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From: Karen Smith <>
Subject: Re: [RHEA-L] Petition to Stop the Removal of White Settlers from Cherokee Lands
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 12:31:24 -0500

Does that come from a book titled something like WHITES AMONG THE CHEROKEE'S?
Thanks, Karen

wrote:

> 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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> Copied from Record Group 75 obtained from the National Archives,
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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.
> _____,_____
> 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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