Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 1699-500, for Andrew Porter, Pennsylvania
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(3-1776)
SERVICE Penn. Artillery
Porter, Andrew
NUMBER
B.L. Wt. 1699-500- Lt. Col. Commandant.
Issued Aug. 20, 1789
No papers
CONTENTS
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129 East Lemon Street
Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Nov. 4, 1930

The Commissioner Of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir,

    Do the records of your Department show anything relation to the following officers?
1st Andrew Porter, Penna of Maryland Forces, Revolution.
2nd James Liepen Port, War 1812. An unofficial family record gives "James Liepen Porter as serving first as Major and later as Colonel of a Maryland Regiment from what is now known as the Eighth District of Cecil Co. Ind."

                                Respectfully
                                Grace Collins Scott
(Mrs Theodore W)
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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section
B.L.Wt. #1699-500
EEL

November 24, 1930

Mrs. Theodore W. Scott
129 East Lemon Street
Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Dear Madam:

    You are advised that it appears from the records of this bureau that Warrant Number 1699, for five hundred acres of bounty land was issued August 20, 1789, on account of the services of Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Andrew Porter, Pennsylvania Artillery, War of the Revolutionary,

    There are no further data on file relative to his service and none whatever relative to his family due to the destruction of papers in such claims when the War Office was burned in 1800.

    The above named is the only Andrew Porter found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau, and the War of 1812 records do not show that a claim for pension was ever made on account of the services of James Porter as described by you of any James Leeper Porter.

                                     Very truly yours

                                     E. W. Morgan
                                     Acting Commissioner.
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See correspondence of December 12, 1934 to Mrs. E.E. Donohoe, Greensburg, Penn. in case of Robert Porter, B.L. Wt. 1715-200-Lieut. Penn, Regt. of Arty.

                      MMHF
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The National Archives
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

Bounty Land Warrant Record Card

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

Name Porter, Asa

Grade Private 

Line In the INVALIDS

Warrant Number 13625
Acreage 100
Issued March 25, 179? to David Quinton Assignee

The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Others records relative to the applications for warrant appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800, Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.