Chickasaw Land Allotments

While some of the Chickasaw removed voluntarily c 1830, many did not remove, because their treaty allowed that they would remove from their homeland only when "suitable land" for them had been found in the west in replacement of their own homeland. While this never happened, according to some there was no land to be found that could ever replace their own, eventually a trust was created and land was purchased for them from the Choctaws who had already removed to Oklahoma. There have been many complaints over time including from Chickasaw who had gone there, that many or most of the people who showed up in Oklahoma to accept that purchased land were Euro-American settlers, not related to the Chickasaw Indigenous peoples. In the 1840s Mississippi started to allot the Chickasaw homeland which had been surveyed; there are a plethora of names in the original Chickasaw language on the BLM Chickasaw land allotment list (not included here) showing that large numbers of Indigenous peoples at the time were still using their language and not yet observing the European custom of naming, and they had remained in their homeland. Many however were using the European naming custom and had adopted English names, such names probably conferred with a Euro-Christian religious ceremony such as baptism or christening or simply adopted as a name for other reasons. The following extract is from Mississippi Land Patent Database. The county designation represents which county the land is in today, not at the time of allotment by BLM. Families listed are those related by marriage to children of Orpha Eliza Box (1799 - 1871) Goen Childress Sr (1798 - 1870) of Chulahoma, Marshall MS; where a name is marked with an asterisk * it's an individual in my own direct line. Most families below also appear on the 1860 US census for Marshall MS as "Free White Mulattos" (see previous post for more about this).


Desoto MS

Last Name    First Name  MI  SECTION   TOWNSHIP   RANGE  MERIDIAN    TOTAL_ACRE   SIGN_DATE    REMARKS
ALLEN        GEORGE      G   13        1S         9W     CHICKASAW   0            1840/11/16
ALLEN        GEORGE      G   18        1S         8W     CHICKASAW   0            1840/11/16
ALLEN        GEORGE      G   19        1S         8W     CHICKASAW   1606.42      1840/11/16

SAUNDERS     BENJAMIN    L   28        3S         7W     CHICKASAW   160.39       1838/08/14   ASSIGNEE OF JESSEE B CLEMENTS
SAUNDERS     BENJAMIN    L   28        3S         7W     CHICKASAW   160.39       1838/08/14   ASSIGNEE OF JESSEE B CLEMENTS

Lafayette MS

Last Name    First Name   MI  SECTION   TOWNSHIP   RANGE  MERIDIAN    TOTAL_ACRE   SIGN_DATE    REMARKS

ALLEN        BENJAMIN     F   22        7S         4W     CHICKASAW   321.58       1845/10/14
ALLEN        HARRIS       O   15        10S        4W     CHICKASAW   159.91       1844/12/09
ALLEN        HARRIS       O   33        9S         2W     CHICKASAW   160.03       1844/12/09
ALLEN        HARRIS       O   18        9S         3W     CHICKASAW   158.56       1843/06/15
ALLEN        HARRIS       O   36        9S         3W     CHICKASAW   160.5        1843/06/15
ALLEN        HARRIS       O   9         7S         4W     CHICKASAW   8            1844/12/09   WEST OF TALLAHATCHIE RIVER
ALLEN        HARRIS       O   15        10S        3W     CHICKASAW   160.06       1844/12/09
ALLEN        HARRIS       O   31        9S         2W     CHICKASAW   162.25       1844/12/09
ALLEN        HARRIS       O   1         10S        3W     CHICKASAW   320.2        1844/12/09
ALLEN        BENJAMIN     F   22        7S         4W     CHICKASAW   321.58       1845/10/14
ALLEN        JARED        S   34        8S         2W     CHICKASAW   160.24       1839/05/01   ASSIGNEE OF THOMAS COOPWOOD
ALLEN        HARRIS       O   22        10S        3W     CHICKASAW   160.14       1844/12/09

