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Could this be a reason the Mhoons thought they were Cherokee??

Here is some more top notch genealogical work and typical Twiligh Barnes.Here we have a dumb ass(Barnes) posting the work of another dumb ass(anonymous) and then standing back and gloating as if it supports and vindicates her shoody work. The orignal dumb ass does not understand that all the rest of us see are TWO dumba ass psoting BS genelaogy work…This person posts nonsense calls it fact and then proclaims I did it in two hours

What’s especially irritating is that there was a Tuscarora reservation smack dab in the county were the Mhoons and Mullen’s lived and yet, they still manage to make their relative Cherokee! If you’ve ever been to NC, you see how geographically stupid that is.Pollys Grandaughter

The only thing stupid is you making stupid statements like this when you haven’t a clue. The Tuscarora Res in Betie had not been  Tuscarora for 100 years before the Mhoons in Berite. After 1725 it was a mixed group whose remnants were labeled Cherokee by the state of North Carolina and identified as Cherokee by a report to the Federal Government in 1915

Remember when dealing with Barnes absurd so called statements of Fact that it is her agenda that there is No reservation but the Oky Res and No NA but those who moved there and took part in the Dawes fraud.

Did the Mhoons live near a native reservation. Yes they did they lived on it. It was called Indian Woods and despite the BS of Twilght Barnes it had  been a Tuscarora Reservation since 1711 in name only but occupied by a mixed group that would be identified by NC State Law as Cherokee in 1913.The Tuscarora came back in 1801 claim it and void all previous deeds.. Below I included a deed which mentions the Mhoons in 1830. The people that did live there were a mixed group of who would become the Lumebee, Coatons and by NC STATE LAW Cherokees.. Could this be a reason the Mhoons thought they were Cherokee??

The Tuscarora Nation (Ska-Ruh-Reh), meaning the Shirt-Wearing People, joined the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederacy in 1722.

After the Tuscarora War in 1712, most members of the Tuscarora nation moved from North Carolina to New York.  They joined the Haudenosaunee and settled near their sponsors, the Oneidas. The migration period took approximately 90 years to complete.

http://www.iroquoismuseum.org/TUSCARORA.htm

The Tusaroa Wars in 1711 -1712 resulted in the majority of them leaving the area for NY and others places .The group rewarded for helping deafet them were given the Reservation as reward under Thomas Blount.”Non-Tuscarora bands residing on, or near, the Bertie reservation had little or no voice in tribal affairs, and also may have been rendered homeless by the sale of 8,000 reservation acres in 1766. These factors, as well as others may have influenced the migration of Indian families down to the Drowning Creek area”.
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Checking migration patterns of this group you will finds a large portion moved to Robeson Councty NC

“Pondering the origins of a population of mixed-bloods residing in and around Robeson County, North Carolina.”

During the Tuscarora War of 1711-13 in North Carolina, a division of the Tuscarora (called the “Northern Tuscarora” at that time) under chief Tom Blount remained friendly to the whites and were settled at Fort Christanna, Virginia, along with several remnant Siouan tribes and at least one small band of Chowan-Nansemond. At the Close of the War, the Tuscarora under Blount in addition to “remnants of allied tribes still remaining in that country”(1) were moved to a reservation in present-day Bertie County, North Carolina along the banks of the Roanoke River. The Blount Tuscarora and other Fort Christanna Indians by this time were heavily acculturated, predominantly Christian, and the vast majority English speaking. Lumped together here under the title “Tuscarora” were many varied bands of Algonquin, Siouan, and Iroquian descendant mixed-bloods. On this reservation is where we discover the roots of the majority of the Robeson people. ”

S.Pony Hill
2006
http://sciway3.net/clark/freemoors/lumbee.html

Called One of the most comprehensive studies of the NA at Berite and Robeson is the McPherson Report done for the Federal Government in 1914.The result was that the group at Bertie was claimed to be Cherokee

“The so-called “friendly” party, under Chief Blount, was settled upon a small reservation north of Roanoke River in what is now Bertie County, North Carolina. Here they gradually decreased by disease and emigration to the North, until the few who were left sold their last remaining lands in 1804.”

