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 Jillson, Willard Rouse. ''The Kentucky Land Grants: A Systematic Index to All of the Land Grants Recorded in the State Land Office at Frankfort, Kentucky, 1782-1924''. Louisville, Kentucky: Standard Printing, 1925. (Family History Library book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=20583&disp=The+Kentucky+land+grants%20%20&columns=*,0,0 976.9 B4f, no. 33]; 1971 edition on film [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=20583&disp=The+Kentucky+land+grants%20%20&columns=*,0,0 272808] and book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=94433&disp=The+Kentucky+land+grants%20%20&columns=*,0,0 976.9 R22ji]; film [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=94433&disp=The+Kentucky+land+grants%20%20&columns=*,0,0 1000053 item 2]; fiche [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=94433&disp=The+Kentucky+land+grants%20%20&columns=*,0,0 6051422-23].)
-Copies of the warrants are found in ''Military Warrants, 1782-1788 ''(Family History Library films 272979-80). The original records are at the Kentucky Land Office in Frankfort, Kentucky. These are indexed by Willard Rouse Jillson, ''Old Kentucky Entries and Deeds: A Complete Index to All of the Earliest Land Entries, Military Warrants'' . . . (1926; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing, 1969; Family History Library book 976.9 R22j; Family History Library fiche 6051260).
+Copies of the warrants are found in ''Military Warrants, 1782-1788 ''(Family History Library films [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=439115&disp=Military+warrants%2C+1782%2D1788%20%20&columns=*,0,0 272979-80]). The original records are at the Kentucky Land Office in Frankfort, Kentucky. These are indexed by Willard Rouse Jillson, ''Old Kentucky Entries and Deeds: A Complete Index to All of the Earliest Land Entries, Military Warrants'' . . . (1926; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing, 1969; Family History Library book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=489197&disp=Old+Kentucky+entries+and+deeds%20%20&columns=*,0,0 976.9 R22j]; Family History Library fiche [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=489197&disp=Old+Kentucky+entries+and+deeds%20%20&columns=*,0,0 6051260]).
 '''Lands Granted in the Virginia Military District of Ohio (Virginia Warrants)'''. An estimated 64 percent of Virginia's bounty land claims were granted in the Virginia Military District of Ohio. The Ohio Land Grant Office (c/o Auditor of State, 88 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215) has some records of these land grants.
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 A significant collection of survey records and other information about this district is also at the Illinois Historical Survey Collection at the University of Illinois Library in Urbana. These are indexed in volume 4 of:
-Clifford Neal Smith, ''Federal Land Series: A Calendar of Archival Materials on the Land Patents Issued by the United States Government''. . . . Chicago, Illinois: American Library Association, 1972. (Family History Library book 973 R23s.) This book indexes land grants in the Virginia Military District of Ohio and may show survey number, acreage, survey book page numbers, county, or township.
+Clifford Neal Smith, ''Federal Land Series: A Calendar of Archival Materials on the Land Patents Issued by the United States Government''. . . . Chicago, Illinois: American Library Association, 1972. (Family History Library book[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=253710&disp=Federal+land+series%20%20&columns=*,0,0 973 R23s].) This book indexes land grants in the Virginia Military District of Ohio and may show survey number, acreage, survey book page numbers, county, or township.
 The surrendered warrants and related papers were sent to the General Land Office in Washington, DC, and are now at the National Archives in Warrants Surrendered for Land in the Virginia Military District of Ohio. The National Archives also has an alphabetical index, numerical register, and survey register that can help you find a warrant in this collection. These records are not on microfilm or at the Family History Library.
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 '''Lands Granted in the U.S. Military District and Other Public Domain Areas (U.S. Warrants)'''. The records of these land grants are described in the United States Research Outline.
-'''Service Records'''. Those who served in the Virginia state or continental line may be listed in Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War (on 1,097 Family History Library films beginning with film 1485281) and in ''General Index to Compiled Military Service Records of Revolutionary War Soldiers'' (on 58 Family History Library films beginning with 882841). This is at the National Archives and the Family History Library. May provide the soldier's or sailor's unit which can help to find pension records but does not give information about other members of the soldier's family. Also indexed in:
+'''Service Records'''. Those who served in the Virginia state or continental line may be listed in Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War (on 1,097 Family History Library films beginning with film [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=484382&disp=Compiled+service+records+of+soldiers+who%20%20&columns=*,0,0 1485281]) and in ''General Index to Compiled Military Service Records of Revolutionary War Soldiers'' (on 58 Family History Library films beginning with [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=484382&disp=Compiled+service+records+of+soldiers+who%20%20&columns=*,0,0 882841]). This is at the National Archives and the Family History Library. May provide the soldier's or sailor's unit which can help to find pension records but does not give information about other members of the soldier's family. Also indexed in:
-White, Virgil D. ''Index to Revolutionary War Service Records''. Four Volumes. Waynesboro, Tennessee: National Historical Publishing, 1995. (Family History Library book&nbsp;973 M22wv)
+White, Virgil D. ''Index to Revolutionary War Service Records''. Four Volumes. Waynesboro, Tennessee: National Historical Publishing, 1995. (Family History Library book&nbsp;[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=745712&disp=Index+to+Revolutionary+War+service+recor%20%20&columns=*,0,0 973 M22wv])
 For a list of regiments, where they were raised, service dates, officers, and brief unit histories, see:
-Sanchez-Saavedra, E. M. A''Guide to Virginia Military Organizations in the American Revolution, 1774-1787''. Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1978. (Family History Library book 975.5 M2s.) This book may provide information useful for obtaining pension records.
+Sanchez-Saavedra, E. M. A''Guide to Virginia Military Organizations in the American Revolution, 1774-1787''. Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1978. (Family History Library book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=79781&disp=A+guide+to+Virginia+military+organizatio%20%20&columns=*,0,0 975.5 M2s].) This book may provide information useful for obtaining pension records.
 The Library of Virginia also has various pay records, militia records, court martial records, appointments of officers, petitions, and other helpful sources.
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 '''Public Service Claims'''. Private citizens may have taken claims or petitions to the county courthouse for compensation for crops, cattle, weapons, and labor used by the military during the war. These county records have been collected in:
-''Revolutionary War Public Service Claims Recorded in County Court Booklets''. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1954. (Family History Library films 029809-12; indexes on films 29813-18.)
+''Revolutionary War Public Service Claims Recorded in County Court Booklets''. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1954. (Family History Library films [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=414149&disp=Revolutionary+War+public+service+claims+%20%20&columns=*,0,0 029809-12]; indexes on films [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=414149&disp=Revolutionary+War+public+service+claims+%20%20&columns=*,0,0 29813-18].)
 The approved claims were recorded in:
-''Revolutionary War Public Service Claims, Commissioners Books, 1783.'' Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1954. (Family History Library films 029819-20.) The index to both sets of films is on Family History Library films 029813-18. The original records are at the Library of Virginia.
+''Revolutionary War Public Service Claims, Commissioners Books, 1783.'' Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1954. (Family History Library films [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=412767&disp=Revolutionary+War+public+service+claims++ 029819-20].) The index to both sets of films is on Family History Library films [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=414149&disp=Revolutionary+War+public+service+claims+%20%20&columns=*,0,0 029813-18]. The original records are at the Library of Virginia.
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