Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File [BLANK], John Coats, Penn.
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Penn.   Couts, John  Dis
or
Coates.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12 - 5 - 41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

NAME Coats, John__GRADE Private "in the 
Line Artillery Artificers of Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 12959
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED February 14, 1791
to Alexander Power assignee

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.