To Salawee AwW
of Island Town on Chatoogee, Cherokee
Nation East. Came in D. Colstons
detachment, resides now on Illinois River in Tellequa District.
In 1813 or 14
4 three year old hogs, cost
me $40 1 cow & calf $15 1 dun horse $40 95
1 bay mare and black colt 40
In 1838
20 large hogs $80 20 hogs
$60 30 yearling hogs $60 200
12 chickens $1.50 1 pot
$3 2 small pots $2.50 1 sett plates $1.25 7.25
1 bell 50ct 1 violin $4
3 weeding hoes $2.37½ 2 axes $4 10.87½
1 hand saw $2 draw knife
$1 1 pr cotton cards 75ct 1 _ _ _ pail $1 4.75
1 keeler 50 ct 1 rifle gun
$25 1 shot pouch $1 15 acres growing corn 150 176.50
6 acres growing corn $60
½ acre chaleoties $12 20 bushels corn $20 92
100 bundle fodder $3 1
bedstead $20 1 auger .75 23.75
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Credit by $40 received of
the commissioners said to be the proceeds 650.12½
of the sale of the above
abandoned property $40 40
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Salawee
AwW being duly qualified says: In
1813 & 14 I resided at Broom Town on Chatoogee. The four hogs charged were as I believe killed by the U. States
troops going to the Creek War. As well
also the cow & calf. One morning in
the fall when some of the troops were passing, I heard the report of guns, and
in a short time I was informed by some young men named Tassel and Dick both of
whom are now dead, that the troops had killed my hogs and put them in their
wagon. I then went to the place and saw
the blood and other marks of slaughtering and found the hogs gone. In looking round I found the head and hyde of
my cow and the calf killed lying near them.
The meat of the cow was further away.
I had seen the cow in the morning at home. She was very fat. About a
month or six weeks afterwards the troops were returning towards Tennessee in
parties of two & three and sometimes greater numbers & I have reason to
believe they took the horses. One
evening a company of four passed. The
next morning I missed the horses. I
then went after them the way the soldiers had gone. I found their tracks after going a mile on the road the soldiers
went. I followed on till I was
convinced they had been stolen and taken off and that I could not possible overtake
them.
In 1838 I resided at Island Town on Chatoogee. I was captured by the troops and put into
the fort, and all my property was left, of which the foregoing schedule is a
correct statement. A little while
before the detachment started, I was at Calhoun and was told by the community interpreter
that there was some money lying at the office for me. I went to see and was told it was the proceeds of the sale of my
property abandoned when I was captured by the troops, and I received forty
dollars which is credited in the foregoing account.
Sworn to and subscribed to
before me Salowee
his X mark
March 8, 1842
David M. Foreman, Clerk
Six
Killer being duly qualified says: I
lived about two miles from AwW Salowee
in 1813 & 14. I know he had four large fat hogs which he
bought and for which I understood he had paid forty dollars. It was well known in the neighborhood that
the hogs and cow & calf had been killed by the troops. I knew the horses that were described in the
schedule and that they were lost at the time stated in the affidavit. I did not see the men with them. I did not go in search of them, but it was a
thing well known in the neighborhood that the horses were lost and mostly it
was entertained but that the returning soldiers had taken them, as they were in
the habit of killing hogs & cattle in going and stealing horses on their
return throughout the route as far as I am informed.
With regard to the abandoned property I know he had a fine and
very large stock of hogs and that he had property of all the kinds stated in
the account, but I could not specify particulars. In 1838 I lived within a mile of his house. I also know that he was captured by the
troops at the same time as myself.
Sworn to and subscribed to
before me Six
Killer his X mark
March 8, 1842
David M. Foreman, Clerk
1842 Going Snake District Claim # 15
Transcribed by Joe Scraper Jr April 2008
