Hi, I see at least 25 surnames on this Miller( Hempstead) County , Arkansas Territory, 1825. that were common names in Erath County, Texas. Do any of you see a missing link ?? Charles A. Wyly --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: CHASMID@aol.com To: Southern-Trails-L@rootsweb.com Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 14:52:57 EDT Subject: [SouthernTrails] Another people moved X-Mailing-List: <Southern-Trails-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/319 X-Loop: Southern-Trails-L@rootsweb.com Resent-Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 11:53:10 -0700 I have copied this from the Reeder query list. It relates to actions by our then Federal government in providing land for white settlements and acquiring and then ceding back land to Indian tribes. There was ineptitude in government then even as now. Some of you may recognize names of ancestors who were in this part of Territorial Arkansas at that time. Charles Middlebrooks Thought everyone would like to have a copy of the petition we have been discussing. You can thank Karol Gale for sharing this information. PETITION TO THE PRESIDENT BY CITIZENS OF MILLER COUNTY [NA:01A, Lets. Reed. (Ark.) DS] [No date, 1825] To the President of the United States, The Petition of the undersigned Inhabitants of that Part of Miller, in the Territory of Arkansas, ceded and confirmed to the Choctaw Nation of Indians, by Treaty made with them at Washington City, in the present Year (1825). Respectfully Sheweth. That the tract of Country upon which Your Petitioners reside, was acquired by the United States from the Quapaw Nation of Indians, by Treaty made with them about the Year 1818. -By which said Treaty, the said tract of Country became a part of the public Lands of the United States. And that the Legislature of the Territory of Missouri (within which the said tract of country was then situated) included the said tract of Country upon which Your Petitioners now reside, within the Civil Jurrisdiction of Hempstead County of that Territory, by an Act of the Legislature thereof (which has since been divided and Miller County erected out of the Western part of said County of Hempstead). That about the Year 1819, a part of the same public Lands upon which Your Petitioners now reside, were under the Authority of the United States surveyed into Townships, and subdivided into sections, as far as Ranges 38 or 39 West, and within about eight Miles of the present western boundary of Arkansas Territory, as established by Act of Congress, and lately surveyed and marked. That on the 5th January 1819 by Authority of an order from the Secretary of War, a few Settlers that were on Red River above Kia-Miche, and on the Arkansas above the Poto, were removed below, and East of those Rivers, to where no prohibition to settling then, or since, existed, and within a few Miles of which point (Kia-Miche on Red River) the public Lands were about that time, or soon afterwards, surveyed into sections, as if to facilitate Settlers in acquiring titles to the Lands they choose to settle, in the usual way provided for by law. That under these encouragements by the Authorities of the Government, there was an immediate and considerable Increase of the settlements at and below Kia Miche, on Red River, upon and near the lands surveyed into sections as aforesaid, most of which settlements were made with a view to being perminant, and improvements large and valuable. That Your Petitioners became greatly alarmed by a Treaty made with said Choctaw Nation of Indians at Dokes stand, about the year 1820, by which the country upon which Your Petitioners reide (together with other large extents of adjoining Territory) was then ceded to said Indians, -But were soon afterwards reconciled by assurances from the President of the United States, received by James Miller, Governor of Arkansas, that it was not the view or intention of the General Government, to remove any of the Settlers from the Lands then ceded to said Indians and that the then settled parts of said country so ceded to said Indians would be repurchased from them, which assurances have been by the Delegate in Congress from said Territory, frequently since that time renewed. And under which assurances, Your Petitioners became satisfied, and have continued enlarging their farms and improvements. Your Petitioners further respectfully represent, that from the time of their first settlement