Isaac Sharp and Kaw Indian Tribe/Kansas
Hi,
I am hoping to find someone who might have access to detailed info regarding the Attorney Isaac Sharp who settled in Council Grove Kansas in 1862.He was sent to Washington to handle a case involving the sale of Kaw Indian lands.
I am researching an American Indian child who was orphaned about 1862.I have been researching the Sharp, Leeka, Carter, Wilsonand Pool families in relation to this child.
The child appears on the 1870 census for Nodaway County Missouri in the home of Horatio Pool.There are Sharps living in Nodaway County who decend from William Sharp and his wife Elizabeth Leeka.The orphan is named Martha Ellen Leeky/Leaky/Leeka etc. (She never learned to read or write so we have a variety of spellings) There were at least 2 Quaker women named Martha Ellen Leeka in the same time frame but neither are this child.We think the child may have been given this name by Quakers, possibly at the Quaker Mission to the Kaw or the Quaker Mission to the Shawnee which housed some orphans from other tribes.She may have been indentured to Horatio Pool.
I would like to find out if there is any chance that Isaac Sharp might have filed papers of indenturement on this child or possibly gardianship papers for some member of the Leeka family.We are researching to see if there is a connection between Horatio Pool and the Leeka and Sharp families.
There was a Quaker Mission to the Kaw and there were 3 girls in attendence at their manual labor school in 1863.
The child was my gg-grandmother and I would very much appreciate any help in regard to this research.
Thanks
Karren A.