Cherokee Land Lottery of Georgia,1832 Song: "Sadness"
Nunahi Duna Dio Hilu I
We must never forget the "trail where they cried"
With the election of Andrew Jackson as president in 1828, the
Cherokee were in serious trouble. Gold was discovered that year on Cherokee land in Northern Georgia, and miners swarmed in.
Indian Removal to the west of the Mississippi had been suggested as early as 1802 by Thomas Jefferson and recommended by James Monroe in his final address to Congress in 1825. With Jackson's full support, the Indian Removal Act was introduced in Congress in 1829 Senators Daniel Webster and Henry Clay seriously opposed the bill and were able to delay passage until 1830. At the same time, Andrew Jackson refused to force the treaties which protected the Cherokee homeland from encroachment. During the two years following Jackson's election, Georgia unilaterally extended its laws to Cherokee territory,dividing up
lands by lottery, and stripping the Cherokee of legal protection.
Georgia citizens were free to kill,burn and steal. With the only alternative a war which would result in ahhihilation, John Ross decided to fight for his people's rights in the U.S. courts.
The Cherokee won two cases brought before the Supreme Court in 1831 and 1832.The court victories were useless. Jackson's answer? "Justice Marshall has made his decision.
Let him enforce it." Georgia and Tennessee began a reign of terror using arrest, murder and arson against the Cherokee. After traveling to Washington and protesting by John Ross, Major Ridge, his son John Ridge and Elias Boudinot (Ridge's nephew), the treaty party realized the hopelessness of the situation. They were convinced to sign the Treaty of New Echota (December 1835).
The Cherokee Nation's homeland was surrendered in exchange for $5,000,000,seven million acres in Oklahoma and an agreement to remove within two years.
The location?? Cherokee County, Georgia
Named in honor of the Cherokee Indians, Cherokee County was formed in December 1832 and is located in North-Central Georgia. The area was
taken from the Original Cherokee County which was formed from the Cherokee Nation. The county seat is located in Canton. For more details, please
visit:
The stage was now set for the beginning of the~~ Nunahi Duna Dio Hilu I~~ or `the trail where they cried'. History would call it the
TRAIL OF TEARS.
Families That Won Property in the Lottery
SURNAME LIST
The data below is the surname listing only. The actual list contains 741 full names, the district, section, and lot number of the land, the residence and county of therecipient at the time of their application, and whether the individual was a Revolutionary Warsoldier, or a widow or orphan of such.
Adams Affut Aldridge Alexander Allen Allison Alsobrook Anthony Arkins Arnand Arnett
Arnold Arrant Atkins Augley Auldridge Austin Ayers Barber Bachelder Bailey Baker
Baldasse Barnett Barnwell Barr Narron Barton Bassett Bateman Battle Bayles Beall Bealy
Beard Bearden Been Bennett Blair Boggs Bohannon Bolton Bond Bostwick Bowden Bowen
Bowles Bozeman Brack Bradford Brady Branch Brannon Brantley Broadwell Brooks Brown
Browning Bruson Bryan Buchannan Buise Burch Burford Burgess Burkett Burnett Butler
Bynam Cabaness Caison Callaham Cannon Cannup Cantrell Carithers Carnes Carroll
Caruthers Carson Carter Cartledge Cash Cason Chambers Cheshire Chestnut Chicoming Childs