where they now reside, Civil Government, and Civil Jurrisdiction has been extended to them, and Courts of La-w Law established and held, within the tract of Country lately ceded and confirmed to said Choctaw Indians by the aforesaid Treaty of the present year (1825) and that under the authority of an Act of Congress (passed in 1824) granting rights of pre-emption for lands on which to establish permanent seats of Justice of New Counties, a quarter section of land had been selected by the proper commissioners of said County of Miller, and part of the public buildings contracted for. Under which assurances of protection and Civil Government a large number of Settlers have continued to improve enlarge their improvements, plant Orchards, and increase their Stocks &c, up to the present time, and that now to abandon their plantations, and remove their families and property, is to them ruinous and impossible. Your Petitioners are aware, that the General Government have heretofore remove from Indians lands, Citizens of the United States, who settled upon lands owned at the time of such settlements by Indians, Where the settlement at at the beginning were upon Indian lands, but Your present Petitioners respectfully deny having settled upon Indian lands: They settled upon the public -lands of the United States, where settlements were not prohibited by any order of the Government, where part of the public lands were surveyed into sections (a thing Never done for Indian purposes) and where, after the same country was first ceded to the Choctaws, the people have had assurances from the highest Authority, that the settled parts of said Country should be repurchased, and Your Petitioners afforded an opportunity of acquiring titles to their possessions, in the way that the Settlers upon the public lands have usually done, in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Alabama &c. Yet notwithstanding all the foregoing circumstances and assurances, Your Petitioners are now informed, that the lands they now occupy, are ceded and confirmed to said Choctaw Indians, and that Your Petitioners are shortly to be removed from their farms, without payment or recompence for their improvements, to give Place to Indians !! An Act that would have no example in any civilized Government, under the same circumstances which these settlements were made. An improved Country of Citizens where they have had the protection of Civil Laws and Civil Government for more than six successive Years, to be ceded by their Government to a Nation of Indians, has, it is believed, No examples. These settlements, not having been commenced upon the -lands of the Choctaw Indians, but upon the public Lands of the United States, then surveying for market, still claim the same protection of the same laws and Government, under the faith of which they commenced their settlements. To be forced and driven by our own Government from the farms and improvements we have laboured for years to make, for the support of our families, in order to give place to Indians, would under all the circumstances and assurances before mentioned, appear so unjust and unprecedented, and to the Settlers so ruinous, that its enforcement would produce the greatest possible excitement. Your Petitioners therefore respectfully ask of Your Excellencey to suspend the survey of the eastern boundary of Territory, lately ceded to said Choctaw Indians, and to suspend the time of giving said Indians possession of said Territory, and cause to be re-purchased from them, the parts of said Territory settled and improved by Citizens of the United States, as aforesaid East of the Kia-Miche on red River, and of the Poto on Arkansas, where settlements by Citizens has never been prohibited, but approbated and encouraged as before mentioned. As Your Petitioners in duty bound will ever pray Petitioner Names Aaron Coe; Bailey English; Jesse Cheek; Joseph English; Micajah Reder; Solomon Moffitt; John Swagerty; Allon Rains; Thomas Gatathite; Thomas Wafer jun; Thomas Wafer Snr; Mabry Wafer; Josiah Trent; John Trent; Rucker Tanner; Joseph Porter; John J Mors; Lewis Potter; Zacariah Thompson; Wesley Tollett; Elijah Tollett; James Watt; Walter Hogon; Henry Tollett; Henry K Brown; Asa Hartfield; James R, Brown; Travis G Wright; John Hinds-10; John Adams; D Clark; Johnston Bowers; Jonathan Poole; Franklin Greenwood; John Greenwood; Joel Greenwood; Henry B Greenwood; Philip Henson; Nathaniel