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Henry West (Mayfield)
12024-04-04T22:20:19+00:00Hai In Jo7d25b78dfd7c5f6efafb058c26293c06da0b051a17316Cherokee Freedmanplain2025-01-02T00:15:06+00:00Hai In Jo7d25b78dfd7c5f6efafb058c26293c06da0b051aHenry West (Mayfield), Cherokee Freedman, was enslaved to Walk (Walker) Mayfield (Cherokee). Walker took Henry and his family to Russell County, Texas, during the war and returned to the Cherokee Nation on April 1, 1871. He resided on Camp Creek, near Fort Smith, Arkansas. He was told that his improvements there were safe, until they were sold in July 1875 against his knowledge. Walker witnessed for him that Henry had the right to citizenship, since he was not aware of the Treaty of 1866, and that he was advised to work on his improvements.1 Henry raised Sallie Mayfield (Freedmen applicant) when she was young, allowing her to live at his place when she returned to the Cherokee Nation.
Footnotes
Daniel F. Littlefield, The Cherokee Freedmen: From Emancipation to American Citizenship (Greenwood, 1978), 84–85. ↵
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