The land that is now Polk County was included on the 1832 Gold Lottery, which was the 7th of 8 land lotteries of Georgia. You can find the general details of the lottery on the Georgia Archives website. It’s interesting to note that one of the exclusions to eligibility was if a person was “a member of or concerned with ‘a horde of Thieves known as the Pony Club.’”
Cherokee Gold Lottery (PDF) includes Section, District, Lot Number, Grantee, Grantee’s Original District, Grantee’s Original County, and Year.
Names included (spellings are ‘as is’ from the source document):
Adams, Hesekiah
Ammons, Jonathan
Bagley, Wm.
Bailey, Jonathan
Barr, James
Boyd, Charlotte E.
Bradford, Richard
Bradford, Wm. T.
Brooks, Mucajah
Brumbloe, Ezekiel
Burt, James H.
Carpenter, Sarah
Casey, Wiley
Clements, Nelson
Cobb, N.
Connell, Thomas
Dodd, William
Duke, John
England, William G.
Gadden, Uriah C.
Gilmore, Wilie
Glass, Sarah
Haregraves, Thomas
Harper, Haywood
Harris, Lewis F.
Hawthorne, Wm.
Hendry, George
Hicks, William
Hightower, Elias D.
Hightower, John P.
Hightower, Thomas
Hightower, William
Hixon, William
Hubbard, Jeremiah
Hubbard, Wilson
Hubbard, Woodson
Huckaby, James
Hughes, Richard
Hurt, Barnabas
Irwin, Absalom
Ivie, Wm. S.
Johnson, Ephriam
Jones, Seaborn
Lankford, Moses
Ledbetter, Isaac
Lipham, Francis (Wid)
Lowe, John F.
Lumpkin, Phillip
Lyon, Wm.
Manning, Britton
McCord, John
McGregor, Rheese
Morgan, Benjamin F.
Murphy, Elijah
Noble, Wm.
Pace, Hardy
Parker, William H.
Partee, E. Y.
Peek, Henry
Phillips, Ichabod
Phillips, Jeremiah
Phillips, W. L.
Pryor, John H.
Richardson, Robert
Robertson, James
Russell, Miles B.
Sibley, Josiah
Smith, David
Talbot, John
Thacker, James
Underwood, Isaac H.
Van Bibber, Henry V.
Vann, Samuel
West, Wm. W.
Whatley, O. (orph)
Wilkinson, Benjamin
Wilson, Ara
Wood, Wm.
Wright, Abendenego
Young, Augustin