This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4gC.2ACE/1373.1 Message Board Post: Josiah S. Doak was a WHITE resident among the Choctaws, and he did indeed serve the Choctaw people well. He signed the 1830 treaty, and he ( along with others) made a trip west to the Indian Territory ( present day Oklahoma) for the Choctaw before removal. His trip was from October 10th to December of 1830. This trip was to look at the proposed land that the Choctaw would be settled on when they removed fromt he east. Because of his service to the Choctaw people he was given a land reserve by the 1830 treaty and he also witnessed the 1837 Choctaw - Chickasaw treaty at Doaksville in 1837. In 1847 Josiah was living at Holly Springs, Mississippi. Four years later ( 1851) he was residing at Boonesboro, Arkansas ( there, on June 22, 1844 a daughter , Mal. D. Doak was married to George W. Clark of Van Buren, Arkansas). Applications for enrollment were probably denied because although Josiah had served the Choctaw people well, and was respected by them, and lived long among them,he did not have Choctaw blood by birth, and if any of his children or grandchildren did have some degree of Choctaw blood, via intermarriages, they could not prove it to the satisfaction of the enrollment commission. Josiah does appear on the Armstrong Roll .The Armstrong Roll was really a census taken to see how many Choctaw the government would be removing. Although it is an Indian census, it also includes any whites who lived in the Choctaw Nation East at that time. Because Josiah appears on the census simply means he was living among the Choctaw at that time, but it does not mean that he was Chocaw or carried Choctaw blood. Sources: 1 Who Was Who Among the Southern Indians 1698 - 1907, by Martini, published 1998, pages 185, 186 2 Choctaw Emigration ( microfilm) roll 185, frame 68 3 Choctaw Reserves ( microfilm) roll 189 frame 256, roll 190, frame 144, roll 191, frame 316 4 Payments from the Chickasaw Fund ( Oklahoma Historical Society) 5 Marriages and Deaths from Mississippi Newspapers 1837 - 1863, by Wiltshire, page 79