BELL         ENOCH        C   22        10S        2W     CHICKASAW   160          1839/05/01
BELL         ENOCH        C   2         10S        1W     CHICKASAW   160.04       1839/05/01
BELL         WILLIAM      T   2         10S        2W     CHICKASAW   159.94       1842/04/09
BELL         ENOCH        C   2         10S        1W     CHICKASAW   160.04       1842/04/09
BELL         THOMAS           4         10S        2W     CHICKASAW   159.92       1840/10/06
BELL         ENOCH        C   15        10S        2W     CHICKASAW   159.96       1839/05/01
BELL         ENOCH        C   9         10S        2W     CHICKASAW   159.82       1839/05/01
BELL         JONATHAN         35        10S        3W     CHICKASAW   161.71       1839/05/01
BELL         ENOCH        C   14        10S        2W     CHICKASAW   160.02       1839/05/01
BELL         WILLIAM      T   2         10S        2W     CHICKASAW   159.94       1842/04/09
BELL*        ELIJAH           15        9S         1W     CHICKASAW   160.66       1842/04/09
BELL*        ELIJAH           27        9S         1W     CHICKASAW   160.28       1842/04/09
BELL         ENOCH        C   35        9S         1W     CHICKASAW   160          1842/04/09

WALDROP      GREENBERRY       11        8S         1W     CHICKASAW   160.02       1844/12/09
WALDROP      GREEN        B   12        8S         1W     CHICKASAW   159.99       1843/12/05
WALDROP      GREENBURY        12        8S         1W     CHICKASAW   159.99       1844/12/09

Marshall MS

Last Name               First Name   MI  SECTION   TOWNSHIP   RANGE  MERIDIAN    TOTAL_ACRE   SIGN_DATE    REMARKS
ALLEN        HARRIS        O   22        6S         1W     CHICKASAW   159.88       1838/08/09
ALLEN        HARRIS        O   12        5S         2W     CHICKASAW   160.7        1842/04/09
ALLEN        HARRIS        O   12        5S         2W     CHICKASAW   160.7        1840/11/16
ALLEN        HARRIS        O   7         5S         2W     CHICKASAW   158.5        1839/05/06
ALLEN        HARRIS        O   17        5S         3W     CHICKASAW   160.24       1842/04/09
ALLEN        HARRIS        O   15        6S         1W     CHICKASAW   160.66       1842/04/09   ASSIGNEE OF ROBERT J MOORE
ALLEN        HARRIS        O   1         6S         2W     CHICKASAW   160.39       1843/06/15
ALLEN        HARRIS        O   2         6S         2W     CHICKASAW   160.6        1843/06/15
ALLEN        HARRIS        O   17        5S         3W     CHICKASAW   160.24       1842/04/09

SAUNDERS     ROBERT            6         4S         3W     CHICKASAW   168.28       1838/08/02   ASSIGNEE OF VOLNEY PEEL
SAUNDERS     ROBERT            2         5S         3W     CHICKASAW   160.27       1838/08/07   ASSIGNEE OF DANIEL GREEN

WALDRUP      ANDERSON          29        4S         1W     CHICKASAW   160.84       1838/08/14

Tate MS

Last Name    First Name   MI  SECTION   TOWNSHIP   RANGE  MERIDIAN    TOTAL_ACRE   SIGN_DATE    REMARKS

BELL         ROBERT           17        5S         8W     CHICKASAW   638.72       1842/11/09

SANDERS      ANDREW       J   18        6S         9W     CHICKASAW   185.25       1847/05/17
SANDERS      IRA              18        6S         9W     CHICKASAW   184.25       1847/05/17
SANDERS      GEORGE       W   18        6S         9W     CHICKASAW   159.25       1847/05/17
SANDERS      ROBERT           8         6S         9W     CHICKASAW   319.4        1844/12/09
SAUNDERS     ROBERT           17        6S         9W     CHICKASAW   159.4        1844/08/14
SAUNDERS     ROBERT           17        6S         9W     CHICKASAW   159.4        1843/11/28

Partial list of Original Mississippi Chickasaw land allotments to individuals, compiled from General Land Office - a precursor to BLM - records

Map showing the Township (N, S) and Range (E, W) of Mississippi

Chickasaw Territory (in 178 yellow section) GLO now BLM survey.

"The legislature shall have power to admit to all the rights and privileges of free white citizens of this state, all such persons of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes of Indians, as shall choose to remain in this state, upon such terms as the legislature may from time to time deem proper. " -- Mississippi Constitution of 1832, Article 7, Sect. 18

-- 12 Jan 2018 L. A. Childress; edit 19 Jan 2018; added link to Elijah H Bell page at wikitree 26 Jan 2018

Free White Mulattos of Chulahoma

Just another term for mixed-race people?

