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New Echota Petitioners



On 10 April 1835, a group of Cherokee Indians located at New Echota, petitioned the Governor of Georgia for a military unit to keep order among the Cherokees.

  1. Benton, Robert O.
  2. Buchanan, R. H. L.
  3. Buiss, James
  4. Camp, Orasmus
  5. Chrissom, Elijah
  6. Cluitt, Thos. V.
  7. Curtis, Wm.
  8. Edwards, G. C.
  9. Fretwell, Lewis W.
  10. Hudgins, G. L.
  11. Johnson, S. J.
  12. Johnston, A. A.
  13. Kirkham, Robert
  14. Kirkham, Wm. H.
  15. Lay, John
  16. Lewis, Thos. J.
  17. Liddell, M. M.
  18. Lindsay, Isaac
  19. Mayo, S. T.
  20. Nelson, A. P.
  21. Offritt, Jesse
  22. Pearson, Evan
  23. Piles, David M.
  24. Powell, James D.
  25. Preyear, Jesse B.
  26. Putnam, J. C.
  27. Quinn, Hugh
  28. Randolph, P.
  29. Sloan, A.
  30. Sloan, John
  31. Tarvin, Wm. J.
  32. Upton, John A. T.
  33. Ware, Robert
  34. Wings, Simpson C.
  35. Wisdom, J. W.



Ref: George State Archives, Atlanta, Georgia. SEE Cherokee Letters, etc.