A serch for truth Margaret Carolina (Hammond) Norwood

Question

On 17 Nov 2022 Joseph Putnam wrote on Hammond-11766:

There is a Charles Hammonds or Hammond on a near by Cherokee Census but I have yet to find a paper trail. It is only a theory. He is the only Hammond in the area that I can find aside from Margaret.

Answer 1

Charles "Hammon," John Hammond, Joseph Hammond, and William Hammond were all winners in the 1832 Georgia Land Lotteries which gave Cherokee land to white people, so there were several white families by that name who had land in the former Cherokee nation. There were several families headed by men named Hammond in the 1850 U.S. Census in Cherokee County and on 1849 tax records in that county.

There was a Charles "Hammonds" on the 1835 Cherokee Census living on Sharp Mountain Creek with a family of 7, all fullbloods. His property, consisting of three houses, 2 cribs, and 64 peach and apple trees, was appraised at $364.50 in 1835.  They were Removed to Indian Territory and they do not appear on the 1851/52 Siler and Chapman rolls of Cherokee east of the Mississippi.  

There is no one named Norwood on either of those rolls.  Margaret is listed as white on the 1850 U.S. Census; a full-blood Cherokee would not be mistaken for a white woman.

Comments

Thank you. However wouldn't hee race be listed as he husband's anyway? Thank you for the information I'll try looking at the other family's also.

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Agin thank you but no match. Nothing indicating Margaret Hammond or Hammonds.

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Yes, that's possible, but how would Margaret have stayed on her own in Georgia for ten years after the rest of her family was Removed?  She was at most 5 years old when the Removal took place.

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I can't speak to that.

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I added some notes the rejection may or may not be the same person.

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Margaret Norwood did not file an application for a share of the Eastern Cherokee payment in 1907.  An unrelated woman named Caroline Hammond, who was born in Georgia in 1842 and was still living there in 1907 when she applied (while Margaret Norwood, born about 1835, was living in Arkansas) was the applicant, She was the daughter of a man named Jesse Hammond and the widow of a man named Remus Hammond.  Margaret Norwood was the wife of Oliver Norwood.

Caroline Hammond was one of more than 50 descendants of a man named William Sorrow from Virginia who filed applications (Caroline was his granddaughter); all were rejected as they had no connection to any Cherokee people.  Caroline did not mention a sister or other relative named Margaret.

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Norwood is her married name.  Hammond. Her name Margaret Caroline Hammond.

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Or Carolina my bad lol.