Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 96, James Hall, New Jersey
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New Jerseyt
Hall, James
         Elizabeth

number: W.96
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1911
New Jersey

James Hall
Capt. Bowmer (?? smudged name). Private
New Jersey Line '77 - War
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roof New Jersey
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month to commence on the 8 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 28 of July 1818 and sent to Hon. Jos. Bloomfield
Burlington NJ

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818
4 mos 29/30.                               $89.73

Continued
Notification sent to the Hon. Joseph Bloomfield Burlington NJ 26 July 1820
Town Unknown Burlington Co.
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(Note page torn a bit top and bottom)

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Let. to JR.Slack June 18, 1834

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NEW JERSEY 3024

ELIZABETH HALL
widow of James Hall
who was a pensioner under the Act of March 1818
and who died on the month of April 1830
Of Burlington Co. in the State of N. Jersey
who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Bowman of the Regt. 2 commanded
by _(blank_ in the N. Jersey
line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of N. Jersey
at the rate of 80 Dollars ___Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1836

Certificate of Pension issued the 30th day of May 1839 ad sent to John R. Slack, Mt. Holly,NJ

Arrears to the 4th of March '39.           $240.00
semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept      40.00
                                                                  $280.00

{Act July 7
1838}

D. Brown   Clerk   
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James Hall
aSoldier
Jersey - Brigade

Certificate of Pension
send to
    Joseph Bloomfield
City of Burlington 
N. Jersey




correct
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James Hall - N. Jersey
within discharge and
Badge of merit

Certificate of Pension
to April 1818  send
to   Joseph Bloomfield
 Burlington N. Jersey

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State of New Jersey
Burlington County

   William Erwin one of the Constables of said County, being duly sworn saith that James Hall in the annexed deposition named was a Soldier in Capt. Bowman's company in the second Regt. of Continental forces called in N. Jersey.  William Maxwell Colonel  of that the said James Hall. after one year service reenlisted and continued in the service of Congress until the end of the War, this deponent having been in the same mess during the war with the said James Hall, who was some of the tie a corporal and is now a poor man and daily labourer.
Wm. Erwin 

Sworn the 24th day of June 1818 before me
Thos. Adams Esq.

New Jersey Burlington County
  Joseph McIlvaine Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Burlington doth certify that the name Thos. Adams to the foregoing declaration of William Erwin is the hand writing of Thomas Adams Sr. (?) Judge as -?-. I n testimony whereof the seal of the said Court is hereto affixed the 24th day of June 1818k Jos. McIlvaine
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  Be it remembered that on the day and the date hereof personally appeared before me the subscribed Second Justice of the Superior (?) Court of New Jersey James Hall an inhabitant of the County of Burlington and State aforesaid who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God did depose and say: That on the 7th day of April AD one thousand seventy seven he enlisted with Samuel Henry Lieutenant in the service of the United States Army and served in the company  of Captain Lowry of the second New Jersey Regt. until he was taken prisoner at the Battle of the Short Hills in New Jersey when this deponent was sent in the command of Captain Martin took the command of the comany until the conclusion of the War - That Lieutenant Appleton was in the immediate command of the company at that period and gave to this deponent  his discharge in in the year 1783 with the Badge of Merit for his faithful service - that he has preserved his certificate of discharge for the sole purpose of of applying for the Land due to him from the United States which adverse circumstances has hitherto prevented him from applying for and which he ever received and that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for support.
James Hall his X mark

Sworn and subscribed this sixth day of April AD 1818 before William Rossell
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   I William Rossell  second Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said James Hall did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy. And I  now transmit the proceeding testimony had before me to the Secretary (paper torn here) Department of War pursuant  to the directions of the Act of Congress -   --miss my hand and seal
William Rossel
M.t Holly April the 6th AD 1818

 From the deposition of William Erwin as well as from the appearance of James Hall for years past I believe him to be in indigent circumstances  and that he stands in need go the support of his country.  Erwin is man to me well known and every way entitled to credit.
William Rossell

