Devireaux Jarrett Bell - Devereaux Jarret Bell

Started by Kathryn Forbes on Saturday, December 31, 2022
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This man was NOT "Chicken Trotter." The Cherokee Devereaux Jarrett Bell, who apparently always went by "Jarrett" or "D.J." Bell, is often confused with a white man by the same name who appears on a land record in Nacogdoches, Texas in 1840. Jarrett could not have received land in Texas in 1840, a time when Indians could not own land and the Cherokee had just been forcibly expelled. He is also sometimes conflated with a man called "Chicken Trotter" who signed the Treaty of Bird's Fort with an "X" in 1843; Jarrett Bell was clearly literate and there are examples of his signature on documents.

Ancestry.com. Texas, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1820-1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.
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