Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 2421-450, William Washington, Va.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE | NUMBER
[check mark] {Stamped: star]
Va. | Washington, William | B.L.Wt. 2421-50 Lt. Col
Issued Mch. 7, 1798
No papers
CONTENTS
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[Printed document with typed entries]

THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form K - 8
(Rev. 11-21-38)

Division of Reference

REFERRAL SLIP

DATE: May 20, 1940

INQUIRY FROM:
Mrs. W. J. Wootten
85 - 18 54th Avenue
DATE MAY 20 1940
Elmhurst, New York

DATED: May 15. 1940

[Stamped, round, containing: Numbers 1-12 outer perimeter, RECEIVED MAY 21 1950 MAIL SUB.-DIV]

SUBJECT:
Genealogical information concerning
Colonel William Augustine Washington.

RESPECTFULLY REFERRED TO:
Revolutionary and 1812 Wars Section
Veterans' Administration
Washington, D. C.

and the writer so informed.

P.M. Hamer
CHIEF DIVISION OF REFERENCE
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Va. | Washington, William | B.L.Wt.-2421-450-Lt-Col.
Issued Mar. 7, 1798 no papers.
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June 12, 1940
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
WILLIAM WASHINGTON
B. L. Wt. 2421450
BA-J/ MISIF: MLB

Mrs. W. J. Wootten
85 18 54th Avenue
Elmhurst, New York

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you
request the Revolutionary War record of Colonel William Augustine Washington.

The records of this office show that bounty land warrant No. 2421, for four hundred fifty acres of bounty land, was issued March 7, 1798, for service of William Washington, of Virginia, as Lieutenant Colonel in the
Revolutionary War.

There are no statements on file which were made by the applicant for this land, because of the destruction of papers in such early bounty land claims when the War office was burned in 1800.

For information relative to the location of the land referred to above, you should apply to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, and furnish
that official the number of the warrant, the acreage and date of its issuance.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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[Stamped: MAY 20 1940]

Mrs. W. I. Wootten
85 - 18 54th Avenue
Elmhurst, New York

My dear Mrs. Wootten:

This is in reply to your letter of May 15, 1940,
requesting genealogical information concerning Colonel William Augustine Washington.

There are no records in the National Archives
from which this information can be obtained. If Colonel Washington received a pension based on his service in the Revolution, the records relating to that pension may contain genealogical data relating to him. These
records are in the custody of the Veterans' Administration, Washington, D. C., and we are therefore referring your request to that office.

Very truly yours,
P. W. Hamer, Chief Division of Reference
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85 - 18 54th Avenue,
Elmhurst, N. Y.
May 15, 1940.

The National Archives,
Washington, D. C.
P. M. Hamer, Chief Division of Reference.

Dear Mr. Hamer,
Have you a record on the Col. William Augustine Washington mentioned in a newspaper clipping from 1896, which I am
trying to prove?

"Death of a Grandchild of Martha Washington"
On the 10th instant, the last grandchild of Martha Washington in the Moore family, Mrs. Martha E. Wootten, was interred at the
cemetery, near Modesto. The other surviving grandchild up to two years ago, was E. J. Moore, a brother of the deceased. 
The Martha Washington referred to was the daughter of Colonel William Washington, the hero of the battle of the Cowpens, who in a hand-to-hand encounter, wounded the noted Tarleton and eventually compelled
him to make a hasty retreat.

The relationship was as follows: Col. William Washington's daughter Martha, married a Mr. Mullens. Elizabeth Mullens, a daughter by
this union, married Mr. Patrick H. Moore the father of Mrs. Martha E. Wootten.
Mrs. Wootten was born in Smith County, Tenn on the 22nd day of July 1815**********"

I've spent hours on this for my Wootten relatives. I havent found it in George Washington's direct line, although this Col. William Washington was supposed to have been a near kinsman.

I will appreciate any information you may give me.

Very truly yours,
Hazel P. Wootten
(Mrs. W. J. W.)