In the BLM, Are all records in blm or just the records people searched for?. I have searched in ILL. for 2 surnames and none of these names show any records. Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peggy K. Reeves" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 7:02 AM Subject: Re: [PALANCAS] Revolutionary pensions and "canceled" 1812 bountyland > >> Bounty land is what it was called for the soldiers. I believe they could >> apply for it. One of mine turned down his bounty land - he had served in >> War of 1812! His certificate was marked 'cancelled' by the war office >> when I ordered his pension file! >> I guess he didn't want to relocate to where the land was (which wasn't >> shown in his file - only that he got 40 acres)! >> > Diane, > > Your soldier would have had to apply for the bounty land, and wouldn't > have applied if he didn't want it. If there was a bounty land warrant > in his pension file that was marked "canceled", it was probably because > it was incorrect and was reissued. Perhaps your soldier died before he > could patent land with the warrant, so it was sent back "canceled" and > reissued to his widow, or maybe he was issued one for 40 acres and it > was discovered that he was actually eligible for 80 acres. In any case, > I'll bet there was another one issued. Try going to the Bureau of Land > Management website at: www.glorecords.blm.gov Click on the bar where > it says: "search land patents". When the search screen comes up, click > on the tab that says "standard". Set the search so that it searches > "all states", and put in the name of your soldier/widow as the > "warrantee". If it comes up with a land patent, the "type" of > transaction should say something like: "scrip-warrant act". That will > tell you if there was another warrant, and if the soldier/widow actually > patented land or if another person was sold the warrant and patented > land with it. If there is any land transaction at all listed at that > site, there would be a file of documents relating to that transaction at > the National Archives, depending upon the "type" of transaction listed. > There would also be a surrendered warrant at NARA (like the one you saw > in the pension file), where the soldier or widow would have either > patented land, or signed the back of the warrant certificate selling it > to some other person. >> >> Heritage Quest has RW pensions which you can download for your soldier. >> These are the Federal ones. Some have widows of deceased soldiers, which >> were provided for in another Act in 1834 I think. >> > Heritage Quest has NARA microfilm M-805, which are the selected > documents only of the Federal Revolutionary War pension files, not the > complete files. Footnote has NARA microfilm M-804, which is the > "complete" Revolutionary War pension files. Unfortunately, there are > many missing images from the Footnote scans, and many pages that are not > legible because of the decrease in image quality when scanned from > microfilm. So while you can see whether or not a soldier was pensioned > (by the feds) at these sites, you can't always get complete or readable > images. > > Peggy Reeves > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >