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Subject: Fw: [SouthernTrails] Another people moved-1825 Ark.Terr.
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 19:54:27 -0500
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
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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."
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