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Choctaw Mixed Bloods and the Advent of Removal

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Choctaw Mixed Blood and the Advent of Removal: This dissertation by Samuel James Wells lists the names and families of the known mixed bloods and examines their role in tribal history, especially regarding land treaties during the Jeffersonian years preceding Removal. This dissertation includes a database of over three thousand names of known and probable mixed bloods drawn from a wide range of sources and therefore has genealogical as well as historical value.

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Folsom Choctaw Family – List of Mixed Bloods

19 Comments / Native American / / 6 minutes of reading

The Folsom family is easily one of the best known of all mixed-blood groups (see Charts 10 and 11). Their earliest members in Choctaw country were reputedly the three brothers Edmond, Ebeneezer, and Nathaniel who migrated through Indian country with their parents prior to the American Revolution.  According to Cushman: “Nathaniel Folsom married Aiahnichih Ohoyo

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Emeline Jane Smith, Application

Leave a Comment / Alabama, Native American / / 11 minutes of reading

No. 9576                                                                                                         Action: Reject Name: Emeline J. Smith and X children                     Residence: Mt. Vernon, Ala Reason: Applicant claims through her fathers brother who was ½ Cherokee and as applicant was born in 1833 and her father in 1790 her father’s mother must have been born about 1770. It does not appear that any ancestor was

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Durant Choctaw Family – List of Mixed Bloods

3 Comments / Native American, South Carolina / / 6 minutes of reading

The Durant family represents an important link between a large number of modern Alabamans and Mississippians of mixed blood heritage and its line can easily be traced into several prominent pre-Civil War southern families (see Charts 7, 8 and 9). One such example is the Linder family of south Alabama. Their history stretches back across

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Cravat Choctaw Family – List of Mixed Bloods

1 Comment / Native American, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee / / 2 minutes of reading

Horatio Cushman, the source of so many mixed-blood family histories and the only known source for facts about the Cravat family, states: “The Cravat family of Choctaws are the descendents of John Cravat, a Frenchman who came into the Choctaws at an early day, and was adopted among them by marriage. He had two daughters

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Brashears Choctaw Family – List of Mixed Bloods

6 Comments / Native American / / 6 minutes of reading

The Brashears family represents one of the most industrious and influential included in this study. The genealogical thread running through this line can be traced back to the early Scotch trader, Lachlan McGillivray, and his father-in-law, the French trader aptly named Marchand, in Creek country in the mid-eighteenth century (see Chart 4). This family spans

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Anderson Choctaw Family – List of Mixed Bloods

1 Comment / Alabama, Native American / / 2 minutes of reading

The first Choctaw family examined, the Anderson family, has little or no documentation in Choctaw country prior to the removal era (see Chart 3) other than family tradition and representation on the Armstrong roll. There is, however, a Robert C. Anderson listed as a Mississippi Territory volunteer during the Creek War. On August 12, 1813

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