- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Petition] of Preston Starritt, 1843
- Publisher:
- Manuscript held by the Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, MS2033 Penelope Johnson Allen, box 1, folder 142, document pa0252.
- Date of Original:
- 1843
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Claims
Cherokee Indians--Land tenure
Betterments - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- petitions
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This is a petition of Preston Starritt, the husband of Rebecca Henson Starritt, a woman of Cherokee ancestry, for rights to their property under the treaty of 1835. See related documents pa0253, pa0254 and pa0255.
Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries in 2001, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. - Local Identifier:
- pa0252
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_pa0252
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_pa0252#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_pa0252/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], MS2033 Penelope Johnson Allen, Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 2 pages/leaves
- Holding Institution:
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
To Hon [Honorable] Commissioners
The Morial [Memorial] of Preston Starritt respectfully represents That in
January 1839 your Memorialist Intermaried [Intermarried] with Rebecca Henson a woman of 1/0 Cherokee blood before the mariage [marriage] the said Rebecca was possesed [possessed] of an Improvement in the Cherokee Nation on Notley River Union County 'Ga. At a place called Choestoak where she had two Dwelling Houses a smoke House and Corn Crib also about Twenty Eight acres of River bottom under good fence. The said Rebecca had a regular transfer from the Cherokee of whoom [whom] she had purchased the Improvement which Instrument she placed in the hands of Genl N [General Nathaniel] Smith as evidence of her right to a valuation she also furished [furnished] the Superintendent of Cherokee Removals with Satisfactory Proof by the Cherokees of her right to the value of said Improvement on Which Proof the Superintendent sent agents Messrs. Hair & Love to value the same. They returned a valuation which will appear on Book of Valuations lettered F on which there is an endorsement Disallowing but not signed by any. Comsr. [Commissioner] your Memorialis [Memorialist] cannot now produce the Transfer it having been placed in the hands of the Superintendent and the
Page: [2]
Indian from whoom [whom] the purchase was made having been removed west as well as all others residing near the place having knowledge of the facts your Memorialist Respectfully asks your board to take the examination of the said Love now present and to Award to your Memorialist the value of the said Improvement as the Treaty of
1835 &
6 makes the agents the Sole Judges of the value as well as the right to Improvements
[Signed] Preston Starritt
945 - 4th: Commission
Rebecca Starritt
claim for valuation
P
this claim has been allowed by a former board we have nothing to do with it
[Signed] [illegible text]
[Signed] Edward Harden
Heard
10 Aug.
[illegible text]