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	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Yazoo Land Fraud
		The Yazoo land fraud was one of the most significant events in the post-Revolutionary history of Georgia.
		To prevent those claiming lands under the Yazoo purchase from receiving a sympathetic hearing in a Congress dominated by Federalists, Jackson and his lieutenants blocked any cession of the western territory until the Republicans were in control.
		In a sense, Yazoo led to the "Trail of Tears" in 1838.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-663 (821 words)

	Yazoo land fraud - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		YAZOO LAND FRAUD [Yazoo land fraud] name given to the sale in 1795 by an act of the Georgia legislature of vast holdings in the Yazoo River country to four land companies following the wholesale bribery of the legislators; the territory comprised most of present Alabama and Mississippi.
		By the terms of the cession agreement the Yazoo claimants were to receive 5,000,000 acres (2,025,000 hectares) or the money received from their sale, an arrangement they rejected.
		Peck, held that their land claims were valid since the Yazoo act of 1795 constituted a contract binding on Georgia even though it was conceived in fraud.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-yazoolan.html (471 words)

	Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.3, Entry 326, YAZOO FRAUDS: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Four land companies were formed, the Georgia company, the Georgia Mississippi company, the Upper Mississippi company and the Tennessee company, commonly called, in general, the Yazoo companies, from the general field of their operations, in the Yazoo district.
		The act of 1795 was then publicly burned in front of the state house, the two houses attending in a body: the committee handed the act to the president of the senate, he to the speaker of the house, he to the clerk, and he to the doorkeeper, who threw it into the fire.
		All evidence of its passage was expunged from the records; and the constitution of 1798, while forever prohibiting sales of lands to individuals or companies before counties were fixed, ordered the land companies' purchase money to be kept in the state treasury at the companies' risk, and subject to their order of withdrawal.
	www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCy1096.html (1756 words)

	Fletcher v. Peck
		In 1789, Georgia sold much of this land (known as the Yazoo because of the presence of a river by that name in the area) to speculators, but the attempt to settle this land failed due in part to the presence of the people of the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw tribes.
		The lands in controversy vested absolutely in James Gunn and others, the original grantees, by the conveyance of the governor, made in pursuance of an act of assembly to which the legislature was fully competent.
		An additional problem facing the Yazoo land owners was that because the land was in Mississippi Territory, an ejectment action could be tried there, but under the Judiciary Act of 1789, no appeal could be taken from a judgment of a territorial court.
	www.michaelariens.com /ConLaw/cases/fletcher.htm (2580 words)

	Yazoo County, Mississippi Genealogical and Historical Research
		The first church built in Yazoo county was a house erected by Richardson Bowman on his lands, which was used as a place of worship for all denominations as well as for a schoolhouse.
		The eastern portion of the county was more rapidly settled than the delta lands of the river, in 1828 occurred the greatest overflow of the Yazoo river ever known in the recollection of the white man, except that of 1882, which was a little more than a foot higher.
		Many thousand acres of land in the Yazoo Delta have been brought into cultivation, and its receipts of cotton are as large or larger than when she commanded all the crops of Holmes, Leake, Attala, Winston, Madison and other counties.
	www.natchezbelle.org /ahgp-ms/yazoo/history3.htm (2061 words)

	Wildlife Mississippi Magazine Spring 2003 Feature
		The act authorized the purchase of lands for the conservation and protection of all kinds of wildlife.
		Lands for the refuge were purchased by the Corps of Engineers for the Hillside Floodway, Yazoo Basin Headwater Project.
		The refuge encompasses 4,083 acres of relatively flat land with a patchwork of agricultural fields, replanted fields and bottomland hardwoods.
	www.wildlifemiss.org /magazine/sp03/feature.html (1995 words)

