Cahuka Valuation
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Cahuka/Cahuca
Transcribed by Stuart Marshall
“No 265 Cahuca’s Improvements [Pine Log Creek]
Dwelling House 18 ft sq[uare] large hewed timber 1 ½ stories high, Piazza, P. floor, c[ommon] roof & ch[imney] clay with rock back 450.00
Ditto 18 ft sq[uare] ro[und] logs 50.00
Set of cribs 22 by 20 ft ro[und] logs ,, neat 75.00
Stable 20 by 16 ft ,, common roof 20.00
Smoke house 14 ft sq[uare] ro[und] logs c. roof 20.00
Fodder 20.00
85 Peach Trees @ 1.50 ea[ch] 127.50
14 Apples d[itto] $28 120 Small Peach $[.50 each] 88.00
Yard Lot 1 Acre $15 House d[itto] ½ [Acre] $10 25.00
10 Acres bottom land imp[roved] @ $10 100.00
13 [acres] upland [improved] @ $8 104.00
[Total] $1079.50
The above is the amount of Cahuca’s improvements on Pine Log Creek—she is the wife of Senacow’a who seems to have left her—Given under our hands Dec[ember] 4 1834
K.M. Hargrove
Stephen Mays” - Title
- Cahuka Valuation
- Name of Resident/Head of Household
- Cahuka
- Description of Dwelling
- Dwelling House 18 ft sq[uare] large hewed timber 1 ½ stories high, Piazza, P. floor, c[ommon] roof & ch[imney] clay with rock back
- Outbuildings
- Cribs, Stable, Smokehouse
- Acres
- 24+
- Fruit Trees
- Peach, Apple
- Total Value
- $1079.50
Part of Cahuka Valuation
“Cahuka Valuation”, Retracing the Bell Route: An Archive of Cherokee Removal, accessed October 16, 2024, https://cherokee-bell-route.org/s/Cherokee_Bell-Route/item/84