The following settlers submitted affidavits at the Fayetteville Land Office asserting the right to claim land in Arkansas as a result of being removed about 1828 from their homesteads in the region that had been known as Lovely County and was given to the Cherokee Nation.
This had the effect of settling the western border of Arkansas, removing Indians to the west of the border and removing European settlers to the east of the border.
In order of claims being approved:
Ralph Skelton
Elijah Tollet
Benjamin Hardin
Samuel M. Laughlin
Thomas Lindsey
Abraham Standfer
Thomas Wagnon
Alfred Oliver
Isaac Rainey
Isaac Lindsey
Rial Williams
Joel Harrell
John Crisp
Thomas Gutery
William B. Montgomery
Allen Carter
John McLaughlin
John Grayham
Edeline Stephens Butler
Benjamin Hayles and John Hayles
John Ross
John B. Powell
Hugh Pierce
Benjamin Weaver
Joseph Robinson
Israel Dodge
William D. Holt
Eysa Summers
Archibald Sharpe
Francis Pierce
William Gray
Malinda Sloven Stout (claim by brother, Enos Sloven)
Robert A. McPhail
William C. Reg__ (could be Regua, Regna, Regan)
Jacob Yoes
Elijah Carter
William Blevins Jr.
James Slover
William T. Larremore
Arther Clark
Three claims were rejected:
Eli Sharp
John Evans
Robert Harris
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