 1832 (Deed Book D, page 204) and sold the south half to Wallace Warren on May 8, 1837 (Deed Book C, page 158).
There is nothing to suggest that James Morgan ever set foot in the county. This was true for the vast majority of fortunate drawers. They either sold the property to land speculators, appointed someone to sell the property, lost it in a civil action, gave it away, lost it gambling, or failed to pay the grant fee.
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