Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 9286, for Peter Sheais, Maryland
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Continental (Md.)

Sheais, Peter
or
Shears
Barbary

W 9286
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 
Form VAM-51 
12-5-41  

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*  

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives  

NAME Shealock, John W.
GRADE Private 
LINE New Jersey
WARRANT NUMBER 8704 
ACREAGE 100 
ISSUED January 18, 1790  to __ not shown __  

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found 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. Other records relative to the applications for warrants 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.