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http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~george/johnsgermnotes/germhs87.html
Go to notes #2166 to #2175 — quite a long narative of a trip to visit Fort Christ Anna by John Fontaine.
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http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/Joiner_Lee.htm
A great many surnames I have heard by many people are mentioned here.
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Vance and others,
Here are a couple of sites that should prove of interest to you.
Also, Vance I am still going through my papers and putting together the information about Southeast MO Cherokees. Black Hawk(yes, that Black Hawk of the Abe Lincoln Black Hawk War) said that his father was killed by Cherokees about 1780 on the Merrimac River in Missouri. Most of the information I have about this Band came from Houck’s History of Spanish Missouri. I will send it to you when I get it all together.
Charles
Gov. Spotswood History
http://gcclearn.gcc.cc.va.us/sitehistory/sptable.htm
Germanna History
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~george/index.html
Thanks Charles, I appreciate it.
I have recently been shown a website ith an old treaty, probably unknown by many, mentioning Cherokee in NW Kentucky in 1775 on the Green River. I’ll post in if I have tie before i go to work later this morning.
Vance
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gowenrf/Gowenms111.htm
Forget this tribe — there is no such Cherokee tribe. They attempt to tie he Ridges into an alliance with Doublehead — Doublehead was killed by Major Ridge (1807 — he was one of 3 killers) and in revence Bird Doublehead (Doubelhead’s son) killed Major Ridge at the end of the Trail ofTears 1839. So much fo an alliance between the 2 Cherokee families . . .
But at the bottom of this website is an interesting document. I have tried to transcribe it — it says —
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Cherokee Indians, July 20, 1775
Treaty of the Green River Wildernesss
Whereas we the people who have seen sent into the lands of Kentucky by Richard Henderson and authorized by same to make treaties with the Cherokee People living in the land. We are trading the land known as Red Banks with the Cherokee for the land in the Green River Wilderness. This land shall be theirs as long as the Green River runs.
We the scouts working for the Transylvania Land Company and or Richard Henderson hereby state that this land will belong to the Cherokee people for the rest of time.
These signatures are hereby signed by the Witnesses with the power to make this treaty valid and legal.
Article 1.
States that the land known as Red Banks on the Ohio River is hereby traded to the Transylvania Land Company for the parcel of land known as the Green River Wilderness which stretches from the North of the Green River which flows into the Ohio River to the end of the Green [???] near the great [?cave?].
This land shall belong to the Cherokee people that live on the western part of the territory known as Kentucky.
Article 2.
The Red Banks area shall always be owned by Col. Richard Henderson and said descendants of same along with the descendants of the Transylvania Land Company. On the authority given to me by Col. Richard Henderson — Daniel Boone I make this treaty with the Cherokee with the full authority of Henderson and Company. This is a legal and binding contract made this day July 20, 1775.
Article 3.
This treaty was made with the authority of the Cherokee people and the authority of Chief Double Head and his warriors trading the lands known as Red Banks to Henderson and Company for the Green River Wilderness which is where there are many existing Cherokee cities, such as Deer Path, the Great Oak Tree, Wild Onion and the Great Hill. This area shall belong to the Cherokee throughout time. Also said descendants of the Cherokee people.
Article 4.
This treaty also gives the Cherokee their hunting and fishing rights in all of said territory as long as they stay away from white populated areas such as towns and cities.
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???? Bailey-Smith
Thomas Haughton? ??? Dixan
Thomas Hart
Thomas Allin
Daniel Boone, July 20 in the year of my Lord 1775.
Chiefs and Warriors —
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Oconostota , x his mark
????, x his mark
Savanooka, otherwise Corosnah x his mark
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July 20, 1775.
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question — Isn’t the date 1775 a bit early for Doublehead? Could this refer to an “earlier” unknown Doublehead, not the famous one? That 3rd article seems to say there are Cherokee towns on the Green River in what is now Western Kentucky, and some of them extend North of the Ohio River in 1775. Could these have been seasonal camps for hunting parties? Wouldn’t it more likely be Chickasaw or Shawnee, maybe even Quawpaw? Wouldn’t Daniel Boone have known the difference? He seems to have written it. I put question marks where I couldn’t make out a word.
This is not the famous Henderson agreement to buy all of Kentucky, as I don’t think that famous Henderson purchase mentions Doublehead at all, does it? And this document doesn’t mention Attacullaculla (the page is ripped and one name is missing where the page is torn) — yet the date is 1775 . . . is this some unknown treaty? Mostly I’m more curious about this document than that group’s claim to be a tribe based in western Kentucky.
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