"And for clearing all manner of doubts which hereafter may happen to arise upon the construction of this act, or any other act, who shall be accounted a mulatto, Be it enacted and declared, and it is hereby enacted and declared, That the child of an Indian and the child, grand child, or great grand child, of a negro shall be deemed, accounted, held and taken to be a mulatto." -- General Assembly of Virginia "4th Anne Ch. IV (October 1705)"

On the 1860 US Census for Marshall MS there are a lot of our Childress and related family members in the category created by an enumerator making a hash mark to indicate they were "Free White Mulattos".

As sometimes this information is hard to find again on the web, I am including a partial list here, relevant to our Chulahoma family. To read an explanation and to see the full list for Marshall, visit this link on the AfriGeneas site.

"Free White Mulatto". Mulatto in this instance likely meant - as in 1705 VA - "child of an Indian", "civilised Indian". There was no category on the census for Indigenous peoples (Native Americans), so they were usually listed as "Mulatto" or "Other Free" if the latter category existed. Mississippi extended citizenship with its 1848 Constitution to any "Indians" still living there, and as part of the US government extinguishment policy, they were no longer counted other than as the standard US census categories of "White" or "Black", though occasionally marginalia or a separate box appeared so it could be indicated if they were "Other Free", or "Mulatto", non-standard categories. Such involuntary and unilateral extinguishment is today considered genocide and is illegal under international law.

Our family members and intermarried relations are marked here with an * asterisk. Note, all the family members are not included on this list, just the head of household and his partner.

Page 40 Post Office: Wyatt Enumerator: William Clark 

Jesse Martindale
R. S. McGee
M. L. McGee
Jno. A. McGee
M. L. McGee
Saml. Simpson
H. W. Simpson
Benjamin F. Patton
E. E. Patton
Mary E. Patton
Rhoda Patton
Goon Childress * [Goen Jr Childress s/o Goen Sr]
Wylie Childress * [Albert Wylie Childress s/o Goen Sr]
Jno. W. Smith
Mrs. N. Smith

Page 49 Post Office: Tyro Enumerator: William Clark

[Sanders inlaws of Goen Sr]
Mrs. C. Sanders * [Charity Cooper, widow of Joshua Sanders] 
Jno. H. Sanders *
Jno. R. Sanders * [s/o Charity & Joshua Sanders]
Henry W. Sanders * [Henry Wilson, s/o Charity & Joshua Sanders]
W. Y. Sanders *
Mary B. Sanders * 
Letitia J. Sanders *
Wm. B. Sanders *
Robt. C. Sanders *
Martha A. Sanders *
Henry Durley
Betsy Durley
E. Wm. Durley
Delila A. Durley
Nancy E. Durley
Geo. W. Durley
A. J. Page
Mary C. Page
Saml. Kelsey
R. T. Hibbler
A. H. Haltum
M. C. Haltum

Page 50 Post Office: Tyro ? Enumerator: William Clark

Mrs. M. E. Garrett
Robt. Huie ?
Mary G. Huie ?

James Huie ?
Edw. F. Barnes
Jno. Farris
Jesse Carter
E. M. Carter
Mary L. Carter
Allen Carter
Saml. H. Craig
Ann E. Craig
Jno. H. Brown
Matilda V. Brown
Goen Childress * [Goen Sr]
Orphia Childress * [Orpha Eliza Box]
Jno. D. Childress * [John David Childress s/o Goen Sr]

Page 51 Post Office: Tyro Enumerator: William Clark

Betsy Waldrop * [Elizabeth Childress d/o Goen Sr]
Meday O. Sanders * [1st wife Mary Ann "Polly" Childress] [sil/o Goen Sr]
Harriet O. Sanders * [Harriett Coleman, 2nd wife of Meade O Sanders]
Robt. Sanders * [future sil/o Goen Sr]
Wm. Wynne
Jane Wynne
F. M. Minor * [Minor inlaws of Goen Sr]
Sarah C. Minor *
A. F. Minor *
S. P. Martin
Jno. L. Raiford
Sally J. Raiford
Levi Warner
Jno. W. O'Neill
Jane K. O'Neill
Margaret S. O'Neill
James S. M. O'Neill
Mrs. S. J. Hassell
N. A. Hassell
J. S. Mays 


"The legislature shall have power to admit to all the rights and privileges of free white citizens of this state, all such persons of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes of Indians, as shall choose to remain in this state, upon such terms as the legislature may from time to time deem proper. " -- Mississippi Constitution of 1832, Article 7, Sect. 18

-- 11 Jan 2018 L. A. Childress; edit 19 Jan 2018; added a link to Goen Childress wiki tree