A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . of theRidge Treaty party. He is referred to in Lumpkins book Removal of theCherokee Indians from Georgia as Asahel , of Lawrenceville, father of the well-known Roman, Maj. Chas. H. Smith (BillArp), but members of the Bill Arp familystate this was an error. The Smith resolutionsought to divide the annuity among the tribes-men. ??Report of Secretary of War on CherokeeTreaty (1835), ps. 399-447, lists the voters,with their numbers,
A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . of theRidge Treaty party. He is referred to in Lumpkins book Removal of theCherokee Indians from Georgia as Asahel , of Lawrenceville, father of the well-known Roman, Maj. Chas. H. Smith (BillArp), but members of the Bill Arp familystate this was an error. The Smith resolutionsought to divide the annuity among the tribes-men. ??Report of Secretary of War on CherokeeTreaty (1835), ps. 399-447, lists the voters,with their numbers, to a total of 2,273, but aprinters note states there are only 2,200 names,suggesting that duplications may have crept list gives all who supported the Smith res-olution and 2,159 who voted against it, whichwould make a total of 2,270. The differenceof three in two of the totals is the differencebetween the Currey estimate of 114 aye votesand the tables record of 111 votes. ***Wm. Carroll, of Tennessee, co-commis-sioner with Mr. Schermerhorn, whom illnessand a political campaign kept from acting. The Great Indian Meeting at Rome 45. JOHN ROSS, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation of Indians from1828 to his death in 1866, who fought with admirable courage more than25 years to keep his people in the hunting grounds of their forefathers. 46 A History of Rome and Floyd County quences to the Cherokees, and great-ly facilitate a final adjustment oftheir difficulties. It is a matter worthy of remarkthat so great a number of persons ofany color have seldom if ever met andpreserved better order than was ob-served on this occasion. Most respectfully, I have the honorto be, your very obedient servant, BENJAMIN F. of Cherokee Removal and Act-ing Indian S.—The report required by theregulations will follow this, so soonas it can be made , B. F. C. *Cherokee Agency East,Calhoun, Tenn.,July 29, Herring, Esq.,Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
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