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Subject: Re: [SACKETT-L] Re: SACKETT-D Digest V02 #42
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 11:21:10 -0600

They may have ended up in Michigan partly because some of the battles
were fought in that general area. I have a couple of Michigan ancestors
who were War of 1812 veterans.

Laura Angevine McHam

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:15:30 -0800 (PST) K Powell <>
writes:
> Thanks, Wendy! I generally knew about that bit of
> "bounty lands" but not nearly so much about the
> details; interesting!
>
> I'm sure that's part of what was going on down on the
> PA/NY line where the Tioga drained into the
> Susquehannah, and probably some of the NY river
> drainages east of there, too. CT Land Co variations
> are what also opened the "Fire Lands, eastern OH, to
> CT-ians whose homes were burnt out, hence the name.
>
> I don't have a reference though of similar sort that
> led to eastern MI that early, only the generalities of
> bounty lands offered later to northern civil war
> veterans.
>
> Given the timing, what I'm wondering now is if there
> is a War of 1812 corresponding offer of bounty lands
> to veterans from esp. VT and to an extent CT veterans
> over in MI. Nothing I really have to know, just
> curious.
>
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