Euline and other researchers with possible Cherokee/Delaware Heritage: I have at different times posted queries about a law suit that involved land that was deeded to a Cherokee Family by the US Govt in either Chattanooga or in Dist. 6 of Marion Co. No one could identify any programs that did that. I called Kent Carter of the NARA facility in Ft. Worth because they have most of the Cherokee records (all the five civilized nation in fact) BUT I was told that they had no idea about this land program but since it was on the Eastern Nation (before 1880) the information may be known at the Atlanta NARA facility. I called there and had an audience of at least five people on the speaker phone and no one knew of a program that would involve those parameters. I continued my research stopping short of calling NARA's expert in Washington. The two groups at Ft. Worth and Atlanta were both very helpful and very knowledgeable but this was beyond their normal scope. >From the web page http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~harrisonrep/Johnson/JHN1196part3.htm Citing the book by David Keith Hampton,CHEROKEE RESERVEES (Oklahoma City, OK; Baker Publishing Co.,1979) p 1.1. The Cherokee Treaties of 1817 and 1819 were important in Marshall Co. History. The 1817 treaty was a major attempt to resettle the Cherokee peacefully in the West. It gave them title to lands in Arkansas in exchange for an equal tract of land in the east. Since many Cherokees with lands in the east would not want to move, provision was made allowing each head of a Cherokee family who wished to become a citizen of the US to receive a life reservation of 640 acres, with reversion in fee simple (absolute title to his children with the stipulation that removal from the reserved land would result in title passing to the US. That meant that they could not sell the land or hold on to it if they moved elsewhere but that their children would have such rights after the parent died (This following paragraph seems to be from the author of the web page's information) There was dissatisfaction over this treaty and so in 1819, the US agreed to pay for improvements left by the Cherokees who vacated their homes in the east. Hampton in the book cited gives several very interesting lists. A register of persons who wished Reservations under the 1817 treaty had 311 names. 31 persons are shown who were granted land where they resided, and nine listed on land other than where they resided. (Does this mean that Thomas was of Marion County TN but got his reservation in Madison County, AL?... or were there two Thomas Harrison Reservations for two different people?) Under DOCKET OF APPLICATIONS filed for adjudication with the Board of Commissioners to settle claims under the 1817 and 1819 treaties were 140 names. Most interesting is a list of 1229 abstracted claims acted upon and decided by the fourth Board of Commissioners under the treaty of 1835-36 showing the amount claimed. Among those listed are Catherine Cheek's children, Polly Smith's son Walter, James Ore, John Thompson's heirs, THOMAS HARRISON'S HEIRS, and Catherine Stephens. This shows clearly that there was such a program and the land was deeded to the Cherokee head of the family. I need to know if anyone else has found deeds of this nature in Marion or Hamilton Cos. in Tennessee? Ron McCandless