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Hi Everyone,
Anyone who would like to have there FREEDMEN family member honered, please
fill out the following form, and it will be submitted to those working on the
project.
You will have to fill in as many answers as possible.
FROM THE FREEDMEN PROJECT:
What we want is to compile a list of Freedmen that would have been on the
1838 Removal.
Jerry Clark tells me,he's hoping to match the surnames they used with their
owners
during the Removal period and possibly from there to their wills.
If this could be done then we could compile a list of some Freedmen families
on the Removal and hopefully then connect them to their later claims and
descendants and include them in the honorariums to those individuals.
NOTE: I have supplied many of you with names and family application numbers.
In reguards to your Freedmen family member. We are now in the process of
compiling names for those ancesters that "you want to be remembered."
You must list that family members name and application number as well as how
it connects up to your geneology. All surnames are needed for the applicant,
you are requesting to be considered for the "honorariums."
All personal information will be confidental and submitted to those in
Washington who are working on the "honerariums"
Each name requires a seperate form.
As you can see from Jims words above in blue, we are looking to find all the
names of those family members who were involved in the 1838 REMOVAL to Indian
Territory.
You must show your family members line back to the 1838 removal and were they
were located at that time.
Many of your family members may not have went to Indian Territory or just
didn't give their name. But if you know who they are, and want them included
in the HONORARIUMS, we need to show how your line goes back to that FREEDMEN.
Your source material must be included.
PLEASE CONTACT Jim Hicks with your information at : jimh(a)dgsys.com
HONORARIUMS form for Freedmen Project:
Name of applicant-
Indian name-
DOB-
DOD-
Were is this person buried-
Reidence in 1838-
Additional notes-
Dawes Miller app #
Dawes Roll # and census card # for Indian Citizens-
Census and year
a)CNWest Census
b)CNWColored Census
Any rolls your name is found on, and the year.
LIST OF SOME ROLLS AND CENSUS CAN BE FOUND ON YOUR KEY CODE SHEET.
17-1835 Emigration Enrollments Enrollments to Voluntarily Emigrate
1817 Reservation List Eastern Cherokee, Allottees
1819 Petition Intruders; Sequatchie/Marion Co TN & Jackson Co AL
1835 Census (Henderson roll) Eastern Cherokee
1837 Disbursements Valuation and Spoilation Disbursements
1838 Deas (June) Muster Roll
1838 Page Roll Immigrant Cherokee
1840 Thomas Roll Eastern Band of Cherokee
1848 Mullay Roll Eastern Band of Cherokee (based on Thomas roll)
1851 Siler Roll Eastern Band of Cherokee
1851 Drennen Roll Western "Immigrant" Cherokee
1851 Old Settler Roll Western "Old Settler" Cherokee
1852 Chapman Roll Eastern Band of Cherokee (Siler with additions)
1854 Act of Congress Roll Eastern Band of Cherokee (additions to Chapman)
1860 Federal Census Intruders in Western Indian Territory
1861 Drew's Regiment Muster Roll of John Drew's Regiment
1863-64 IHG Deaths&Discharges Indian Home Guard, Deaths & Discharges
1867 Powell Roll Eastern Band of Cherokee
1869 Census [OK] Western Old Settlers and Immigrant Cherokee
1869 Sweatland Roll Eastern Band of Cherokee
1880 Census [OK] Western Cherokee
1884 Hester Roll Eastern Band of Cherokee
1890 Census [OK] Western Cherokee
1895 Old Settler Payroll Western Old Settlers and Descendants
1902 Dawes Roll Western Old Settlers and Immigrant Cherokee
1906 Miller Roll Eastern Band and Immigrant Cherokee (not Old Settler)
Husbands or Wife's name-
Dawes Miller app #
Dawes Roll # and census card # for Indian Citizens-
Indian name-
DOB-
DOD-
Were is this person buried-
Residence in 1838-
Additional notes-
No. of children-
Childrens names-
Dawes #
Miller app #
Residence in 1838 before the removal.
Residence in 1838 after the removal.
You then can copy and paste the above "questions" to the next line for each
additional family group, show how the applicant connects to your present day
line.
Please send all completed forms to: FreedmenProject(a)aol.com
Subject line: "HONORARIUMS"
Please send any addional questions about this form to Bright Star at:
FreedmenProject(a)aol.com. on a seperate post.
