Gwinnett County History for Genealogists
The Creeks and Cherokees occupied this land until they ceded it to the State of Georgia in 1789 and 1790.
Gwinnett County was named after Button Gwinnett, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Governor of Georgia, who died from wounds on May 19, 1771 after dualling in the
streets of Savannah with General Lachlan McIntosh, commander of the American forces during the Revolutionary War.
Persons who drew in the 1827 and 1832 land lotteries settled in Gwinnett County.
The early settling families were: Andrews, Ambrose, Addison, Bracewell, Bridges, Bruton, Bullock, Burton, Burns, Brandon, Carter, Carroll, Choice, Chester, Cosley, Connelly, Cowan, Day, Deaton, Dover,
Edwards, Dyer, Durham, Dunlap, Etheridge, Edwards, Glaze, Garmany, Franklin, Freeland, Flowers, Gresham, Gray, Holcombe, Howell, Jackson, James, Kicker, Killian, Kinney,
Knight, Lankford, Lester, Light, Lockridge, Martin, Malone, Mann, McKinney, McGinnis, Maynard, Montgomery, Norton, Owen, Pace, Plunkett, Pool, Perkerson, Rakestraw,
Rowden, Spruce, Snow, Terrell, Terry, Thomas, Tait, Warbington, Waits, Venable, Vinyard, Wells, Wiley, Whitehead, and others.
Images of Gwinnett County Inferior Court Minutes (1819-1861) and Wills (1847-1886)are available to subscribers of
Georgia Pioneers Most of these images are clear and readable, with some which had faded ink and water damage.
