Choctaw & Chickasaw Land Allotment and Private Credit Archive: Archive of Seven Patents, Mortgages, and Land Documents, Oklahoma 1903–1909

Choctaw Chickasaw Nations Mortgages

Manuscript & Autographs

Choctaw and Chickasaw allotment and Oklahoma mortgage group, 1903 to 1909, documenting the federal division of jointly held tribal land into individually patented parcels while nearby Oklahoma Territory property entered private credit markets. The central pair grants William R. Fox, identified as “Choctaw by intermarriage,” Roll No. 58, separate homestead and allotment tracts totaling 210 acres in the Chickasaw Nation. Two additional mortgages place the same five Stroud town lots behind successive loans at twelve percent interest, while a third secures $750 against 33.20 acres in Pottawatomie County.

Group of seven items comprising two Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations patents, three recorded mortgages with retained promissory notes, one typed real estate letter, and one Department of the Interior mailing envelope, Oklahoma and Indian territories, 1903 to 1909. The Fox patents and envelope are directly related by name and roll number.

[1] Church, Bryant G. Mortgage to A. C. Hunt and Martha M. Guire. Stroud, Oklahoma Territory, October 25, 1903. Printed and manuscript mortgage with attached $200 promissory note, filed in Lincoln County on October 31, 1903. Church pledges Lots 8 through 12 in Block 1 of a recorded addition to Stroud, waives appraisal and homestead protections, and agrees to twelve percent annual interest.

[2] Church, Bryant G. Mortgage to M. M. Quinn. Stroud, Oklahoma Territory, March 8, 1904. Printed and manuscript mortgage with attached $300 promissory note, recorded in Lincoln County. It encumbers the same five lots in Block 1, carries twelve percent interest, and retains a Stroud State Bank “PAID” stamp dated November 5, 1906, recording both the repeated financing and eventual satisfaction of debt against the property.

[3] Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations. Homestead Patent No. 8580 to William R. Fox. Certificate dated October 27, 1905; approved October 24, 1906. Printed patent with four affixed seals and signatures of Choctaw Principal Chief Green McCurtain, Chickasaw Governor Douglas H. Johnston, and Department of the Interior officials. The instrument grants Fox 100 acres in Sections 2 and 11, Township 6 North, Range 2 West, Chickasaw Nation, selected as his homestead under the Choctaw and Chickasaw Supplemental Agreement of 1902.

[4] The Jennings Company. Typed letter signed to Zac Smith. Oklahoma City and Wynnewood, Indian Territory, February 16, 1906. One page on company letterhead concerning Lots 31 and 32 in Block 107 at Wynnewood. The firm reports a prospective buyer, requests Smith’s best price, estimates the expense of bringing the abstract current, and notes that comparable property had recently sold for approximately $40 per lot.

[5] Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations. Allotment Patent No. 25438 to William R. Fox. Certificate dated September 29, 1906; approved June 4, 1908. Printed patent with four affixed seals and tribal and federal signatures. It conveys 110 acres comprising the east half of the southwest quarter and the east half of the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 2, Township 6 North, Range 2 West, and the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of Section 16, Township 1 South, Range 2 East, Chickasaw Nation.

[6] Canales, Elhand and Ada. Mortgage to Lee Patrick. Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, December 17, 1907. Printed and manuscript mortgage securing $750 at ten percent interest, due December 17, 1908. The collateral is Lot 2 of Section 25, Township 10 North, Range 3 East of the Indian Meridian, containing 33.20 acres; the filing wrapper records the instrument in Mortgage Book 33, page 78.

[7] United States Department of the Interior, Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes. Mailing envelope addressed to “William R. Fox, (B 58), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,” 1909. Printed official envelope numbered 40413, with postage, circular Oklahoma postmarks, federal penalty imprint, and a conspicuous “Second Notice” marking dated July 24, 1909. Its identification of Fox by enrollment category and number connects it directly to the enclosed homestead and allotment patents and records the federal office’s renewed attempt to deliver his title papers.

The Fox patents embody the Choctaw and Chickasaw Supplemental Agreement of 1902, under which the Dawes Commission assigned individually surveyed property from the Nations’ jointly held estate. They classify Fox as a Choctaw citizen by intermarriage, not a citizen by blood, and distinguish his protected homestead from his remaining allotment. The Jennings letter records the simultaneous market in Wynnewood town lots inside the Chickasaw Nation, where sale prices depended upon current abstracts and federally regularized title. The Stroud mortgages belong to a different land regime: Lincoln County formed in Oklahoma Territory after the 1891 allotment and opening of Sac and Fox, Potawatomi, Iowa, and Shawnee lands, and Stroud stood just west of the Indian Territory boundary. The Canales mortgage likewise concerns Pottawatomie County, but the instrument supplies no evidence that its 33.20 acres remained an individual Indian allotment. Moderate toning, mailing and filing folds, edge wear, scattered chips and small losses; patent seals remain present, promissory notes remain attached, and the envelope shows heavier handling and opening wear. Overall good condition. A specific record of tribal allotment patents, Indian Territory town lot sales, repeated mortgage debt, and federal title administration across the legal boundary separating Indian Territory from Oklahoma Territory.

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