Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2,065, Amos Childs, Continental

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
Childs, Amos Child
N. 2,065
B.L.W. 11180-160-55
Born in Mass. Res Me. 1818
Hannah
CONTENTS

1 Maine 4289
Amos Child
of Vassalboro in the State of Me who was a Mus of Artillery the Company commanded by Captain Shaw of the Regt commanded by Col. Crane in the Maine Militia line for 2 years
Old case
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 104 Dollars 50 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th day of Jan'y 1833 and sent to N. C. Vose Augusta Me
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $ 156 Pension allowance ending 4 Mar 1833 - 52
$208
for
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by book
E. D. Bullock Clerk Vol. 1 st Page 52

Date of death not on A.B.
ETD
422. Name Hannah (Linda) widow of James Fields who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Musician in the Mass Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 10 3/4 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1818.
3 rd February 1853 Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th day of May 1853 and sent to
G. W. Norton Augusta Me.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under a act of 1818, Page 2. Vol. A
1852

180. 1855 p. 459 Oct 24/55
Hannah Child, W. Anna Childs, B.C. Dummer
Map: Coll. line. Nov 1855
Ad: 160 a.c. Nov: 26/1855. Dummer B.C. 1855.
Me Feb 53-422.
Vol. 61-99. 2
Raw Amad Jay Ovid N.Y.

I Amos Childs, aged fifty four years, born in Watertown in the state of Massachusetts, but now of Vespaborough in the District of Maine, upon oath testify and declare, that I enlisted as a private soldier into the continental service of the U. States in March 1781 into the company commanded by Capt William Johnson and regiment commanded by Col. John Grant of the Massachusetts line, for the term of three years. I served in the army, chiefly as a drummer, until December 22 d A.D. 1783 when I took my honorable discharge from the army, which is hereto annexed.
I am indigent, and in need of the bounty of Congress — And I do hereby relinquish all my claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the U. States of any.
Amos Childs Commonwealth of Massachusetts Kennebec Co. On the thirteenth day of March A D 1818 Amos Childs, above named, after having been carefully examined, made the following declaration by him subscribed, Before me, Nathan Weston Esq. Chief Justice C. Court of Pleas, Second Eastern Judicial District
I John Getchell born of Vespaborough in the District of Maine, of lawful age, upon oath testify and declare, that I am well acquainted with the above named Amos Childs; He is indigent, and in need of the bounty of the government, and sustains the character of a man of veracity. John Getchell

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Kennebec Co.
On the thirtieth day of March A D 1818
John Getchell Junior within named, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed — Before me,
Nathan Weston Esq.
Chief Justice of Court C Pleas, Second Eastern Circuit

(Copy)
State of Maine.
To the Honorable the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset.
I, Amos Childs of Vassalborough in the County of Kennebec aforesaid, a pensioner on the Maine roll, under the law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th March, 1818, do hereby exhibit the following schedule of my whole estate and income (my necessary clothing and bedding excepted,) viz;
Pension Certificate M o h. 129
 One Cow of the value of twenty dollars.  One Swine of the value of four dollars.  Household Furniture, exclusive of bedding, of the value of thirty dollars. —  One old sleigh and harness of the value of fifteen dollars. — 
I have debts due to me, which are collectable, to the amount of about ninety dollars; and I owe more than two thousand dollars. —
I have no income derived from property, trade or profession; my occupation is a tailor, but from age and infirmity I am now unable to derive any income from that trade; nor am I able to earn my subsistence from labor. Except the above I have no other property, exclusive of my necessary clothing and bedding. —
Amos Childs
A true Copy
Attest John Davis Cler.

(Copy)
State of Maine.
I, Amos Childs within named do solemnly swear, that on the thirtieth day of March 1818, I made application, in pursuance of the within mentioned law of March 18, 1818, before Judge Weston , and was afterwards placed upon the pension list roll of the United States, for the District of Maine Agency. And I, the said Amos Childs , do further solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Amos Childs
KENNEBEC, ss.
ON this fifteenth day of May 1820, Amos Childs before named, after being duly cautioned and examined, exhibited and subscribed the within schedule, and took and subscribed the foregoing oath, before me,
Amos Childs

I Amos Child within named do upon oath for the declare that I am fifty six years of age, that my family consists of myself, my wife Hannah aged forty years, who is now sick and unable to labor and has been so for some years, my daughter Paulina aged twenty four and my daughter Caroline aged fifteen, who has a disorder in her head, and is often sick. I am by trade a Taylor, but from loss of light & other infirmity am totally unable to labor. Submitted and sworn to July 20. 1820 before me. Nathan Weston to Court P.P. Court Amos Child
22
Amos Childs
Waltham  amended
con March 1819 Jan. 19 26 27
P.C. Noyes, Augusta Maine.
Attest John Davis Clerk
Arthur Folsom 6129 William Weston Sheriff
Court of Common Pleas. Chief Justice of the Circuit

I Amos Child within named do upon oath further declare that I am fifty six years of age, that my family consists of myself, my wife Hannah aged forty years, who is now sick and unable to labor and has been so for four years, my daughter Paulina aged nineteen and my daughter Carolina aged fifteen, who has a disorder in her head, and is often laid up. I am by trade a Taylor, but from loss of sight & other infirmity am totally unable to labor. Subscribed and sworn to July 20. 1820. Amos Child Before me, Nathaniel Weston Jr. Just P.P. Court
William Weston Clerk Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas.
Attest John Davis Clerk
Pl. No. 30, August
Jan. 19
March 1819
amended
John Davis Clerk
Amos Child
22

No 530 Hannah Childs widow of Amos Childs for Pension under 2 o Sec. of Act of February 3. 1853
Me
1104 Federal Street, Con'y 3 Feb 1853
Three large, decorative flourishes or loops.
Gen Mr. Morton Atty Augusta Maine.

Declaration, In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress "approved Feb. 3. 1853."
State of Maine, Kennebec County, S.S.
On this twenty eighth day of February A. D. 1853, personally appeared, before the Open Court of Probate for said County of Kennebec, it being a Court of Record. Hannah Childs a resident of Vassalborough in said County and State, aged Sixty nine years who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed Feb. 3. 1853 entitled "An Act to continue half-pay to certain widows and orphans", That she is the widow of Amos Childs who, was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States under the Act of June 7. 1832 at the rate of One hundred and four dollars per annum, that his pension was paid at the United States Agency for paying pensions in Portland in the State of Maine up to September 4. 1846 during his life time, from which time to February 19. 1847 the pension was received by her as his widow. She further declares that she was married to the said Amos Childs in the town of Vassalborough where she now resides, on the first day of November A. D. 1801 that her name before her marriage was Hannah Webber, and that her late husband the said Amos Childs died in said town of Vassalborough on the Nineteenth day of February A. D. 1847, that she is still a widow, having remained unmarried ever since the death of her husband the said Amos Childs, and that she never before made application for a pension. And prays that a Pension be requested for her may be sent to her Agent Geo. W. Norton of Augusta, Maine. Witness.
Enoch Sleeper
Hannah X Childs mark

Probate Court. New C. Feb. 28 1853
Personally appeared in open Court, the within named Hannah Childs, made oath to the truth of the declaration by her subscribed —
Reference Danl Williams Judge of Probate
State of Maine.
Penobscot County. p.
I, the subscriber, Register of the Court of Probate, for said County of Penobscot, do hereby certify that, the Hon. Daniel Williams , before whom the foregoing proceedings were had, is the Judge of said Court, and that, the foregoing contain the original proceedings of said Judge in the matter of the application of Hannah Childs for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, this twenty eighth day of February, A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty three.
Wm. R. Smith Register of Probate Penobscot Co.