3d Session
SENATE
DOCUMENT
No. 677
INDIANS OF NORTH CAROLINA
LETTER FROM
THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
TRANSMITTING,
IN RESPONSE TO A SENATE RESOLUTION
OF JUNE 30, 1914, A REPORT ON THE CONDITION
AND TRIBAL RIGHTS OF THE INDIANS
OF ROBESON AND ADJOINING COUNTIES
OF NORTH CAROLINA

http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/mcpherson/mcpherson.html

The purpose of this is to show that make up of the NA in Bertie County and what the Mhoons would have known and possibly why they claimed Cherookee descent .We have show the movement of part of the Bertie group to Robeson County. This group fought with the Federal and State Governments for their identity and both they and the Fed s and state determine the that they were indeed Cherokee. Twilight Barnes posted oHh they lived next to a Tuscorora Reservation and suddenly claimed to be Cherokee. The fact is this group was renamed Cherokees by Law. There had been an ongoing battle over WHO these Berite/ Robesn/Tenn/Georgia Native Americans were at the time of Green Mhoons application The consensus reached is that they were CHEORKEE. As you can see North Carolina made them Cherokee in 1913 .The war to change their identify with the Feds went on for 20 years but as you can see it is who they claimed to be. The Mhoons if they believed they had NA heritage would have every reason to believe it to be Cherokee

In 1910 (January 24). Introduction of a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives to change the tribe’s name from Croatan to Cherokee. The bill did not pass. [entry 1320]

1913 (March 11). Passage of a North Carolina law changing the tribal name from “Indians of Robeson County” to “Cherokee Indians of Robeson County.” [entry 1327]

1913 (July 10). Introduction of a bill in the U.S. Senate to change the tribe’s name from Indians of Robeson County to Cherokee Indians of Robeson County. The bill did not pass. [entry 1329]

1914 (Sept. 19). Completion of the McPherson Report, the most detailed study of the origins and conditions of Robeson/Bertie County’s Indians that had ever been undertaken. It was transmitted to the Senate on Jan. 4, 1915. [“Letter of Transmittal,” entry 49, p. 5]

1924 (March 20). Introduction of a bill in the U.S. House to change the tribal name to Cherokee. The bill did not pass. [entry 1339]

1932 (May 9). A bill was introduced in the U.S. Senate to recognize and enroll the tribe as Cherokee Indians. The bill did not pass. [entry 1345]

1956 (June 7). Passage of the federal Lumbee Act (PL 84-570), designating the Indians living in Robeson County “Lumbee Indians of North Carolina” but denying them the federal services normal afforded federally acknowledged tribes. [entry 1363]

http://linux.library.appstate.edu/lumbee/Miscellaneous/Chronology.html

The final Chapter on the Indian Woods reservation was written in 1801. The NY Tuscorora came back to Bertie to claim the reservation .This went on until 1828 when NC passed a law directing the lands to be sold and the money paid t the Tuscarora including the land on those who held lease on the Reservation to take effect the day there present lease expired. The lands were indeed sold. Could this be a reason some families left Bertie County.It would be interesting to have a look at the map of 1803 and the final sales to see who lost there land and if they left Bertie because of it

http://archive.org/stream/letterconcerning00nort#page/7/mode/1up

Bertie  COUNTY  NC  Land Grant  Thoms Ruffin 1830

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by
Lynn McCarthy Lcmccarthy@aol.com

http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/bertie.htm

Bertie County North Carolina
Land Grants
Secretary of State
Book 6  Page 245

State of North Carolina                      Number 13

Know all men by these presents that we by virtue of an
act of Assembly passed at the Session of 1828-29,
Chap.19, entitled an act concerning the lands formerly
occupied by the Tusharora tribe of Indians, lying in
Bertie county on the North side of Roanoke river, in
consideration of the sum of ninety two dollars and fifty
cents paid into the Treasury of this State by Thomas
Ruffin the receipt whereof has been certified by the
Treaurer, have granted bargained and sold, released and
confirmed and by these presents do grant bargain sell
release and confirm unto him the said Thomas Ruffin his
heirs and assigns forever, all the revissionary interest,
right and title in and to a certain tract or parcel of
land lying in the County of Bertie, and included in the
Indian boundary specified in the aforesaid act of
Assembly butted and bounded as follows, viz, Beginning at
a white oak Stump in William Mhoon’s line Robt A. Jones’s
corner, then No 5 Et 434 pole, then No 57 Wt 325 pole, !
then So 24 Wt 120 pole to a corner formerly called Kings,
then along that line to the mouth of Dickens branch in
Town Swamp, then down said Swamp to Jas G Mhoons corner,
then along said Mhoons line to a pine in the old Indian
path, then along said path So 40 Et 30 pole, then So 59
Et 24 pole then So 4 pole to the corner of the land
formerly Henry Johnston’s, then along that line to
Roberts Swamp, then down said Swamp to Wm. Pugh’s corner,
then along Pugh’s line to Wm. Williams line, then along
said Williams line continuing in said Swamp to the
dividing line between Thos Ruffin and the [ ? ] of Jos.
S. Pugh & along that line to Wm S Mhoons line thence
along said Mhoon’s line to the beginning containing 1850
acres to hold to the said Thomas Ruffin his heirs and
assigns for ever Dated 9th March 1830.
Wm Hill (Seal)