Note 1367 — Chapter X
Reading edition
Harris: Georgia from the Invasion of De Soto to Recent Times, 127-28; White: Statistics of the State of Georgia, 50; Chappell: Miscellanies of Georgia, 93-95.
These writers leave the unjust inference that Wilson was one of those who were corrupting the Legislature. This is almost certainly untrue. For a quarter of a century Wilson had been a heavy speculator in Indian lands, and it appears reasonable that he took this money to Augusta for the purpose of investment. When the deal was consummated, the Justice held shares to the amount of at least three quarters of a million of acres. (Chappell, 94.)