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If an application was approved, the veteran or his heirs received a certificate that could be exchanged for a warrant. The Library of Virginia and the Family History Library have Virginia Land Office, Military Certificates, A-Z: July 14, 1782-August 5, 1876. These records are in alphabetical order on 38 Family History Library films, [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=723941&disp=Military+certificates%2C+A%2DZ%20%20&columns=*,0,0 1889181-218]. These certificates are also filmed by number on Family History Library films [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=412793&disp=Military+certificates%2C+nos%2E+1%2D9926%20%20&columns=*,0,0 29635-7]. The certificates often give the number of acres, warrant number, and sometimes the solder's heirs—wife, children, grandchildren, brother, etc. | If an application was approved, the veteran or his heirs received a certificate that could be exchanged for a warrant. The Library of Virginia and the Family History Library have Virginia Land Office, Military Certificates, A-Z: July 14, 1782-August 5, 1876. These records are in alphabetical order on 38 Family History Library films, [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=723941&disp=Military+certificates%2C+A%2DZ%20%20&columns=*,0,0 1889181-218]. These certificates are also filmed by number on Family History Library films [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=412793&disp=Military+certificates%2C+nos%2E+1%2D9926%20%20&columns=*,0,0 29635-7]. The certificates often give the number of acres, warrant number, and sometimes the solder's heirs—wife, children, grandchildren, brother, etc. | ||
'''U.S. Revolutionary War Bounty Land Warrants . . . 1788, 1803, 1806''' (for land in the United States Military District of Ohio and the Virginia Military District of Ohio). (Family History Library films 1025142-56; two indexes are on film 1025141.) Applications to the federal government for bounty land are interfiled with the pension application files described above (see Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files in the “Pension Records” section, above). Those who received warrants for bounty land from the federal government could claim land in the Military Districts of Ohio and later in other areas of the public domain. | '''U.S. Revolutionary War Bounty Land Warrants . . . 1788, 1803, 1806''' (for land in the United States Military District of Ohio and the Virginia Military District of Ohio). (Family History Library films [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=267780&disp=U%2ES%2E+Revolutionary+War+bounty+land+w%20%20&columns=*,0,0 1025142-56]; two indexes are on film [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=267780&disp=U%2ES%2E+Revolutionary+War+bounty+land+w%20%20&columns=*,0,0 1025141].) Applications to the federal government for bounty land are interfiled with the pension application files described above (see Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files in the “Pension Records” section, above). Those who received warrants for bounty land from the federal government could claim land in the Military Districts of Ohio and later in other areas of the public domain. | ||
'''Bounty Land Grants.''' The individual who received a warrant may have claimed the land himself or may have sold his warrant to someone else. See the United States Research Outline for more information about the process of obtaining a land grant. | '''Bounty Land Grants.''' The individual who received a warrant may have claimed the land himself or may have sold his warrant to someone else. See the United States Research Outline for more information about the process of obtaining a land grant. | ||
'''Lands Granted in Kentucky (Virginia warrants).'''Those who surrendered their warrants for land in what is now Kentucky are listed in Virginia Grants, 1782-1792 (Family History Library films 272809-17). The original grants are at the Kentucky Land Office in Frankfort, Kentucky. | '''Lands Granted in Kentucky (Virginia warrants).'''Those who surrendered their warrants for land in what is now Kentucky are listed in Virginia Grants, 1782-1792 (Family History Library films [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=241747&disp=Virginia+grants%2C+1782%2D1792%20%20&columns=*,0,0 272809-17]). The original grants are at the Kentucky Land Office in Frankfort, Kentucky. | ||
Two indexes that include these grants are: | Two indexes that include these grants are: | ||
Brookes-Smith, Joan E. ''Master Index: Virginia Surveys and Grants, 1774-1791''. Frankfort: Kentucky Historical Society, 1976. (Family History Library book 976.9 R22b; film 1320833 item 6.) | Brookes-Smith, Joan E. ''Master Index: Virginia Surveys and Grants, 1774-1791''. Frankfort: Kentucky Historical Society, 1976. (Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=193613&disp=Master+index%2C+Virginia+surveys+and+gra%20%20&columns=*,0,0 book 976.9 R22b; film 1320833 item 6].) | ||
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 976.9 B4f, no. 33; 1971 edition on film 272808 and book 976.9 R22ji; film 1000053 item 2; fiche 6051422-23.) | 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 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). | ||