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Subject: [RHEA-L] Petition to Stop the Removal of White Settlers from Cherokee Lands
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 12:20:31 EST

This petition does not contain the name Rhea, but it does contain the names
of Looney, and many other names. Many of you have Looney's in your family.
Hope it helps you.
TNGenWeb Archive State Files - Petition to Stop the Removal of White
Settlers from Cherokee Lands
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Memorial of the inhabitants residents in the Cherokee Country relative
to the late order for their removal : To the Honorable the Secretary at
War, Your petitioners viewing the calamitous situation in which many of
our citizens are placed, owing to an order recently described by the
agent for Indian affairs of the Cherokee Nation ordering all intruders
on their lands to remove by the first day of July 1819. Your petitioners
believing that the same indulgence would be extended to them as has been
the constant practice to others in similar circumstances, induced them
to settle on the lands lately ceded to the United States by the
Cherokees on the north side of Tennessee River nor did the order ever
appear until late in the month of May of this year, leaving a removal of
the citizens impracticable if not impossible. Your petitioners are poor
but industrious farmers and to deprive them of their hard earnings in
the wilderness and thus destroy their labour, where will your
petitioners apply for bread for their starving families; this order
enforced will involve at least ONE THOUSAND families in total ruins, nor
will the evil end here. Your petitioners must subsist somewhere & thus
become unwelcome guests to the frontier counties to buy a little support
for their starving children. The Indians are not desirous of having the
intruders driven from this land North of Tennessee, those being few in
numbers, & most of which have taken reservations and are good neighbors,
your petitioners therefore knowing the lenity of their government and
believing they will take our case into consideration will ever pray:
Doyal, T.
Hayter, J. J.
Tatton, Robert
Taylor, Joseph
Pryor, John
Trigg, Abram B.
Doughterty, John
Dixan, W. D.
Burritt, W.
McKinney, Thomas
Henderson, A.
Burton, R.
Young, Joseph Jr.
Clayton, R. B.
Klepper, Powel
Buttute, Thomas
Estill, Isaac
Lewis, Henderson
Yuddeuth, Samuel
Estill, John
Hill, James
Raines, William M.
Dickson, James
Wilson, Zacheus
Robinson, W. H.
McLaughlin, Wm. B.
Brittain, William
Kinningham, William
Robinson, Jonas
Bradford, Benjamin M.
Sharp, Robert P.
Key, John
Kidder, Holbert
Moor, James
Street, Wm.
Eangs, Daniel
Hays, William
Harrall, Whitefield
Saxton, Alexander
Seykes, John
Matthews, John
Mann, Mathew R.
McLaughlin, William
Suddarth, Dyer
McMillin, E. K.
Hardwicke, J.
Paschal, William
Cathching, Meredith
Slone, Samuel C.
___, J.
Hill, John or M.
Hill, Thomas
Hill, Joseph
Hill, John Sr.
Hill, Mitchell L.
Burress, William
Mahony, Denis
Farris, Ricard
Shelton, Peter
Hill, Thomas M. [marked out]
Tally, Lewis B. [Tully?]
Reeves, Wm.
Lea, Wm. W.
Bradford, Jos. H.
Has__s?, S. W.
Miner, Samuel
Tarrant, Leonard
Snead, Richard
Price, Euagey
Reaves, Abner
Russey, Benjamin
Barre__, Jeremiah
Embrey, Wiley S.
Branagan, John J.
Bacon, Thos. [Barns?]
Jones, J. W.
Estill, Wallis
Howell, Thomas
Cowan, Samuel M.
Harris, Mark M.
Rainey, Benj. A.
Frazier, Thompson
Cock, Lester
Wiggin, J. P. [Duggen?]
Ellis, Ellison
Townsend, Joshua
Townsend, Ozra
Blagg, Israel
Townsend, Thomas
Townsend, John
Hutton, John
Hutton, William
Williams, Thomas
Jenkins, Richard
Bost, Thomas
Johnson, Jacob Sr.
Johnson, Reuben
King, Allen
Walker, Edward
Williams, David
Gilliland, James
Davidson, H. M.
Davidson, George
Woods, Peter
Davidson, William
Davidson, John P.
Williams, Alexander Jr.
Frost, Joseph
Williams, Theoples
Frost, Thomas
Looney, Isam
Looney, John
Erwin, George
Williams, Alexander [marked out]
Blevins, Elisha
Blevins, John
Johnston, John
Acton, John
Sullivan, J. H.
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Crafford, Adam
Bird, John
Freeman, Johnson
Bird, George
Garrison, Joseph
Garrison, James
Looney, Jessee
Looney, Isaac
Looney, Absolum
Looney, Benjamin
Looney, Allen
Looney, Benjamin
Looney, William G.

2nd Petition To the Hoourable the Secretary at War: Your petitioners
viewing the calamaious situation in which many of our citizens are
placed owing to an order recently published by the agent for Indian
affairs of the Cherokee Nation ordering all intruders on their land to
remove by the first day of July 1819. Yor petitioners believing the same
indulgence would be extended to them, as has been the constant practice
to others in similar circumstances, induced them to settle on the lands
lately ceded to the United States by the Cherokees north of Tennessee
River, nor did the order ever make its formal appearance until the 19th
of June of the present year leaving a removal impracticable if not
imposssible. Your petitioners are poor but industrious farmers to
deprive them at this season of the year of their hard earnings in the
wilderness and thus leave them destitute where will your petitioners
apply for bread to support their starving families? Its notourious that
all improvements made by your petitioners add real value to the land,
this order enforced, will, involve at least ONE THOUSAND families in
total ruin! Nor will the evil end here. Your petitioners must subsist
somehwere, they will thus become unwelcome guests to the frontier
counties to beg [for they cannot buy] something for their little
children. This measure if carried into operation will produce alarming
effectsd. The Indians on the North of Tennessee are not desirous of
having the settlers driven off the land, those being few in number, most
of which have taken reservations and are good neighbours. Your
petitioners knowing the lenity of their government and believing they
will take our case into consideration will ever pray:



Patricia L. Hall
Olathe, Ks.

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