In a message dated 7/23/2006 9:59:28 PM Eastern Standard Time, mstauf@comcast.net writes: My husband's ancestor was a patriot in the Revolutionary War. Did that make him eligible to receive land? If so, where do I find this information? I know his ancestor relocated from Lancaster County to Franklin County after the war and he died in Franklin County PA but was there land available in Franklin County? Appreciatively, Barbara Barbara- No--in Pennsylvania the lands given to those men who qualified based on Revolutionary War service were called "donation lands" and the land was found in the counties of: Armstrong, Butler, Forest, Lawrence, Venango, and Warren as well as all of Crawford and Mercer counties. This area would have all been on the "frontier" at the time and was bounded on the east by the Allegheny River, on the west by the Ohio border, and on the north by the New York border. Joan