  I Zacharia Rossell Clerk of the Supreme Court of Judges of theState of New Jersey do hereby certify that the Honbl. William Rossell Esq. whose name is above subscribed is Second Justice of said Supreme Court.
 In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the said SupremeCourt to be hereto affixed this fourteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Rossell Clerk
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James Hall

northhampton

1911

issd. (?) 28 July 1878
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(transcription of hand written parts)

In this thirteenth day of July 1820
James Hall aged seventy seven
oath
I enlisted at Mantua Creek Bridge inGloucester 
County in the year 1777 run Capt. Lowry's company 2nd N. Jersey regiment as private and continued in the same regiment till the end of the war the company was afterwards commanded by Capt. bowman - I was at the Battles of the Short Hills Brandywine Germantown Monmouth.  I served under Gen. Sullivanin his campaign against the Indians in New York State - I was afterwards at the taking of Cornwallis in the capacity of Corporal under De LaFayette - I was discharged at Newberg huts (?) in the State of new York the 5th June 1783 - my original application was made the 6th May 1818 - and my pension certificate is number 1911.

...swear...
yo wit: a log house and 70 acres of poor pine land which will not pay the expenses of farming it - 6 chairs and table 2 beds 6 teacups and saucers iron pot 8 barrels 2 tubs 2 pails shovel and tongs and iron kettle - I have a wife and six children - Hannah aged 30 - John 28 James 24 Abbey 26 Eliza 22 and William 21.  My sons are all absent from this state and neither they nor my daughters can contribute to my support - I was employed as a labourer while my strength permitted but I am now too informed to do anything for my support .  
James Hall his X mark 
Sworn to and declared on the thirteenth day of July 1820 before Joseph Budd President of the Court

...affirmation...
150 Dollars and ___cents.
thirteenth day of July 1820
J. McIlvaine
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3293

Burington Pleas

In the matter of the
application of Elizabeth 
Hall for a pension

3024 M'd Apl 1784
-?- 25 Apl 1830
died 25 Apl 1830

Admitted

Private 2 years

Johnn R. Stack esq.
Mount Holly
New Jersey
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Declaration - In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"

State of New Jersey
Burlington County.  to wit:
    On the twelfth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared before the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Burlington in the State of New Jersey, the same being a 
Court of Record, Elizabeth Hall a resident of the township of Northampton in the said county of Burlington aged seventy years sometime this fall who being conscientious  and scrupulous of taking an oath and being duly affirmed according to law doth on her affirmation makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7 1838 entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" -
That she is the widow of James Hall who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, and a Pensioner until his death in eighteen hundred and thirty - that the said James Hall died in April of that year and a short time after his death this Declarant with aid of Abraham Brown Esq. of Mount Holly in the said County made application under the laws of Congress, for the balance of his pension from the time of the last payment until his death, and obtained the same - that she then gave the Pension Certificate of the said James Hall to her counsel the said Abraham Brown Esq. who afterwards informed her that he had sent the said Certificate to Washington with the other papers.
  She further declares that she was married to the said James Hall in the month of April in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four - but she has no written evidence of her marriage - she had a certificate of Marriage signed by Israel Shreve Esq. one of the Justices of the Peace of said County by whom they were married but it has been lost or destroyed.....
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...there is no record of her marriage in the marriage records of the County as she is informed by the Clerks thereof - she has no family record of it, and she is not able now to say what day of the month it was, but she is clear in her recollection that is was in the month and year aforesaid - she further saith that her husband the aforesaid James Hall died in April eighteen hundred and thirty - that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz: at the time above stated.
Elizabeth Hall her X mark

affirmed to and subscribed on the day and year above written in open Court
E. Thomas
Zebedee M. Wills
Matthew McHenry

