Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The work at hand contains probably the greatest single collection of records pertaining to the Delaware Indians assembled in one volume. Spanning the period 1857-1904 and touching on 20,000 individuals or households, these records, many of which establish relationships between family members, consist, in the main, of censuses or pay rolls, medical records, annuity payments, school attendance records, land improvement records, and abstracts based on the Final Rolls of Cherokees by Blood . . . of the Five Civilized Tribes.
Synopsis
Mr. Smith has rescued from obscurity all references to individuals as can be found in the early statutes of Kentucky, producing, in effect, the Kentucky equivalent of Personal Names in Hening's Statutes at Large of Virginia. For each of the 5,000 persons named in this index, there is provided an identifying piece of information, such as occupation, legal status, relationship, etc., as well as the volume and page number in "Littell's Laws" where the name originally appears.