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Cherokee slave owners in Webbers falls area 1835 to 1845

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The first censuses taken in the Cherokee Nation after Removal were in 1851, but they did not include enslaved people or record whether someone was an enslaver.  The 1860 U.S. Census slave schedule did include both whites and Cherokees and enumerated enslaved people individually but not by name.  The first Cherokee census that named black residents of the Cherokee Nation was taken in 1867.  Dawes cards from 1902 for formerly enslaved people usually list their enslaver as well as their parents and their enslavers.

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Very helpful info, Kathie! Thanks.

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It might be possible to identify some slave holders by correlating the 1835 Cherokee census, which did identify them, with the 1851 Drennan Roll which enumerated people by the district where they resided, and the 1860 U.S. Census Slave Schedule which also enumerated by district.  Many of the people who are on the 1835 census had died by 1851 (or 1860) or were not living in the Cherokee Nation at the time, so obviously there are big gaps, but some names do carry through all three counts.