Good question on length of service, and I am not sure exactly how to answer that. I don't believe that bounty lands were offered as extra incentive until about 1781 or 1782. Amount of land offered depended on rank, not length of service. Determining how bounty lands were awarded is a complicated process to describe. Not everyone who was part of a militia unit, for instance, was eligible to receive bounty lands. The militias were divided up into groups called classes, and when the militia was called up for activity duty, each class had to supply one recruit. That one recruit who actually went off to war was then awarded the bounty land right that belonged to the class as a whole. All of this is explained in the introductory material of the standard classic "New York in the Revolution as Colony and State". I know this title is available online if you have access to HeritageQuestOnline through your local public library, or if you subscribe to Ancestry.com. Linda At 03:01 AM 2/23/2008, you wrote: > 2. Re: Bounty Lands - was Re: NYDUTCHE Digest, Vol 3, Issue 61 > (Sshardebeck@aol.com) > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 2 >Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:20:12 EST >From: Sshardebeck@aol.com >Subject: Re: [NYDUTCHE] Bounty Lands - was Re: NYDUTCHE Digest, Vol 3, > Issue 61 >To: nydutche@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <c71.26ef41f0.34f0422c@aol.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > >How long did you have to serve in the war to be eligible?