Yea, I remember us communicating Nancy. Mulatto was often a term used for mixed bloods be they black, white or Indian mistures. The government offered a square mile of land to those who asked and were eligible BUT they did not FORCE a removal to Arkansas to those who chose not to take or weren't elegible for a reservation. The first Cherokee who went to Arkansas did so voluntarily. There was more than one exodus. To the best of my knowledge I have seen 5. The first in 1809 with Tahlonteeskee. The second in 1817 when John Jolly left to go to western Arkansas to become principal chief of the Old Settlers when his brother died. The third was circa 1824 when Cherokee John Rogers took a group of mixed bloods from the southeast TN area. This group included a Lewis family I researched. The fourth was 1829 when a small group left that included Daniel Helton/Hilton and the fourth was the Treaty Party of 1835. There were, very possibly, other groups. All these were considered the Old Settlers. None were forcibly removed. What did happen with these is that in 1849 the gov't decided to make the first payment for Cherokee's who'd left their native land for Arkansas. They promised to pay 291.70 for each family member and their descendents who could prove they were desc. from anyone who had migrated into what was to become western Arkansas. This caused an exodus of mixed blood families from this region to western Arkansas. I know of one family who left Rossville Georgia. He was a fairly prominent businessman whose mother and father had left for Arkansas. When he learned of the proposed payments he picked up to go where mom and dad was so he could collect the money on his entire family of 12. Not a bad deal for a family that size in 1851. One thing I regret to this day is the fact that the Old Settlers payment applications are lost to us forever. They were an earlier version of the Dawes/Miller applications. Joyce Gaston Reece -------------------------------------------------- From: "Nancy McGinty" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 8:33 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Cherokee Circle] land cessions > Joyce, I was trying to find your address and couldn't put my hands on > it. I have written to you before but never thought that I had enough > for you to start looking with. I have since found that my 4th great > grandmother left her husband and five children in Ashe county, NC and > ran off with a mulatto who must have been half Indian. I have just > found info on the attempt by the US government in 1817 to make > citizens of some Indians, especially the mixed blood by giving them > 640 acres of land. If they refused to become citizens, then they had > to move to Arkansas. My 3rd great grandparents had a great deal of > land in the Farrugut/Turkey Creek area. I can't find any evidence > that this man came from a wealthy family. He left a sizable estate. > I wonder if he could hve gotten some of this land from a father-in-law > as this land could be left to heirs in a will. > Nancy McGInty > > On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Joyce G. Reece <[email protected]> > wrote: >> The land CESSION would have been the Hiwassee Purchase or the Treaty of >> 1817. This ceeded the land that is the section between the Little >> Tennessee >> River on the north, the big Tennessee on the west, the Hiwassee on the >> south >> and the NC line on the east. The surveyors did not survey the eastern >> line >> correctly and left off several miles on the eastern line so part Monroe >> remained in Cherokee hands until the Removal in 1838. Thus the reason >> for >> the huge archealogical find in the form of Fort Armistead in eastern >> Monroe >> Co. >> >> Joyce Gaston Reece >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "Nancy McGinty" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 10:50 AM >> To: <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Cherokee Circle] land cessions >> >>> 'Siyo >>> >>> Thanks for the reply, but I may have been asking for the wrong thing. >>> There was an attempt to "civilize" or make citizens of some of the >>> Cherokees in 1817. They had a choice to apply for 640 acres of land >>> in Tennessee, Georgia and maybe Alabama and become US citizens or go >>> to Arkansas. I will go to the National Archives in Georgia next week, >>> but am not quite sure of how to look this up. Do you have any ideas >>> on this? >>> Nancy McG >>> >>> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> 'siyo, >>>> >>>> http://www.tngenweb.org/cessions/ >>>> >>>> Sgi, >>>> >>>> Nill >>>> -=- >>>> >>>> Nancy McGinty wrote: >>>>> Can anyone refer me to a place where I might read more about the land >>>>> cessions of 1817. Were any of these lands around Knox county, TN? >>>>> Nancy MCG >>>>> ======*====== >>>>> >>>>> >>>> ======*====== >>>> List archives >>>> http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cherokee >>>> ------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>>> >>> >>> ======*====== >>> List archives >>> http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cherokee >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> ======*====== >> List archives >> http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cherokee >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ======*====== > List archives > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cherokee > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message