STOP! DO NOT ORDER! Out Of Stock!------------------------------------Military Bounty Land 1776-1855; Christine Rose; Published 2011; 176 pp; Soft Cover; 8.5x11 in.; ISBN: 9780929626208; Item # CR0007

Bounty land was often awarded to those who served in American wars, starting with the American Revolution in 1776, with the last act passed in 1855. Millions of acres of land were awarded by the government for service to the country. A plethora of records were generated, many of them providing important family information which genealogists can use to fill out the family story. This fantastic new guidebook details what records are available, and how to locate and use them. The volume also includes an appendix of the laws and subsequent acts which generated the awards of public land.

The following is from the Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 The Revolution: Federal Bounty

• Responsibilities For Issuing Warrants
• Federal Offices Handling Claims

• 1785 Land Ordinance
• 1787 Northwest Ordinance
• Two Planned Military Tracts Abandoned
• Seven Ranges Survey
• The Ohio Company Associates
• Collection at the Ohio Historical Society
• The Symmes Purchases (The Miami Purchase)
• United States Military District (USMD)
• Distribution of Lands in the USMD

• NARA’s M804 Applications
• Descriptive Pamphlets
• Officers
• Finding Aids for M804

• NARA’s M829 Warrants
• Scrip Act: Continental Line and Virginia State Line
• Scrip Records of Virginia Warrants

• RG49 – Land Entry
• Smith’s Federal Land Series
• Preliminary Inventory 22
• The Trans-Mississippi West 1804-1912
• Research in the Land Entry Files of the General Land Office
• The Official Ohio Lands Book

• Ohio Historical Society Library
• Other Revolutionary War Warrants
• Treasury Certificates
• Canadian Refugee Warrants 1802-11
• Points to Remember in this Chapter

Chapter 2: Revolutionary War: Virginia

• Process of Claims

• Military Certificates at the Library of Virginia

• Virginia Warrants in Kentucky
• South of the Green River
• The Jackson Purchase
• Virginia Military District in Ohio (VMD)

• National Archives Series of Virginia Warrants
• Kendrick Cases
• Virginia Resolution Warrants
• Richard Clough Anderson Papers
• George Rogers Clark Bounty Land Tract

• Smith’s Federal Land Series
• Other Collections
• Points to Remember in this Chapter

Chapter 3: Revolutionary State Bounty

• Georgia’s Process
• Finding Aids

• Finding Aids

• Finding Aids

• Finding Aids

• Finding Aids

• Other Pennsylvania Records
• Finding Aids

• Finding Aids
• Points to Remember in this Chapter

Chapter 4: War of 1812 Bounty Land

• War of 1812 Military Tracts
• Act of 1842 Lifts Restriction of Locations
• Act of 1852 Removes Restriction on Assignment
• Opening of Tracts
• Michigan Tract
• Illinois Tract
• Finding Aids
• Arkansas Tract
• Finding Aids
• Missouri Tract
• Finding Aids

• Applications Not in the Same Series

• The Early War of 1812 Warrants (M848)

• Canadian Volunteer Warrants
• Points to Remember in this Chapter

Chapter 5: Unindexed Bounty, etc.

• Important to Genealogists
• The 1847-1855 Acts
• The Act of 1847: The Mexican War
• Scrip Offered
• The Act of 1850
• The Act of 1852
• The Act of 1855

• Rejected Applications
• Arrangement of Files
• Index in Preparation
• Rich in Family Details
• Title of File

• Indian Bounty Land Applications
• No Bounty Land For Service Rendered after 1855
• Point to Remember in this Chapter

Chapter 6: Federal Land Patents

• Following an Example
• Finding Neighbors
• All Roses Listed in the Plattsburg Land Office
• Search by Authority, Etc.
• Plotting the Land
• Locating an Address
• Michigan Survey Search
• Experiment With Searches
• Points to Remember in this Chapter

Chapter 7: Finding Aids, etc.

• Other Congressional Records
• State Legislatures
• State Archives and State Libraries
• National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)
• Additional Reading Material
• Points to Remember in this Chapter

Chapter 8: Windup

Appendix A – the Laws

Bibliography

Index

This volume is without a doubt one of the very best genealogy research guides published in 2011. I recommend it to all genealogists doing American research.

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