	ERIC KADES \| History and Interpretation of the Great Case of Johnson v. M'Intosh \| Law and History Review, 19.1 \| The ...
		Although Marshall's dual tenure land regime did significantly limit their property rights, descriptions of Indian title as a "tenancy at sufferance" are patently inaccurate as a matter of law and misleading as a matter of fact.
		Squatters on Chickasaw land successfully protested eviction that would "bring many women and children to a state of starvation merely to gratify a heathan nation Who have no better right to this land than we have ourselves; and they have by estemation nearly 100,000 acres of land to each man Of their nation.
		The Piankashaws specifically reserved the land between the two tracts, and in a further term implying their sovereignty the tribes granted the Wabash Company a navigation easement on those portions of the Wabash River and its tributaries situated outside the purchased lands.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/lhr/19.1/kades.html (10806 words)

	East European Constitutional Review
		In the Yazoo case, the knowledge crucial to valuation was the intention of the US Senate to sign a treaty with Spain and the willingness of particular legislators in Georgia to be bribed for their votes.
		What is most striking about the Yazoo sale is less the theft itself, than the fact that three presidents, Congress, and the Supreme Court essentially condoned the sale and that the purchasers grew wealthy with no lasting damage to their public careers.
		As in the Yazoo case, the distribution of former state assets may largely hinge on who is situated at the crossroads of politics and property.
	www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol6num4/feature/publictheft.html (5772 words)

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		Lands, easements, and rights-of-way; acquisition by local authorities; reimbursement; protection of United States from liability for damages.
		Saint Francis and Yazoo Rivers; lands and easements; alteration of highways; cooperation of States.
		Acquisition and sale of land -STATUTE- The provisions of sections 593 to 595 of this title relating to river and harbor improvements are made applicable to works of flood control heretofore or hereafter authorized.
	uscode.house.gov /download/pls/33C15.txt (8659 words)

	Yazoo County, Mississippi Genealogical and Historical Research
		Yazoo county and river derived their name from a tribe of Indians who inhabited that section.
		The Choctaws were in possession of part of this country when it was first discovered by the white man, though the Yazoos were not exterminated, as their name appears on many of the earliest maps of this part of the country.
		According to Indian tradition there once inhabited Yazoo county and other lands on the Yazoo river a race of giants, who were a peaceable people, engaged in agriculture.
	www.natchezbelle.org /ahgp-ms/yazoo/history1.htm (653 words)

	Yazoo Backwater Reformulation -- The Rest of the Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In addition, 231,000 acres of agricultural lands are flooded on an average annual basis, disrupting the lives and livelihood of the citizens in the area with floods that last for months.
		Federally purchased conservation easements and reforestation of 62,500 acres of agricultural land — 20% of the agricultural lands in the backwater area.
		The Corps has worked with local government officials, citizens, and state and federal government representatives from this region in the development of the recommended plan, which provides for a balanced approach to economic viability and environmental sustainability for the Mississippi Delta.
	www.usace.army.mil /inet/functions/cw/hot_topics/ht_2003/yazoo.htm (381 words)

	Yazoo
		Mississippi Delta lands host the 58,000 acre Delta National Forest at the southern end of the Delta.
		Rose Hill Plantation is situated on and near the Big Black and the Yazoo Rivers, with 8500+ acres of rolling hills and Delta bottoms.
		Perry Farms has 563 acres of private hunting land, and is conveniently located near several federal and state wildlife areas, such as Panther Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Lake George Wildlife Management Area, Sunflower Wildlife Management Area, and Delta National Forest.
	www.yazoo.org /website/wildlifeandfishing.htm (803 words)

	LexisNexis(TM) Academic - Document
		Georgia negotiated a removal treaty, the Treaty of Indian Spring, with representatives of the Creek Tribe, whose land was to the south of the Cherokees.
		The Georgia legislature passed laws confiscating much Cherokee land; nullifying all Cherokee laws within the confiscated territory; prohibiting meetings of the Cherokee legislative council; ordering the arrest of any Cherokee who influenced the tribe to reject emigration west; and even forbidding Cherokees to dig for gold on their own land.
		At this point the Cherokees faced a set of Georgia laws that, in effect, took their land away from them; and a Georgian political victory in the federal Congress; and a president whose sympathies seemed to lie with the Georgians and who was asking them to negotiate removal.
	faculty.maxwell.syr.edu /tmkeck/Readings/Breyer2000.htm (4252 words)