They will be submitted to Jim Hicks.
Subject line : Honorariums- Questions
Please note that your info "will not" be shared with anyone, other then Jim
Hicks, Jerry Clark, Barbara Benge, and Mary Jane "BrightStar" Carroll.
Your post will not be put on any web pages.
Once it is determined that you are a direct desendent, you will recieve a
notification, that your family member will be included in the Honorariums.
Bright Star
Freedmen Project
August 20, 2002
Hello List Admin and Members,
I would just like to take the time to THANK all of you for
your wonderful post. Wether good or bad, all of your opinions count to me. I
have many list to still work on and I learn from what you all teach me.
I am a geneologist with info that has not yet reached the web,
and my intention was to get it to all of you in FREE GENEOLOGY.
My intention was also to get it into the ROOTSWEB archives. Rootsweb has been
a tool for geneologist , that allows us to share and have the means to
connect our family's freely. I owe them alot. And I also owe every poster who
has taken time to post.
I want you all to know that I plan on answering each and every post that was
sent to me, asking me questions and all of that sort of stuff.
I exspecially want to thank all of you LIST ADMINISTRATORS who have allowed
the info to reach the Rootsweb archives. It will be there for generations to
come. There is so much more coming out of Washington DC about the FREEDMEN.
It has been long overdue. I remember back before Ex President Clinton left
office and he made the statement that the FREEDMEN RECORDS needed to be
indexed and taken care of.
Well as a young Freedmen researcher, I have had some of the best folks to
work with from Washingtion .
I have been told that there is much more to come, at a later date.
Last but not least, my work on your list at this time is
complete, so please if you have any questions, and cannot reach me on the
list. please contact me at FreedmenProject(a)aol.com. I thank you all for your
patience .
Please visit the link below.
Bright Star
Freedmen Project
<A HREF="http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/news/articles/2906.asp">Click here: Ancestry.com - Freedmen's Bureau Records Preservation Act Signed
into Law</A>
On Monday, November 6, President Clinton signed into law the Freedmen's
Bureau Records Preservation Act of 2000 (H.R. 5157, now Public Law No:
106-444). This law ensures preservation of the records of the Freedmen's
Bureau.
http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/news/art
Hello,
How do I find out about this person?
> Surname Given Age Sex Card Page Roll
> Nelson Cora F 17 F 855 484 2059
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Early 1900's Where did your family live in 1900? Indian Territory, NW ARK, or
Southern MO? You may wish to check the Dawes Roll for your family members.
The Dawes required a residency in Indian Territory but sometimes people
living in NW Ark or
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Civilized Tribes, 1893-1914</A>
Read the foreword and preface from Ancestrys newest publication, "The Dawes
Commission and the Allotment of the Five Civilized Tribes, 1893-1914."
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category ("by blood", "minor", "rejected", "freedmen," etc.), enrollment
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Last updated February 13, 2002
Bright Star
Freedmen Project
Surname Report born circa:
1902 Dawes c1067 r2923 Corrie F Kobel 1876 Blood= 1-4, Index
page#257
1906 Miller Anna COBBELL nee BROWN 1875 CNW ap#
23229-7900LENAPAH, OK
1906Miller Corrie Foster KOBEL nee WHEELER 1876
AR ap# 28464- SALLISAW, OK
Bright Star
Freedmen Project
Hi Everyone,
Jim Hicks compliled these for your use with the surname reports.
GB07 = Gideon Blackburn's school 1806-1807 (Student roster)
SPMS = Spring Place Mission School (Student rosters)
NSPMS = New Spring Place Mission School (SPMS restablished in the Western
Territory after removal. Student rosters)
DET# = Detachment number (from various muster rolls, payroll records and
ration receipts; which Detachment did they go west on)
IHG = Indian Home Guard (Civil war muster rolls)
N-Cher = Native Cherokee (1880 & 1890 Census used the following codes:
N-Cher Native Cherokee
A-White Adopted White
A-Del Adopted Delaware
A-Shaw Adopted Shawnee
A-Col Adopted Colored
etc.
SB district = Skin Bayou District, CNW (in 1851 this was changed to Sequoyah
District)
Roll B: Cherokee that emigrated to the western territory after the 1851
Drennen were simply accepted into the Cherokee Nation.
