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Answers to the foregoing interrogatories, 1st The Law or Custom of the Creek Indians relative to descent in the years specified were - Thildren? of a woman inherited her Estate to the exclusion of her Husband or his heirs or any other relations of the woman. If she died without issue then the property went to her Brothers & Sisters or the children of the Brothers and Sisters. 2'd I know of no alteration of the Law of descent prior to the year 1819 or 1820, but in one of those years & which of them I do not recollect. The Law of descent was altered so far that the Estate of the Father, in place of going to his Brothers & Sisters or their children should go to his children & if no children then to his Brothers & Sisters or their children. I do not recollect what alteration took place in regard to the property of the Mothers, whether it was to vest? in the Husband, or whether it remained to her and to her children independent of the Husband. The letter I am intended to think is the fact. 3'd Slaves were considered personal property subject to the same Law of descent indeed a title to deal Estate individually us wholly unknown to the Indian Law. Their land is all thats in Common, and is the property of the Nation, & if a unclear is assigned to a particular individual for his residence experts beyond his town, and so long as he remains there, it is only for his use and Occupation, they know nothing of fee? simple letter. 4th By the old Law if the property was argued by the father or was derived from his ancestors it nevertheless did not go to his children, but to his brothers sisters or their children. The same with respect to the Mother. The property remains his independent of her husband, & went to her children, or failing children to her Brothers & Sisters or their children. 5th already answered. 6th The Children either of the father or mother all inherited alike