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Record Group Number: 001025
Series/Collection Number: .S 1843
Creator: National Archives Microfilm Publications.
Title, Dates: War of 1812 military bounty land warrants, 1815-1858.
Amount: 14.00 microfilm reels
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Organization/Arrangement: Numerical by warrant number, then chronological.
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Summary:     This microfilm publication reproduces 105 bound volumes containing two series of military bounty land warrants issued between 1815 and 1858 to veterans of the War of 1812, and 4 volumes of indexes to the warrants.
    The first series of warrants (August 19, 1815-June 2, 1858) resulted from acts passed December 24, 1811 (2 Stat. 729), in which Congress provided that noncommissioned officers and soldiers serving for 5 years (unless discharged sooner) or their heirs would be entitled to 160 acres of land from the public domain in partial compensation for military service. A total of 6 million acres of land were to be surveyed and reserved for this purpose, 2 million acres in each of the Territories of  Michigan, Illinois, and Louisiana (present-day Arkansas).
    The second series (August 23, 1815-April 1, 1839) resulted from an act of December 10, 1814 (3 .Stat. 147), by which Congress doubled the acreage offered to soldiers enlisting after that date. Warrants issued under this act were called doubled bounty warrants.
    The warrants contain the following information: (1) the name of the veteran, (2) his rank on discharge from military service (3) his company, regiment, and branch of service, (4) the date the warrant was issued, and (5) usually the date the land was located and the page on which the location is recorded in Abstracts of Military Bounty Land Warrant Locations.
Finding Aids: Microfilm listing available.
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Reproduction Note: Microfilm.
Location of Originals/Duplicates: Originals in custody of National Archives, Washington, D.C.
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Publication Note: National Archives Microfilm Publication M848.
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Subject Access Fields: Land titles.
United States History War of 1812
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