Petition to TN Legislature To Grant Citizenship to a Cherokee Family, 1845
Transcribed from microfilm and contributed by: Charles A. Sherrill, 1992
A project of the Bradley County Historical Society
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Petition Number 59, Year 1845_
[Envelope is addressed to Cpt. James Lauderdele, Representative from Bradley County, Nashville, Tennessee. The clerk has added: “A Memorial of 73 citizens of Bradley County Tenn. Asking that a family of resident Cherokee Indians be given rights of citizenship, 1845”.]
State of Tennessee ))
Bradley County )) October 18, 1845
To the honourable Legislature of Tennessee. We the citizens of said County wish to represent to your honourable body the condition of a family of Cherokees, viz Richard B. Foreman and family who failed to emigrate to the west. We the undersigned do petition your honourable body to Citizenise said family so that they may have equal rights and privaleges with us and by your Complyance we your petitioners in duty bound will every pray & etc.
| A.M. Allen | Elijah Skern |
| E. N. Baylor | John Bettis |
| Martin Romines | Sam[?] Lervel[?] |
| Anderson Edmonds | Henry Hatfield |
| William Hunter | Caswell Tucker |
| Alen Nelson | Seth Atchley |
| John Geren | John W. McReynolds |
| William McPherson | Clark Green |
| Levi Carter | David Earnest |
| Anderson Caldwell | John Auels |
| W. E. Brightwell | Handy Hatfield |
| James Kirkpatrick | James Farmer |
| Elisha Newbrey | Richard Grisham |
| George Lawson | John Cates[?] |
| John Brown | Isaac Kirkpatrick |
| John Sisco | Hiram Gearen[?] |
| Samuel M. King | John G. Geren |
| Wilson Thurman[?] | Cheatom Hawkins |
| Absalom A. Geren | S. Bare |
| Simeon Witt | B.F. Grigsby |
| Thomas M. Geren, Jr. | Eli Sample |
| Andrew Celsor[?] | William Johnson |
| S.C. Geren | James Walker |
| Thomas Moses[?] | Eli King |
| David Sulser | William Sample |
| John Hix | Jeremiah Dearing |
| Hugh Bandy | John Branham |
| John Hunt | Thomas J. Ross |
| David Wilson | Frances Okelly |
| Joshua Richards | Lualben[?] Scroer[?] |
| Edward Sharp | Andrew Hooper |
| John P. Hix | Samuel Sample |
| Thomas Geren | C.C. Turner |
| Wiley Geren | Thomas Wooden |
| John Raines | John E. Grigsby |
| James Grigsby | Hiram Raines |