State of Maine Kennebec County ss On this second day of April 1855 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the county & state aforesaid Hannah Childs aged 72 years a resident of said county and state, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Amos Childs who was a soldier, and probably a drummer in the Revolutionary war, and a Revolutionary pension of the state of Maine, that her said husband died in said county and state on the 19th February 1847 and that she is now a widow, she also deposes and says that she, herself is a pensioner of the United States of the state of Maine under the act of Congress of February 22 1850 her pension certificate is dated May 19th 1853 and is numbered 422.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved the 3d day of March 1855. She also declares that she has never applied for nor received, under this or any other act of Congress, any bounty land warrant except the one above mentioned , this for erasure was made before the execution of the paper.
Sworn and subscribed before me this second day of April 1855 W. G. Abbott { Justice of the Peace
her Hannah X Childs mark
We Enoch Plummer and Prince Hopkins residents of N. Vasselboro in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine — upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Hannah Childs in our presence, and that we believe, from what we know of, and from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
Then deponents depose and say, the above named Hannah Child is now a widow, and the widow of Amos Childs deceased late a Revolutionary pensioner.
Sworn and subscribed before me this second day of April 1855 W. G. Abbott { Justice of the Peace
Prince Hopkins Enoch Plummer
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
W. G. Abbott { Justice of the Peace

State of Maine Kennebec County ss.
I hereby certify that Howard G. Abbott Esq. before whom the within written declaration & affidavits were made, was, at the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace for the said County duly authorized to administer oaths &c. and that his signatures thereto are genuine.
Witness my hand and the seal of our Sup. Jud. Court for said County, this tenth day of April A.D. 1855.
Y. B. M c Stravton } Clerk of said Court

Mr Amos Chiles, and Miss Hannah Webber both of Vassalboro, were joined in marriage at Vassalboro Nov 1 st 1801. By Eben r Farwell, Justice of Peace
I James Rowe depose and say that I hold the office of town Clerk in the town of Vassalboro, County of Kennebec, and State of Maine, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town
James Rowe, town Clerk, of Vassalboro
State of Maine
Kennebec County SS. on 5 th day of March 1853 Subscribed and sworn to, by James Rowe, known to me to be the Clerk of the town of Vassalboro, as stated by him, before me
John G. Hall Justice of the Peace

August 20, 1935.
Mr. Ray W. Tobey Pine Cone Farm Fairfield, Maine
BA-J/ILL Amos Childs W. 2055
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Amos Child (s), a pensioner who lived in Vassalboro, Maine, in 1840.
The record of Amos Childs is furnished herein as found in the papers on file in pension claim, W. 2055, based upon his service in that war.
Amos Childs was born in Watertown, Massachusetts; the date of his birth and names of his parents are not shown.
He enlisted March 6, 1781, served as a musician, chiefly as a drummer, in Captain William Johnson's company, Colonel John Crane's regiment of Continental Artillery and was discharged December 22, 1783 at New York.
Omitted or Capt. Shaw in 1832 - as Capt. W. Johnson was in there his service.
He was allowed pension on his application executed March 20, 1818, at which time he resided in Vassalboro, Maine District. He was then aged fifty-four years.
In 1820, the soldier referred to his two daughters, Paulina, aged seventeen years, and Carolina, aged fifteen years.
Amos Childs died February 19, 1847, in Vassalboro, Kennebec County, Maine.
The soldier married November 1, 1801, Miss Hannah Webbar; both parties were then of Vassalboro.
Hannah Childs, the soldier's widow, was allowed pension on

her application executed February 28, 1853, at which time she resided in Washburn, Maine. She was then aged sixty-nine years; the date and place of her birth and names of her parents are not shown.
In 1853, it was stated that Amos Childs and his wife, Hannah, had only two children, one of whom was living then, but her name was not stated.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

5 M. 180
3
No Cam

En. Oct 15 3, Pres
— [Signature]

Amos Childs
Amos Childs, Vaspaboro. Musician, Col. Crane's Mass. Reg. Artillery
March 1781. Dec. 1783.
March 30. 1818
Admitted

Augusta. Maine
March 11. 1853.
Sir
I herewith enclose a declaration and other papers in order to obtain a pension for Hannah Childs widow of Amos Childs who was a pensioner under Act of June 7. 1832 at $104. per annum. She was married to him Nov 1. 1801 and has remained a widow ever since his death which took place on the nineteenth day of February 1847. If her papers are satisfactory please send me as her atty a pension Certificate for her.
Very Respectfully
Agree Off Secy
Geo W. Norton
Hon. James E. Heath
Comm Pensions
Washington D.C.

STATE OF Maine County of Kennebec
ss. Hannah Child — being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that She is the widow of Amos Child deceased, to whom a pension was probably due, or more pension , that this deponent is directly interested in said claim.
Sworn and subscribed before me this 26 day of October 185 4 and (I do hereby certify that the said Hannah Child is a respectable person, and that I have full faith in the truth of the above statement sworn to by her as being directly interested in said claim.)
W. G. Abbott Justice of the Peace
Know all Men by these Presents, That I Hannah Childs widow of Amos Childs deceased, to whom a pension was probably due,
do hereby constitute and appoint ARAD JOY, of Ovid, N. Y., my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name as one directly and personally interested in the claim or application for a pension
Witness my hand and seal, this 26 th day of October 185 4
hee
Sealed and delivered in the presence of
W. G. Abbott
Hannah Child mark
STATE OF Maine County of Kennebec
Be it known that on the 26 th day of October 185 4 before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State, duly authorized by law to administer oaths and take acknowledgements, personally appeared Hannah Child above named, and duly acknowledged the above power of attorney and affidavit to be her act and deed.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand the day and date above mentioned.
W. G. Abbott Justice of the Peace

No. 92459
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received Apr. 24, 98 p. 5-
Amos Childs Drummer Sec. Maj. Genl. Lins Rev. War
11/80-160-55-
Hoadley Orde N.H.

Brief in the case of Hannah Child, widow of (Ansa) Kennebec County and State of Maine act 9 Feb 1853
Claim, ("original," or "for increase." )
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner at $100 per annum. Proof of marriage — Record
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent G. M. Morton Augusta Me
S. Cole Examining Clerk.

Ovid N.Y. April 20. 55
Sir
I inclose application for bounty land for Hannah Child of the Revolutioner
most respectfully Your Ob st Serv t Abad L. Jay
Hon L. P. Waldo Comm.

STATE OF MAINE.
COUNTY OF KENNEBEC, SS.—
I, WILLIAM M. STRATTON, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts holden within and for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that
George W. Morton & John G. Hall
Esquires before whom the annexed proceedings were had, and who have thereto affixed their genuine signatures, were, at the times of so doing respectively, Justices of the Peace, in and for the said County of Kennebec, duly commissioned and qualified, and that full faith and credit are due to their official acts done as aforesaid.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our Supreme Judicial Court this eleventh day of March Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty- three —
Wm M Stratton

State of Maine.
I John Davis Clerk, for the County of Wennebec of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, embracing the counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and that the original was exhibited in open Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, including debts due to the declarant therein stated, is one hundred fifty four dollars and cents ; and deducting therefrom the amount of what the declarant owes, as set forth in said Schedule, the value of said property in the opinion of said Court, is nothing dollars and cents .
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twentieth day of June 1820.
J. Davis Clerk of said Court for the County of Wennebec

Amos Child,
Payable semi-annually---the first pay- ment on this certificate will be made on the 4th of March - next, at the Cumberland Bank
Portland Maine
2 years musician of artillery $ 104 -
R. C. Wood (to be dropped)
Recorded

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
6129
I CERTIFY That, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Amos Child - late a Musician in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pen- sion List, Roll of the Maine - Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the 30 day of March - one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this Twenty eighth day of January one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I the subscriber, being Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that Amos Childs , a citizen of the United States, now resident in Vassalboro , in the said County of Kennebec , in the District of Maine, on the thirteenth day of March , A. D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed March 18, A. D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by the said applicant, is hereunto annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a Musician , in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his country for support.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the Court in which I preside, to be hereunto affixed, this twentieth day of May in the year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Nathan Weston  Wm C. West C. C. C. Pleas 2 d East Circuit

