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This bench warrant and indictment relate to the case of the United States vs. George Cress. Cress was accused of cutting town and taking trees in November and December of 1859 from the land of the Ottawa Tribe in the Kansas Territory. Cress was indicted by the Third District Court at a special term in December 1859. After the Indian Removal Act of 1830, two branches of the Ottawa tribe were relocated to 72,000 acres centered around the present-day town of Ottawa, KS.
Date: December 1859
Item Number: 444922
Call Number: Kansas Territory Criminal Case Files, Box 7, Folder 32
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 444922
Collections - State Archives - U. S. District Court of Kansas (Kansas Territory) - Criminal Case Files
Date - 1854-1860 - 1859
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment - Crime - Theft
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment - Crime - Trespass
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Courts - United States District Courts
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Courts - Third Judicial District
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Case file
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Record, Judicial
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Warrant
People - American Indians - Indian lands
People - American Indians - Tribes - Ottawa
Places - Cities and towns - Fort Scott
Places - Counties - Bourbon
Places - Counties - Franklin
Places - Indian reservations - Ottawa
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Government records - Case files
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Legal documents
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/444922