Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 12192, Ichabod Albee, Mass.
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(3 - 1776) 
SERVICE 
Mass  

Albee, Ichabod 
Lona 

NUMBER 
W. 12192 
_________________________
CONTENTS
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1617
New Hampshire 

Ichabod Albee 
of Westmoreland in the State of NH 
who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain_______ of the Regt commanded by Col Reed  in the NH line for 11 May 24 Days 
Mass

Inscribed on the Roll of NH at the rate of 39 Dollars 32 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831 - 

Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of Nov 1832  and sent to T M Edwards Keene NH  

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832   $58.98
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 33  19.66  
                                               $78.64

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.} 

Recorded by J H. [*]Blair Clerk, 
Book D Vol 1st Page 139.
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Declaration Ichabod Albee of Westmoreland Cheshire Co NH 

and that their statement is entitled to credit
Amos Watson Judge of Probate


 I Asa Parker Registrar of the Court of Probate for the said County of Cheshire do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter
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Declaration 

In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832 

State of New Hampshire 
County of Cheshire. ss 

On this Eighth day of August 1832 Personally appeared the open Court before the Hon Aaron Materon Judge of Probate for said County of Cheshire now sitting Ichabod  Albee now resident in Westmoreland in the County of Cheshire & State of New Hampshire aged 76 years last Dec -  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 entered in the service under the following named officers and served as hereafter stated


1st  	In 1775 in Dec volunteered for 6 weeks  in Capt Tyler’s Compy  - Lieut [Nehon?] marched to Roxbury to supply the place of the 8 months service  whose time was about to expire thinks he was in Col Reed’s Regt of Uxbridge his duty was guarding & cutting [illeg]  to make a breast work as supposed at Dorchester 
at the expiration of said term was discharged there 

2d In 1776 [*] volunteered for 3 months in Capt Richardson’s Compy Lieut Baldwin Col Dykes Regt.  Mass,  troops marched I think in Sept went to Roxbury [stand there til] other barricades were put up on Dorchester hill 
then stationed there the 3 months - then engaged again for 3 months more under said Baldwin who was made Captain under the same Col. Dyke and stationed on Dorchester hill employed part of the time in Castle Island repairing work - about a month before the time was out was marched into Boston & stationed there & dismissed about the first of April 1777 
In 1777 he thinks in December volunteered
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Cont’d by inadvertence on the next page—
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again for 3 months in Capt Cragins Compy Lieut Green Col Tyler Regt (he thinks) went to Providence & to North Kingston R Island stationed there  guarding the Coast the British were on Rhode Island —is not positive who was the Col. of the Regt as there was no other Co there  & the Regt not assembled during the time other companies were stationed at different places  ------ In 1778 in August a volunteer for 6 weeks Capt Bakers Col Hawes Regt marched to Ticonderoga against Howland [Jersey?] went unto the Island and Genl Sullivan after the retreat from the Island marched back to Pawtucket & to Providence and down on the west side the river guarding a few days untill the term was out and dismissed down there 

Was born in Mendon Mass. A.D. 1755 - have a record my age in my Bible at home, taken from the Record in Mendon & I lived in Mendon when called into the service & in Westmoreland in [said?] County since the War.   Always [illeg] when called into the service —went as a substitute in one instance. I think when I went on to Rhode Island - at Rhode Island Genl Sullivan was my general - at Roxbury I was in Col. Reads Regiment — I never recieved any written discharge - 

Revd Allen Pratt & Mr. Timothy Skinner  are my neighbors & can testify as to my reputation as a soldier 

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or an annuity except the present & declares that his name is not the Pension Roll of the agency of any State 
Ichabod Albee

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
before me 
Aaron Materon.  Judge of Probate
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Declaration of Ichabod Albee of Westmoreland
Cheshire Co. NH

[Rev?] Allen Pratt a Clergyman of Westmorland aforesaid & Timothy Skinner a resident of said Westmoreland hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ichabod Albee who has subscribed & Sworn to the foregoing declaration and that we believe him to be 76 years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Revolutionary Soldier & we concur in that opinion- 
Allen Pratt 
Timothy Skinner

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid --- 
Aaron Mastron Judge of Probate 

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 was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that, Allen Pratt who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman resident in the Town of Westmoreland aforesaid and that Timothy Skinner who has also signed the same is a resident of said Westmorland and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit 
Aaron Matson Judge of Probate 

I Asa Parker Register of the Court of Probate for the said County of Cheshire do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Ichabod Albee for a pension- 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this eighth day of August A.D. 1832
Asa Parker {Register of the Court of Probate
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Ichabod Albee 

W 9880- 

S M Edwards 
Keene
N.H.
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BRIEF in the case of Ichabod Albee Westmoreland in the State of N.H. 
(Act 7th June, 1832.) 

