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CHEROKEE
JcMFOa.
PIHENIX.
VOL. I.
NEW ECHOTA, WEDNESDAY JUNE 18, 1828.
DITED BY ELIAS B0UD1N0TT
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PHCENIX.
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STATISTICAL TABLES
Of the several Districts composing the
Cherokee Nation,
In 1824 a resolution was passed by the
(Legislature of the Cherokee Nation, ap
pointing and authorising eight persons to
[take the census of the Nation, and to pre
pare correct statistical tables of each Dis
trict. The general result has been laid be
fore the public. Our object in inserting
the following tables which We copy from a
pamphlet is to show that, if possessions can
be considered as indicating the progress of
civilization, some of the Districts are con
siderably farther advanced in improve
ment than others.
COOSEWAYTEE DISTRICT.
Population.
Males under 18 .years of age 529
Males from 18 i.o 59 years of age 515
Males over 59 years of age 67
Total number of males
Females under 15 years of age 476
Females from 15 to 40 years 174
Females over 40 years of age 539
Total number Of females
T otal of males and females
Male slaves 168?
Female slaves 127 $
Total
mi
1205
2816
195
Whole Population 2,611
In this District, there arc twenty-
seven white men married to Chero
kee women, and twenty Cherokees
married to white women.
There are in this District, 2,944
black cattle, 1,207^ horees, 4,965
Swine, 369 sheop, ninety one goats,
113 looms, 397 spinning wheels, thir
ty-three wagons, 461 ploughs, five
Saw-mills, five grist mills, ten black
smith shops, two Missionary Schools
in operation, in which are twenty one
scholars of both sexes.
TAHQTJOA DISTRICT
Males under 18 years of age
Males from 18 to 59 years of ? ge
Males over 59 years of dge
Total number of males
Females under 15 yenrs of age
Females from 15 to 40 years.
I’ e males over 40 years of age
Total number of females 666
Total of males and females 1359
357
SOI
35
301
328
87
693
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Total
24
Male negroes
Female negroes
Whole population 1,383
There are in this District, eight
white men married to Cherokee wo
men, and one Cherokee man married
•to a white woman.
There are in this District, 211
spinning wheels, one grist mill, one
blacksmith shop, 308 ploughs, fifty-
ty-three looms, 323 sheep, 2,419
swine, 1,506 black cattle, 554 hors
es.
CHICKAMAUGA DISTRICT.
Males under 18 years of age 484
Males from 18 to 59 years of age 396
Males over 59 years of age 48
Total number of males
Females under 15 years of age 298
Females from 15 to 40 years 374
Females over 40 years of age 131
Total number of females
Total of males and females
Male negroes 90 ? rp . ,
Female negroes 97 ) 0
923
803
1726
1S7
Whole population 1,913
There are in this District, fifteen
white men married to Cherokee wo
men, and four Cherokee men married
to whitewomen.
There are in this District four
Schools and seventy-two scholars of
both sexes, a grist-mill, two saw-mills,
one cotton gin, 121 looms, 368 spin
ning wheels—eighteen wagons, 354
ploughs, 1,175 horses, 2 505 black
cattle, 8,900 swine. 111 goats, ele
ven blacksmith shops, five ferries,
four stores, and 397 sheep.
HICKORY LOG DISTRICT.
Males under 18 v^ars of age 397
Males from 18 to 59 years of age 300
Males over 59 years of age 42
Total number of males
F.'males under 15 years of age 345
Females from 15 to 40 years 336
Feinales over 40 years of age 118
Total number of females
Total of males and females
Male slaves ? ™ .
Female slaves S lotal
739
794
1533
Whole population 1533
There are in this District, twen
ty Cherokees married to white wo
men, and forty white men married to
Cherokee women.
There are in this District, five
blacksmith shops, thirty-two wagons,
one cotton gin, one saw-mill, two
stores, 187 head of sheep, twenty-four
goats, 3,178 swine, 1733 black cattle,
520 horses. 232 spinning wheels, 76
looms, and farming utensils in propor
tion, of all descriptions.
AQUOHEE DISTRICT.
Males under 18 years of age 561
Males from 18 to 59 years of age 607
Males over 59 years of age 77
Total number of males.
Females under 15 years of age 699
Females from 15 to 40 years" 522
Females over 40 years of age 93
Total number of females
Total ofmales and females
Male negroes 10
Female negroes 9
Total
1245
1319
2564
19
Whole population 2583
There arc in this District, four
white men married to Cherokee wo
men.
There are in this District, one Mis
sionary School of fifty scholars, 1,191
horses, 1,799 black cattle, 5,544
swine, 765 sheep, thirty-seven goats,
one saw-mill, one grist-mill, 440
ploughs, 145 looms, 346 spinning
wheels, five blacksmith shops, seven
wagons.
AHMOHEE DISTRICT.
Males under 18 years of age 386
Males from 18 to 59 years of age 300
Males over 59 years of age 31
Total number ofmales —- 717
Females under 15 years of age 338
Females from 15 to 40 years 299
Females over 40 years of age 58
TaI nl nnmhnM t" 1
Total number of Females •
Total ofmales and females
Male slaves 78 ) m . ,
Female slaves 69 t 1otal
695
1,413
142
Total Population 1,554
There are in this District, eleven
Cherokees married to white women,
and twenty eight white men married
to Cherokee women.