Choice Clark Clayton Cobbett Cohom Coker Coleman Collins Colman Colquitt Comer
Commins Conaway Conden Connell Conyers Cook Cooksey Copeland Cotton Cowart
Crawford Creemmy Cronick Crosby Cross Culbertson Culver Cummings Cunningham Daniel
Darris Davis Dawson Deadwylder Dean Deason Denmer Dennis Denson Denton Derracott
Dickerson Dickson Dobbs Dobson Doby Doles Dolton Dorherty Dorton Douglass Dowd
Downs Dubose Duffil Dugger Duke Dunaway Dunn Durham Dyer Dyess Dyson Edmunds Elder
Ellis Elrod Elton Elvington England English Eperson Epperson Espy Estes Eubanks Evans
Ewing Fain Farechild Faris Fason Fincher Fitts Fitzpatrick Flanagan Flood Fould Fowler Fox
Franklin Freeman Fuller Gamage Gammill Ganes Garner Garr Gates Gibbs Gideons Gilbert
Giles Gilmer Gilmore Ginn Glasgow Glazier Glenn Glynn Golden Golightly Goodwin
Goolsby Gordron Gower Grace Grady Gray Greene Gregory Griffin Grissam Grizzard
Grumbles Guise Habersham Halbrooks Hall Ham Hames Hamilton Hammet Hancock Handy
Haney Harmon Harper Harrel Harris Harrup Harvey Hatcher Hayman Haynie Hays Head
Henderson Hendrick Hendrix Hendry Herndon Hester Hewell Hickman Hicks Higginbotham
Higgs Highsmith Hinds Hiner Hines Hinson Hinton Hobbs Hodges Holbrook Holcomb(e)
Holladay Holliman Holloman Holmes Hooper Hopkins Horn Horton Houghton Howell
Hubbard Hudson Huey Hunter Jackson Jenkins Jennings Jester Jernigan Johnson Joiner Jones
Jo(u)rdan Keen Kelly Kellum Kendall Kent Keslerson Kendall King Kirklin Knight Knowles
Lacy Lambert Landrum Lanier Lansford Lawless Lawrence Lawson Leach Leak Leansley
Legrand Lesley Levar Leverrette Lewis Liles Lindsey Little Litton Lockhart Long Lord
Lovejoy Loyd Lucas Luker Lynn Magabee Magee Maginty Mangum Manly Mappin Martin
Massey Mathews Matthews Mattox Mayes McCall McCibben McClain McCollum McCoy
McCutchen McDade McDaniel McDonald McFail McGruder McMillan McMinn McMullians
McMurran McNeill McRee McVickers McWhorter Mead Merritt Merriwether Metts
Middlebrooks Mikell Miller Millican Mitchell Mitzger Monk Monroe Moody Moore Mophfitt
Moreland Morris Morrow Moseley Murphy Murray Myers Nail Napp Nash Nead Newman
Newsom Nichols Nix Nobles Norman Oates Offut Oliver Paine Palmer Paris Parish Park
Parker Patrick Patterson Peacock Peavy Pennington Pentecost Perkins Phil(l)ips Pinson
Pledger Pollock Pool Porter Potts Price Proctor Pruitt Ragland Raines Randolph Ray
Readwine Reddick Reese Renfroe Rhan Richardson Roach Roberts Robinson Rooks Ross
Ruddell Rudulph Rusheon Rushing Rutherford Rye Rylee Sager Saint Sanders Sandridge
Sappington Scott Seal Sellers Selman Sett Setzer Shackleford Shephard Shockley Simmons
Singletary Sissom Skinner Slatin Slatter Slay Smar Smith Sparks Speak Spears Spence
Springer Stamper Starrell Stewart Stillwell Stone Strad Stringer Stroud Suttles Sutton Swords
Tabor Talbot Taliaferro Tammons Tanner Tatum Tedder Telly Terrill Terry Thomas
Thompson Thrower Tillary Tomalson Tomlinson Tool Trainum Treddwell Tucker Tuhett
Tulley Turke Turner Twitty Tyler Usery Varnadore Varner Verdin Vernon Vickers Visage
Wadsworth Waits Walker Walton Ward Warden Warren Waters Watkins Watson Watts
Weaver Wence Wesson West Westbrook Wetter Wheeler White Wilcher Wiley Wilhite Wilks
Williams Williamson Willingham Willis Willoughby Wills Wil(l)son Windham Wingate
Wood Woodruff Worsham Wright Yates Young Zinn
REFERENCE
Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia (1831)
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