Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 15698, David Weger, Va.
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Service
Va.
Weger, David
or Wegar,
or Weigar
Number 
S 15698
carded
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Missouri 30.8
David Weger 20892
of Washington Co in the State of Missouri who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Lapsey of the reg. commanded by Col. Buford in the Virginia line for 18 months from 1780-

Inscribed on the Roll of Missouri at the rate of 60 Dollars -- Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of Dec. 1836, and sent to John S. Brickey Esq Potosi

Arrears to the 4th of September 1836 $330. Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March '37 30.
$360.
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Wm S Allison Clerk, Book 2 Vol. 9 Page 86
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Potosi Mo
Aug 10th 1829
PO mail
Rec. 28 Augt. 1829
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Revolutionary Claims
Hon. S. D. Ingham FREE
Secretary of the Treasury of the United States
Washington City
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State of Missouri
County of Washington
1712.

For the purpose of attaining the benefit of "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers of the army of the Revolution" approved on the 15th day of May 1828, I David Weger of Concord Township in the County of Washington & State of Missouri do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the army of the Revolution for and during the war and continued in its service until its termination. I was a private (although I had previously been a sergeant in room of a Mr. Everet who had been removed for desertion, but being such out the line of my discharge I do not know whether I was confirmed in office until my discharge or no) in Captain Lapsey's Company in Buford's Regiment (the number not recollected) the number of the line not recollected. I also declare that I that I afterwards received a certificate for the reward of Eighty dollars to which I was eligible under a measure of Congress passed the 15th day of May 1778. And I declare that I was not on the 15th day of March 1828 on the Pension List of the United States.

I further declare that I sold my Certificate to a Mr. Patterson who afterward received my salary shortly after my discharge from the army. Whether it was ever fair in order to obtain payment on the certificate or no I know not. Signed David Weger
Sworn to & subscribed before on this 6th day of Aug. 1829.
Lysander H. Flinn, J.P.

Before Mr. Lysander H. Flinn a justice of the peace, duly empowered to administer oaths in the County of Washington State of Missouri. Formally appeared this day James Whaley and John Whaley of the said County who did severely make oath that David Wegar by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed & believed to have been an officer in the Army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated.
Witness my hand this 6th day of Aug. in the year of our Lord 1829.
Lysander H. Flinn Justice of the Peace
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State of Missouri
County of Washington
On this day personally appeared before me, Lysander H. Flinn, one of the justices of the peace within the County and State aforesaid. The within named David Weger whose name is subscribed to the foregoing declaration and known to me to be the same, who being duly qualified deposeth & saith, that he enlisted in the army of the Revolution, in the State of Virginia sometime in the fall of 1780. The time not recollected, in Buford's Regiment, and was marched from there to Hillsboro under Major Ridley, and was discharged from said service sometime in the Spring of 1782 the precise time not recollected.
And having disposed of his discharge this is all the testimony he can produce of the facts here stated held forth in the declaration.
Sworn to before me this 6th day of Aug. in the year of our Lord 1827
Lysander H. Flinn
Justice of the Peace

Letter addressed to David Weger
Washington Co.
Mo.
Potosi P. Office
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State of Missouri
County of Washington
I John C. Brickey Clerk of the Court of the County of Washington in the State of Missouri do hereby confirm that Lysander H. Flinn before whom the foregoing affidavit was signed was at the time of taking the same an acting Justice of the Peace and duly empowered to administer oaths. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the same Court this seventh day of August 1829.
J. C. Brickey
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For the purposes of obtaining the benefit of "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" Approved 13th May 1828.

I David Weger of the County of Washington and State of Missouri, being duly qualified doth declare and say that I enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the revolution, and entered in its service about Eighteen months. I was marched from Staunton in the state of Virginia, the number of the regiment, I do not recollect, (in the Virginia line) to Hillsborough, and commanded by Major Ridley, from Hillsborough we were marched to Hick's Creek. From there to Guilford Courthouse I was in that engagement, from there we were marched to Camden S.C. I was in that engagement, from there to the siege of [illegible], from there we were marched to the Eutaw Springs. I was in that engagement, some time after that we were marched to Salisbury in N.C. & discharged, without a penny in our pockets.