State of New Jersey
Burlington County. to wit:
   On the twelfth day of November eighteen hundred and thirty-eight before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of said County of Burlington , in open Court, the same being a court of records, personally appeared Daniel Stockton, and alleging himself conscientiously scrupulous of taking an oath and being duly affirmed according to law - saith he was eighty years of age on the twenty fifth day of September last past - that he is a brother  of said the said Elizabeth Hall who hath subscribed and affirmed to the foregoing declaration - that she is the widow of James Hall who was a Revolutionary Pensioner and who died some time in the spring of eighteen hundred and thirty - that he has a distinct recollection of their marriage but he cannot now...
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...give the date of it precisely -It was fifty-eight years last January since the deponent was himself married and Elizabeth and James were married between four and five years afterwards - I was at my mothers on the day of the marriage of Elizabeth but I did not get there until after the ceremony was performed - they were married by Col. Shreve who was a Justice of the Peace and from that time they lived together and man and wife and were so accepted and reputed by all who knew them until his death.
Daniel Stockton his X mark

affirmed to and subscribed on the day and year above written in Open Court
E. Thomas
(also another signature, very "shaky" handwriting but may well be Daniel Stockton)

State of New Jersey
Burlington County - to wit:
    On the twelfth day of November AD eighteen hundred and thirty eight before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, of said county of Burlington, in Open Court, the same being a court of record, personally appeared Francis Austin, who alleging himself conscientiously scrupulous of taking an oath and being duly affirmed according to law saith - I preside in Mount Holly - Burlington County - New Jersey, and am aged eighty-one years and upwards - I was acquainted with Elizabeth Hall who hath subscribed and affirmed to the foregoing declaration before her marriage, she is a daughter of Daniel Stockton - I also knew James Hall before his marriage - my first knowledge of him was after the war - Col. Shreve moved upon, what is called the Governor's Place in this county, and the said James Hall came with him .....
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...and worked for him on said farm - Elizabeth then lived with her father on the adjoining farm and I lived in the same neighborhood and knew them both intimately - I knew of his paying attention to her for some time - saw them together a number of times and the fact of the intended marriage was a subject of general conversation among the neighbors - I heard of the time appointed, it was then generally understood and believed, that they were married by Col. Shreve who was a Justice of the Peace of said County - I have not the least doubt they were then married - I have been intimately acquainted with them ever since until his death - they lived together until his death as man and wife and were so accepted and reputed by every one - I never heard the legality of their marriage  questioned - I am not able at this late day, to fix with precision the date of their marriage, but to the best of my recollection it was either in the year seventeen hundred he died and eighty three or four - it was not until later he left the service, but it was before the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four - James Hall died some few years since , I recollect hearing of his death at the time - it seems but the other day yet I cannot say how long - From my knowledge of the said Elizabeth Hall her statements are entitled to full credit -
Francis Austin his X mark

Affirmed to and subscribed on the day and year above written in Open Court
E. Thomas
Matthew McHenry
Zehedee M. Wills
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State of new jersey
Burlington County. to wit
  On the twelfth day of November AD eighteen hundred and thirty eight before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of said County of Burlington, in open court, the same being a court of record, personally appeared Abigail Pool who alleging herself to be conscientiously scrupulous of taking an oath and being duly affirmed according to law saith -  I reside in the township of Burlington, county and state aforesaid, and was sixty two years of age in August last past - I am a sister of Elizabeth Hall who has affirmed to and subscribed the foregoing declaration - I recollect her marriage with James Hall, I was young at the time but I have a distinct recollection of the fact - It took place at my mother's house in the township of Millingborough in the county aforesaid by Col. Shreve with whom James Hall then lived - I was in the house at the time and saw the Esq. come to marry them and saw them all after the ceremony was over but I was not in the room at the time - my mother and others were present -  I cannot now recollect the precise date of their marriage but to the best of my recollection it was in the year seventeen hundred and eighty four - From the time of their marriage they lived together as man and wife until his death bout eight years ago - I lived with them for a number of years at one time and have always been on terms of intimacy - the said James Hall was a Revolutionary Pensioner and the said Elizabeth (blurred word) is his widow.
Abigail Pool / Pooler