Around 1869 the western Cherokee Nation decided to require citizenship
application before a committee. "Roll B", and there's a
"Roll A" are lists of groups of emigrants that came west after 1851 (these
lists were prepared in 1873) but they didn't include ALL
of the emigrants, just those that weren't already recognized as Cherokee by
1869. I've found two more such "Roll"s, much smaller,
from 1881 and 1883.
Index Description
Brainerd Brainerd Journals; Tables of Scholars
CA25 Choctaw Academy, 1825, Catalogue of Scholars (Cherokee only)
Carmel Carmel Mission School
CC24 Candy's Creek mission, 1824-1837
GB07 Gideon Blackburn's school, 1806-1807
Haweis Haweis Mission School
Hightower Hightower Mission School
NSPMS New Spring Place Mission School, IT, 1838-1842, Catalogue of
Scholars
SPMS Spring Place Mission School, GA, 1804-1834, Catalogue of Scholars
Name Enumerants
1817-1835 Emigration Enrollments Enrollments to Voluntarily Emigrate
1817 Reservation List Eastern Cherokee, Allottees
1819 Petition Intruders; Sequatchie/Marion Co TN & Jackson Co AL
1835 Census (Henderson roll) Eastern Cherokee
1837 Disbursements Valuation and Spoilation Disbursements
1838 Deas (June) Muster Roll
1838 Page Roll Immigrant Cherokee
1840 Thomas Roll Eastern Band of Cherokee
1848 Mullay Roll Eastern Band of Cherokee (based on Thomas roll)
1851 Siler Roll Eastern Band of Cherokee
1851 Drennen Roll Western "Immigrant" Cherokee
1851 Old Settler Roll Western "Old Settler" Cherokee
1852 Chapman Roll Eastern Band of Cherokee (Siler with additions)
1854 Act of Congress Roll Eastern Band of Cherokee (additions to Chapman)
1860 Federal Census Intruders in Western Indian Territory
1861 Drew's Regiment Muster Roll of John Drew's Regiment
1863-64 IHG Deaths&Discharges Indian Home Guard, Deaths & Discharges
1867 Powell Roll Eastern Band of Cherokee
1869 Census [OK] Western Old Settlers and Immigrant Cherokee
1869 Sweatland Roll Eastern Band of Cherokee
1880 Census [OK] Western Cherokee
1884 Hester Roll Eastern Band of Cherokee
1890 Census [OK] Western Cherokee
1895 Old Settler Payroll Western Old Settlers and Descendants
1902 Dawes Roll Western Old Settlers and Immigrant Cherokee
1906 Miller Roll Eastern Band and Immigrant Cherokee (not Old Settler)
Jim Hicks
BrightStar
Freedmen Prodject
Hello list members,
This week so far, I have submitted to all of you the following:
1880 CNWColored Census of Oklahoma (partial)
1869 CNWest Census of Oklahoma (partial)
1902 Dawes- Freedmen (partial)
1906 Dawes- Freedmen Minors (partial)
IMPORTANT NOTICE :
These records are all from original documents.
1869 CNWest Census
These Jim Hicks transcribed from photocopies of the original document.
1880 CNWColored Census
These were transcribed by Barbara Benge from photocopies of the original.
1902 Dawes Freedmen
These are OCR transcriptions scanned from a NARA index to the 1902 Dawes.
Jim Hicks has worked a lot with the Cherokee by Blood transcriptions and
says there are errors.
1906 Dawes Freedmen Minors
Same as above.
Now I suggest that any of you who are using these names in your family
geneology, MUST and SHOULD refer to 3 books, that I know can be bought
cheaply, for this FREEDMEN RESEARCH.
Those books are:
<A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0963377418/ref%3Dase%5Finktomi-bka...">Cherokee Roots, Volume 1: Eastern Cherokee Rolls</A>
and VOL 2 also.( you can buy cheaply in a set), by Bob Blankenship
A reader, East Texas, USA, April 9, 2001
This set is a MUST have for those tracing your Cherokee root
This set contains the Official US Census Rolls of Cherokee Indians recorded
between 1817-1924. Volume one covers those Cherokee living East of the
Mississippi River, Volume 2 covers Cherokee who were living West of the
Mississippi River. These same rolls are still used today in determining
tribal...
