Collections of Records of Cherokees and Creeks

Cherokees

• 1835 Henderson Roll; 1906 Guin Miller Rolls, 1851 Chapman Rolls which include Cass, Chatham, Cherokee, Cobb, DeKalb, Forsyth, Gilmer, Gordon, Gwinnett, Lumpkin, Murray, Union and Walker Counties; 1910 Cherokee Judgment Roll Fund, 1910 Cherokee Roll East of the Mississippi, 1909 Cherokee Enrollees to be strick from the Roll.
• Cherokee Oaths of 1833; Cherokees Who Took The Oath to Remain Georgia
• 1835 New Echota Residents (Cherokees) Who Requested a Militia Unit to Keep Order Among the Cherokees
• General Index to Eastern Cherokee Applications A to K
• 1835 Forsyth County Census 1832 Supreme Court Case of Samuel A. Worcester, Plaintiff in Error
• Cherokee Phoenix Newspapers, Echota, 1828
• Cherokee Genealogies Traced - Alphabetical by Surname

Creeks

• Creek Census of 1833 - Lower and Upper Creeks
• McGillivray, Alexander, King of Creek Nation
• Native Americans Database of Names (various tribes) -

The above collections are available to members of Georgia Pioneers.

The Meanderings of Native Indians

Native Americans were constantly at war with other tribes. Some of the smaller tribes (or losers) were swallowed up and lost in identity. The tribes follow the Buffalo. Records were not kept of births, deaths, etc. They did not marry white women but sometimes captured them as slaves. White families had no chance of retrieving their women. Benjamin Hawkins, a Creek agent in Georgia during its colonization, kept his own journals. Thus, the materials to be examined are those kept by Indian Agents (if one can find such items) who wrote in English and sometimes clarified the English version of an Indian name. These agents were in Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia where all of the records survive. I strongly recommend reading the deeds and affidavits (colonial writing) to gain historical knowledge of the times and discover more information.

---

About the Cherokee Indians