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Indian Removal
Tom---Your entry on Indian Removal spurred this discussion of John Freeman Schermerhorn, who was, more than any one else, responsible for the forced removal of the Cherokee from the East Coast.
Schermerhorn, who was from Schenactady, New York, was a fired-up Reformed Church pastor with earned degrees from both Union College and Andover Seminary.
Seeing all those Cherokee who weren't in the kingdom of Christ, he conspired to assist them in their entry into the heavenly realm.
He curried favor with the Jackson Administration, was appointed Indian agent, and immediately set to work drafting treaties, demonstrating both his political as well as his legal sides of his personality.
To make a long story short, after the Treaty of New Echota was both drafted and signed by Chief John Ross in a meeting which did not consist of a quorum to vote on it, he and his family moved to Delphi, Indiana in 1840. His great-great-granddaughter, Frances Demaree Miller, funded the Schermerhorn Room in honor of her family. John Freeman's daughter, Sarah, wore the wedding dress displayed in the Dry Goods Store in our Center.
Reed Case's daughter Josephine married his son Bernard.
For more information in depth about the family, please refer to the Schermerhorn Chronicles on-line, or partake of the research on the family I have done which is in our break room at the Center. Mark A. Smith, Board Member and Historian, CCWECI.
Schermerhorn, who was from Schenactady, New York, was a fired-up Reformed Church pastor with earned degrees from both Union College and Andover Seminary.
Seeing all those Cherokee who weren't in the kingdom of Christ, he conspired to assist them in their entry into the heavenly realm.
He curried favor with the Jackson Administration, was appointed Indian agent, and immediately set to work drafting treaties, demonstrating both his political as well as his legal sides of his personality.
To make a long story short, after the Treaty of New Echota was both drafted and signed by Chief John Ross in a meeting which did not consist of a quorum to vote on it, he and his family moved to Delphi, Indiana in 1840. His great-great-granddaughter, Frances Demaree Miller, funded the Schermerhorn Room in honor of her family. John Freeman's daughter, Sarah, wore the wedding dress displayed in the Dry Goods Store in our Center.
Reed Case's daughter Josephine married his son Bernard.
For more information in depth about the family, please refer to the Schermerhorn Chronicles on-line, or partake of the research on the family I have done which is in our break room at the Center. Mark A. Smith, Board Member and Historian, CCWECI.
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