Starr Roll, 1894 (Cherokee Payment Rolls). Voume One

Description

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. The contents of the receipt roll, transcribed for this volume (the first in a series), includes the name of the head of household, names of other household members, name of person receiving the payment, and name of a person who witnessed the transaction of record. The Starr Roll also includes an Orphans Roll and Supplemental, the contents of which are self-explanatory within this transcription. In all, this transcription of the first volume of the Starr Roll, 1894 refers to 14,000 persons impacted by the Cherokee Strip Payment.