My ancestor fought on the American side in the War of 1812 & received "Bounty Land".

Question

I have file numbers for his two tracts.  How can I use these numbers (namely: 22060 80 50 and 45550 80 55) to find where the land was?

Answer 1

Those are just the warrant numbers.  The warrant just authorized the person to go claim some government land set aside for this purpose.  Kentucky and Ohio were bounty land for Revolutionary War soldiers, land even father west (places like what are now Illinois, Arkansas, and Missouri for example) was allotted for War of 1812 vets.  It was kind of like homesteading in the sense that there were tracts of land available to you, you went and found a piece you liked, and then obtained a patent.

Comments

Thanks Kathie