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 >