(The figures as given here are correctly copied from the commissioner's
letter, but there is an obvious error either in the footing or in the
items.)]
[Footnote 437: January 3, 1837.]
[Footnote 438: December 1, 1836.]
[Footnote 439: This census showed a distribution of the Cherokee
population, according to State boundaries, as follows:
+-----------------+----------+-------+--------------------+
| | | |Whites intermarried |
| States. |Cherokees.|Slaves.| with |
| | | | Cherokees. |
+-----------------+----------+-------+--------------------+
|In Georgia | 8,946| 776| 68|
|In North Carolina| 3,644| 37| 22|
|In Tennessee | 2,528| 480| 79|
|In Alabama | 1,424| 299| 32|
| +----------+-------+--------------------+
| Total | 16,542| 1,592| 201|
+-----------------+----------+-------+--------------------+
]
[Footnote 440: Secretary of War to Col. William Lindsay, May 8, 1837.]
[Footnote 441: March 26, 1838.]
[Footnote 442: Speech in reply to Mr. Halsey, of Georgia, January 2,
1838.]
[Footnote 443: May 22, 1838.]
[Footnote 444: National Intelligencer, June 8, 1838.]
[Footnote 445: Secretary of War to James K. Polk, Speaker of the House
of Representatives, January 8, 1838.]
[Footnote 446: General Macomb to General Scott, April 6, 1838.]
[Footnote 447: May 10, 1838.]
[Footnote 448: May 18, 1838.]
[Footnote 449: Annual report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
November 25, 1838.]
[Footnote 450: Proposal was accepted July 25; emigration to begin
September 1 and end before October 20, 1838.]
[Footnote 451: The number, according to the rolls of John Ross, who
removed under his direction, was 13,149. According to the rolls of
Captain Stevenson, the agent who received them on their arrival West,
there were only 11,504, and, according to Captain Page, the disbursing
officer, there were 11,721. Mr. Ross received on his settlement with
Captain Page subsequent to the removal, $486,939.50-1/4, which made a
total payment to Ross by the Government on account of Cherokee removals
of $1,263,338.38. (Letter of Commissioner Indian Affairs, June 15,
1842). See, also, Commissioner of Indian Affairs to Commissioner of
Land Office, January 9, 1839.]
[Footnote 452: Commissioner of Indian Affairs to Secretary of War,
September 12, 1839.]
[Footnote 453: April 21, 1840.]
[Footnote 454: Report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1839.]
[Footnote 455: Letter of John Ross to General Arbuckle, June 24, 1839.]
[Footnote 456: June 22, 1839.]
[Footnote 457: Agent Stokes to Secretary of War, June 24, 1839.]
[Footnote 458: July 5, 1839.]
[Footnote 459: August 9, 1839.]
[Footnote 460: August 27, 1839.]
[Footnote 461: August 23, 1839.]
[Footnote 462: July 7, 1839.]
[Footnote 463: July 10, 1839.]
[Footnote 464: August 21, 1839.]
[Footnote 465: September 4, 1839, _et seq._]
[Footnote 466: November 9, 1839.]
[Footnote 467: January 22, 1840.]
[Footnote 468: April 21, 1840.]
[Footnote 469: Coody, in an interview with the Secretary of War,
persisted in considering the murders of Boudinot and the Ridges as
justifiable. General Arbuckle's letter of notification bore date April
21, 1840.]
[Footnote 470: Commissioner of Indian Affairs to Maj. William
Armstrong, August 26, 1840.]
[Footnote 471: September 22, 1841.]
[Footnote 472: March 4, 1842.]
[Footnote 473: September 9, 1842.]
[Footnote 474: November 8, 1842.]