Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 1068-400, John Hays, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Hays, John
B.L. Wt 1068-400 Major
Issued Aug. 24. 1789
No papers.
CONTENTS

Chicory, Ind.
12-16-1925
Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir;
Please send me certificates and all information of Major John Hays who served in the Revolutionary War from Virginia, for the purpose of assisting in the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Yours Respectfully, Mrs. James Billingsley

Rev. War Section.
December 26, 1912.
Mrs. James Billingsley, Chrisney, Indiana.
Madam:
In response to your letter dated the 16" and received the 18" instant, you are advised that the records of this Bureau show that a Warrant numbered 1068, for four hundred acres of bounty land issued August 24, 1789, to John Hays  of John Hays on account of the services as a Major of Virginia troops in the War of the Revolution.
There is no further information concerning him, as his  the  in said claim papers were destroyed when the British burned the War Office in 1814.
Very respectfully,
J. C. Madden Commissioner.