I then received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars to which I was entitled under a resolution of Congress passed the 13th of May 1778, this deponent further states that the foregoing is to the best of his recollection strictly correct, & that his declaration heretofore furnished to the secretary, & the proof in with furnished in all that is in his power to avail humbly of, any person that he acquainted with (except Evans if he should be the one that this deponent is acquainted with in the service is either dead or in some place unknown to this deponent).
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This deponent further saith that he never has received any thing from government whether as a pensioner or otherwise and that he sold his certificate at discharge as before stated in his declaration.
David Weger

Sworn to & subscribed before me this 16th day of June 1831.
Lysander H. Flinn
Justice of the Peace

Margaret Weger of lawful age being duly qualified doth depose and say that she has been acquainted with David Weger for about forty years that he has generally been reputed and believed to be a revolutionary soldier, where he has resided for that time, that she was well acquainted with a Mr. Abraham Miller who was a creditable man, she has often heard him in conversation with David Weger, & with this deponent, & others, state that he had served with David Weger in the revolutionary army, and was well acquainted with him while in the service, this deponent further states that she is well satisfied that David Weger was a soldier as above stated, that she is as positive of it as she can be of any thing, that she was not an eyewitness of, & that his statements herewith forwarded to the Secretary is entitled to the utmost credit, & further this deponent saith that if said Miller is yet living she does not where & further this deponent saith not. Margaret Weger
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 16th day of June 1831.
L. H. Flinn Justice of the Peace
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State of Missouri
Washington County
SS Lysander H. Flinn of lawful age being duly qualified doth depose & say that he has been acquainted with David Weger for several years, & that he has no hesitation in saying that from various circumstances he believes the said Weger to have been a soldier in the Army of the Revolution, & further from said Weger's general character his statements herewith forwarded to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, is entitled to the utmost credit & further this deponent saith not.
Lysander H. Flinn
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 11th day of June 1831.
O. A. Belknap, Justice of the Peace

State of Missouri
Washington County
I John C Brickey Clerk of the County Court in and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Lysander H. Flinn and O. A. Belknap whose certificates are attached to the foregoing affidavits are and were at the time of [illegible] the same acting Justices of the Peace within and for said County duly commissioned and qualified as such and that full faith and credit is due to all their official acts.
In testimony whereof I have hereinto set my hand and affixed my official seal at Potosi this 27th day of June 1831.
John C. Brickey
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Positions of Lysander H. Flinn in support of a claim of D. Weger as a revolutionary soldier.
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33.879
David Weger's Missouri pension

On Roll
Page 320, pay [illegible] by Jno. Patterson
L36
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State of Missouri
Washington County
On this 26th day of July one thousand eight hundred and thirty six personally appeared in open court before the honorable Judge of the Circuit Court within and for the County of Washington aforesaid now sitting David Wegar, a resident of the County aforesaid in the State of Missouri aged about Eighty four years-who being first duly sworn according to law-doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the "Act of Congress" passed June 7th 1832.

That he the said David Weigar entered the service of the United States at "Staunton in Virginia" under the Command of one Captain Lapsley and Majr. Ridley, thence he was marched to Hillsborough in North Carolina where he joined Col. Buford or Bleeford's Regiment. That he was drafted for Eighteen months, and served the whole of the line for which he was Drafted. He states that he is now very old and his memory not good, but he thinks he entered the service some weeks or months before he joined what was called Bleeford's Regiment. He can not now recollect any of the of the field officers except Major Snead-and General Greene who was commander in chief of the army. From Hillsboro, the army was marched to Hick's Creek where they remained two or three weeks-From Hick's Creek he marched to Guilford Court House - where an action took place in which the the said David Weigar was engaged and where one of his mess mates Frank Simpson was killed in the battle. He was then marched to Camden, where the army remained for some time, then they were attacked by a detachment of the British light horse, and the party to which he was attached lost four men.

