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In spite of the distributing of the lands in the area, it was not fully settled at first.
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It was not until a Treaty with the United States and the Cherokee Nation on December
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29, 1835 held at New Echota in Georgia, that the Cherokee finally agreed to leave
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their lands and move west beyond the Mississippi River. Soon after Georgians came in in
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large numbers and not an Indian was left within her boundaries.
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Some time in the future the State Dept. of Archives and History in Atlanta hopes
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to publish the 1832 Gold Lottery, but in the meantime, please do not ask the Surveyor
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General Department to search for names in these records, since they do not have a general index. If one knows the county in which a person was living at the time of
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holding the Lottery, a search will be made by the Surveyor General Dept. in that