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From: R D Winthrop <>
Subject: Re: CW Substitutes
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 14:59:26 -0500
References: <004e01c4f2d9$1a7ad8a0$2fd86dc6@jackdibean>
In-Reply-To: <004e01c4f2d9$1a7ad8a0$2fd86dc6@jackdibean>

>My Great Grandfather William Morgan was paid $75.00 to be a substitute for a
>man named Weston out of Jackson County. -- Jack & Marianne Dibean - Lansing MI

That's unusually low price for a substitute, especially if Jackson
wasn't a county that had met its quota ... there's a microform at the
State Archives of Michigan which records bounty payments, a great many
of which were for $75 as many recruits received $25 at enlistment and
the remainder of a $100 state bounty at a later time ... are you sure
the record is a substitute's fee (which was, remember, a private
transaction and not a state payment) and not a bounty payment ?

regards - rdw

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