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?     Court 

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? 

3. How old is he?   77  Years

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 

Period. 
Dec In 1775 
76 
Dec 77 
Aug - 78 

Duration of Service. 
Years.      Months.       Days
“.                    1.               12
“.                    6 ‘.              “
“.                    3. -             “
“.                     1. -             12

Rank, As a 
Private
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   “
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Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. 
Gen
Capt Tyler. Col Reed
Capt Richardson. Col Dyke
Capt. Baldwin
Capt. Cragins. Col Tyler
Capt. Baker.  Col Hawes 

5. In what battles was he engaged? none stated 

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Mendon Mass 

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses , by documentary proof,  by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by  the rolls?    Living witnesses  traditionary evidence

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct 

Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

DD Addison 
Examining Clerk.
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Ref-d  -
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269 - 

New Hampshire
_________________________
Lona  Albee——-
widow  of Ichabod Albee 
who was a Private - N. H 
in the N. H. Line-  
Husbd died 3d July 1844 
_________________________________
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
28 - Dollars 21 —-
Cents per annum, 
to commence of the 3rd day of July, 1844. 
___________________________
 Certificate of Pension issued the 
Eighth day of Octo. 1846 
And sent to   Tho. M. Edwards, 
Keene, NH 
________________________

[Act of JUNE 17, 1844.] 
Recorded in Book A Vol 2. Page 13
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No 11533
{ 3*3. 
Sona Albee 
widow of Ichabod 
N H 
Act 7 July 1838 

[illeg] 89.d 44 - d. 3 July 1844 --- 
Rejected 
________________________
Admitted
8 mos. 14 do. pri 
$28.21 
17 June 1844  

Th. M. Edwards Esq 
Keene 
N. H

Lona Albee 
Declaration
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DECLARATION, 

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of 3d March 1843, entitled ""An Act granting [half pay and] pension to certain widows." for one year - 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, }
Cheshire COUNTY, SS. }

On this Sixth day of August 1844, personally appeared before me, Larkin Baker Judge of Probate for said County, in open Court for said County Lona Albee a resident of Westmoreland in the County of Cheshire and State of New-Hampshire, aged Eighty two years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, of the 3d March 1943  entitled ""An Act granting pensions to certain widows who have [resided?] [illeg] 1838

That she is the widow of Ichabod Albee late of said Westmoreland deceased - who was a Revolutionary solder and a pensioner under the act of June 7, 1832 —  at the rate of $39.32 pr year-- on the New Hampshire list — and served as the [illeg] as stated in his declaration under said act, on file in the war Department- 

The She further declares that she was married to the said Ichabod Albee on the ______ day of February seventeen hundred and Eighty seven - That her husband, the aforesaid Ichabod Albee died on the third day of July eighteen hundred  and forty four .   That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but that the marriage took place previous to the first day of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, viz: at the time above stated, and that she [illeg] not [inter]married with any other person since her said husbands death.

Lona Albee   
Her. X. Mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, 
Before me, by said Lona Albee  
Larkin Baker Judge of Probate 

The word July erased & August instead & other erasures intentionally made to conform with case before the oath - 

Larkin Baker Judge of Probate
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State of New Hampshire Cheshire ss

I Elijah Sawyer Register of the Court of Probate in & for said County of Cheshire, do hereby certify that that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Lona Albee for a Pension- 

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix this seal of said Court, this Seventh day of ┃ November A.D. 1844 - 

Elijah Sawyer Reg. -
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“Marriages Consummated by the Revd Caleb Alexander”
 “Seventeen hundred 
Eighty seven Feby 
Thirteenth.

