Aggy Foster 1838 Claim (No 31) · Retracing the Bell Route: An Archive of Cherokee Removal · Retracing the Bell Route: An Archive of Cherokee Removal

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Aggy Foster (No. 31)
Transcribed by Kennedy Elders and Ari Riggs

“United States for Spoliation Dr.
To Aggy Foster Coosawattee District
One Gray Horse 5 yrs old 100.00
8 Barrow hogs 3 yrs old [each] 5.00 40.00
7 Stock hogs 3 yrs old 5.00 35.00
19 Shoats 1 yr old 1.00 [each] 19.00
3 cows and yearlings 21.00 63.00
1 steer 4 yrs old 25.00
[Total $282.00]
Personally came Aggy Foster of the Cherokee Nation East and solemnly affirmed that about seven years ago to the best of her recollection she owned the horse above described near New Echota GA where she resided, and that said horse used in the range was either taken off by some person or strayed off she is unable to state which but sometime afterwards she found the horse near Sixes gold mines state of Georgia in the possession of a white man citizen of the United States by the name of Edwards who refused to deliver him up and that she never has received any compensation for said horse, and that she believes the horse was worth the sum charged, and that during the same year she lost the horse the hogs was taken by a white man citizen of the United States the hogs was in the habit of using about New Echota Ga and that any M J Tarvin made pork of the old hogs & put the shoats in his own mark and that she never has received any consideration for the same & that she believes the hogs was worth the sum charged therefore

This deponent further states that about four years ago a white man citizen of the United States who drove them up from the woods & sold them and that she never has received any compensation for these whatever & that she is of the opinion the hogs was worth the prices charged in the foregoing claim

Affirm to before me this 29th Sept. 1838
C McDonald Agent C.C. East
Aggy Foster her X mark

Personally came Ka wau tah and Thomas Foster of the Cherokee Nation east and solemnly affirmed that they were acquainted with the property sett forth in the foregoing account and all the circumstances under which the property was taken & that they saw the property in possession of white citizens stated in the foregoing affirmation and that they fully concur with the said Aggy Foster in her affirmation and that they believe the property was wroth the sum charged. Affirm to before me this 29th Sept. 1838

C McDonald Agent C.C. East
Thomas Foster his X mark
Kawautah his X mark”

Title

Aggy Foster 1838 Claim (No 31)

Name of Claimant

Aggy Foster

Name of Witness(es)

Kawautah, Thomas Foster

Name of Agent/Clerk

Collins McDonald

Total Claim Amount

282.00

Claim Perpetrator

M.J. Tarvin

Date of Theft

1831

Residence in the East (District)

Coosawattee District

Livestock

Hogs, shoats, horse, cows, yearlings, steer