Affirmed and subscribed on the day and year above written in open court
E. Thomas
Matthew McHenry
Zehedee M. Wills
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State of new Jersey
Burlington County. to wit:
     On the twelfth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Burlington, in open court, the same being a court of record, personally appeared Hannah Lowden who alleging herself conscientiously scrupulous of taking an oath and being duly affirmed according to law saith - I reside in the township of Chester in the said county of Burlington and was sixty seven years of age the twenty fifth day of March last past - I am a sister to Elizabeth Hall who hath affirmed to and subscribed the foregoing declaration - I recollect the marriage with James Hall - I did not then reside with my mother and was not present at the marriage but I have a distinct recollection of hearing that they were married on the Sunday afterwards - I cannot now speak with precision as to the time but to the best of my recollection it was in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-four - I give the give (?) the time entirely from recollection - I knew James Hall before they were married and knew they were to be married from some time before hand - James Hall then worked for Colonel Shreve, and they were married by him as I then understood - some years afterwards I saw the Certificate of the marriage signed by Israel Shreve, but I cannot say what has become of it - I believe it has been destroyed - James Hall was a Revolutionary Pensioner at the time of his death which took place about eight years since - I was present at his death but cannot now fix the precise time -
Hannah Lowden

Affirmed to and subscribed on the day and year above written in one court.
E. Thomas
Matthew McHenry
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State of New Jersey
Burlington County.    to wit:
    On the twelfth day of November in the year of our  Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of said county of Burlington in open court, the same being a court of Records, personally appeared Christian Larzelere Esquire on of the Judges of the said Court, who being duly sworn according to law saith, he is personally acquitted with Abilgail Poole and Hannah Bowden who have respectfully affirmed to and subscribed the foregoing affidavits and hath been acquainted with them for these twenty years last past - that they are highly respectable and their statements are entitled to full credit.
Christian Larzelere

Sworn and Subscribed  on the day and year above written in open court -
E. Thomas
Matthew McHenry
Zebedee M. Wills

We the Judges before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavits have been taken and made, do hereby declare our opinion that the said declarant Elizabeth Hall, and the said affirmants - Daniel Stockton, Francis Austin, Hannah Bowden, and Abigail Poole, are entitled to full credit and we believe their respective statements are true - 
Done in Open Court November 12th AD 1838
E. Thomas
Matthew McHenry
Zebedee M. Wills
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   I John R. Slack Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the county of Burlington in the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that the foregoing contain the original papers in the matter of the application of Elizabeth Hall for a pension.
    In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Mount Holly this twenty day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight - 
John R Stack
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    Know all men by these Presents that we James Hall of the township of Willingborough county ofBurlington and State of New Jersey and George Smith of the township and county of Burlington and State aforesaid are held and firmly bound with His Excellency William Livingston Esquire Governor and Command in Chief of New Jersey -?- in the sum of five hundred pounds current lawful money of New Jersey, to be paid to the said William Livingston Esq. Governor -?- his successors or assigns: for which payment will and truly be made,  -?- and ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators, and very of them, jointly, firmly by these presents:  Sealed with our seals, dated the 6th day of April Anno Domino one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four.
  The Condition of the obligation is such that whereas there is a mutual Contract of Marriage between James Hall of the one party, and Elizabeth Stockton of the other party, and the parties having cumplied with the terms prescribed  in an Act of the General Assembly of New Jersey made in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and nineteen entitled An Act to prevent clandestine Marriages;  Now if it shall hereafter appear that the certificate produced, or either of them, have been fraudulent, or that either the aforesaid James Hall or the aforesaid Elizabeth Stockton had not the consent of their Parents, Guardians, or persons under whose care they were, signing the said certificates, or that the said James Hall or the said Elizabeth Stockton or either of them, had some lawful let or impediment of pre-contract, affinity, or consanguinity, to hinder their being joined in the Holy Bands of Matrimony , and afterwards of living together as man and wife; then this obligation to stand and remain in full force and virtue, otherwise to be void and of none effect.

