Do records exist from Toqua, Tenn?

Started by Jeremy Austin Kaplan on Sunday, May 28, 2023
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There is mention of an Andrew Miller in the 1817 Cherokee reservation roll: https://www.geni.com/profile/6000000009118787557/events/60000001880...

I’d like to learn more about this person but can’t find any records from the historic town of Toqua, where he apparently lived with wife and family. Does anyone know if records exist?

There are no records kept by the Cherokee prior to the 1820's, after the syllabary came into use. Before 1800 the only records are historical ones kept by officials of the colonies and then states. Beginning about 1800 there are extensive, but not comprehensive, records kept by the Cherokee Agency and by missionaries. No records are by town or location. Following the treaties of 1817 and 1819 there are two sets of lists, one set is of people who registered to move their families west, the other is of people who took a reservation of land in the area that had been ceded away. The first census of the Cherokee Nation was made in the east in 1835. That same year all Cherokee property was evaluated (the land was held in common, but improvements belonged to individuals).

There is actually information about Andrew Miller, a white man married to a Cherokee woman. He was murdered in 1818; see his bio at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Miller-76325 which has links to some of the records.

Thanks so much, Kathryn Forbes! I don't have a Fold3 account -- and I pay too much for this stuff already. ;-) Can you share records 4,5, and 6 with me?

Thanks!!

Check this out, Karl Raymond Kiser

This does not seem to be our Andrew Miller. AM is a somewhat common name.

Everything that is in Fold3 is also in the National Archives, takes some looking but it’s an alternative I use.

https://catalog.archives.gov/

Yes, a common name indeed. But to me, Karl Raymond Kiser, this closes the door on our Andrew Miller. There’s no evidence to support the family’s claims of being Cherokee. Yes, no marriage record for Andy and Nancy. But no marriage records period from the area. And Isaac’s marriage is an odd fact, but not enough to suggest anything really…

You searched for records and found no additional evidence. Now would be the time to go to mt-dna if a female descendant of Andrew and Nancy would be willing to take the test.

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