In a message dated 11/26/01 12:03:55 AM Eastern Standard Time,
tstowell(a)chattanooga.net writes:
<< 'do you have any idea what the purpose was for issuing a Georgia Passport?
My 6th G grandparents were issued one in 1811 to travel through the Creek
Indian Territory to the Mississippi Territory. cannot seem to find any info
about the passports.'
Tim >>
My husband's Riviere / Riviore line were issued passports like the above.
They wound up being Pioneer Settlers of Florida and appear on the earliest
Jackson County FL census.
From National Genealogical Society Quarterly for June 1963, Vol. 51.
Passports issued by governors of Georgia, 1810-1820 page 69 Satuday 1st.
Sept. 1810 An application ordered - that a passport be prepared for Mr. Henry
L. Reviere, with two negroes from the county of Wilkes, to travel through the
Creek Nation, presented and signed Gov. D. B. Mitchell, Milledgeville, GA.
(my husbands ggg-grf)
Donna