Starr Roll 1894 (Cherokee Payment Rolls) Volume One: Districts: Canadian, Cooweescoowee, and Delaware

The Starr Roll, 1894 (Cherokee Payment Rolls and Index) is found in the National Archives film 7RA38, Rolls 2-5, under the heading Record Group 75. The rolls or lists were compiled by Ezekiel Eugene Starr (1849-1905), a Cherokee Senator for the Flint District in 1883 and then Treasurer for the Western Cherokee Nation in 1891. The background to the Starr Roll requires some telling. On March 3, 1893, Congress passed an act that authorized the sale of lands west of the Cherokee Nation lands kn...