Mr Ichabod Albee & Miss Lona Hayward both of Mendon." 

State of Massachusetts 
Town Clerk's Office in Mendon July 31, 1844. I certify that the preceding is a true copy of the record in my office with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows  "1787 Feby. 13th” Stephen Taft. {Town Clerk of Mendon 

Worcester ss. July 31, 1844
The above certificate sworn to 
Before me Arnold Taft Justice of the peace 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Worcester ss Clerks office of the Courts for said County Aug 1844 -  

I certify that in the 2d Volume of Records of Marriages in said Office is the following Entry 

“Marriages solemnized by the Revd Caleb Alexander”. (among others) 
Feby 13th 1787 
Ichabod Albee & Lona Hayward both of Mendon, were married - A true Copy of Record In Witness whereof I hereto set my name & affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court at Worcester, the day & year aforesaid.
Jos.  G Kendall.  Cler.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Worcester ss.  I Jos G. Kendall Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court within aforesaid County Certify that Arnold Taft, within named, is a Justice of the Peace within aforesaid County, duly qualified, and the signature of his name appears to be in his own handwriting - 

 In witness whereof I have hereto set my name the seal of said Court at Worcester this twelfth day of August A.D. 1844. 
Jos. G Kendall    Cler
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Rev WIDOW,  &c. 

File No. 12192 

Lona Albee Widow of 
Ichabod Albee 
Pri.  Rev War 

Act: June 17th/44

Index: -- Vol.  A  Page 9 

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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No 11533 

Lona Albee 
Widow of Ichabod
NH

Rejected
Sent to Hon E David. July 2, 1945
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Ichabod Albee 

Private 

No 9880- 

11 month & 24 days 

Admitted $39.32 

TM Edwards 
Keene 
N. H.
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Ichabod Albee which require further proof or explanation. 

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?   Yes

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides    Yes

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? 

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?  Yes

 V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?   Yes 

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?   Yes

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?   Yes 

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?    Yes 

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?  Yes

 X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?     Yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?    Yes

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? 

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? 

XIV. +If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?     Yes 

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?   Yes 

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?   Yes

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And if not, which of them is not so answered? 
Yes
 

EXPLANATORY NOTES. 
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recolelection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For_____year______ months and_____days, I served as a________.   For ______months and ______days, I served as a__________; and for such service I claim a pension."
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. 

QUERE XIV. Proof of Service. 
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which be belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the affidavits must be properly an thenticated, as above directed. 

QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers. 

In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece [of] tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
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Ichabod Albee, N Hampshire Roll 
Act 7 June 1832 `

To what time paid H. C. W

Pension office}
Oct 1st. 1846 }

Died 3d July 1844. Paid to his death  
NLB.
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Ichabod Albee
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

Secretary's Office, Boston; 
 Feby 19. 1845 

I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Ichabod Albee of Mendon, is borne as a private upon a pay Roll of milage & travel for Capt Benjamin Richardsons Compy,
Col. Dikes Regt, 39 miles 2 days; to Dorchester Heights, Sept. 4. 1776, upon a roll of the same regt mustered under Capt Baldwin, Decr 23d - it appears by a Roll of Capt Saml Craggin, Col. Nathan Tyler, from Decr 8. 1776 to Jany 21, 1777, marched on an alarm to Rhode Island, that said Albee was on service in this Compy. 10 days and again joined Col. Dikes Regt at Dorchester; - upon a roll for gun & blanket money for a number of Capt Saml Baldwins Compy in Col. Dikes Regt “from the first of his marching to Roxbury in Aug last”, dated March 1777. certified to by the Capt March 31, — Upon a Pay Roll of Capt Baker; Col. Benj Hawes, "detached to go to the State of Rhode Island in the year 1778, from Aug. 2 to

2d 
10 
1 -12  
15 
7 mo
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o Sept. 12th with 2 days allowed for travel, 1 month 12 days; — Upon a Pay Roll of Capt Phillip Ammidon, Col. Tyler, on an alarm to R.I. from July 28 to Aug 8. 1780, with 3 days for travel, 15 days. — The name is not borne upon any Rolls of Capt Tyler, Col. Reed, or upon any other rolls in this office. 