<A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0788404954/qid%3D1018487912/sr%3D1...">Index to the Cherokee Freedmen Enrollment Cards of the Dawes Commission
1901-1906</A>
by Jo Ann Curls Page (Paperback - January 1995)
I find Jo Ann's book to be a real asset to comparing the Freedmen Roll
numbers and her book also gives the names of the parents, and the Freedmen
Minors, as well as the Rejected Freedmen.
After you have found your family member and compare to the books above, to
make sure there is no mistake in the roll numbers, you may then want to do
the following.
<A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~cherokee/miller.html">Click here: GUION MILLER ROLL</A>
http://www.rootsweb.com/~cherokee/miller.html
For the record:
I am in no way affiliated with or do I know personnally the writers of the
books, I have suggested you buy. I am merely telling you as a Freedmen
researcher, the best way and cheapest way for you to verify your family
Freedmen geneology.
I would appreciate it if you do find any mistakes, that you contact me, so I
can make corrections to the file I have.
Bright Star
Freedmen Project
There was nothing found on any of the 4 files .
I advise that family members check varient spellings for this surname.
The name is listed on the FREEDMEN FAMILY APPLICATIONS.
Bright Star
Freedmen Project
Hi Everyone,
Below are the questions asked on the Miller Applications I have sent you info
on.
Page 1)
Application #
Action Taken
Name of applicant
No. of children
Residence
Reason------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Page 2)
SPECIAL COMMISSIONER of the COURT of CLAIMS,601 Ouray Building, Washington
D.C.
Sir,I hereby make application for such share as may be due me of the fund
appropriated by the ACT of CONGRESS, appoved June 30, 1906, in accordance
with the decrees of the COURT of CLAIMS of May 18,1905, and May28, 1906, in
favor of the eastern Cherokees. The evidence of identity is herewith
subjoined.Note: Answers to all questions should be short, but complete. If
you can not answer, so state.
Question # 1)State full name:English name-Indian name-
#2)Residence and Post Office
#3)County
#4)State
#5)How old are you?
#6)Where were you born?
#7)Are you married?
#8)Name and age of wife or husband
#9)To what tribe of Indians do he or she belong?
#10)Name all your children who were living on May 28, 1906, giving their ages.
#11)Give names of your father and mother, and your mothers maiden name before
marriage.
Father- english name-
Indian name-
Mother- english name-
Indian name-
Maiden name-
#12)Where were they born?
Father-
Mother-
Page #3
#13)Where did they reside in 1851, if living at this time?
Father-
Mother-
#14)Date of death of your father and mother:
Father-
Mother-
#15)Were they ever enrolled for money, annuities, land, or other benifits? If
so, state when and were.
#16)Name all your brothers and sisters, giving ages, and residence if
possible.
#17)State English name and Indian names of your grandparents on both father's
and mother's side, if possible.
#18)Where were they born?
#19)Where did they reside in 1851, if living at that time?
#20)Give names of all their children, and residence, if possible:
Page 4
#21)Have you ever been enrolled for money, annuities, land, or other
benifits? If so, state when and were,and with what tribe of Indians.
#22)To assist in identification, claiment should give the full English and
Indian names, if possible, of their parents and grandparents back to
1835.-------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------
Remarks- Section)
Under this head the applicant may give any additional facts which will assist
in providing his
claim.------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------
Legal- Section )
I solemnly swear that the forgoing statements made by me are true to the best
of my knowledge and belief.Signature-Subscribed and sworn to before me
this----day,of -----1907.Notary Public- signatureAffidavit)
(The following affidavit must be sworn to by two or more witnesses, who are
well acquainted with the applicant.)
Personally appeared before me--------- and--------, who being duly sworn, on
oath depose and say they are well acquainted with---------- who makes the
foregoing application and statements, and have known---for-----years and ----
years, respectively, and know-----to be the identical
person-----represents----to be, and that the statements made by ----are true,
to the best of their knowledge and belief, and they have no interest whatever
in ----claim.Witnesses to mark-Signatures of witnesses-Subscribed and sworn
to me, before me this ----day of -----,1907.Notary signature-Notary
commission expires-
NOTE: Affidavits should be made, whenever practicable, before a notary
public,or clerk of the court, if sworn to before an Indian agent or
disbursing agent of the Indian service, it need not be before a notary,
etc.--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------MY PERSONAL NOTE:Pages after
that include letters written to the BIA about their claim. Some have
additional papers, others do not.
Bright Star
Freedmen Project