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VOL. I.
EDITED BY ELIA.S BOUDINOTT
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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.
COOSEWAYTEF. DISTRICT.
Population.
Males under 18 years of age 529
Males from 18 to 59 years of age 515
Males over 59 years of age 67
Total number of males 1111
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 1205
Total of males and females 2316
Male > laves 168 } T , ,
Female slaves 127 £ 0 a
Whole Population
In this District, there are 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 sheep, 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.
TAHQUOA DISTRICT.
Males under 18 years of age 8&7
Malesfrom 18 to 59yearsofagc 301
Males over 59 years of age 35
Tclal number of males 6D3
Females under 15 years of age 301
Females from 15 to 40years. 328
reinal'"s over 40 i cars of n-e .;7
Total number of females
Total of males and females
CHEROKEE
Male negroes 7 > ,p o(a [ 04
Female negroes 17 5
Whole population
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 yeai-s of age 484
Males from 18 to 59 years of age 396
Males over 59 years of age 43
Total number of males 9-23
Females under 15 years of age 298
Females from 15 to 40 years 874
Females over 40 years of age 131
Total number of females 803
Total of males and females 1726
Male negroes 90 > Tot al 187
r emalc negroes 97 5
Whole population 1,913
There are in this District, fifteen
white men married to Cherokee wo
men, and four Cherokee men married
to wbitewomen.
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 years of age 387
Males from 18 to 59 years of age 300
Males over 59 years of age 42
Total number of males 739
Females under 15 years of age 345
is, N. Y.
F-cvaales from IE to 40 jears 356
Females over 40 years of age 118
Total number of females 794
Total of males and females 1533
Male slaves > rp , ,
Femalfi slaves \ lotal
Whole population
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 IS years of age 561
Males from 18 to 59 years of age 607
Males over 59 years of age
Total number of males. 1245
Females under 15 years of age 699
Females from 15 to 40 years 522
Females over 40 years of age 99
Total number of females ISI9
Total of males and females 2564
Male negroes 10) ™ ,
Female negroes 9 5
Whole population
There are in tliis District, four
white meu 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, 446
ploughs, 14a looms, 346 spinning
wheels, five blacksmith shops, seven
wagons.
195
2,611
AHMOHEE DISTRICT.
Males under 18 years of age 386
Males l'rom 18 to 59 years of age 800
Males over 59 years of age 31
Total number of males —; — 717
Females under 15 years of age 338
Females from 15 to 40 years 299
Females over 40 years of age 58
Total number of Females 695
Total of males and females
Male slaves 73 >r P . ,
Female slaves 69 J ° a
Total Population
There are in this District, eleven
Cbcrokees 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
666
1559
JEW ECHOTA, WEDNESDAY JUJYE 18, 1828.
1,383
1553
2583
1,412
142
1,554
of both sexes, seven blacksmith shops,
one turnpike, five ferries, six public
roads, one threshing machine, one
store, ninety-three goats, 243 sheep,
6,080 swine, 1,730 cattle, 845 horses,
372 ploughs, seventy looms, 327 spin
ning wheels, twenty-nine three
saw-mills, six grist mills, two cotton
gins.
CHATTOOGA DISTRICT.
Males under 18 years of age 420
Males from 18 to 59 years of age 400
Males over 59 years of age 30
Total number of males 850
Females under 15 years of age SS9
Females from 15 to 40 years 365
Females over 40 years of age 95
Total number of females 799
Total of males and females 1,649
Male negroes, 1 22 i Tnfal "92
Female negroes, 170$
Total Population
There are in this District, eighteen
while men married to Cherokee wo
men, and three Cherokee men mar
ried to white women.
There are in this District, 6 schools
in which are ninety two scholars of
both sexes; and 1,318 horses, 7,018
cattle, 4,654 swine, 335 sheep, fifteen
goats, 124 looms, 307 wheels, 446
ploughs, eleven blacksmith shops, five
grist mills, two cotton gins, one saw
mill, and two stores.
HIGH TOWER DISTRICT.
Males under IS years of age 347
Males from 18 to 59 years of age 825
Males over 59 years of age 26
Total number of males 698
Females under 15 years of age 300
Eemalcs from 15 to 40 years 306
Females over 40 years of age 71
Total number of females 677
Total of males and females 1,375
Male negroes 43 > Total 7£)
Female negroes 36^
Total Population 1,454
In this District, there are four
white men married to Cherokee wo
n>en, and two Cherokee men married
to whit.® women.
There is in this District one School,
in which are twenty scholars of both
sexes; and 818 horses, 3.170 cattle,
3,777 swine, 298 sheep, 67 goats, 67
looms, 65 ploughs, five blacksmith
shops, two mills, 240 wheels, and e
leven wagons.
1,941
[continued.]
CORRESPONDENCE
Between Commissioners on the part of
the United States, and the Council of
the Cherokee Nation, in th» year
18?3.
3TO. 17.
The following communication was t'd 3
day made to the Council oj the Ciier
okee nation:
Newtown, 16th Oct. 18J3.
Friends and Brothers: We are
happy that a short time has been con
sumed in the correspondence between
you and the State Commissioners.
This has afforded us an opportunity
of becoming partially acquainted with
several 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 our own feelings, neither
do we lower the elevated character
of the United States. 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 eon
ducted.
Your improvement reflects the
greatest credit upon yourselves, >at:d
upon the Government by which you
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 who have followed him. Under
the kind protection of liiese ea:'thJy
fathers, you have been taught that yoa
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 from 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.
We 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 co;iid,
and after making you traitors to your
father, the President, they would
have become traitors to you. Here
would have followed a scene of deso
lation, at which every good man a !l d
Christian would weep. It was your
fidelity which prevented it, and (he
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-