There are in this District, five
Schools and twenty seven scholars of
of both sexes, seven blacksmith shops,
one turnpike, five ferriis, six public
roads, one threshing Machine, one
store, ninety-three goal , 243 sheep,
6,080 swine, 1,730 cattfe, 845 horses,
372 ploughs, seventy loims, 327 spin
ning wheels, twenty-mntwagons, three
saw-mills, six grist mil£, two cotton
gins.
CHATTOOGA DISTRICT.
Males under 18 years of ad 420
Males from 18 to 59 years ejage 400
Males over 59 years of agei SO
Total number of males -—
Females under 15 years of ate
Females from 15 to 40 year/
Females over 40 years ofag$
Total number of females ■
Total ofmales and ferrules
Male negroes, 122? T j
t emalc negroes, 170 \
850
339
365
95
799
1,649
292
26
608
SOO
306
71
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677
3
1,375
79
1,454
Total Population 1,941
There ore in this District, eighteen
white men married to Chirokee wo
men, and three Cherokeejrmn mar
ried to white women.
There are in this Distric!, 6 schools
in which are ninety two scholars of
both sexes; and 1,318 hoises, 7,018
cattle, 4,654 swine, 335 shpep, fifteen
goats, 124 looms, 307 wheels, 446
ploughs, eleven blaCksinill: shops, five
grist mills, two cotton gins, one saw-
miii, and two stores.
HIGH TOWER DISTRICT.
Mal< s under 18 years of age 047
.Males from IS to 59 years of ag n
Mae/, over 59 years of age
Total number ofmales
Females under 15 j ears of age
Females from 15 to 40 years
Femaias over 40 years of age
Total number of females
Total of males and females
Male negroes 43 ? r*. . ,
Female negroes 36 ^ 0
Total Population
In this District, there are four
white men married to Cherokee wo
men, and two Cherokee men married
to white women.
There is in this District one School,
in which are twenty scholars of botli
sexes; and 818 horses. 3,170 cattle,
3,777 swine, 298 sheep, 67 goals, 67
looms, 65 ploughs, five blacksmith
shops, two mills, 240 wheels, and e-
leven wagons.
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CORRESPONDENXE
Between Commissioners on the part of
the United States, and the Council of
the' Cheroliec Nation } in the year
1823.
NO. 17.
The following communication teas this
day made to the Council <J Inc Cher
okee nation:
JSIewtovvn, 16/11 Oct. 1823.
Friends and Brotiibits: We are
happy that a short t ime lias been con
sumed in the correspondence between
you and the State Commissioners.
This has afforded us an oppoil unity
of becoming partially acquainted w ith
sevcial members of this Council.—
For the whole body we entertain a high
respect, and we trust, that, with some
of you, we have contracted individual
friendships. In saying this, we do not
violence to cur own feelings, neither
do we lower the elevated character
of the United Slates. People who
have never seen you. know but little
of your progress in the arts of civilized
life, and of the regular and becoming
manner in which your affairs are con
ducted.
Your improvement reflects the
greatest credit upon yourselves, and
upon the Government by which yon
have been preserved and fostered.—
Other Governments would have tri
umphed in your downfall, and held you
down by cruelty and oppression.—*
Such has not been the conduct of the
United States. She has set an exam
ple which the whole civilized world
ought to feel proud to follow. It has
been your unhappy lot to be shut out
from the advantages which many oth
ers enjoy. It has been the constant
study and exertion of the Govern
ment to relieve you from your unfor
tunate condition. The struggle has
been long, but not in vain. What
was promised you by your first Fa
ther, Washington, has been fully per
formed by those great friends of man
kind vvho have followed him. Under
the kind protection of these earthly
fathers, you have been taught that you
have a Father above to whom you are
accountable. It should be your pride
to act up to the near relationship
which exists between you and the
United States. If the President prac
tices towards you the kind treatment
of father, it becomes your duty to re
turn the obedience and gratitude of
children. You have received this
kindness from Government fiom the
close of the Revolutionary War, up
to the present time.
The President acknowledges that
you deserved it by the steadiness of
your fidelity. Your conduct as a na
tion has been peaceable and harmless,
although some of your citizens have
been, at times, restless and trouble
some.
Wc doubt not but that some of our
citizens are liable to the same charge.
You have embraced the only opportu
nity which has occurred of shewing
that you are warriors, and that you
are faithful to the country.
In the last war you were found
bravely fighting by the side of the
white man, your brother, against the
enemies of liberty. These enemies
would have seduced you if they could,
and after making you traitors to your
father, the President, they would
hove become t raitors to you. Here
would have followed a scene of deso
lation, at which every good man and
Christian would weep. It was your
fidelity which prevented it, and" the
hands of the red man and the white
man were not raised against each oth
er. The red man and the white man
now are brothers, and long may they
so continue.
Brothers, these remarks have grown
out of feelings which have been inspir
ed by our acquaintance with you.
Coming, as we do, clothed in the
high authority of the United States,
we are left to speak the undisguised
sentiments of sincerity. We have
done so, and hope, and expect, to be
met in the same spirit of conciliation
and friendship.
Having made these remarks, we
now proceed to lay before you the
subject of our mission. We know
that it is one which you have anticip
ated, aad upon which you have already
expressed yourselves with some ear-
