In a message dated 8/30/2002 4:32:23 PM Central Daylight Time, wood_owl@hotmail.com writes: > > Harjo is a well-known Creek surname. For example, Joy Harjo(Creek) is a > famous poet. I love her poem "She had some horses." Another Harjo (maybe > Linda) also publishes. > > George Ann > > George Ann, I've looked very closely at the names on the discharge list and none of them seem to be spelled "Harjo". They all look like they are spelled "Hanjo". Now it was signed by Andrew Jackson but as to whether he was the one who wrote up the list or whether it was the captain of the company who made up the list and who, as best as I can make it out, was named "Powas Hanjo", is something I just don't know about. I suspect it waa the captain since it involved many long Indian names. I don't see any that look like they are Choctaw names but at the same time I can't be certain that they aren't Choctaw names. Maybe they are Chickasaw names. They might even be Creek names since some Creeks fought on the side of America against the British but I just don't know. Have you ever encountered the name "Powas Hanjo"? John Craven New Orleans