Georgia -- Superior Court (Camden County)

Scope and Contents Records from Camden County (Ga.) departments including, courts (Superior, Inferior, Ordinary, Probate, Justice, and City Courts), Tax assessor, Sheriff, Education, and Elections. Types of records in this collection include, tax digests (improved and wild), civil and criminal records, court minutes, interrogatories, judgments, dockets, deed indexes (including transactions involving slavery), land grants, plat drawings, and property indentures, estates (wills, guardianships,...

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The collection consists of oaths of allegiance, oath of faith, superior court records, petitions for citizenship and other issues. The donor, Ted Stemple, found these court documents when he was a young boy. They had been abandoned in the basement of the old courthouse in Saint Marys, Georgia. As noted in his donation letter, he made it a point to grab documents that appeared to be older.