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Subject: Re: [PACrawf'rd] Crawford Co to Chatauqua Co
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 23:57:55 EDT

I have this going on in three branches of my family moving between Crawford
and Chautauqua Counties. Some of went on in my family where that they were War
of 1812 Vets and applied for and given "bounty land" in Crawford County. I am
still reading up on bounty land but it was land given free or at very reduced
prices to vets of the revoutionary war and war of 1812. I think it was used
somtimes in lieu of back pay or pensions. My folks appeared to get these lands,
improve them and then sell them and move often then back to Chautauqua. Even
those in my family who went to Crawford county in the 1802- 1810 period moved
around alot from township to township there until finally settling on a farm
for a long period.

I do believe the records of the land copany that sold much of the original
land in Crawford County are available and might help answer your question. The
Historical Society in Meadville can probably give you the specifics. I don't
know if they handled the bounty lands as well but you can see the bounty land
tracts noted on early maps of Erie and Crawford Counties

Several widows in my family also returned to Chautauqua mainly to Jamestown.
I think they did it for social reasons that is the farms were fairly lonely
and isolated especially in the winter.

By the 1870's I have some of the younger generation moving off the farms to
back Chautauqua to work on railroad or in Jamestown as merchants or artisans.

Other suggestions out there ? Also info about Bounty Lands ?

Kathy

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