Sealed and delivered....
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....in the presence of
Thos. Adams

James Hall his X mark
George Sith his X mark

State of New Jersey 
   I James D. Westcott Secretary of State of theState of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy a bond given by James Fallon obtaining a License to Marry Elizabeth Stockton, which now remains on file in my office.
   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at the city of Trenton in said State, this fourth day of February Anno Domino one thousand eight hundred and thirty - nine.  1839.
James D. Westcott
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      HEAD-QUARTERS, JUNE 1783

THE within CERTIFICATE shall not avail the Bearer as a Discharge until the Ratification of the definitive Treaty of Peace; previous to which Time, and under proclamation thereof shall be Made, He is to be considered as being on Furlough.

GEORGE WASHINGTON
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General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United State of America

THESE are to certify that the Bearer hereof James Hall   Private   
in the Jersey Battalion (paper torn here) having faithfully served the United States for six years
......and being inlisted for the War only is
hereby Discharged from the American Army

GIVEN at HEADQUARTERS  the fifth
day of June 1783

By HIS EXCELLENCY
command
J. Trumbull

REGISTERED in the Books
of the Regiment

The ---James Hall
has been (badly smudged) with the Badges of ---- Years fiath fun Service

JN Cummings
Lt. Col.-----

Abm ----(paper torn)
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Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of yours of the 20th inst., in answer to the application of Mrs. Elizabeth Hall, widow of James Hall, in which I am informed that "the proof in relation to the date of the claimants marriage is not sufficient".  Will you be good enough to inform me, whether I am to understand by this that the marriage is sufficiently proved and that the objections is to the want of proof of the precise date of the marriage, as the language of your letter imports?  If so, altho. I cannot see the force or utility of the objection, provided it be proved to have been prior to 1794, I hope she will be able to prove the precise date.  Does not the certified copy of the marriage bonds in her case, which I had the honor to forward to you some time after the other papers; establish both the marriage and the date of it, with sufficient precision.  An answer to the above will oblige.
Yr Obt. Servt.
John R. Slack
May 27 '39

to J. L. Edwards, Esq
Comm. of Pensions
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Drp,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a pension certificate in favor of Elizabeth Hall widow of James Hall.  Will you be good enough to inform me when her pension may be drawn and what is necessary to entitle her to receive it.  I would be obliged if you will also inform me what effect is given to the marriage bonds.  Is it considered sufficient evidence of the marriage and its date?
Yr Obt Servt
John R. Slack
June 15


J.L. Edwards Esq
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96
Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 96
Elizabeth Hall
Widow
James Hall
Priv. Rev. War
Act:  July 7, 1838
Index:-Vol. A, Page 800

[Arrangement of 1870]
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V
N. Jersey
Elizabeth Hall
let. to J. R. Slack  20 May 1839

Act July 1838
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Stamped:  
Mount Holly, N>J>
Nov  ??

3293
N. J. 
7 July 1838
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Pension Office
Washington City
D. C.
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Drp
I have the honor herewith to forward to you the declaration and proofs of Elizabeth Hall for a pension.  Your answer please forward to 
Your Obt Servt
John R. Slack
Nov 21
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Stamped:  
Mount Holly, N. J.
Feb 7

Feb 9, 1839
N. J.
Add. Proof
El9izabeth Hall
N. 3293  Nov. 24th, 1838

Act '38

No Action
20 May 39

J. L. Edwards, Esq
Comm. of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.
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Drp.
I have the honor in behalf of Mrs. Elizabeth Hale, widow of James Hale, an applicant for a pension, herewith to forward you a certified copy of her marriage bonds, which I pray may be considered a part of the evidence in her case.
very repy
Yr Obt Servt
John R Slack

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J.L. Edwards Esq
Comm. of Pensions
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The National Archives
Form VAN-51
12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

Name:  Hall, James
Grade:  Private
Line:  New York

Warrant Number:  7272
Acreage:  100
Issued:  Aug 12, 1791 to Cornelius Glenn,  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.