Along with requesting for pension papers, also ask for bounty land applications. My ancestor was denied bounty land but the National Archives still had his application on file. Marcia Fronk ----- Original Message ----- From: "elizabeth Abbott" <eabbott@shaw.ca> To: <WARof1812-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 1:54 AM Subject: [WARof1812] Joel Farnham - Lancaster, Coos County, New Hampshire > Many thanks to all who helped regarding Joel Farnham who showed up on Ancestry.com as a Private in the War of 1812, but not in the National Archives. I am going to fill out another request form using a different spelling of the name and attaching a print out from Ancestry. > > I appreciate all the suggestions and help. > > Elizabeth > British Columbia > > > ==== WARof1812 Mailing List ==== > WAR OF 1812 QUERY BOARD > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USWARS/War1812/General > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > >