I was thinking maybe the land was the source of the valuation and that the land could have been inherited via some grant. I know I've seen a few references to various waves of grants that account for some of the migrations, for example from Rev. War, or perhaps War of 1812, and so on. I also know that there seems to be some fairly common migrations paths from PA to places like Iowa, Indiana and Ohio, and I saw one reference once to a some of hiw various land grants went to various states. I think it was something like land grants from PA vets went to one state, VA vets got Kentucky land, and so on. Is there a good reference anywhere to historical land grant patterns for various states and related migrations? I did poke around a bit on Paschall and the closest I could come to possible sources of explanations was finding some manuscript archives that didn't offer any reference to Woodward but did include archives of letters covering cases from a US District Judge based in Phila during the years that the murder case happened and that Woodward was D.A., but it wasn't clear if that would even have been likely to be a judge that would have sat on cases of his. I lost the reference, I think it was a Kane family in the MOLE system of manuscript indexes. Here it is: http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/k.htm See Kane, John Kintzing (1795-1854) "...(He was Judge of the U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania, 1846-1854). There is much professional correspondence,..." I suspect there is a lot of great genealogy and history info in various archive collections that can answer questions like these if you can figure out likley places to look. There's probably some old law collections that could be helpful too.

I know of no one source for land grant or bounty lands data..... what I've seen was recorded on the different state levels. I don't even know if all states practiced the giving of land to vets in lieu of cash.....did they? I'd think these would have to be researched state by state, as all would be different. The early grants, though, can be an important clue as to where to look for earlier ancestors. one example is in Ohio....land that was given to returning Vets of the Rev. War, who were from Conn, of all places.....thus, if you have a family in that area and you can't find earlier generations, you might want to try Conn as a likely place of origin. I figure this may be true of many places. However, I don't think that a land grant would have been worth that tremendous amount of money. I wondered if Paschall had inherited money from the death of a parent or other relative....that seemed more likely . In surfing around, looking for data on this interesting subject, I found the following; "There was no bounty land policy in Delaware, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, or Vermont. Bounty lands were a feature, however, in Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia. Administratively, these nine states selected reserves in their western domains for the location of bounty lands. Such a choice was seemingly quite logical. . These state governments also realized that they had to encourage the ex-soldiers to occupy their newly awarded bounty lands, so they granted exemptions from taxation ranging from a few years to life to those veterans who would locate on their respective bounty lands. Such a policy also had the effect of retarding the exodus of a state's population. " " Besides the original states of Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia, the future states of Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Ohio, and Tennessee were directly affected by the bounty land system. While the administrative records were, with one exception, the purview of the former nine, the bounty land reserves involved the five transappalachian states. The states of Georgia, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina either had no claims to transappalachian territory or relinquished their claims to the national government. Accordingly, their reserves for bounty lands lay within their own western borders. In the cases of Georgia and New York, these reserves were to be situated on the definition of their western borders as they existed in 1783. The bounty land reserves in those two states today would be described as being centrally located. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts allotted its bounty lands in the then District of Maine, which in 1820 achieved statehood status. " " While most of the states awarded bounty lands for military service, there were two exceptions. Connecticut compensated its citizenry with lands in Ohio if their homes, outbuildings, and businesses were destroyed by the British. There were no Revolutionary War bounty land grants within the current borders of the southern states of North Carolina and Virginia. The former issued its bounty lands in its western lands which became Tennessee. The latter selected reserves for its bounty lands in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio before ceding its claims to the federal government. " Here are some places to check, if interested; the Continental Congress also made use of the policy of bounty lands. The index to those claims appears in the Index to Revolutionary War Pension Applications in the National Archives (Washington, D.C.: National Genealogical Society, 1976). The federal bounty land records are included in the National Archives micropublication, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, Series M804, 2,670 rolls. Abstracts of these files appear in the four-volume work of Virgil D. White, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files (Waynesboro, Tenn.: The National Historical Publishing Company, 1990-1992). The federal government likewise selected a reserve in the Northwest Territory where bounty land warrants could be used to locate land. The U.S. Military Tract in Ohio encompassed portions or all of the counties of Coshochton, Delaware, Franklin, Guernsey, Holmes, Knox, Licking, Marion, Morrow, Muskingum, Noble, and Tuscarawas. These records appear in the micropublications U.S. Revolutionary War Bounty-Land Warrants Used in the U.S. Military District of Ohio and Related Papers (Acts of 1788, 1803, 1806), Series M829, 16 rolls, and in Register of Army Land Warrants Issued under the Act of 1788 for Service in the Revolutionary War: Military District of Ohio, Series T1008, 1 roll. Since the federal land grants are readily accessible via these sources, they are not included in this work. I was thinking maybe the land was the source of the valuation and that theland could have been inherited via some grant. I know I've seen a few references to various waves of grants that account for some of the migrations, for example from Rev. War, or perhaps War of 1812, and so on. I also know that there seems to be some fairly common migrations paths from PA to places like Iowa, Indiana and Ohio, and I saw one reference once to a some of hiw various land grants went to various states. I think it was something like land grants from PA vets went to one state, VA vets got Kentucky land, and so on. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.7.0/345 - Release Date: 5/22/2006

