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Cherokee

 Subject
Subject Source: Gilcrease Culture Terms

Found in 3726 Collections and/or Records:

Partial Text of Act to Organize the Nation, November 4, 1840

 Item — Folder 748A: [Barcode: 187.748A]
Identifier: 4026.958-.1
Description

Partial text of act to organize the Nation into eight districts and holding elections. (See Starr 1920, pp. 77-79 for full text) Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on four pages. Folder 748A

Dates: November 4, 1840

Pay Roll of Chualooka Detachment, May 27, 1839

 Item — Folder 553: [Barcode: 187.553]
Identifier: 5126.901-.5
Description

Pay roll of Chualooka detachment certified by Thomas N. Clark, Jr. (periods of service extend from Aug. 22, 1838, to Apr. 29, 1839). Folder 553

Dates: May 27, 1839

Payment request and receipt between Isaac Vann and Thomas E. Wilson, October 4, 1853

 Item — Folder 142: [Barcode: 61.142]
Identifier: 4026.1677.16
Description

Note on the bottom of the page requests that Isaac Vann pay $5.00 to Thomas E. Wilson. Note was written in Webbers Falls on October 4, 1853. The note on the top of the page is a receipt witnessed by John Drew. The receipt states that Isaac Vann a horse to pay in full his account with Wilson. Folder 142

Dates: October 4, 1853

Payments for credit owed to J. G. Ross by John Vann, March - April 1847

 Item — Folder 43: [Barcode: 61.43]
Identifier: 4026.1588.31
Description

Payments to J. G. Ross for credit owed by John Vann totaling six hundred dollars. Two payments were undated, one payment for one hundred dollars is dated March 29, 1847 and another payment for two hundred dollars is dated April 28, 1847. Folder 43

Dates: March - April 1847

Pencil Note Referring to the Treaty Party, March 29, 1835

 Item — Folder 141: [Barcode: 187.141]
Identifier: 4026.192-.1
Description

Pencil memo written in New York (unaddressed and unsigned and referring to Chief John Ross in the third person) referring to Treaty Ridge Party made (will not be ratified) and explaining possibility of making a treaty with Chief John Ross. Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in pencil on four pages. Folder 141

Dates: March 29, 1835

Perl Mathison and Home, 1850 - 1900

 Item — Folder Cherokee.9: [Barcode: 3.Cherokee.9]
Identifier: 4327.3725
Description

Black and white photograph of Perl Mathison and home. Woman standing over well with bucket. Cabin with porch and chimney in background. Foreman Collection. Folder 9

Dates: 1850 - 1900

Permit for Blankenship and Reynolds to labor as farmers in the Canadian District of the Cherokee Nation, February 25, 1882

 Item — Folder 471: [Barcode: 61.471]
Identifier: 4026.2056
Description

Permit granted to W. G. Roberson [sic], A Cherokee citizen, to employ Blankenship and Reynolds, United States citizens, as farmers for the term of one month. Permit signed by H. J. Vann, Clerk of the Canadian District in the Cherokee Nation. Letter has W. G. Roberson written in Purple on recto. Folder 471

Dates: February 25, 1882