Some how the Indians appointed Mr. Wright as power of attorney. He charged each one of them $15 for paying them $85 their money, I am just getting into the part of how much he recieved for larger amounts. I do believe that much of the trial is in the book also. The information I have put up on the Home Guard was interesting because the payment dates were for 2 different years, but one entry could be for 1869 while the next one would be for 1868, in a journal type book, other than pulling out the pages I don't quite understand how something paid in 1869 could have an entery for 1868 after it. I am guessing they might have just sat down and started writing enteries and none of the receipts are in order either. There are also more claims to be added and you will see from some of that that a widow, parent or child claim they were never paid the money. But then we all know this was very common. I am also working on Allotment of Lands to the Delaware Indians, http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/delaware/ Again if you read the letters, you will see that the governent was in no rush to get these lands settled on the tribes they belonged to. There is no way we can change any of this now, but we can keep adding the information so others may be able to find their ancestors. Judy On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Evelyn S. Leslie <[email protected]>wrote: > Judy wrote: > <I am working to the rest of this book as it was suggested by the > Department > of Justice felt Mr. J. W, Wright was guilty of embezzlement. There is > more > information on how he used the money provided by the government and whether > he paid all the claims or not. Hopefully I will get this information up > this week.> > > Judy, I am really looking forward to the rest of the information. I would > be very surprised if all the claims were paid. The misuse of Indian monies > for anything and everything are so well-documented that I'm always surprised > when I learn of anything that was handled honestly and above-board and the > Indians involved received a just settlement! I don't quite understand Mr. > Wright's status, though. Was he part of a private enterprise being paid by > the government to handle the payments, or was he a government employee? > Thanks! > Evelyn > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >