Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 9657-100, for Edward Jennings, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn.
★ Jennings, Edward
B.L. Ht. 9657.100
Issued May 16-1793
No papers
CONTENTS

September 17, 1936.
Mr. Benjamin W. Seely 806 North Alcaniz Street Pensacola, Florida.
Mrs. Finch BA-J/ILL Edward Jennings B.L.Wt. 9657-100
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter of July 30, 1936, in which you furnish additional information in regard to Edward Jennings whose record you seek, further, stating the number of the bounty land warrant and the location of the land which was granted him.
The records of this office show that bounty land warrant #9657 was issued May 16, 1793 on account of service of Edward Jennings, private in the Pennsylvania line, War of the Revolution.
There are no statements on file which were made by the claimant for that land because of the destruction of papers in such early claims for bounty land when the War Office was burned in 1800. Because of that fact, this office has no further information whatever in regard to that Edward Jennings.
You cite also, record of land purchased in 1836, by Edward Jennings of Alabama and recorded in the Interior Department.
This office has no record of any land purchases made by the various soldiers.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

Pensacola, Florida, July 30, 1936.
Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs:
In my appeal by letter dated June 11, 1936- I hopes to learn more of the Edward Jennings, who obtained land from the government of the Unites States, Patent No. 9657, situated Tuscarawas County, Ohio; more clearly designated as Lot 4 T.9 N. P 2 W. United States Military Lands.
The Edward Jennings that you have been so kind to allow the information pertaining to, could not have been the Edward Jennings of Ohio, which is clearly shown by your information.
John Drake Jennings was born about 1819- Ann, who was the wife of Columbus W. Taylor, was born in 1821, my grandmother Delila B. Jennings was born June 7, 1822- therefore no Edward Jennings who married in the year of 1828 could have been the father of Delila B. Jennings Seely, 1822.
I am led to believe that (refer to my letter of the 11 th June, which is answered in your letter of July 26, 1936) the Edward Jennings who was granted land in Tuscarawas County, or his descendants were the father of Delila B. (Jennings) Seely, for the following reasons:
It has been the family tradition that Columbus Washington Taylor followed Ann , sister to Delila my grandmother, from Ohio into Alabama and ran away and married her .
According to the records of the Department of the Interior, Edward Jennings purchased land Febr. 26, 1836 under Tuscaloosa C.E. 18648-filed; more clearly designated as- 1510332-3. Edward Jennings of Picken County, Ala., paid $49.97. The original now in the Dept. of Interior was never delivered,
I have undertaken to obtain information from New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas Co., Ohio, but received the reply that the articles are so badly /that the clerk has referred the matter to the Auditor , who in turn renders the name of lawyers to unravel. I am in hopes that the Department of Veteran Administration may be able to give me something concerning the family of Edward Jennings of Tuscarawas Co., Ohio, if you can please do so, for which I thank you.
Very respectfully,
Benj. W. Seely Benj. W. Seely, 806 N. Alcaniz Street.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Jennings, Edward GRADE Private LINE Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 9657 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED May 16, 1793 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.