Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L. Wt 448-440, William Croghan, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Broghan William
D.L.W. 1448-H00-Mayor Issued Mar. 4, 1799
No papers.
CONTENTS

D. Havelock Fisher
349 Central Park West
New York
Feb. 4, 1927.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
May I ask whether you have been able to do anything in regard to ascertaining if your Archives show the place of origin of
Major William Hughes, of the 8 th Virginia Reg't in the Revolutionary War, and about whom and his son there are much data in this country but the point in question is whether or not he was born in Dublin, as the historians say.
I wrote you some days ago at the suggestion of the Adjutant General of the U.S.
Yours respectfully,
D. Havelock Fisher
D. Havelock Fisher, M.A., LL.D.,
Researcher
Biographical Directory of Congress
Dictionary of American Biography
349 Central Park West
New York

D. Havlock Fisher 349 Central Park West New York
Jan. 29, 1927.
The Hon. The Commissioner, Bureau of Patents, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
The Adjutant-General of the U.S. writes me that possibly you may have data in your Bureau that will give me the birthplace and antecedents of Major William Croghan (of Va.) a distinguished Officer in the Revolutionary War.
If so, I shall be much in- debted to you.
Yours very truly, D. Havlock Fisher (M.A., LL.D.)

D. Havelock Fisher 319 Central Park West New York
January 20, 1927
Director, U.S. Pension Bureau, Washington, D.C. Dear Sir:
May I inquire whether you have any data regarding the ancestry of
Major William Croghan, of Va, a distinguished Officer in the Revolutionary War.
Information is desired concerning his antecedents, if obtainable.
Yours very truly,
D. Havelock Fisher

Pay. & 1812 War Section.
AW EW
February 8, 1927.
D. Maylock Fisher, 343 Central Park West, New York City.
Sir:
I have to advise you, that from the records of this bureau, it appears that four hundred acres of bounty land were allowed on Warrant 448 , which was issued March 4, 1799, on account of the services of William Croghan a Major of the Virginia Line, War of the Revolution.
There is no further data on file as to service and none at all as to family, owing to the destruction of the papers in such claims when the War Office was burned in November 1800.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT, Commissioner.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Cromwell, Oliver GRADE Private LINE New Jersey
WARRANT NUMBER 8186 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED October 31, 1791 to James Finnermore
*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.