The list below contains the names and residence of all the fortunate drawers in the Land Lottery of the 25th District, 3rd Section, of Cherokee country. This list is part of a larger compilation called the Cherokee land lottery. 1 M’Guder Wade, M’Daniel’s, Pulaski.*2 Robert Castleberry, s. 1. w., 177th, Randolph.3 Littleton Story, Adams’s, Columbia.4 […]
The list below contains the names and residence of all the fortunate drawers in the Land Lottery of the 8th District, 4th Section, of Cherokee country. This list is part of a larger compilation called the Cherokee land lottery. 1 Hullum Hunt, Seal’s, Elbert.2 Betsey Danielly, w., Macklerg’s, Clarke.3 Elizabeth Tyler, w., Prophett s, Newton.4
The list below contains the names and residence of all the fortunate drawers in the Land Lottery of the 26th District, 3rd Section, of Cherokee country. This list is part of a larger compilation called the Cherokee land lottery. 1 Philip Hening’s or., Justice’s, Bibb.2 Elijah Needham, or., Comer’s, Jones.*3 William Raper, Price’s, Hall.*4 Pleasant
The list below contains the names and residence of all the fortunate drawers in the Land Lottery of the 9th District, 4th Section, of Cherokee country. This list is part of a larger compilation called the Cherokee land lottery. 1 Celia Giles, w. r. s., Everett’s, Washington.2 John S. Moss, Fulks’s, Wilkes.*3 Susannah Pearce, w.,
The list below contains the names and residence of all the fortunate drawers in the Land Lottery of the 10th District, 4th Section, of Cherokee country. This list is part of a larger compilation called the Cherokee land lottery. 1 David Clarke’s ore., 600th, Richmond.2 Mary White, w., Keener’s, Rabun.3 Josiah Spivey, Thomas’s, Crawford.4 George
The following is the 1835 Cherokee East of the Mississippi Census or otherwise known as the Henderson Roll. This is only an index of the names. Researchers should consult the full roll in order to get more specific information on each family listed. In 1835, the Cherokee Nation contained almost 22,000 Cherokees and almost 300 Whites connected by marriage. This roll enumerates 16,000 of those people under 5,000 different families.
By a treaty of March 24, 1832, the Creek Indians ceded to the United States all of their land east of the Mississippi River. Heads of families were entitled to tracts of land, which, if possible, were to include their improvements. In 1833 Benjamin S. Parsons and Thomas J. Abbott prepared a census of Creek
The following is the 1835 Cherokee East of the Mississippi Census or otherwise known as the Henderson Roll. This is only an index of the names. Researchers should consult the full roll in order to get more specific information on each family listed. This list is specific to Georgia. Surname A Acquetakey Adair Andrew Adair
Abstract information that pertained to the Nation or surrounding environs TN, AL, GA, NC, and SC as extracted and transcribed from the Cherokee Phoenix of 1828. Page 3 – 28 February 1828 DIED – At Tellico, Ten. on the first inst. of consumption, the Rev. RICHARD NEALY, age d 26 years, formerly a missionary of
The list below contains the names and residence of all the fortunate drawers in the Land Lottery of the 24th District, 2nd Section, of Cherokee country. This list is part of a larger compilation called the Cherokee land lottery. 1 Reason A. Bell, Hill’s, Stewart.*2 Martin Wells’s ors., Newman’s, Thomas.*3 Frederic E. Brooking, 118th, Hancock.4
J. W. Swilling, known as “Jack Swilling,” was born in the state of Georgia in 1831. He emigrated to Missouri in early life, and there settled down. After having resided in that state some four years, his wife died, leaving one child, a girl, who afterwards married and lived in Missouri. About the year 1857,
A pioneer to this state, and a man who has wrought in all the occupations incident to the pioneer’s life, being also attended with many hardships, the subject of this sketch is today one of the most respected and admired residents of Wallowa county, and we are pleased to accord to him a representation in
Judge E. D. Shattuck was born in Bakersfield, Franklin County, Vermont, December 31, 1824. He spent his boyhood and youth on a farm and was prepared for a collegiate course at Bakersfield Academy. In 1844 he entered Vermont University, pursued the full classical course and graduated in 1848. While in college he was dependent upon
Lownsdale, Daniel H., the son of one of the earliest settlers of Kentucky, was born in Mason county, in that State, April 8, 1803. As was the custom in those days, he was married young, at the age of 23, to Ruth, youngest daughter of Paul Overfilled, Esq., the head of one of the most
Proprietor of the Perkins House, of this city, was born in Georgia in 1841, and came to this state in 1856. His first occupation in Texas was that of farming. He followed this business in Lamar County, until in 1878, when he moved to Paris, and opened a hotel. He remained in Paris only a
Capt. Randall Jones, one of the historic characters of Fort Bend County, was born in Columbia County, Georgia, on the 19th of August 1786. In 1810 he went to Wilkinson County, Mississippi Territory. When the second war with England broke out in 1812 he joined the American army as a private, but such was his
Captain Wiley Martin was born in Georgia in 1776. He led a very active, restless life, and when very young had been a soldier, schoolteacher and clerk in a store. In 1805 he became connected with Aaron Burr in some business enterprise, and in 1812 joined the army of General Harrison and served as a
Elizabeth, child of Christopher Rotenberger and his wife Elizabeth, was born Jan. 16, 1759, and baptized the same day. Sponsors were Hans Schmidt and his wife Juliana. Christiana, child of Matthew Wuest and his wife, was born Jan. 26, 1759 in the morning, and baptized on the 31st. Sponsors were John Michael Bormann and Mary
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William Mcintosh was a half-breed of the Muscogee or Creek Nation, and was born at Coweta. His father was Capt. William McIntosh, a Scotchman; his mother a native, Of unmixed blood. Of the early life of McIntosh very little is known. He was intelligent and brave. In person he was tall, finely formed, and of
General William Augustus Bowles, as much of the embarrassments which Georgia experienced in settling the difficulties connected with the Creek Indians, immediately after the Revolution, arose from the interference of the man whose name is placed at the head of this article, we have concluded to give our readers a short account of his life,
