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I'm not familar with the GMDs of Campbell County but all the land west of the Chattahoochee River from the Alabama line in the south to the old Cherokee-Creek Indian boundary trail (the northern lines of todays Carroll County, Douglas County, and traversing the upper third of Haralson County) was the original Carroll County as designated by the Land Lottery of 1827. Campbell County was formed in 1828, in part from that portion of Carroll County that included a strip of land in the Third Land District that is today the northern boundary of Carroll County's GMD 1297.
The strip of land became part of Douglas County when that county was formed in 1870 but reverted to Carroll County in 1872. As a reference point the County Line Primitive Baptist Church was in this strip of land originally in Campbell County, now in Carroll. The original church was in Land Lot 67, Third Land District, that would today be close to the northern boundary of GMD 1297 and about a mile west of the river. The existing church is in the northwest corner of Land Lot 89, Third Land District, about 1¾ miles south of the original site.
If that strip was a part of Campbell County GMD 787 then you would be correct in your assumption.
Since the boundries of Georgia Militia Districts changed as the population and county lines changed, they are really not the best way to locate where a person may have lived. The ultimate way is to determine the land lot and land district. These never change and the northern two-thirds of the Third Land District is in Douglas County. If you can determine through deed records the land lot and district, then that land can usually be be located within a half-mile by referring to county land lot maps.
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