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Enrolling as Cherokee Freedmen: Social Networks of Rejected Applicants

George Starr

George Starr (Cherokee) enslaved around fifty to sixty people. Among them his son, Zeke Starr, knew Jesse Rowe and Phillis Rowe. In 1847, George, his sister Sallie Mayfield (Cherokee), young Jess Mayfield, and Tom Mayfield moved to Texas together. He also brought George W. Vann’s two sisters on the move. George seems to have left Texas to return to the Cherokee Nation during the war. His son, Zeke, a Cherokee citizen by blood despite being born in Texas, believed George had been a citizen of Texas, and was later readmitted to Cherokee citizenship after his return. 



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