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Kay, I know it is in that book. But it probably never happened. Here is the information I mentioned earlier. We were looking at an Andrew, as well as a Jacob, Burton having gotten TN land for serving in North Carolina. They are both listed in the Rev. War book you cite.
There was a Jacob Burton who served in Virginia, he was on the payroll in June 1778. He died in the same month. (per record at footnote.com) (so he was not the Jacob Burton we were researching).
There was no man named Jacob nor Andrew Burton enumerated in the state of North Carolina in the 1790 census. The VA census is lost and ditto the area which became TN.
There is a great series of books about the Glasgow Land Fraud by A. B. Pruitt, "Glasgow Land Fraud Papers 1783-1800, North Carolina Revolutionary War Bounty Land in Tennessee" and I would encourage you to find it and read it. I bought the set and it's amazing. This land fraud was a BIG DEAL and many mens' names were listed as having received land in TN but they were made up names, forged, names of dead men, etc. The land was then "transferred" to other people so that they got thousands of acres of land fraudulently. Glasgow was the NC Secretary of State and he was found guilty of fraud. He was the ring leader.
Andrew Burton appears in the Glasgow Land Fraud book, the commissioners investigating the fraud looked at a ton of warrants:
[warrant no.] 1697. soldier: Andrew Burton; 228 ac; drawn by: Maj. Dixon; certified by: "no certificate"; assignments: transfers appear fair; remarks: not mustered
Some men could not be proven to have been mustered because the certificates had been sent by the State of NC to Philadelphia in 1790. We still don't know where this Andrew came from nor if he actually got the land for legitimate service.
Jacob "Burden" also appears, twice (first record doesn't include word heirs, otherwise basically the same):
[warrant no.] 2560. soldier: heirs Jacob Burden; 640 ac;assignments: by Timothy Burdon [sic] to Reading Blount; drawn by: Jno McNees; survey for: R. Blount; remarks: assignments forged by McNees, granted to surveyees, not mustered.
Note that it says "forged," "not mustered," and "granted to surveyees." This Jacob Burton's entry is not legitimate.
Best wishes,
Anne Burton Washburn
Burton & allied families
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=annebw
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