He come to our house and Mistress said for us Negroes to give him something to eat and we did. They'd cut brush saplings, walk out into the stream ahead of the pen and chase the fish down to the riffle where they'd pick em up. Then I had clean ward clothes and I had to keep them clean, too! My uncle used to baptize 'em. The man put dem on a block and sold em to a man dat had come in on a steamboat, and he took dem off on it when de freshet come down and de boat could go back to Fort Smith. My uncle Joe was de slave boss and he tell us what de Master say do. There was a bugler and someone called the dances. In ever did see no money neither, until time of de War or a little before. Chief Joseph David VANN 1763-1844 - Ancestry We never put on de shoes until about late November when de front begin to hit regular and split our feet up, and den when it git good and cold and de crop all gathered in anyways, they is nothing to do 'cepting hog killing and a lot of wood chopping and you don't get cold doing dem two things. One day young Master come to the cabins and say we all free and cant stay there lessn we want to go on working for him just like wed been, for our feed and clothes. James Madison Sr. Vann 1809-1865. Women came in satin dresses, all dressed up, big combs in their hair, lots of rings and bracelets. Sometims just white folks danced; sometimes just the black folks. He had black eyes and mustache but his hair was iron gray, and everybody like him because he was so good natured and kind. In slavery time the Cherokee Negroes do like anybody else when they is a death, jest listen to a chapter in the Bible and all cry. Everybody had plenty to eat and plenty to throw away. He sold one of my brothers, and one sister because they kept running off. She bossed all the other colored women and see that they sew it right. Please join us. When the war broke out, lots of Indians mustered up and went out of the territory. Chief Joseph Vann Family Tree Check All Members List We git three or four crops of different things out of dat farm every ear, and something growing on dat place winter and summer. Malone, Henry Thompson, Cherokees of the Old South: A People in Transition, University of Georgia Press, (1956), ISBN 0670034207. Marster Jim and Missus Jennie wouoldn't let his house slaves to with no common dress out. There was five hundred slaves on that plantation and nobody ever lacked for nothing. The married folks lived in little houses and there was big long houses for all the single men. I don't know how old I is; some folks ay I'se ninety-two and some say I must be a hundred. Mammy say they was lots of excitement on old Master's place and all the negroes mighty scared, but he didn't sell my pappy off. Mammy had the wagon and two oxen, and we worked a good size patch there until she died, and then I git married to Cal Robertson to have somebody to take care of me. We had to get up early and comb our hair first thing. Free shipping on orders over $100 with free returns my strange addiction samantha tanning now. The big House was a double log wid a big hall and a stone chimney but no porches, wid two rooms at each end, one top side of de other. Records may include photos, original documents, family history, relatives, specific dates, locations and full names. And we had corn bread and cakes baked every day. In 1840 there were 29 Vann families living in North Carolina. My uncle belong to old Captain Joe nearly all his life. Cal Robertson was eighty-nine years old when I married him forty years age, right on this porch. sse Vann, James Clement Jr. Vann, Mary Vann, Delila Copeland (born Vann), John Vann, John Vann, Joseph Vann, John Vann, Mary Vann, Robert James (Ti-ka-lo-hi) (James Wahli Vann Etc. 1) Chief Doublehead (a rival of James Vann) 2) John Foreman a) Elizabeth Foreman m. John Elliott (white) 3) James Vann a) Sally Vann m. Evan Nicholson (white) / James Lamar (white) b.1797 F)Dawnee, described by the Moravian missionaries as a poor full blood woman, who was often drunk.She had at least 2 and maybe 3 husbands: 1) James Vann