Sandy and all, Yes, this is right and my proof lies in the land grants some of my Revolutionary Vet reciefed. Daniel Skinner from Norton MA ltook a grant in Maine one day's ride from Bangor. It was called Skinner Settlement and now is East Corinth. There he built an Inn as well as farming. Samuel Bing of Augusta Co. VA took land in Gallia Co. OH while John E. Entsminger of Rockbridge Co. VA took land in the same area. Before 1803 and the LA Purchase the OH,IN,IL we know were the NW Terr. At that time a large part of what is now OH was Washington Co. NW Terr. if my information is correct. Thaniks for your post on this important part of our settleing of the West. Ginny -----Original Message----- From: Sandra Ferguson <ferg@ntelos.net> To: PA-OLD-CHESTER-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Tue, 23 May 2006 11:31:37 -0400 Subject: [PaOldC] land grants and bounty lands I know of no one source for land grant or bounty lands data.....  what I've seen was recorded on the different state levels. I don't even know if all states practiced the giving of land to vets in lieu of cash.....did they? I'd think these would have to be researched state by state, as all would be different.    The early grants, though, can be an important clue as to where to look for earlier ancestors. one example is in Ohio....land that was given to returning Vets of the Rev. War, who were from Conn, of all places.....thus, if you have a family in that area and you can't find earlier generations, you might want to try Conn as a likely place of origin. I figure this may be true of many places.    However, I don't think that a land grant would have been worth that tremendous amount of money. I wondered if Paschall had inherited money from the death of a parent or other relative....that seemed more likely .      In surfing around, looking for data on this interesting subject, I found the following;  "There was no bounty land policy in Delaware, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, or Vermont. Bounty lands were a feature, however, in Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia. Administratively, these nine states selected reserves in their western domains for the location of bounty lands. Such a choice was seemingly quite logical. . These state governments also realized that they had to encourage the ex-soldiers to occupy their newly awarded bounty lands, so they granted exemptions from taxation ranging from a few years to life to those veterans who would locate on their respective bounty lands. Such a policy also had the effect of retarding the exodus of a state's population. "    " Besides the original states of Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia, the future states of Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Ohio, and Tennessee were directly affected by the bounty land system. While the administrative records were, with one exception, the purview of the former nine, the bounty land reserves involved the five transappalachian states. The states of Georgia, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina either had no claims to transappalachian territory or relinquished their claims to the national government. Accordingly, their reserves for bounty lands lay within their own western borders. In the cases of Georgia and New York, these reserves were to be situated on the definition of their western borders as they existed in 1783. The bounty land reserves in those two states today would be described as being centrally located. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts allotted its bounty lands in the then District of Maine, which in 1820 achieved statehood status. "    " While most of the states awarded bounty lands for military service, there were two exceptions. Connecticut compensated its citizenry with lands in Ohio if their homes, outbuildings, and businesses were destroyed by the British. There were no Revolutionary War bounty land grants within the current borders of the southern states of North Carolina and Virginia. The former issued its bounty lands in its western lands which became Tennessee. The latter selected reserves for its bounty lands in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio before ceding its claims to the federal government. "    Here are some places to check, if interested;  the Continental Congress also made use of the policy of bounty lands. The index to those claims appears in the Index to Revolutionary War Pension Applications in the National Archives (Washington, D.C.: National Genealogical Society, 1976). The federal bounty land records are included in the National Archives micropublication, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, Series M804, 2,670 rolls. Abstracts of these files appear in the four-volume work of Virgil D. White, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files (Waynesboro, Tenn.: The National Historical Publishing Company, 1990-1992). The federal government likewise selected a reserve in the Northwest Territory where bounty land warrants could be used to locate land. The U.S. Military Tract in Ohio encompassed portions or all of the counties of Coshochton, Delaware, Franklin, Guernsey, Holmes, Knox, Licking, Marion, Morrow, Muskingum, Noble, and Tuscarawas. These records appear in the micropublications U.S. Revolutionary War Bounty-Land Warrants Used in the U.S. Military District of Ohio and Related Papers (Acts of 1788, 1803, 1806), Series M829, 16 rolls, and in Register of Army Land Warrants Issued under the Act of 1788 for Service in the Revolutionary War: Military District of Ohio, Series T1008, 1 roll. Since the federal land grants are readily accessible via these sources, they are not included in this work.      I was thinking maybe the land was the source of the valuation and that theland could have been inherited via some grant.    I know I've seen a few references to various waves of grants that account for some of the migrations, for example from Rev. War, or perhaps War of 1812, and so on. I also know that there seems to be some fairly common migrations paths from PA to places like Iowa, Indiana and Ohio, and I saw one reference once to a some of hiw various land grants went to various states. I think it was something like land grants from PA vets went to one state, VA vets got Kentucky land, and so on.      -- No virus found in this outgoing message.  