In a message dated 9/3/2002 3:38:41 PM Central Daylight Time, jlee@centex.net writes: > > My ggggrandfather was Choctaw. I found a Land Record in Alabama; Saint > Stephens Land Office. The issue date was May 1; 1861 for 39.91 acres. The > document number is 16139.Also states: Act or Treaty, April 24 1820. Is it > possible that this is land granted to him through a Treaty with US govmt. > Any help or direction will be most graciously appreciated. Thanks, Joe > > Hello Joe, I think there was a treaty that that came from but it wasn't the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. I think it may have been the Treaty that ended the war with the Creeks and which divided up lands between the Creeks, the Choctaws and the Cherokees and the Chickasaws. I think the treaty was first negotiated around 1818 and it may have been ratified by Congress in 1820. There's also the Treaty of Doak's Stand but I think that was in 1824. John Craven New Orleans