U.S. War Bounty Land Warrants, 1789-1858
Edward Cumpston 7795 see photograph opposite
Edward Cumpston 7478
Edward Cumpston 8003
Edward Cumpston 6970
Edward Cumpston 7057
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Edward Cumpston 7387
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Edward Cumpston 6729
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Edward Cumpston 6781
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Edward Cumpston 6854
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Edward Cumpston 1800 7795
Edward Cumpston 1800 7478
Edward Cumpston 1800 8003
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Edward Cumpston 1800 7562
Edward Cumpston 1800 7052
Edward Cumpston 1800 7313
Edward Cumpston 1800 7568
Edward Cumpston 1800 7302
Edward Cumpston 1800 6729
Edward Cumpston 1800 6732
Edward Cumpston 1800 6781
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