A List of Claims for Improvements &c Continued
No. 940
The United States DO
To Rusty Belly of Hickory Log Dist
For 44 chickens 12 ½ c ea | 5.50
“ 7 bee gums $3 ea | 21.00
“ 3 ploughs 1 gears $5.00 ea | 15.00
“ 3 weeding hose 75c ea | 2.25
“ 3 club axes $2.50 | 7.50
“ 3 larges pots $7.00 | 21.00
“ 3 small DO $3.00 | 9.00
“ 1 oven $5.00 | 5.00
“ 2 seal trunks $4 | 8.00
“ 2 dining tables $4 | 8.00
“ 3 chairs .75 ea | 2.25
“ 6 crockery ware | 7.00(?)
“ 1 spinning wheel | 5.00(?)
“ 3 water pails $1.00 | 3.00
“ 8 bushels of beans $1(?) per bushel | 8.00(?)
“ 1 pc cotton card cf | [illegible]
“ 1 pc wool card cf | [illegible]
“ 65 bushels of corn $1.50 per bushel | 97.50
“ 1 shovel 1.50 1 pick 2.00 2 machines for working gold $5 ea | 13.50
“ 1 iron wedge $1 crop on hand 22.50 | 23.50
Total | 264.00(?)
Personally came before me Rusty Belly of the Cherokee Nation east and solemnly affirmed that the foregoing statement of claims against the U.S. for property forced to abandon by the authorities of the United States since 23rd May 1838 are just and true to the best of his knowledge and belief
Affirmed to before me 8th Sept 1838
Geo. Still Sr. Asst Agt for Col. Claims
Rusty Belly his X mark
Personally came before me Stop and David Still of the Cherokee nation east and solemnly affirmed that the foregoing statement of claims against the U.S. for property are just and true to the best of their knowledge and belief.
Affirmed to before me 8th of Sept 1838
Geo. Still Sr. Asst Agt for Col. Claims
Stop his X mark
David Still his X mark
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