> 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