	North Georgia Land - Yazoo Land Fraud
		In the early 1790's lands "rich in hickory and oak with streams..." were sold to investors caught up in the intense land speculation fever sweeping the country.
		The Yazoo Land Fraud and the Pine Barren Speculation are two episodes of Georgia history that are not only frequently misunderstood but often merged.
		The Yazoo Land Fraud began in 1785 with the organization of the Combined Society and the creation of Bourbon County Georgia.
	ngeorgia.com /history/land.html (963 words)

	Yazoo Land Fraud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Land is deeded to The Georgia Company, The Georgia-Mississippi Company, The Tennessee Company and the Upper Mississippi Company under the corrupt Yazoo Act.
		During the Yazoo Land Fraud, James Gunn, Mathew M'Allister, George Walker, Zachariah Cox, Jacob Walburger, William Longstreet and Wade Hampton, by deed, convey a portion of the Georgia Company's land to James Greenleaf.
		Georgia cedes the land involved in the Yazoo Land Fraud (and the associated legal problems) to the United States.
	www.ourgeorgiahistory.com /chronpop/3129 (579 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Yazoo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Yazoo lands, historic area in Mississippi and Alabama
		Yazoo (drink), a flavoured milk drink made by Campina
		Yazoo tribe, a Native American peoples who lived in Mississippi
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Yazoo (78 words)

	Search Our Georgia History for land
		Rene de Laudonniere lands at the mouth of the St. John's River and begins to fortify the position with a palisade.
		The Yazoo Land Fraud comes to an end as James Jackson and other expunge the event from Georgia history by buring all records related to the incident on the steps of the capitol, then in Louisville, Georgia.
		The land where the pig (technically, it was a hog) was shot is in Berrien County near the town of Alapaha, Georgia.
	www.ourgeorgiahistory.com /search?id=1764 (7111 words)

	Stop the Yazoo Pumps Project :: Mississippi Chapter Sierra Club
		The Yazoo Pumps is not a project designed to save homes and lives.
		The Yazoo Pumps should not be built and the Administration should stop it from happening.
		The $191 million dollar cost of the Yazoo Pumps Project could be better spent in the Delta on improving basic services, reducing pesticide pollution, providing targeted and real flood protection, and diversifying the economy to increase opportunities in the region.
	mississippi.sierraclub.org /yazoo (266 words)

	GeorgiaInfo - Carl Vinson Institute of Government
		If they could be persuaded to leave, then whites could settle the large expanse of land, greatly increasing Georgia's population, and bringing profit to those who sold the land.
		Land speculators had formed companies and started trying to buy some of this land as early as 1789.
		Naturally the people who had purchased land under the act did not want to give up their claims, so they took the matter to court, and the case eventually reached the United States Supreme Court.
	www.cviog.uga.edu /Projects/gainfo/yazoolandfraud.htm (335 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / THE CHIEF OF STATE AND THE CHIEF
		Unlike the Northwest Territory, which was nominally controlled by the federal government as the result of western land cessions by the states and federal land policies in force there, the disputed territory south of the Tennessee River was still claimed by the state of Georgia.
		Georgia’s aggressive land policies and attitudes toward the southern Indians had already precipitated a continuing war with the powerful Creek confederacy, which was the primary obstacle to the state’s westward expansion as well as the focus of Spanish attention in dealing with the Indians.
		The Galphinton treaty gave Georgia claim to Creek lands south of the Altamaha River from its junction with the Oconee to the Saint Marys River, but it too was repudiated almost before the ink was dry.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1975/6/1975_6_28.shtml (7371 words)

