[1] The 1820 lottery were used to obtain Muscogee land and redistribute it to settlers of various qualifications.
Following the Creek War (1813–1814), President Andrew Jackson demanded from the Muscogee an immense area of land which would become the southern third of the entire state of Georgia.
This other, smaller section defined the eastern end of the Cherokee Nation for 12 years.
Muscogee land was appropriated and redistributed in Appling, Early, Gwinnett, Habersham, Hall, Irwin, Rabun, and Walton counties.
Fortunate drawers from the previous 1805 and 1807 lotteries were excluded (with an exception for families of orphans consisting of more than one person), as well as draft resisters who refused to fight in the War of 1812 or the Indian Wars, and any resident of "the lottery territory previous to the extinguishment of the Indian title".