- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- Memorial of the wife and child of Arkalooki (reservee no 229)
- Publisher:
- Manuscript held by the Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, MS2058 William Holland Thomas, box 1, folder 2, document wt197.
- Date of Original:
- 1730/1842
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Treaties
Cherokee Indians--Land tenure
Cherokee Indians--Claims - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, 35.50069, -80.00032
- Medium:
- claims
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This is an undated memorial of the wife and child of a Cherokee man named Arkalooki. The document states that a reservation was granted to Arkalooki in August of 1819, under the treaties of 1817 and 1819, that was unjustly taken by white settlers. The memorialists claim that they never received any compensation for their property nor were they able to live there for fear of violence against them.
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:
- wt197
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt197
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt197#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt197/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], MS2058 William Holland Thomas, 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]
Memorial of the wife and child of Arkalooki (reservee no 229)
The morialists [memorialists] respectfully represent that on the
third of August 1819, a reservation was granted to them under the provisions of the 8th article of the treaty of
1817 & 2d article of the treaty of
1819, containing six hundred and forty acres, located on Tuckasega river at the mouth Big head creek In
October 1820 in denial of the rights of your memorialists the State of North Carolina made sale of said reservation and Thomas Welch and [word(s) omitted] became the purchasers -- the former at the price of $2300 and the latter at about the sum of $700, making in the aggreate [aggregate] $3000. The whites in order to obtain the possession of the land and to frighten the cherokees off, took some of them and whipped a part of them which caused others to feel unsafe, and believing themselves in danger of personal violence removed from the land, Arkalooki emigrated in
1838 and died in Arkansaw your memorialist agreeably to the terms of the treaty at his death were intitled [entitled] to the feesimple [fee simple] [deleted text: title ] in the lands. By the 13th article of the treaty of
1835 provision was made that your memorialists should receive the value of said reservation, as unimproved land. Your memorialist alledge [allege] that they never abandoned except by coercion their interest in said reservation -- and that they never have sold any part of it by deed or otherwise nor received any compensation therefor [therefore],
Page: [2]
To the Commissioners under the treaty of
1835,
Memorial of the wife and children of Arkalooki (no 229)
The memorialists respectfully represent that under the 8th article of the treaty of
1817 and 2d article of the treaty of
1819, -- the latter continued the former -- a reservation of 640 acres of land was granted them with a life estate to the wife and fee simple to the child of said Arkalooki, in the lands granted. The
Arkalooki