The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-06

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 en the belief that William Colbert and IPiomingo. may have been the same. but
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 At Chicasaw Biuffs, in October. 1891 General Wilkinson. Colonel Hawkins and
 Andrew Pickens held conference with
 Major, Colbert and other chiefs of the
 tribe. the object being to obtain from
 the Chicasaws permission to open a wag. on road from the Cumberland settlements to Natchez The Indians were very reluc- tant to grant the privilege. but after Considerable discussion and meditation, Major Colbert Informed the Commission CTS that his tribe would agree to allow the road built through their lands. but no '.way-houses" for the entertainment of | travellers should be erected He assured the Commissioners. however. that all white persons passing through the nation should find plenty of provisions to carry | them through. Permission being thus secured, General Wilkinson issued orders that the work of cutting the road was to begin at once. In July. 1895. an important conference was held between James Robertson and Silas Dinsmore. on the part of the United | States. and the Chicasaws. when the latter ceded their lands to the American Government. including their claims in what is now Alabama. By this treaty. the Indians were to receive s2o.ooo in money and to George Colbert was paid q, 900.
 This treaty seems to have been of brief duration, for fin September. 1916, there was a council held at the Chicasaw Coun- cil House between General Andrew Jack son, General David Merriwether and Jesse Franklin on one side and "the whole Chicasaw Nation. in council assembled, on the other. the object being ito settle all controversies and to perpetuate peace with them" The treaty begins: Peace and friendship are hereby firmly cstab- lished and perpetuated between the United States and the Chicasaw Nation"
 By this treaty the Chicasaws finally ceded all their lands and claims in Ala bama, both north and south of the Ten nessee River. and including territory now forming several North Alabama counties. one of which is named for the Colbert family. The Chicasaws, under the terms of the treaty, were guaranteed s120O0 per annum for ten years. and an additional sum of $4,5O0 was to be placed in the hands of Levi Colbert, as trustee, to compensate them for such Improve ments as they had made on their lands. It was also stipulated that in addition to the money paid to the tribe, Levi Colbert was to have $150 for his services. George Colbert s1OO. while General William Col bert was guaranteed an annuity of $10o during life.
 In addition to these payments. there tract of land lying in the present county of Lauderdale, and his quaint designation of its bounds may be of interest espe- cially to those familiar with that section. This is his description of his claim: Be ginning on the north bank of the Tennes- see River, at point that, running north four miles, will include a big spring about halfway between his ferry and the mouth of Cypress Creek, 1t being a spring that a large cow-path crosses it's track near where a cypress tree is cut | down; thence westerly to a point four miles from the Tennessee River and standing due north of point on the north bank of the Tennessee River three miles below his ferry on Tennessee River, thence up said River to begin ming point"
 There was also granted two tracts of | land. containing forty acres each, on the south side of the Tennessee River, about two and one-half miles below Cotton Gin Port, for Levi Colbert and his heirs. be- sides certain grants and reservations to other chiefs and head men of the tribe. claims in Alabama, though they did not dispose of their reservations and emil grate west until 1882.
 As stated, the Chicasaws were gener- ally, if not always, friends to the Ameri- cans, although they had fought more than one fierce battle with DeSoto and his men, but that Is another story. What we have written is intended as a sort of remniscence of the influential Colbert family and their connection with early Alabama history, brought out by the mo- tice of the recent death of one of their descendants in far-off Oklahoma. In their new home they have always been prom inent. one of them having been a dele gate to Congress from the Chicasaw Ma ton. Alabama did we'll to give their name to a county in which they and their people formerly were masters.
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