- Collection:
- McDuffie Museum Collection
- Title:
- Warrant, bounty land for military service, Danville, Ill., 1854
- Creator:
- United States. General Land Office
- Date of Original:
- 1854-10-02
- Subject:
- United States--History--War of 1812--Claims
Land titles--Illinois - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Illinois, Ford County, 40.59718, -88.22326
United States, Illinois, Vermilion County, Danville, 40.12448, -87.63002 - Medium:
- claims
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Bounty land warrant for military service no. 17,602 issued to Benjamin Wolsey, Private in the Georgia Militia, and transferred to Andrew Peters. The warrant is for 80 acres of land in Danville, Ill. The land was granted to Wolsey, returned to the General Land Office, and assigned to Andrew Peters. The warrant was issued as a reward for Wolsey's service in the War of 1812 and the Seminole War. It is signed by President Franklin Pierce, Secretary A.E. Baldwin, and M. Granger[?], recorder of the General Land Office. The land's coordinates are handwritten on the reverse, along with a note by a deeds recorder that the warrant was filed and recorded in Book 57 of Deeds in Ford County, Ill. on November 29, 1895. 2 images.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:mcdm_mcd_mcd0004
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/mcdm/mcd/do:mcd0004
- Language:
- eng
- Holding Institution:
- McDuffie Museum
- Rights:
-
