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A receipt roll for a per capita payment of $20.10 made under
Article 6 of Treaty of Aug. 7, 1856. This pay roll was certified by the chiefs
of the Creek Nation on Aug. 10, 1857 and by Elias Rector (Superintendent for
Southern Superintendency) on Aug. 29, 1857. A negative photo-static copy is
reproduced on microfilm 7RA-23, roll 1, item 2 (lower towns), item 3 (upper
towns).
The microfilm is reproduced here at
Ancestry (subscription required). Unfortunately the source and microfilm are
very poor quality. Last updated 13 Nov 2020.
" We the undersigned, heads of families and individuals without families, of and comprising the Creek Nation of Indians, do hereby acknowledge to him received of and from Elias Rector, United States Superintendent of Indian Affairs, the sums opposite our names and signatures respectively and that the same is in full of our per capita shares of the sum of three hundred thousand dollars appropriated by the Congress of the United States, in part fulfillment of the 6th Article of the Treaty with the Creek and Seminole Indians of August 7th, 1856."
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