From: BNOREM@aol.com Does anyone on the list have any further information on a Samuel Seeley who was a Chief in the Chickasaw Indian Nation between 1816 & 1832 or 1833? Both Samuel and his son, signed several Treaties between the US Government & the Chickasaw Nation.
Here is what I have discovered and I hope that someone else will be able to fill in some blanks.
Ben Seely, a white man, came into the Chickasaw Nation when a boy. Old Seely died on the Tallahatchee at the mouth of Tippah, at a very great age, soon after the war of 1812. He was a Virginian - his son Samuel, a half breed, became a chief, & his name appears to the Treaties of 1816 & 1818; Samuel died soon after the Treaty of 1832, on Yocking Patata creek at Long Town - died abt 1835.
Source: obtained from internet site http://www.flash.net/~kma/ Chickasaw Papers - Chickasaw History according to MALCOM McGEE. (Malcolm McGee was interpreter to the Chickasaws, beginning about 1801. This account was given to Draper in an interview with McGee about 1841 - McGee was about 80 years old then.)
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Treaties and Letters on which the Sealey name appeared:
1816 1818 1828 1830 1831 1832 1832 1833 1834 18 MAY 1836 12 NOV 1836 1 JUN 1837 Dear Col.
Note: According to Malcomb McGee, Interpreter, there were 4 districts in the Chickasaw Nation and these were the principal chiefs of each district :
Levi Colbert in the South Eastern -
3 MAY 1847:
10 MAR 1848
10 MAR 1848:
This is the last document on which I have found a Seely name as of now. I believe that during the long period that Thomas Seely's name was absent from any of the letters, etc., between 1836 & 1847, he & his family were probably still in MS. So far I haven't seen a census roll of that period for the Chickasaw, so I don't know if my assumptions are correct or not. If they are, some of the Sealey's may have moved back east to the Carolinas or Georgia during that 11 year time period.
SEELY names on the 1818 Chickasaw Census Roll:
Any comments or further light to shed on this will be MUCH appreciated.
Betty Norem
To: SEELY-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: [SEELY-L] Seeley Chickasaw Indian connection
Date: Friday, February 20, 1998 12:04 AM
Samuel Scely/Seeley: name appeared on the Treaty with the CHICKASAW Sept 20, 1816, in ARTICLE 6, and again along with the signatures (their X marks) of the other Principle Chiefs, and Malcum McGee, interpreter.
Samuel Seely: name appears on the Treaty with the CHICKASAW October 19, 1818 in Article 7 and again along with the signatures (their X marks) of the other Principle Chiefs.
Samuel Seily: named as one of the Chiefs in a letter from John Bell to James Barbour, 3 JUL 1828, in a Report on the Charges agst. B.F. Smith, Chickasaw agent, and the evidence collected in support of them -- seven principal charges together with other additional charges made by the Chickasaw.
Saml. Seeley, Senr.: name appears on the unratified Treaty with the CHICKASAW August 31, 1830 in Article 6 but not among the signatures at the end.
Capt Saml Sealy & Capt Thos Sealy: both signed (their X marks) in a letter from the Chickasaws to President Andrew Jackson, 28 MAY 1831: [M-234 Roll #136]
Samuel Sely & Thomas Sely: name appears on the Treaty with the CHICKASAW Oct. 20, 1832 among the signatures at the end. Both names also are on the Supplement to this Treaty, dated Oct. 22, 1832.
Saml. Sealy & Thos. Sealy: names signed on a letter from Levi Colbert to President Andrew Jackson, 22 NOV 1832: [M-234, Roll #136, Start Frame #0276]
Affidavit of Samuel Sely [Sealy], 12 MAY 1833: Samuel Sely, a chief of the Chickasaw Nation, Says ----- that since his recollection there have been several attempts to mark the line between the Chickasaws & Choctaws ----(continues as to his understanding of where the line dividing the Chickasaws & Choctaws is located). [M-234 Roll #136]
Capt. Samuel Seley: name appears on the Treaty with the CHICKASAW May 24,1834 in Article X, in which he is to have one section of land reserved for him & his family. This Capt. Sam'l. Seley may be Sam'l., Jr instead of the older Sam'l. since in 1830 Treaty Samuel is named as Senior. According to Malcomb McGee, Samuel died not long after the Treaty of 1832. But . . . .
Samuel Sealey must have been dead by the time this letter from James Colbert, et al, to President of U. S., was written on 18 MAY 1836: because his name, nor Thomas Sealey's name appears at the bottom with the other Chiefs who signed it. However, Thomas' name is on the following letter. But if there was a Samuel, Jr., he never appeared on another Chickasaw document as far as I have found so far.
Tom Sealey his X mark: Letter from the Chickasaw Chiefs & Head Men to Delegates, 12 NOV 1836, informing them that " you have been Commissioned to go, West of the Mississippi River, on behalf of the Chickasaw Indians, to procure for them a Home".
D. Vanderslice to Col. R. M. Johnson, 1 JUN 1837: Pontotoc Miss Jun 1st 1837
I have just returned from the counsel in Sealy's district to which I alluded in my last. We have succeeded better in our district than in any of the four, into which the nation is divided. We shall enroll about 300. - - - - .
Seely in the South Western -
Tishomingos in the North Eastern
McGilviray or Cohoma was in the North Western.
Chickasaw Chiefs & Captains to ?, 3 MAY 1847: Council House
Thomas Sealy his X mark: First appearance of a Sealy name on any Chickasaw documents since 12 NOV 1836.
Chickasaw Chief & Leading Men to A.M.M. Upshaw,
Chickasaw Council Grounds
Thomas Seely, his X mark: Signed letter along with other Chiefs & Leading Men.
Seely, Samuel - M p. 1
Seely, Neely - ? p. 1
Seeley, James - M p. 4
Seeley, Sinia - F ? p. 4
Seeley, Becca - F p. 4
Seeley, Carsey - ? p. 4
Seeley, Bill - M p. 4
Seeley, Jennett - F p. 4
Seeley, Eliza - F p. 4
Seeley, Gilbert - M p. 4
Seeley, Jerry - M ? p. 5
Seeley, Jennett - F p. 6
Seeley, Pallas - ? p. 6
Seeley, Elsey - F p. 6
Seeley, Tom - M p. 6
Seeley, Wilson - M p. 6
Seeley, Hetty - F p. 6
Seeley, Hawkins - M p. 6
Seeley, Sylphe - F p. 6 (Sylvia ?)
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