WAR OF 1812 BOUNTY LANDS IN ILLINOIS
By the United States Government, and Indexed by Lowell Volkel,
1977, 664 pp., 8.5" x 11 inches, Hardbound
This previously rare document contains the patents issued by the General Land Office in the Illinois Military Tract between October 1817 and January 1819. The new index contains over 17,000 names. No one has determined the number of War of 1812 veterans who actually moved to their free land in the Illinois, Arkansas or Missouri military tracts. Over 60% of these patents were issued in the Illinois Military Tract. This tract, located between the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers, included the present counties of Adams, Brown, southern Bureau, Calhoun, Fulton, Hancock, Henderson, southern Henry, Knox, Marshall, Mercer, McDonough, Peoria, Pike, Putnam, Schuyler, Stark, and Warren. The entry for each veteran gives the patent date, land location, name, and residence to whom the patent was delivered, and the delivery date. In his introduction, James Walker gives a history of bounty land legislation and explains the records that can be obtained from the bounty land files at the National Archives. (1840 House Document 262, 26th Congress, first session.)
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