Runabout Scraper 1842 Claim
1842 Claims - Flint District Book 5
No. 143
The United States Do:
To Runabout Scraper, residence in the Old Nation, Chattoogee
Valley, Alabama. Now in Flint District.
To standing corn in the
fall, nine acres $900.00
Runabout Scraper on oath
states that in the fall of 1835 a white rob(b)ed or took by force the nine
acres set forth in account. The
claimant states further that the said white man took under a pretense of having
a claim against him for four dollars and then took by force his whole field of
corn, and that owing to the laws of the states being extended over the old
Cherokee Nation he was dispossessed of all his rights and privileges and
therefore he could not recover damages or get pay under U. S. laws, and then
has never received the first cent for his corn.
Sworn to before me 21st
April 1842 Run About
Scraper his X mark
Jay Hicks, Clerk
Kulsti Muskrat on oath
states that she lived a close neighbor to Run About Scraper in the Old Nation and
knows that he owned the field of corn set forth in his account and that in the
fall of 1835 a white man forcibly took said field of corn and put the same to
his own use and further that the said claimant was not able to recover damages
for said corn in consequence of the oppressive laws of that state, & then
she knows that he has never received the first cent from no source whatever.
Sworn to before me 21st
April 1842 Kulsti Muskrat her
X mark
Jay Hicks, Clerk
Joe Scraper Jr –
April 2008