	Yazoo National Wildlife Refuge - Wildlife and Habitat
		Yazoo National Wildlife Refuge's primary feature is a 4,000+ acre oxbow lake (Swan Lake), formed thousands of years ago when the Mississippi River abandoned a segment of riverbed.
		These plantations, some of which are among the oldest on record, now provide unique opportunities for researchers to study the development process for the restoration of bottomland hardwoods over time.
		Reforestation on Yazoo National Wildlife Refuge catalyzed similar habitat restoration on other refuges and private lands throughout the southeast region.
	www.fws.gov /refuges/profiles/WildHabitat.cfm?ID=43682 (627 words)

	Westward Expansion -- The Yazoo Fraud
		Have students identify the current states that would have had land involved in the Yazoo Grants.
		After giving students the background to the Yazoo Act, have students complete the worksheet, "The Yazoo Land Fraud," to identify the major people and events involved.
		Distribute "Newspaper Headlines of the Yazoo Land Fraud" worksheet and have students write a series of newspaper headlines describing major people and events relating to the Yazoo Act.
	www.glc.k12.ga.us /BuilderV03/LPTools/lpshared/lpdisplay.asp?LPID=2175 (375 words)

	Itineraries
		The Spaniards found that the land was densely populated with Indians, and they suffered a serious attack from at least one Mississippi tribe, the Chickasaws.
		The smaller Yazoo tribe was also nearly annihilated by the French and their Indian allies, the Choctaw, for their part in the 1729 rebellion, but other tribes were less negatively affected by the colonial powers.
		In 1805 the Choctaws ceded part of the south Mississippi lands that had come to them after the departure of the Natchez and the smaller tribes; in 1820, at the Treaty of Doak's Stand, they ceded the rest of the southern lands.
	www.visitmississippi.org /itineraries/themes_native_american.asp (1112 words)

	WebRoots Library U.S. Bios (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When the people awoke to the certain knowledge that the men who had bought the "Yazoo lands" had bribed the majority of the Georgia legislature and the Governor, the Congress of the United States also became aroused to the infamy of the transaction.
		The Yazoo sale was denounced in the Legislature as a fraud, the Yazoo Act was rescinded and the records were publicly burned in Louisville, Georgia (then the State Capital), by fire drawn from Heaven by a sun glass.
		As a rule they were slave owners and they sought more land to expand their agricultural pursuits, and many of those of whom I have here written, sold out and undertook the long overland journey with only wagons and carts for their necessary transportation.
	www.webroots.org /library/usabios/clig0001.html (12588 words)

	American State Papers [Public Lands: Volume 3] : Index : a machine readable transcription.
		60 Showing the names of the persons who filed evidence of, and released their claims to, certain lands (Yazoo) under the act “providing for the indemnification of certain claimants of public lands in the Mississippi Territory,” and whose claims were rejected by the commissioners.
		277 On the petition of the inhabitants of the Illinois Territory for the confirmation of the claims to certain lands heretofore confirmed by the governors of the Northwestern and Indiana Territories.
		Scott to a tract of land on the Homochitto river, in the Mississippi.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ll/llsp/030/llsp030.sgm (4653 words)

	AllRefer.com - Yazoo land fraud (U.S. History) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Yazoo land fraud (U.S. History) - Encyclopedia
		Yazoo land fraud, name given to the sale in 1795 by an act of the Georgia legislature of vast holdings in the Yazoo River country to four land companies following the wholesale bribery of the legislators; the territory comprised most of present Alabama and Mississippi.
		See C. Haskins, The Yazoo Land Companies (1891); C. Magroth, Yazoo (1966).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/Y/Yazoolan.html (390 words)

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		Most of the land William Madison Otey cultivated in both Alabama and Mississippi between 1849 and his death had been bequeathed to his wife by her parents.
		In the 1840s, before his marriage, he had lived with his mother on her small plantation and worked the land with a handful of slaves belonging to her.
		Octavia's letters to William, written while he was visiting Yazoo County, discussed mostly her loneliness with him gone and the activities of their children.
	www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/ead2/01608.xml (9052 words)

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