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Subject: Re: [OHGUERNS] Abraham & Nancy McKee Bryson Roll Call
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 11:08:57 EDT

In a message dated 4/10/03 9:29:39 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:

> Township 1 North; Range 3 West - it would be Jackson Township, Guernsey
> County in 1837. Would LOVE to know how to find out if this land was a
> warrant from his father serving in the American Revolution and when and who
> they sold it to.

As was mentioned earlier it probably is not the warrant land.
I suggest, since you have the location and date, you go find the deed
record. You will probably find one. It is somewhat tedious to look
thru and the index is imperfect, but at least there is one to try.
The deed records are filmed and in FHL (probably also in Ohio state
library or historical society library). You may find out something
interesting about the land, where your subjects lived, how much
was paid &c. Or maybe just a bunch of turgid legalese. You never know.

Bounty land warrants were almost always sold at one stage or another in the
process. Why, and how the process worked, is too much to go into in detail
here, but you should
be able to trace these things. First, try to determine if bounty land was
indeed awarded. The best place to determine this is thru NARA;
the second best is the Virginia state library; usually, you need both.
Sometimes BLM can be helpful (I have found it less so for the bounty
warrants themselves, despite the detail & depth of the online database,
probably a reflection only on my own experiences). Once you have
the certificate numbers, you can start finding the next steps
in the process in state & federal records.

A couple ( at least one ) of other states had land warrants too, but if the
service wasn't
associated with Virginia, the pickings are pretty slim and I don't know
much about it.

Next, determine the period when the bounty warrant was listed. Certain
periods awarded the right to find land in Virginia, then parts of Kentucky,
Ohio, and then other areas (this part is way too complicated to describe
here and I would need to refer to notes in detail to get it right). Once
you determine the period, you can look for records associated with the
appropriate states to determine more about what happened to the award.

In turn, this may lead you back to NARA or BLM or a state resource ...
or all of the above in order to determine what happened to the award.

I had relatives who were quite involved in this process in the 19th century,
so if the name William Helm shows up in the course of your research,
I'd sure like to hear from you.

Regards, ==mwh
Michael Helm
Richmond CA

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