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Georgia Land Grant
| In 1832 the state of Georgia again made use of a lottery system it had used since 1805 to distribute public land - this time the land the state claimed in the Cherokee territory. Individual settlers purchased lottery tickets and tickets were then drawn from a barrel at random for lots of varying sizes (160 acres in the case of the ticket below). The drawings were frequently oversubscribed by the large numbers of would be settlers. |
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