In 1819 a land patent of 160 acres was issued to John Fields, brother of George Fields, and to the "Other Heirs of George Fields, deceased". This was not a cash sale at the land office. This was apparently bounty land issued for War of 1812 scrip. George Fields was listed as the Warrantee and John Fields was the Patentee.(See land patent records on the BLM-GLO website on-line for the exact wording and to see the patent.) The land was located in Chariton Co., MO, in Township 59-N Range 20-W. (Note: Chariton Co. was not formally created until 1820 -- it was taken from Howard Co., MO. Howard was the mother of many counties.) Does anyone on the list know who these two brothers were...? Anyone working on a George Fields who served in the War of 1812, was dec'd by 1819, and who had a brother John Fields and "other heirs"...I assume George had no widow or children, so siblings might be his "other heirs"? I have found 3 FIELDS marriages which occurred in "Howard Co." prior to 1820: 1816 - John Fields married Sarah Reed (same man as the patentee? Same man in Ray Co. in 1821?) 1817 - Levi Fields married Caty Wallace (is he the same Levi Fields in Ray Co. in 1821?) 1819 - Patsy Fields married Richard Cheiner Any help in identifying who these early Howard-Chariton Co., MO, area FIELDS would be appreciated. Many thanks, Helen Graves