Only men who served in the State line or Navy or Continental Line or Navy, and had 3 years uninterrupted service qualified for Bounty Lands. Militia did not . I didn't know this until I started researching these papers. Many papers that are listed at the VA State level, that now say the papers can not be found, guess where they are? In the Scrip Act papers. 99% are Virginians, altho a few were from other colonies, but all fought in VA units. Margie