Claim of Nancy Berryhill Posey for moving expenses to Creek Nation, OK

Submitted by David Morgan dmorgan@efn.org

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Nancy (Berryhill) Posey and all of her children, except her son, Benjamin
Posey, went west with the McIntosh Party of Creeks in 1827. I believe
that Nancy and her daughter, Sarah, who had married Samuel H. Hopwood,
traveled by land. Nancy hired a teamster to drive her wagon. This may
have been her son-in-law, Samuel Hopwood, as I don't find a claim to the
United States Indian Department for him, yet I know that he was in the
Western Creek Lands, as he signed the Western Creek Memorial to the
United States President, dated 7 March 1829. 

Nancy and her children settled in the point between the Arkansas and 
Verdigris Rivers, near the Creek Agency, with Nancy's parents, brothers
and sisters. After a flood in 1833, they moved across the Arkansas River,
near where Muskogee, Oklahoma, now stands.

I find no mention of Nancy's husband in the Western Creek records, so that is 
why I believe he died before the family emigrated west.

Nancy (Berryhill) Posey filed the following claim with the United States Indian 
Department in 1834, for her expenses of moving herself and her family to the 
Western Creek Lands:


The United States Indian Department					No. 12
	NANCY POSEY Dr.
1827	To services of one wagon, two horses and 
	one teamster 7 days furnishing forage 
	for the horses at $3.00 per day				$21.00
1827	To furnishing rations for 7 persons 60 
	days, commencing in October and ending
	in December, 1827 being 420 rations at
	6 cents per ration						 25.20
	I do hereby certify upon my word and honor that the foregoing account, 
amounting to $46.20 is justly due me from the United States - and that I have 
never received payment for the same or any part thereof.
	Given at the Creek Agency this thirteenth day of December 1834.
							her
Witness					 Nancy X Posey
John Wade				    		mark


The people in Nancy (Berryhill) Posey's little caravan were probably herself, 
her daughter Sally and Sally's husband Samuel Hopwood; her grandchildren, 
Leonard, John and Pleasant Hopwood; and Nancy's sons, William Posey, who would 
have been about fifteen years old, and Andrew Jackson Posey, who would
have been about nine years old. They probably had riding horses and
cattle, which theytook along to the Western Creek Lands. Nancy and some
of Nancy's brothers and sisters probably all traveled in a group. Nancy's
son, Thomas B. Posey, put in his own claim to the Indian Department.
Nancy (Berryhill) Posey died in the Creek Nation in Indian Territory, but
I don't know the date. It would be some time after the Old Settlers Creek
Payment, as I find her there and she listed her son, Benjamin Posey.

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The Story of John Berryhill and Elizabeth Derrisaw and Their Descendants

This is an unpublished manuscript done by Thelma Nolen Cornfeld before
her death in 1996. Her daughter Barbara gave me permission to put her
research online.

David Morgan