More-10; William Hensley; Thomas More; John Tucker; Thomas J Garner; Nicholas Porter; Samuel Strickland; John Green; Butler Roberts; Otho, B Cocke; Paul Scarbrough-10; John Farly; Adam Hampton; Thomas Owen; W- Slingland; Wilobe Sparks; Will Woods; Joshua Ewing; Jessey Keliher; George Wilson; Maurice Pendergast; Arther Leebe; Lewis Boatright; Alexander Linch; Mathew Sparks; Thos Boatright; William Modglan; David Gutman; PhiIip Tramell; Allon Miller; Thomas Linch; Thomas P French; Joseph French; Levy C. French; Amos Strickland; Wm Brice Jr; James Amburn; Thomas Cheser; David Fraser; Taylor Polk; Thomas Tramel; James Polk; Ruland Polk; William Bradford; James S. Hanks; Richard Stiles; John Emmerson; Allen Carter; John Will; Elijah Carter; Ad. Chr. Hartung; Joseph Reed; John Stiles; James Harrell; Joel Harrell; Isaac Harrell; Timothy Harrell; Joshua Harrell; Hodg P Raburn; Jacob Nidever; George Nidever; Mark Nidever; Mitchel Crownover; Joseph Adkison; David Frame; Joseph Jenkins; William Stiles; Jesse Perkins; Partrick T Carnall; William Forsyth; Absolom Sparks Jnr; Isaac N Charles; William Brice Junior; Peter Miller; John Morton; Samuel Brice; James Brice; Jas Clark; T. B. Ballard; John Mcvay; John Kerley; John Wood; Noah Reeder; Samuel Guthry; Thomas Guthry; William Guthry; Gorge Lawrence; Jams Lawrence; Walter Poole; David G Strickland; Ezra McElvey; Maurice Pendergast; Hugh McElvey; David lawrence; Wyat Hanks; Jas Strickland; Amos Strickland; Jas McElvey; John Hudson; Adam Lawrence Jun; John Chumney; Ambrose Hilburn; Joseph Clark; John Deck; Joseph Deck; John Roberts; Luke Robberts; John Wolsey; Wreding Robberts; ElsBerry Sparks; John Woolsey; Jonathan Franklin; James Smith Sen; A: Hanscom; Elijah Reid; Charles Curtiss; Abram Tidell; G.G McKinny; Thos Potter; J.C. Ragsdall; James Smith Junior; Samul. S. Fench; M Rulong; Absolam Sparks; I. G. Pennington; Nathl Dixon; Wm Porter; B L Kavanaugh; William Long; Isaack Murphy; George Carlton; John H. Fowler; Benjamin Crownover; G.C. Wetmore; Jas Furguson; Jacob Black; George F. Lawton; John Ring; John Edmondson; Joshua Calloway; William Montgomery; B. Gooch; Andrew Montgomery; W.P. Ferguson; L.M. Rice; David Clap; Jacob Shurley; Nathaniel Mare Junior; Evritt Edwars; Stephen Wiley Jun.; Thomas Wiley; Holawar Noll; Clark, Robinson; Y E Bradsaw; John Newman; Daniel Conner; Thos Coil; Ralph Shelton; Bengeman Geames; Asa Blankinship; Roabit Slaven; Joseph James; Stephen Wingate; Thomas Swagerty; Isaac Landers; Abrm Landers; John Lackey; Mark Lewis; Jane Brown; Margaret Tollett; Pharoah Kitchen; Preston Kitchen; Clayborn Wright; William Pagan; A Carnall; Silas C Blair; Hiram Tidwell; J H Carnall; Partrick Carnall; E G Blair; James Brown; Leonard M Simpson; William King; J. G. W. Pierson; John Noll; Thos Barrow; William Harse; Larken Noll; Elizabeth Denton; Samuel French; John Ball; Levi C. French-10; Samuel Moren; Abram Ogdon; Cornelius Martin; John Robins; Alexr O. Wetmore; Nathaniel Robbins; John Dunlop; Lewis, B. Dayton; William Humphry; William Woods-10; James J. Ward Sr; James J. Ward, Jun; Joshua Robbins; Hugh B. Shaw; Alfred Sain; James Burkhm.; J E Hopkins; Ed Hopkins; Benjamin Polk; Richd Harvey; Danl Wilson; John Oniell; Hiram Tidwell; David Tramell; Dennis Tramell; Mongomer Roberson; William Brice Snr; John Bowman; Henry Nidever; James Lawrence; Jesse Robinson; James Gillelad; James Rains; Daniel Wilson; Adam Laurance; Jesse Shelton; James Anderson; William Shelton; G. N. Martin; Matthew Martin; Jessey Moren; Jason Page; Eligah Cutbuth; Martin G. Noll; Thomas Paterson; William Noll; Samuel Clark; James Hall; Silus Rogers; John McMurry; Joseph Green; William Collins; John Spurlock; James Taylor; Samuel Wyley; Cornelius Wiley; Isaack Tyler; Willis McConn; Charles Moore; Samuel Burnam; John Dollarhide; William Bartlet; George Halbrook; David Umphry; Andrew Dollarhide; A. H. Ash; Young Bradshaw; Sherod Bradshaw; Absalam Bauren; Francis Hopkins; Henry Wyatt Seign; Henry Watt Junior; N. Thomes; George T Boren Endorset~ Petition of sundry inhabitants of Miller County in Arkansas Territory, praying that measures may be adopted to relieve them of the difficulties under which they are placed by the late treaties with the Choctaws, giving them lands in Arkansas." >> ============================== Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 Source for Family History Online. Go to: http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB