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Certified copy of certificate of Cherokee citizenship No. 114 issue to John Swain by Commission on Citizenship, Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah (Pencil note - "Exhibit A"). Folder 3

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Deed from Cherokee Nation to Approved 12-21-05 Anna P. Ross of land described in July 1, 1904, Certificate of Allotment. Folder 1358.

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Folder 3429

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Certificate of Chief John Ross's initiation as a Master Mason by the Olive Branch Lodge in Jasper, Tennessee. Embossed seal on ribbon. One sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on recto. 4026.33b is a photocopy. Folder 19

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Folder 96

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: This collection includes a teacher's certificate authorizing Levi Gritts to teach in Cherokee Nation primary schools, Gritts letter of application to the university of Oklahoma President Joseph Brant for the position of teacher of the Cherokee Language and two letters of recommendation for Gritts. Also included is "Cherokee Hymns" published by Phoenix Publications in Chicago, examples of the Cherokee syllabary, "Will Rogers"...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: This contains various letters from different people, different times, and different locations, on different topics. Perhaps most noteworthy is a diary dated December 15, 1816 to January 22, 1817. This is a bound diary with "Rufus Hatch, Bowling, VT" on inside front cover. (Rufus Hatch was born in Wells, Maine in 1832 and died in 1893. In 1851 he moved to Rockford, Illinois. He was a financier and promoter.) Note on opposite...

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: A collection mostly about the early history of Oklahoma. It includes documents on the State Seal, a bound book about the articles of incorporation for Custer County, the State charter, the State Constitutional Convention, a typescript about early Oklahoma history and census rolls for Creek, Osage and Tulsa Counties.

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Peter Perkins Pitchlynn, Chief of the Choctaws, (1806-1881) was one of the persons selected by the Choctaws in 1828 to survey the southeast section of Indian Territory, the land they had chosen for their home when they were forced to leave Mississippi. Peter Pitchlynn's father was John Pitchlynn, a white man and interpreter for the United States Government, who had married a Choctaw woman of the famous Folsom family. Peter...

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: A certificate from Virginia City, Nevada Territory to Jas. S. Gillan, 2 checks issued by Wells Fargo, 2 coins on cards, and three letters regarding coin distribution and shipments of turkeys and butter.