Checked by AVG Free Edition.  Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.7.0/345 - Release Date: 5/22/2006    ==== PA-OLD-CHESTER Mailing List ====  Unsubscribing.... 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Sandy and all, Yes, this is right and my proof lies in the land grants some of my Revolutionary Vet reciefed. Daniel Skinner from Norton MA ltook a grant in Maine one day's ride from Bangor. It was called Skinner Settlement and now is East Corinth. There he built an Inn as well as farming. Samuel Bing of Augusta Co. VA took land in Gallia Co. OH while John E. Entsminger of Rockbridge Co. VA took land in the same area. Before 1803 and the LA Purchase the OH,IN,IL we know were the NW Terr. At that time a large part of what is now OH was Washington Co. NW Terr. if my information is correct. Thaniks for your post on this important part of our settleing of the West. Ginny -----Original Message----- From: Sandra Ferguson <ferg@ntelos.net> To: PA-OLD-CHESTER-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Tue, 23 May 2006 11:31:37 -0400 Subject: [PaOldC] land grants and bounty lands I know of no one source for land grant or bounty lands data.....  what I've seen was recorded on the different state levels. I don't even know if all states practiced the giving of land to vets in lieu of cash.....did they? I'd think these would have to be researched state by state, as all would be different.    The early grants, though, can be an important clue as to where to look for earlier ancestors. one example is in Ohio....land that was given to returning Vets of the Rev. War, who were from Conn, of all places.....thus, if you have a family in that area and you can't find earlier generations, you might want to try Conn as a likely place of origin. I figure this may be true of many places.    However, I don't think that a land grant would have been worth that tremendous amount of money. I wondered if Paschall had inherited money from the death of a parent or other relative....that seemed more likely .      In surfing around, looking for data on this interesting subject, I found the following;  "There was no bounty land policy in Delaware, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, or Vermont. Bounty lands were a feature, however, in Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia. Administratively, these nine states selected reserves in their western domains for the location of bounty lands. Such a choice was seemingly quite logical. . These state governments also realized that they had to encourage the ex-soldiers to occupy their newly awarded bounty lands, so they granted exemptions from taxation ranging from a few years to life to those veterans who would locate on their respective bounty lands. Such a policy also had the effect of retarding the exodus of a state's population. "    " Besides the original states of Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia, the future states of Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Ohio, and Tennessee were directly affected by the bounty land system. While the administrative records were, with one exception, the purview of the former nine, the bounty land reserves involved the five transappalachian states. The states of Georgia, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina either had no claims to transappalachian territory or relinquished their claims to the national government. Accordingly, their reserves for bounty lands lay within their own western borders. In the cases of Georgia and New York, these reserves were to be situated on the definition of their western borders as they existed in 1783. The bounty land reserves in those two states today would be described as being centrally located. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts allotted its bounty lands in the then District of Maine, which in 1820 achieved statehood status. "    " While most of the states awarded bounty lands for military service, there were two exceptions. Connecticut compensated its citizenry with lands in Ohio if their homes, outbuildings, and businesses were destroyed by the British. There were no Revolutionary War bounty land grants within the current borders of the southern states of North Carolina and Virginia. The former issued its bounty lands in its western lands which became Tennessee. The latter selected reserves for its bounty lands in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio before ceding its claims to the federal government. "    Here are some places to check, if interested;  the Continental Congress also made use of the policy of bounty lands. The index to those claims appears in the Index to Revolutionary War Pension Applications in the National Archives (Washington, D.C.: National Genealogical Society, 1976). The federal bounty land records are included in the National Archives micropublication, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, Series M804, 2,670 rolls. Abstracts of these files appear in the four-volume work of Virgil D. White, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files (Waynesboro, Tenn.: The National Historical Publishing Company, 1990-1992). The federal government likewise selected a reserve in the Northwest Territory where bounty land warrants could be used to locate land. The U.S. Military Tract in Ohio encompassed portions or all of the counties of Coshochton, Delaware, Franklin, Guernsey, Holmes, Knox, Licking, Marion, Morrow, Muskingum, Noble, and Tuscarawas. These records appear in the micropublications U.S. Revolutionary War Bounty-Land Warrants Used in the U.S. Military District of Ohio and Related Papers (Acts of 1788, 1803, 1806), Series M829, 16 rolls, and in Register of Army Land Warrants Issued under the Act of 1788 for Service in the Revolutionary War: Military District of Ohio, Series T1008, 1 roll. Since the federal land grants are readily accessible via these sources, they are not included in this work.      I was thinking maybe the land was the source of the valuation and that theland could have been inherited via some grant.    I know I've seen a few references to various waves of grants that account for some of the migrations, for example from Rev. War, or perhaps War of 1812, and so on. I also know that there seems to be some fairly common migrations paths from PA to places like Iowa, Indiana and Ohio, and I saw one reference once to a some of hiw various land grants went to various states. I think it was something like land grants from PA vets went to one state, VA vets got Kentucky land, and so on.      -- No virus found in this outgoing message.  Checked by AVG Free Edition.  Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.7.0/345 - Release Date: 5/22/2006    ==== PA-OLD-CHESTER Mailing List ====  Unsubscribing.... 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