- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- Affidavit [of] William Henson regarding the claim of Preston Starritt, 1843 Nov. 1 / sworn before W[illia]m Walker
- Publisher:
- Manuscript held by the Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, MS2033 Penelope Johnson Allen, box 1, folder 142, document pa0254.
- Date of Original:
- 1843-11-01
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Land tenure
Cherokee Indians--Claims
Betterments
Claims - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Union County, 34.83401, -83.99076
- Medium:
- affidavits
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This document is an affidavit of William Henson, dated Nov. 1, 1843, concerning a property claim made by Preston and Rebecca Starritt. Mr. Henson swears that he knew an Indian named Grub who sold land in Union County, Georgia to Rebecca Starritt, formerly Rebecca Henson, a woman of Cherokee descent. See related documents pa0252, pa0253 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:
- pa0254
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_pa0254
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_pa0254#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_pa0254/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]
Wm [William] Henson swears that he knew an Indian called Grub who had an improvement on the [unclear text: Cho es stoe ] Union County Georgia in [deleted text: [illegible text] ] the year
1834 or
5 the said Grub sold his improvements to Rebecca Henson who paid him for it & [illegible text] the same until the conclusion of the Treaty of
1835-
6. Affiant produced the evidence to Genl [General] Smith who directed the [unclear text: valuing ] agents to make the valuations of the improvements. as well appears from the report of said agents. Affiant has know [no] knowledge on what evidence the Commission rejected the claim if it is regarded as [unclear text: being ] rejected
Sworn to and subscribed before me
[Signed] Wm [William] [unclear text: Walker ] J.P. [Justice of the Peace]
[Signed] Wm [William] Henson his x mark
I am well acquainted with William Henson who makes the above affidavit & I would believe any statement he would make on oath as soon as I would any other man
1 Novr. 1843
[Signed] Felix [unclear text: Archy ]
Page: [2]
945
4th Comm [Commision] .
Wm [William] Henson
Preston Starritt 3
945 -4th Commission 3