I did a Google search for Choctaw Certificates and got lots and lots of hits to read. Quite an interesting variety of "points of view" ron in CA -----Original Message----- From: Toulla Taylor <[email protected]> Sent: May 10, 2005 6:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ARSEARCY] FW: What are Choctaw Certificates? Don't know if there was any other discussion on these Certificates, but where can you look these up. Toulla Taylor [email protected] Why Wait? Move to EarthLink. > [Original Message] > From: James Johnston <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 5/8/2005 9:55:22 PM > Subject: What are Choctaw Certificates? > > When the US Gov't signed the "Dancing Rabbit Creek Treaty" with the > Coctaws in the early 1830s (I think--could be 1820s late) in Mississippi > (or maybe it was Alabama, I'm not going to look it up tonight) the USG > gave warrants or certificates to individual members of the Choctaw who > didn't want to go with the tribe to OK, which were redeemable with US G > land anywhere. These land warrants were fungible, ie they could be sold > and anyone could redeem them. So white people bought these certificates > and used them to redeem Gov't land that they were buying in Searcy > County and elsewhere. I would note that there were middlemen who bought > the certificates from the Choctaw and sold them on. Maybe the Choctaw > Certificates were sold several times before they were actually redeemed. > With land selling at a dollar or a dollar and a quarter, if one could > get a 160 acre certificate for $75, he could do well and save some > money. (I have no idea how much Choctaw Certificates were selling for.) > > JJJ ============================== Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. New content added every business day. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx