Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L. Wt. 11895-100, James Beaham, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Beaham James
B.L.H. 11895-100
No papers
CONTENTS

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Beaham, James GRADE Private LINE Virginia
WARRANT NUMBER 11895 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED April 6, 1790 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.

October 2 nd
The Director of Pensions,
Dear Sir.
It has been suggested to me by the war department that I write your department - to ask if you can give me any information from your revolutionary records of one James Beaham . who went into the revolution from Virginia and was granted 100 acres of land by military warrant.
would you be kind enough to send me a copy of his record if you have one. - where he lived in Virginia his age and any other information you may have on your records.
I shall be most grateful

for any help you can give her.
Sincerely,
Mrs. George J. Mersereau. 1401 Dunford circle Kansas City Missouri

October 27, 1933.
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BA-J/ADY Am James Beaham Wt.11895-100
Mrs. George J. Merserean 1401 Dunford Circle Kansas City, Missouri
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of James Beaham of Virginia.
The records of this office show that Warrant No.11895 for one hundred acres of bounty land was issued April 6, 1790 on account of services of James Beaham, private in the Virginia line, War of the Revolution.
This office has no further information in regard to that soldier because of the destruction of papers in such early bounty land claims when the War Office was burned in 1800.
For information in regard to location of the land, you should address the Commissioner of the General Land Office, this city, and furnish that official the number of the warrant, acreage and date of issuance.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator.