U.S. War Bounty Land Warrants, 1789-1858

 

 Edward Cumpston   7795    see photograph opposite

 

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 Edward Cumpston 1800 7795    

 

 Edward Cumpston 1800 7478    

 

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 Edward Cumpston 1800 6841  

 

 Edward Cumpston 1800 6845  

 

 Edward Cumpston 1800 6854  

 

 Edward Cumpston 1800 7594    

 

 Edward Cumpston 1800 7797    

 

 Edward Cumpston 1800 7948    

 

 Edward Cumpston 1800 8004    

 

 Edward Cumpston 1800 7387

U.S. War Bounty Land Warrants, 1789-1858

This database contains bounty land warrants issued to veterans of the U.S. Revolutionary War between 1789 and 1833, and to veterans of the War of 1812 between 1815 and 1858. It also contains some related papers of the Revolutionary War warrants that date to as late as 1880. Bounty land warrants were certificates given to eligible veterans granting them rights to free land on the public domain.

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No 7795 To the Geographer of United States or to the Surveyors appointed by him to survey the Military Lands.

 

You are hereby required to Survey for Edward Cumpston  a signee of John Shirlock soldier of the late Newyisk Line?

One hundred acres of Land in any of the Districts appropriated for satisfying the Bounties of Land due to the late Army of the United States, and return this Warrant to the Board of Treasury agreeably to the Act of Congress of the ninth day of July 1788.

Given at the WAR OFFICE, this thirtieth day of July one Thousand Seven Hundred and ninety