From Camden he was marched to Ninety Six: where the American army was a long time engaged in digging entrenchments-and were attacked by the British forces almost every night, and some times twice of a night. From there he went to the Eutaw Springs where he was again engaged in a hard conflict, and defeated the British Army-one circumstance in particular made a lasting impression on his mind. While he and his line were formed for action-there was a party of British soldiers which had been taken prisoner and were advancing in the direction where he was stationed and the line to which he was attached supporting they were coming up for an attack-the American line fired on them, which caused great confusion for some time.

He recollects Col. Richard Campbell-and thinks he commanded the second Regiment-and thinks he was
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at the Eutaw Springs, tho of this he is not certain.
The said David Weigar further states that he was honorably discharged at the expiration of his term of Eighteen months for which he enlisted the service. That after the Battle of Eutaw, and at that place he was commanded by a Capt. Stripling or Stribling: And according to his best recollection at this time, he thinks he was commanded by a Captain Wallace at the engagement which took place at Guilford-he knows of no person at this time whose evidence he can procure to prove the services herein before stated and set forth. That he has not his discharge having many years ago, placed in it in the hands of one Patterson in Virginia. Perhaps Thomas or John Patterson but which of them he can not now recollect. He was discharged on the Yadkin River in Carolina-but does not know by what officer.

He the said David Weigar further states that he hereby relinquishes all and every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present-and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State or Territory within the United States. And further:

1. Where were you born, and in what year? Answer: I was born in the parish of St Giles in Middlesex in England and from the best information I have been able to get I am now about "Eighty four" years of age. Tho I have no Record of my age.

2. Question: have you any record of your age, and if so where is it? Answer, I have none, and only know my age by counting my apprenticeship years.

3. Quest. where were you living when called in to service? Where have you lived since the Revolution? and where do you now live? Answer: In Virginia give or six miles from Staunton, or Middle River. And I have lived since the Revolution in Tennessee for a number of years-since then I lived in Illinois-and now live in Washington County Missouri.

4. Quest. How were you called into service? Answer: I was drafted by lottery for eighteen months and served the whole time accordingly.
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5. quest. state the names of the Regular officers? Who were the Troops where you served? Such continental Regiments as you can now recollect?
Answer: I remember General Green who was said to be the Commander of the Army. Also General Engie or Hugar. I also remember Colonel Richard Campbell, who commanded at Guilford or the Eutaw Springs-and I think got killed at one of these places. Besides other subaltern officers many of whose names I have forgotten.
6. Quest. Did you ever receive a discharge from the Service, and if so by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
Answer: I did absolutely receive a discharge from the service. But do not recollect by whom it was given. And as I before stated I gave my discharge to one of the Pattersons of Virginia many years since - not supposing it was of any value to me.
7. State the name of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood-and who can testify as to your character for veracity and good behaviour - and your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
Answer - I am acquainted with Major John Hawkins and John G. Bryan and Andrew Casey who are and have been long acquainted with me, and as to my character there are a great number of persons who have known me long. I do not know of any person now living who I can get to prove my service in the Revolutionary War. They are all dead or not known to me now. Nor can I procure their evidence if it ever necessary.
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court this 25th day of July A.D. 1836. 
David Weger
Israel McGready clk
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We John Hawkins, Andrew Casey, John G. Bryan in or near the neigbourhood of Weger (there being no clergyman) residing in the County of Washington hereby certify that we are all acquainted with the before named David Weiger who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Declaration. That we believe him to be about Eighty four years of Age. That he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood to have been a soldier in the Revolution-and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
John Hawkins
Andrew Casey
J. G. Bryan
Israel McGready clerk

