Re: Bounty Land Warrents
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Bounty Land Warrents
Wilma 5/29/01
Wilma
Bounty Land Warrants were bountys or bonuses of land given in return for specific service given.The ones your are referring to are given for militiary service/deprevation during the Revolutionary War.Bounties were given by both State Governments and by the Federal Government.
Some states such as CT did not give the land for military service but to compensate for loss of property due to British actions against coastal residents.Maine, created in 1820, is the only state that was not in existance during the war that gave bounty land for war service.THey infact gave land for service in any state as long as you would settle in Maine.Many states used the land to fill their Continental Line requirements.The State land was given in areas where the state held rights, i.e.VA gave land in KY and some OH, NC gave land in TN.NY gave bounty on the PA/NY Oh border
Federal Land Warrants were given in return for federal service.Warrants were issued that could be exchanged for land in specified areas.One of the problems with tracing them and that they could be sold to other people if the issuee did not want to settle the land, so just because someone used a warrant to get land does not mean they served in the military.
The Federal Government did not issue land warrants for land in NY although the state of NY did.I do not know if Clinton was included in the couties that had bounty lands in them.
I do not show a Joseph Letourneau listed in the DAR Patirot Index at least under that spelling.This means that no female direct descendant has joined the DAR using Jospeh as her qualifying ancestor.
Hope this helps
Julia Coldren-Walker
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