To Cricket Sixkiller late of Island Town Chatoogi, Cherokee
Nation East. Removed in Daniel
Colston’s Detachment. Now of Going
Snake District.
To 116 head of hogs $348 – 1 sorrel mare & colt $40 – 1 grey
horse $25 413.00
1 bay mare $20 – 100 bushels corn $100 – 800 bundles fodder
$24 144.00
30 grown ducks $7.50 – 30 young ducks $3.75 – 3 pots $8 19.25
1 brass kettle $7 – 1 small pot $1 – 3 dishes $3 – 27 plates
$ 4.75 15.75
2 sets cups & saucers $ - 2 sets fire dogs $8 – 6 chairs
$5 14.00
1 cupboard $5 – 1 table $3 – 3 bedsteads $10 – 2 shovel
ploughs $4 22.00
1 single tree 1.50 – 1 pr mens shoes 2.50 – 1 clavis
.506t – 1pr hames 1.50 6.00
1 collar $1 – 1 pair drawing chains $2 – six bee
stands $18 21.00
1 acre of land –cleared $3 – 18 acres cleared up $18 21.00
Rent of one house taken forcible possession of by Walker
Thornton
and
used by him three years 30.00
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706.00
Personally appeared before
me David M. Foreman, Solicitor for this District
Cricket Sixkiller who being
duly qualified states: I resided at
Island Town on Chatoogi in 1838 where myself and family were captured by the
troops of the United States under the command of General Scott. The items of property in the foregoing
schedule were left behind on my capture and I have never received any
compensation for them or any part of them from the proceeds of the sales of the
commissioners of Indian properties or from any other source.
The
house for which I claim rent was the dwelling house of myself and family. In the year 1835 Walker Thornton came there
and entered while I was gone to my father’s one morning. When I returned I found him with his family
and furniture in the house. He refused
to give it up affirming that the place was his as drawee in the Georgia land
lottery.
Sworn
to and subscribed before me this 3rd day of March 1842
David M. Foreman, Clerk Cricket
Six Killer his X mark
Six Killer being duly qualified states that he lived about a
mile from the above named Cricket Six Killer.
Was well acquainted with his stock and property. The description of the principal items I
know to be precisely correct. The stock
of hogs and all the smaller particulars were such as induce me to believe the
foregoing account to be a correct statement of them.
Sometime in 1838 was Cricket Six Killer was at my home; word
was brought that a white man had taken possession of his house. I went with him to the house and found said
Walker Thornton with his family and furniture, and part of Cricket Six Killer’s
moved out into the entry. We had a long
talk with him but failed to get him to give up the house.
Sworn
to and subscribed before me this 3rd day of March 1842
David M. Foreman, Clerk Six Killer his X mark
1842 Going Snake District Claim # 6
Transcribed by Joe Scraper Jr April 2008