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the Commissioner's letter of Jany 2nd 1845 was filed in this Office; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said letter, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case 

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written. 

John G. Pae[sby] 
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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Ichabod Keith 

depositer —

for   

Ichabod Albee
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I Icehabod Kieth of Sullivan in the County of Cheshire & State of New Hampshire aged seventy even years; depose, testify and say, that in the year 1776 I belonged to Uxbridge in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and in August  (as I think,) the same year I enlisted into the Company commanded by Capt. Benjamin Richardson -Lieut. Baldwin in Col. Dykes Regiment for the term of three months and served that term —the troops were marched directly to Roxbury where we stayed a short time and was then marched and was stationed on Dorchester Hill, while I was at said Roxbury & Dorchester I became well acquainted with Ichabod Albee, who now resides in Westmoreland in said County of Cheshire, as the said Albee belonged to the same company with myself, and think, that he messed with me. I also further testify that I served in Capt Craggin’s Company three months in the winter or spring of 1778 as I now think, stationed at North Kingstown in Rhode Island- 
Ichabod Keith 

State of New Hampshire 
Cheshire ss August 1832. Then the above named Ichabod Keith personally appeared and made oath that the above deposition by him signed was true. 
Before me Elijah Parker Justice of the Peace 

I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with the above named Ichabod Keith for more than twenty years last past and that his character for truth is good. 
Elijah Parker Justice of the Peace 

 Aug 28 1832 I Salma Hale Clerk of the Judicial Court in said County certify that Elijah Parker is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and that the foregoing is his signature  
In testimony whereof I hereunto affix the seal of our Superior Court of Judication 
S Hale Clerk
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Evid of Identity 

Lona Albee
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We, Abijah French and John Pierce of lawful age, of Westmoreland in the County of Cheshire depose and say that we were acquainted with with Ichabod Albee late of said Westmoreland deceased - That he was a Revolutionary Pensioner and died on the third day of July Eighteen hundred and forty four, that he left a widow, Lona Albee, who still survives and remains his Widow - 
Abijah French 
John Pierce

State of New Hampshire
Cheshire ss  
Subscribed and sworn to this 28 day of August AD. 1844 Before me, 
Barton Skinner, Jus. Peace 

I certify that the above deponents are credible person — 
Barton Skinner, Jus. Peace 

State of New Hampshire 
Cheshire Ss 
I Lemuel  Besco Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for and within said County of Cheshire (it being a Court of same) certify that Barton Skinner is a Justice of the Peace for said County of Cheshire duly commissioned and qualified according to law, and that his signatures as above written are in my belief genuine. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this thirty first day of August AD 1844.
Lemuel Besco- Clerk
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Ho  of Reps. Dec 26th 1844 

Sir.
I enclose the Declaration of Alice Adams, and Lorra Abbey for pensions. Also a letter from Thomas M. Edwards Esq. making enquiries  in relation to two other cases, Please communicate to me the result of your examination of M E’s cases.
Very respectfully Your 
Obt Servent 
Edmund Burke 

J L Edwards Esq
Com.  of Pensions
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Ichabod Albee
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Keene [Sept][July] 6. 1846 

Hon J L Edwards
Sir  - 

The enclosed certificate of Secy of Mass recd by me soon after date & mislaid.— 

The papers in the case to which it applies are on file - I have examined to see whether it sustains the application. It is somewhat indefinite but I hope in connexion with the papers on file on the application of the husband, on of itself it will be considered as supporting it-

 It shows clearly, 
1st —- 2 days 
2.    10 days 
3    1 mo 12 days 
4.    15 days 

In addition to this is the service in Capt Baldwins Co Col Dikes Regt 1776 & 7  — If this is taken as establishing the fact of service for the whole term therein stated
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[that]  will give 7 months or thereabouts more. - 

The husband rec d a pension for $39. 32 under act of 1832 for various services - 

Respectfully 
M M Edwards
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 
Form VAM-51 
12 - 5 - 41 

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives 

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD* 

NAME Albert, Jacob 
GRADE Private 
LINE Pennsylvania

WARRANT 8887 
ACREAGE.  100 
ISSUED June 14, 1791 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.