Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File [BLANK], Gideon Walker, Vt.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Vt.

Walker, Gideon

NUMBER
Dis.
No Papers

CONTENT
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Nov 5, 1906
and 4
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Walker, Gideon

his name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of Vermont, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on Feby 21, 1795 and printed in the American State Papers Class 9, page 155.

Rank; Lieutenant
Disability; has lost the use of his limbs, by lodging two nights on the ground during the late war.
When and where disabled; 1777, New Jersey
Residence; Cavendish 
To what pension entitled; Full
Evidence incomplete His disability not proceeding from known wounds, his case does not come within the laws
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[typed form filled in with handwriting]

THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME Walker, Gordon GRADE Private LINE Massachusetts

WARRANT NUMBER 5289 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Feb. 27, 1793 to Alexander Power -

*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 subse-quent 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 the General Land Office records in The National Archives.