JOSEPH HEARD
-County of Morgan - State of Georgia. Joseph Heard, in right of his wife formerly Nancy Stewart, claims from the Creek Nation of Indians, the value of a negroe woman, a girl named Hannah of the value of $300.00 - stolen by said Creek Indians in the year from his wife, who was then an unmarried female which said negroes, and one of her children and two of her grandchildren was found in the possession of the Creek Indians, by the said Joseph Heard, which said negroes were then in the value of $900.00 - that which time, the said Heard demanded of the then agent of the Creek Indians, John Crowell,Esq., said negroes and received for an answer from the agent, that the Indians had paid for the negroes and that by a treaty with U.S. and that the government of U.S. must pay for them. And the said Joseph Heard and his wife never haying received any compensation from said Indians or the U.S., now asks, for the same with interest.

Note: The following was written on the above papers:
Joseph Heard
March 23rd. 1835
Affidavid of Joseph Heard and Amos Stewart
1781 One negro $300.00

Provided for by the treaty of the Indian Springs and Act. of U.S. Congress, of June 30, 1834
Allowed July 28, 1835
[Source: "Miscellaneous Collections of Heards", by Harold Heard, pub. Amarillo, Tex., 1900 - Submitted by K. Torp]

HEARD Records
Morgan County Deed B.D. page 158, Apr. 21, l8l4
STEPHEN HEARD gives property to his daughter Lucy Heard Clark and children, John M. Clark, Ann Clark, Patsy B. Clark, and other children that are born to her.
[Source: "Southern Heard families", by Harold Heard, Pub. Amarillo, Tex., 1968]

Deeds BD p.314, Feb. 1, 1815, Morgan Co. Ga.
STEPHEN HEARD pives property to Frances Heard and Jesse Heard
[Source: "Southern Heard families", by Harold Heard, Pub. Amarillo, Tex., 1968]

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