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From: "MaryLu" <>
Subject: Re: [BULL] Re: Blinman - Bull
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 19:03:15 -0600
References: <MB05XDanp0yA0FojonD00001110@MB05.myfamilysouth.com> <001501c61544$1af39bd0$71e27518@dellii> <BAY102-DAV11077D6DCFB4A4A9DF009DC8220@phx.gbl>


Roger:
Did these soldiers have to claim the land they were granted in a certain
length of time?
Is there a way to confirm that Captain John Smith of Manchester, Bennington
County, VT , awarded land in Ohio?
(His wife was Mary Bull, but no record of their marriage has been found.)
MaryLu in Minnesota
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: [BULL] Re: Blinman - Bull


> Cora,
>
> You will discover that soldiers were not paid for their service with money
> during the early American wars. They were extended land grants in
> reparations for their services. That allowed the government to fill the
> frontier lands with new folks to populate the nation. Those grants for
> the south started in VA, then the Carolinas, TN, GA, MS, AR, OK, TX ,
> etc....
>
> Roger
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "cora miller" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 11:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [BULL] Re: Blinman - Bull
>
>
>> IJust started working on our Bull line butt all we mostly have is names
>> and some birth years adn state of birth or death.
>> some in Ga. ,Tn, Ark, Al, It appears if we follow dates and and end up in
>> Ark and ok they began in GA. o we have to 1813
>> GA. looking for other info as well.
>> cora
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 11:17 AM
>> Subject: [BULL] Re: Blinman - Bull
>>
>>
>>> This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
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>>> Surnames: Blinman
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>>> http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IeG.2ACIB/668.1.1
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>>> Message Board Post:
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>>> Hi
>>> Do you have the village of Croscombe, near Wells, in your records?
>>> Joanna
>>>
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