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From: "Jerry Garrison" <>
Subject: RE: [PALANCAS] Revolutionary pensions and bounty land
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:25:57 -0500
In-Reply-To: <3E6C209E.9CF70067@optonline.net>


There was a specific area in Pennsylvania, called the Donation and
Depreciation lands, which were involved in any Pennsylvania Revolutionary
service. You'd have to look at a map, but this was in the northwest corner
of the State, around Venango / Mercer / Allegheny counties area. York and
Lancaster had already had their land apportioned out in earlier Warrants;
for a full list (or search) of the different groups of warrants, see the
PHMC web site at http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/ .

Jerry Garrison

-----Original Message-----
From: JoEllen Brown [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 12:21 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [PALANCAS] Revolutionary pensions and bounty land


This is interesting. Do you know if there may have been bounty land granted
in Lancaster or York Counties?

Peggy Reeves wrote:

> The Revolutionary invalids and widows who were pensioned before the law in
> 1832 would not have any files available at the National Archives because
> those all burned in a War Department fire in 1814, I believe (or sometime
> during the War of 1812). If you're lucky enough to have a pensioner (or
> widow) who survived and filed under the 1832 pension law, those pension
> files ARE available, on microfilm.
>
> Revolutionary bounty land records also burned in the same fire. There
were
> laws passed in 1850 and 1855 that increased the amount of bounty land that
> war veterans were allowed, including any Revolutionary soldiers, widows,
or
> heirs who were still around. It was possible for the soldier and his wife
> to both be dead, and a child of theirs file for and receive bounty land
> based on the father's Revolutionary service. The tricky part was having a
> discharge certificate or enough live affiants to be able to prove that the
> veteran served.
>
> Peggy Reeves
> Burtonsville, MD
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James L. Stokes" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 4:02 AM
> Subject: Re: [PALANCAS] Patriots list
>
> > People who served in the Pa. Militia got pensions from the Federal
> > Government as well, the catch is that, unless the person was killed or
> > maimed in the Revolution he wasn't eligible until the 1832 Pension law.
> By
> > that time most of the Revolutionary War soldiers were dead and those
that
> > were alive were in their 70s or 80s. It wasn't until that time, when
most
> > of the soldiers were dead that people began to appreciate their efforts
in
> > the Revolution.
> >
> > Jim
> > Conestoga Area Historical Society
> > http://www.rootsweb.com/~pacahs/index.htm
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Joan Bretz" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 1:27 AM
> > Subject: Re: [PALANCAS] Patriots list
> >
> >
> > > Yes, yes, my computer keyboard didn't like be awakened so late at
night
> > and
> > > typing while it was half asleep. Hence the oath in 1977.
> > >
> > > One other caveat I wanted to mention. The National Archives has
> > information
> > > on soldiers who served in the Continental Line, or regular army. Many
> of
> > > our Lancaster PA ancestors were local militia and would not be on
record
> > at
> > > the Archives in military records or in the pension records. I haven't
> > > pursued the question of whether PA paid pensions to the militia. The
> > > primary source for PA militia, I believe, remains the published PA
> > Archives.
> > > Also there are some bits and pieces on microfilm available at the
> offices
> > of
> > > the PA Archives institution here in Harrisburg.
> > >
> > > Hope you find George.
> > >
> > > Joan Bretz
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Madaline Preston" <>
> > > To: <>
> > > Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 8:26 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [PALANCAS] Patriots list
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --On Thursday, March 06, 2003 5:46 PM -0500 Joan Bretz
> > > > <> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > It lists a George Meiser, Ensign in the 4th Co, 1st Battalion,
1777;
> > > took
> > > > > the Oath of Allegiance in July 1977.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for taking the time to respond. Always nice to have help out
> > > there.
> > > > Madaline
> > > > --
> > > > Preston, Madaline H
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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