And the said Court do hereby declare their Opinion. After the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department, that the above named applicant David Weiger was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
And the Court further certifies that it appears to them, that John Hawkins, Andrew Casey and John G. Bryan who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the County of Washington aforesaid - and are creditable persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Israel McGready clerk of the Circuit Court within and for the County of Washington aforesaid in the State of Missouri do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of David Weiger for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office at my office in Potosi this 26th day of July 1836.
Israel McGready clk
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15698
INVALID.
File No. 15698
David Weger
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7th 32
Index: - Vol. /, Page 400
[Arrangement of 1870]
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David Wegar's affidavit
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State of Missouri
Washington County
SS
This day personally appeared before me the undersigned Justice of the Peace within and for the County aforesaid David Wegar. Who being duly sworn with his oath states and declares-that heretofore at the last July Term of the Current Court for the County of Washington aforesaid he the said David Wegar made his application and Declaration to the War Department for a pension according to an Act of Congress as in that behalf stated. That he is now very old and infirm and his memory by no means good-that he has forgotten many circumstances which took place during his services rendered in the Revolutionary War-But that he stated and gave as full and detailed accounted of his Revolutionary service in his application to the War department as he then could or now can do with certainty, and for that reason he can not again go into a minute detail of all the circumstances attending that campaign: and again begs the Honorable Commissioner of Pensions or any other officers in the war department to please to examine his former statements and declarations made on this subject to enable him to attain his pension-and he most humbly hopes they will not require any thing more from a poor old decrepit man upwards of Eighty years of age, whose memory is frail - and his real necessities great - conscientiously believing himself such an object as the humanity of his Happy Government intended to include in the act of Congress making provisions for the Revolutionary Soldiers: One thing he knows, that he served his Country faithfully and constantly during the time his services were rendered, and that he never received any thing from the government for it.
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He the said David Wegar further states, that the reason he has not, and did not apply for a pension sooner, was for the following reason. First, he never saw the act of Congress making the provision for the old soldiers-nor did he ever know there was such a law, until some years ago: he was informed in the Course of Communication that other people had applied and attained a pension for Revolutionary services-and he was informed he himself was entitled to a pension also: Best of that time he thought he was able to work and could do without it that the government was then in doubt. But since that time he is told the national debt is paid-and his necessities much more now than at any former period of his life.
Secondly. He the said David Wegar did employ an attorney to draw his application once before, but the lawyer told him he must get a preacher of the gospel to certify for him: or he could not get the pension-and he not being acquainted with any (owing to his remote residence) he gave it out, believing he could not  get any thing, because he was a poor old man and no one cared any thing for him.
Thirdly, afterwards some gentleman told him he was certainly entitled to a pension if he would make oath to the statements he then made to them with regard to his Revolutionary services-as others had got there-then and not till then did he conclude the last time to make the effort and if the Government would in its humanity give him any thing-it would keep him from
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starvation or beggary in his last days of living.
Then at the last declarations of David Wegar a simple statement of the facts and reasons why he has not made application for a pension before now-and this in addition to his former statements and declarations-He now declares he knows himself to be entitled to his pension according to what he has remembered to the act of Congress-and as such he claims his right-and sincerely hopes nothing furthers will be required of him to establish his claim-
and further this deponent saith not.
David Weger
Taken certified and sworn to and subscribed before me the undersigned Justice of the Peace this 17th day of October 1836.
John Brickey
Justice of the Peace

State of Missouri
Washington County SS
I John C. Brickey Clerk of the County within and for said County hereby certify that John Brickey Esquire whose signature is annexed to the following certificate is and was an acting Justice of the Peace at the time of making the same duly commissioned and qualified as such within and for said County and that due faith and credit is paid and given to all his official acts as such.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my had and affixed the seal of said court at office in the Town of Potosi this 17th day of October 1836.
J. C. Brickey clerk
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Sept. 7

Potosi Mo
Augt. 22nd Dowell
Hon [illegible] Secretary of War
and J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
Mail
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Potosi Mo
Augt. 22nd
Dowell

Hon [illegible] Secretary of War
and J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Missouri
Potosi 18th Augt. 1836

Honored Sir,
At the insistence of a poor old man permit me to inclose to you his application for a pension: David Wegar, he is very old as you will see by his application and extremely poor and ignorant which is one reason why I presume he did not apply for his pension sooner. Should any thing be informal or wanting to Congress his application according to the Regulations of the department will you please Sir to inform me, and I will endeavour to aid the old man gratuitously for he is really necessitous and can not live but a few years at most.

