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Crimes in Georgia's Land Lottery, 1832

From The Mail
Hagerstown, Md.
Dec. 28, 1832

GEORGIA.

One of the Commissioners of the Land Lottery of the State, now drawing at Milledgeville, has been impeached for "high crimes, misdemeanor, and forgery." One of the tracts of land which he contrived to draw for himself is the residence of Ridge, the Cherokee chief, and is estimated to be worth $40,000. He has been arrested by warrant of the Speaker. His name in the Savannah Georgian, Shadrack Bogen of Gwinnett county.

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