Re: Cherokee land allotment for Carrie Howell on Dawes Rolls
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Re: Cherokee land allotment for Carrie Howell on Dawes Rolls
Rita Morgan 6/05/08
One tedious and time consuming method, that does not always give results, is to search the orginal patents and names in each county--there should be the original land ledgers in each county land office--the names are roughly indexed, only the first set of names, not the later land transfer names, and many of these ledgers are almost unreadable due to the handwriting. Example: a Choctaw family in the eastern part of the state took allotments in the south central area... far from their home place.
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Re: Cherokee land allotment for Carrie Howell on Dawes Rolls
Rita Morgan 6/27/08