Is Nancy Stinnett Witt Native Amery

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Is Nancy Stinnett Witt Allen

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I found some of my comms with Sharon, I think her last name was jenkins.  She shared a lot of stuff with me.  This is just 1. Of many. 

edited to add, I have been in contact with Sharon since this started, she is Sharon Jarvis, and I may have convinced her to join Wikitree.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Notes_on_Witt_Research

Answer 1

Nancy is my 3rd ggm. There is a post on her  profile that I just answered. Richard Witt was assistant Indian Agent to Wm L Lovely. Lovely's wife was the widow Persis Brown Goodrich. Richard and Sarah named children after them, and Persis left those two 1/3 each of her estate.  

Nancy was born in Indian Territory in 1814, evidently during Richard tenure.

My DNA does not show any NA, Asian or other New World markers.

I have some great work sent to me from a researcher named Sharon. It was Sharon's work that I originally saw when my Mother sent me to find Nancy's maiden name. At the time it was the only gedcom at Rootsweb who had a maiden name attached.  I followed her research.  Of course I had to tell my mother that Nancy told me.

Nancy's daughter's Sarah Jane and Rhoda married Morton Brothers.

Answer 2

The 1850 and 1860 census on her bio state her race as white. But if you would like you can direct message the PM on the profile and ask if Nancy has any native american ancestry. The PM may not see this question here on G2G.

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Nancy's daughter Talitha Calhoun applied for enrollment by the Dawes Commission, first in 1896 and then again in 1898.  She claimed that her father was Choctaw but no one in this family appears in any record as anything other than white. The 1896 Dawes applications were all overturned or rejected since there was rampant fraud (lawyers provided people willing to swear to false affidavits) and the white commissioners were approving people over the objections of the tribes.  In Talitha's case, even the white commissioners agreed that no one in this family was Choctaw.   She applied again in 1898 and was again rejected.  She never made any claim that her mother was Native American.

There is nothing in any record to suggest that Zachariah Allen was Choctaw.  He was born in Tennessee, a place the Choctaw did not live.  He received several grants of land from the U.S. government in Mississippi in the late 1830's after the Choctaw were removed.  The land he purchased was land that was taken from the Choctaw.  If he actually was Choctaw he could have taken a reservation of  land in Mississippi through the 1832 Treaty of Dancing Rabbit  and if not he would have been Removed to Indian Territory.   He consistently appears on records of white inhabitants of Mississippi.

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Thanks for this info Kathie, its a glimpse into what must have been a terrible ordeal for the people that truly had a claim.

Answer 3

Mark, if you have anything to add to the family, please be our guest, don't hold back. Its what Wikitree is all about. And if we have something wrong (meaning me) let me know.

Answer 4

Mark, “Allen” popped on my “feed.”  Welcome to WikiTree!!  Love that you posted your question here.  Want to reinforce what Lynnette Jester said and encourage you to keep engaging in whatever way you wish.  WikiTree is very welcoming community of fun, kind, people who have all levels of experience, wide ranges of expertise and interests.  If you want to share more, want more clarity, want to “debate” facts  or have questions about how WikiTree works, please reach out.  Feel free to private message me.  I’m still relativity new WikiTree, and genealogy, but I’d enjoy helping in any way I can.

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Please feel free to dm me too.  I'm not new to genealogy, nor Wikitree, but there are a lot of changes faster then I can keep up with.