Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 286, Alexander Ashton, N.C.
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N. C.

Ashton, Alexander
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Aston

R.286
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 
Form VAM--51 12-5-41

 Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
 
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD*

 NAME    Ashton, Benjamin

GRADE   Private 

LINE.       Pennsylvania

WARRANT NUMBER  8895

 ACREAGE.  100

 ISSUED.   February 14, 1791
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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.