'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 > ======*====== > >

'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 >

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