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From: "Farmer, Jim" <>
Subject: South Carolina Grants
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 13:33:57 -0800


Thanks to everyone for the info. I think Jim Hicks is right about
individuals wanting to take advantage of treaties and land grants.

In one example, Stephen Cumbo of Edgefield Co. SC received a 640 acre
homestead grant in late 1817. That is the same amount of land established
for NDN homesteads specified in the Cherokee Treaty of 1817. Note that,
Stephen Cumbo was also one of those in South Carolina who was listed as
white in 1790, but non-white in 1810. Negotiations for the 1817 treaty
started in 1803, so that gave him and others plenty of time change their
status in 1810.

My question is, could the Cherokee Treaty of 1817 apply to non-Cherokee
natives of the South-East as well? Since Stephen Cumbo received a grant,
should I be looking for a Cherokee connection for him, or, can I assume that
natives of other tribes originating in the Southeast considered themselves
included under the same treaty and, therefore, equally eligible to receive
property?

This may be the reason why my Griffin grandmother remembers her family's
claim that they were Cherokee, even though they don't appear to have any
actual contact with that nation.

Jim

Jim Farmer
325 Elsie Street / San Francisco CA 94110

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jotajota
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-----Original Message-----
From:Jim Hicks [mailto:]
Sent:Tuesday, January 04, 2000 10:07 AM
To:
Subject:Early Indian Traders, SC area

In the late 1700's and very early 1800's South Carolina was
trying to create it's own monopoly on the fur trading
business.
There are many instances of South Carolina officials having
confiscated the goods of traders working on their boarders.
There are quite a few traders that "relocated" from North to
South Carolina to protect their trade. These traders also
found it necessary to take Native wives to protect their
investments and travels within the Native communities.
A white trader with an Indian wife and half-breed family
might
be considered a white family in North Carolina but an Indian
family in South Carolina. The head of Household might have
purposly enumerated his family as Native at this time to
take
advantage of treaties and land grants.

Jim Hicks


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