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
KENNEBEC, ss.
THE Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certifies, that the Honorable NATHAN WESTON, Junior, Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset ; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto his Certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand : Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
J. M. Davis

Pine Cone Farm Fairfield, Maine August 10th, 1935
Director of Pensions Veterans Administration Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
I am in search of information about a Revolutionary Soldier, Amos Child(s). He was born in Weston, Mass., July 5th, 1764 and enlisted at Watertown, Mass. March 24th, 1781. In Flagg's "Maine Revolutionary Pensioners" he is listed as living in Vassalboro', Maine in 1840.
A transcript of any information that the Pension Office records contain concerning this man and his family would be greatly appreciated.
Very truly yours,
Ray W. Tobey Ray W. Tobey.

1935 - Aug. 20 - Hest. to Ray N. Jobey - I.H.L.
Perham
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 2065 Hannah Shields, Widow Amos Shields, Musician Rev. War.
Act: _____
Index: — Vol. A , Page 127
[Arrangement of 1870.]

92459
FREE
Hon L. D. Waldo Comt. of Pres. Washington DC

Notification sent to R. C. Vose Esq. 23 rd Oct 1820. Augusta Me.
6129.
Maine. L
Amos Child, musician
Massachusetts line, 3 years In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of the District of Maine at the rate of 8 — Dollars per month, to commence on the 30 th of March 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th of Jan y 1819 and del d R. C. Vose, Augusta Me
Arrears to 4th of Sep r 1818. 5 mo s 2/31. 4/30. 41.57 Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 th March 1819 — 48.00 $ 89.57
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Vapalborough
Continued

Amos Child

Augusta, Me. September 30, 1832.
To THE HON. LEWIS CASS, Secretary of War.
SIR:—Being now a pensioner on the Maine Roll in the receipt of a pension under the Act of Congress, of March 18, 1818, and being entitled to the benefits of the Act of Congress of June 7, 1832, by first relinquishing my further claim to the pension under the first named Act. I do accordingly hereby relinquish my further claim to such pension, and state that I served as a Musician in Capt. Shaw or Johnson's Company, in Col. Brune's Regiment of Artillery of the Massachusetts line or troops That I enlisted as a Musician the 6 th day of March 1781 I served until December 1783 when I was honorably discharged by Genl. Wney I would refer to my papers now on file in the War Department.
and do therefore respectfully request that I may be placed on the Pension List under the Act of Congress of June 7, 1832. My pension, under the first named Act, was Eight dollars per month. My pension certificate which is herein enclosed, in numbered 6.129 , and I was last paid at the Branch Bank of the United States, at Portland, Maine, the fourth day of September 1832 I now live in Napalboro' in the County of Kennebec Maine, and it is my request that any communications upon this subject may be addressed to ROBERT C. VOSE, Esq. of Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine.
I am Sir, very respectfully, Your obedient servant.
Amos Childs

I Enoch Plummer of Vassalborough, in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, do depose and say that I was intimately acquainted with the late Amos Childs, that to my knowledge he was a revolutionary pioneer of the United States and died in said town of Vassalboroough in the month of February 1847, that his widow Hannah Childs now living in said town has to my knowledge remained a widow ever since his death, that they had a family of two children only one of whom is now living, from my earliest recollection of the said late Amos Childs and his widow the said Hannah they lived together as husband and wife in a respectable manner until his death.
Enoch Plummer
State of Maine.
Kennebec County S.S. On this twenty eighth day of February A.D. 1853 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County Enoch Plummer, who is entitled to full belief, and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed
Geo W. Merriam Justice of the Peace

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Childs, Charles GRADE Sergeant LINE Sheldon's Dragoons (Connecticut)
WARRANT NUMBER 5665 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Jan. 28, 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.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Childs, George GRADE Corporal LINE Maryland
WARRANT NUMBER 11039 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED May 11, 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.