Should his papers be found on examination to entitle him to the pension, it is his wish you would please to forward his certificate to me at this place: Because there is no Post Office near him, and he is too infirm to travel even to this place to get any communication from you.
Sir, I have the Honor to be your obt. servant
John S. Brickey for David Wegar

Hon. Secretary of War
Washington City
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David Weger
Va. line
Lot

Missouri

Act Send File No 15.698

Act 1828
Evidence insufficient
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Missouri
Potosi
Oct. 18 1836

Sir,
I had the honor to receive yours of the 19th on the subject of the claim of David Wegar for a pension-and have explained to him what I understand to be the defect in his first statements. The old man [illegible] and as fully as he is able: He declares he can say no more-on account of his bad memory and regrets me to state to the Department that if he does not get his pension soon he shall never want it: I can only state to you sir, that he is very old, feeble and poor-and what I have done for him is gratuitous-with regard to the justness of his claim I know nothing more than I have learned from his statements. And the opinion of others who know him better than I do.

At the request of Mr. Wegar Sir, you will please to inform me of the result of the decision of the Department: and I will communicate the same to him immediately and greatly oblige the old man, and Wm Crump Esq.

Your most Humble Servant
John S. Brickey
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David Weger
Missouri
Mail
Potosi Mo
Oct. 20
Hon. Geo. Wm Crump Esquire
Acting Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington City
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1828 papers to be filed with A [illegible]
File #15.698
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Revolutionary Claims.

Treasury Department
2 Sept. 1829

David Weger of Concord township in the county of Washington in the State of Missouri has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a private in captain Stripling's company, in Col. Buford's regiment of the Virginia line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3rd of March, 1826, nothing.

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By Order of the Secretary,
F A Dickins

TREASURY DEPARTMENT
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE
4 September 1829

It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the award of eighty dollars has been issued to [blank] in the [blank]. It further appears that David Weger is not now on the pension list of any agency, and has been so since the 3rd of March 1826.

The name of David Weger can not be found among those of the Virginia line in whom Certificates for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars, were issued-
Peter Hagner And
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General Law Office
18 Sept. 1829

The name of David Weger does not appear on the list of Warrants issued by the Register of the Same Office [illegible] for as they have been read.

G W Graham
County Clerk

Bounty Land Office
September 22 1829

The name of David Weger is not returned on the  Records of the Virginia line on file in this office as entitled to Bounty land. Nor has a warrant ever issued to him.

Wm Gordon
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Read 16 July 1831
3958
Washington Co Mo
16th June 1831

Sir,

Yours of the [illegible] was duly received, I am at some loss to understand you, you say the communications to which I refer have not been recd. I in mine referred to the letters collected by me to you and one to a Mr. Evans to furnish is in his power testimony in support of my claims.

I have collected the best proof I am able to collect here, and if it is not satisfactory, my letters to Evans has not been you will please forward me the list of persons found entitled to the letters above mentioned, as I neglected to keep the Address of Evans when I returned you the list, If you can you will confer a favor by forwarding me with a list of Applicants, who are in my situation as perhaps I may be acquainted with some of them.

Sir your friend
& humble serv.
David Weger

Hon. S. D. Ingham
Secretary of the Treasury
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Potosi Mo
28 June 1834
Revolutionary Claims
Hon. S. D. Ingham
Secretary of the Treasury
Washington City
Br
Mail
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The National Archives
Form VAN-51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Name Weghan, Conrad Grade Private Line New York

Warrant Number 7987 Acreage 100 Issued November 11, 1791 to Samuel Broome, 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.