Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24072, Jesse Downs, Mass.
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Massachusetts
Downs, Jesse 
W.24072
Downes, Naomi
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES Form VAM-51- 12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD* 
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives 
Name: Downs, John  
GRADE Private 
Line- Connecticut
WARRANT NUMBER 5703
September 20, 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.