Starr Roll, 1894 (Cherokee Payment Rolls), Volume Three. Districts: Saline, Sequoyah, and Tahlequah; Including Orphan Roll

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On March 3, 1893, Congress passed an act that authorized the sale of lands west of the Cherokee Nation lands known as the Cherokee Outlet, and later referred to as the 1894 Cherokee Strip Payment. Homesteaders were permitted to stake their claims to this land in the fourth and largest of OklahomaÔÇÖs five land runs. In return for opening the Cherokee Outlet to white settlers, eligible members of the Cherokee National were paid the per-capita sum of $365.70. E. E. Starr, then Cherokee treasurer, created the receipt roll for these payments. He arranged the roll by each of the nine Cherokee Districts, and thereunder by each partyÔÇÖs enrollment number. Volume Three in this series covers the districts of Saline, Sequoyah, and Tahlequah within the Cherokee Outlet, as well as over 100 Cherokee orphans and a handful of insane who were also eligible for compensation. In all, the concluding volume in the series refers to approximately 9,000 persons impacted by the Cherokee Strip Payment.