> Please check on Joseph Thomas. Thanks, Lucinda Thomas Schaefer > > > I just rec'd a copy of this book yesterday, its a reprint and lists names of > hundreds of whites living in Cherokee lands in North Georgia from 1827-1838 > when permits were required to live in Cherokee territory. The permits and > records collected by the Indian agents and officials at that time were very > detailed and actually covered the entire northern part of the state of Georgia > from Cobb and Paulding Counties north. It is suprizing the amount of > information garnered by the author of this work. Anyway more to the point... > it also lists those whites "married" to Indians. Gold had been discovered in > the lands occupied by the Cherokees and many whites were granted temporary > claims to work the land by the Georgia government. If anyone on this list > wants me to look up a name... I'll be glad to do so. Even if you don't think > they were in Georgia, remember some came to escape the removal, some passed > for white, some came long enough to work the mine claims and then left to head > west. Those THOMAS names listed are: > Evan > Evin > J.H. > Jemima > Jesse > Jessee > John > Joseph > Lemuel > Leonard > P. > Sam'l > Samuel > William > > Leslie Thomas > > All emails from this address are certified Virus Free by Norton's Virus > Scanner... > > CHEROKEE INDIAN PRAYER > O Great Spirit, Help me always to > speak the truth quietly, to listen with > an open mind when others speak, > and to remember the peace > that may be found in silence. > > http://www.geocities.com/wakaakta/Wakaditka_Homeplace.html > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Re: [THOMAS] Migration pattern/paths > Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:47:42 EDT > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > Thanks for calling attention to the migration site. It illustrates much of > what I had observed abt. my Yankee ancestors: CT, NY (maybe Vt), WI, and > finally IA. > > And the Yankees were shrewd. They got to Wisconsin first and got all the > good land. The Germans (one gggrandfather) arrived late and wound up on the > hillsides. What that guy went to Iowa, he knew better and wound up with flat, > black, rich soil. > > pat smith > brooklyn, ny