QUESTION: REASONS FOR PEOPLE SETTLING IN OHIO >This might give some leads. I tore out page 37-38 of the VFW >Magazine February 1997. Unfortunately, I did not keep the full >article which was probably titled "Band of Brothers." Essentially, >the article was about veterans' societies and benefits provided for >veterans. The article was probably written by a college or think tank >professor. > >Page 38: The LAND LAW OF 1785, and a supplemental ORDINANCE OF 1787, >designated 1./7 (one seventh) of the total acreage in the Ohio >country be set aside for veterans. Real Estate was drawn by lot. > The Ohio Company was created in 1788 with the intent of >settling Ohio as a semi-military state. Members of the company were >the principal officers of the post-Revolutionary War army, many of >whom died in the Ohio Valley Indian campaigns of 1790-94. Some 16,663 >land warrants were ultimately issued carrying title to 1,660,080 >acres. Most were not honored, however, until 1796. By then, land >warrants often ended up in the hands of speculators, who purchased >them at about 10 cents on the dollar. (END OF QUOTE). > >The National Archives have some data on veterans. Barnabus Otis was a >veteran of the Revolutionary War, and James Otis was one of three >James (many Otis) in the War of 1812. Both Barnabus and his son James >settled in Ohio, where Barnabus applied for a pension (have not got >the papers on James). > >Solving this question sounds like a major research project, but it is >one of those interests in history that geneaology leads us to. That >is why I pulled this one page of the VFW magazine--my links to the >Otis family. ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]