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Title This indenture made and entered into ... between To yah won ah ... of the Chickasaw Nation in the state of Mississippi of the one part and Joseph...

Creator Toyahwonah, Chickasaw Indian

Date 1836

Place Marshall County (Miss.), Mississippi, Mississippi--Marshall County, Southern States

Language English

Subjects Chickasaw Indians, Chickasaw Nation, Chickasaw women, Indian women, Indians of North America

Description The "sum of one thousand six hundred dols." corrected in the text to read "one thousand eight hundred dols."

Summary Printed form, filled in, May 4, 1836, in which Toyahwonah, a Chickasaw Indian woman, conveys two sections of land in Marshall County, Miss., that she was entitled to under the May 24, 1834, U.S. treaty with the Chickasaw Nation, to Joseph Caruthers for $1,800. Signed with Toyahwonah's mark and witnessed by James Colbert and Erasmus McDowell, the deed is certified by Chickasaw chiefs James Colbert and Henry Love, and by Chickasaw Indian agent, Benjamin Reynolds. It is examined May 5, 1836 by William Carroll, and recorded June 8, 1836, by Marshall County probate court clerk W.H. Rowland.

Extent 1 item (1 leaf) ; 42 cm

Format Deeds, Sources, Treaties

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection, Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

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Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Call Number Ayer MS 899

BibID 147689

Size 4046px × 5016px 58.10 MB

IIIF Resource Type Canvas

File Created 12/21/2013

Filename 991476898805867_Ayer_MS_899_00001.tif

Unique Identifier NL122IZL

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