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Unusual 20th-Century Indian Territory Document

Unusual 20th-Century Indian Territory Document

I’ve never seen anything like this. It’s a photostat of a 1902 homestead deed from the Muskogee (Creek) Nation, Indian Territory, filed with the department of Interior on August 22, 1916, with a handstamp cancel from the ‘Five Civilized Tribes’.

The handstamped statement next to the revenue stamp reads as follows:

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT FOR THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES,
MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA

This is to certify that I am the officer having custody of the records of deeds of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek and Seminole Nations, and that the above and foregoing as a true and correct copy of the deed issued to [Dollie Grayson], as the same appears of record in book [A] page [438] of [Muskogee] [(Creek) Deed Record]

I can’t imagine there are many examples of this cancel extant…


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