Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 8278-100, John Edwards, New Jersey
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Service   
New Jersey 

Edwards, John

Number
B.L.Wt. 8278-100
No papers
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Harrington Park, N.J.
April 13, 1935

U. S. Department of the Interior 
General Land Office
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sirs:-
    Can you give me information as to whether Capt. John Edwards of Springfield, Essex County, New Jersey, who served in the Revolutionary War, applied for, and received Bounty Land warrants. 
    I should appreciate any data you cay give me. 
Thanking you, I am

                  Very truly yours, 
                     C. M. Traver
              (Miss C. M. Traver)
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{ Lieut. John Edwards 
{ John L. Hanntramick}
lot 1 T6R13 US Mil
Warrants not here
650 206, 218 acres
57-33
Dec. 26, 1789
882, 100, acres 218, 59
patent wl 4 p 236
not-A LR
35 p 41
Vol 30 
22 vol 17/19
Scrip app. 568
1739
Va. soldier
650 John Edwards Lieut Oct 26 1789
200 acres located by James (illegible) lot 1 T6R13 U S Mail- not on file
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1599082 "K" MKH
MKA
 United States
Department of the Interior 
General Land Office
Washington 
Apr 23 1935
QRR
The attached communication has been received by the General Land Office and is referred for answer to the Director, Veterans' Administration, and the writer so advised. 
Antoinette Funk
Assistant Commissioner. 
Pvt
Rec 8278- June 11, 1789

4-20-kes.
Enc. o-k
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ADDRESS ONLY THE COMMISSIONER OF THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE

            UNITED STATES 

      DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
           General Land Office
         
                 Washington
Apr 22, 1935

In Reply please refer to 
     1599082 "K" MKH
Information. 

Miss C. M. Traver
    Harrington Park, New Jersey.
Madam: 

    I have received your letter of April 13, 1935, requesting be advised whether or not Capt. John Edwards of Springfield, Essex County, New Jersey, applied for of received military bounty land warrants in consideration of his services in the Revolutionary War. 
    The index in this office of the names of Revolutionary War soldiers who received military bounty land warrants shows that two persons by the name of John Edwards received United States military bounty land warrants, but the warrants are not on file here and I am unable to  advise you whether or not either of said soldiers served from New Jersey. 
    The records show military bouty land warrant No. 650, for 200 acres, issued October 26, 1789, to Lieut. John Edwards. He sold his right to locate said warrant on the
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public lands and it was located y on John F. Horntrainick together with other warrants aggregating 4,000 acres on lands designated as lot 1, T. 6 N.,R. 13 W., within the United States Military District, Knox County, Ohio.
    Warrant No. 882, for 100 acres, issued to John Edwards, a Private in the Revolutionary War. This warrant was located on public lands for which a patent issued. The patent is recorded in Volume 4, page 2236. A certified copy of said patent may be procured for 40 cents. 
    As the Director of Pensions, Veterans' Administration, this city, has a more complete record of the soldiers of the Revolutionary War who received military bounty land warrants, your letter has been referred to that official for further reply. He may be able to advise you whether or not either of the soldiers mentioned above served in the New Jersey Line.

            Very respectfully, 

                  Antionette (Ilegible)
                  Assistant Commissioner.


4-19-kes.

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May 20, 1935

John Edwards
B.L. Wt. 8278-100
BA-J/MLB

Dear Madam: 

    Reference is made to your letter addressed to the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, and referred to this office for further reply, in which you request information as to whether Captain John Edwards, of Springfield, Essex County, New Jersey, received bound land on account of service in the Revolutionary War. A search of the Revolutionary War records of this office has been made and no claim for bounty land found based upon service in that 
war, of a Captain John Edwards of New Jersey. 
    The Revolutionary War records of this office show that Warrant No. 8278, for one hundred acres of bounty land, was issued June 11, 1789, to Matthias Denman, assignee, on account of the service of John Edwards as private in the New Jersey line, War of the Revolution. 
    This office has no record of statements made in the application for bounty land, because of the destruction of papers in such early applications when the War Office was burned in 1800, therefore, no further data relative to John Edwards.
    If you desire information in regard to location of the land referred to above, you should write to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, furnishing the number of the warrant and amount of acreage, also date of issuance. 

                 Very truly yours
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Name  Edwards, John

Grade  Private

Line New Jersey

Warrant number 8278
Acreage 100
Issued June 11, 1789
to Matthias Denman, assignee