Yes, the card entry in the Pension Application Files indicates that your target person was issued a Bounty Land Warrant pursuant to his service. The numbers are the Congressional Bounty Land Warrant number, 12, and the "450" indicates 450 acres. The Congressional Bounty Land documents were burned in one of the series of fires in Washington, DC, beginning during the War of 1812. The applications for them and nearly all papers relating to them do not survive. If there were a pension application under this person's service, the same card in the Pension Application Files would give the pension number (beginning with an S or W depending upon whether it was the veteran or his widow applying) at upper right. The pension application papers would immediately follow the card with the BLWt entry. The entry as you give it suggests that your target person may have died during the War. Many veterans did not leave widows who survived long enough to apply for and collect the Congressional pensions to which they were entitled under legislation in the 1830s. However, if the man was a Continental Army officer and died during the war, it is possible that a special bill in Congress may have allocated funds for such an officer's widow. If the deceased officer were from Virginia, a widow may have received the half-pay for seven years for which the veteran may have been eligible had he survived. Papers regarding State pensions are not included with the Congressional Pension Application Files. Most such Bounty Land Warrants were sold by their recipients soon after they received them. The Warrants were promises that the holder could claim s pecified acreage (say, 450 acres) in the geographical area governed by the State under which the veteran served. A MD veteran's Warrant could be used to claim land in the area set aside by that state, a VA veteran's Warrant could be used to claim land in KY or in the VA Military District in Ohio -- though there were other special arrangements made for land claims for particular situations: some States did not have land to allocate. The BLWts were not "for" specific land at the time they were issued. Neither Congress nor the States had any idea what land might exist to fulfill the promise. New York did not take possession of the Military Tracts for which its soldiers' BLWts were used until 1794, for example, and Massachusetts did not make land available for most of its veterans' claims until the 1830s. So what transpired with your target person's land entitlement depends much on what State he served from. Good hunting, Judy ************************************ Janeth writes: Would this mean that it was not in fact a pension application, but only a bounty land warrant?