It contains a map for the U. S. Military District, subdivided into 5-mile townships, and indexes by name and tract. No subject index is needed for this volume. This will enable you to find an individual s home state and to sort out persons of the same name. It contains tract maps for Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana as well as indexes by name, subject, and tract. Volume 4, Grants in the Virginia Military District of Ohio , is in two books.
Indexes are by county and township, watercourse, and name.
The Virginia Military District did not use the rectangular survey system, so the watercourse index of this volume substitutes for the tract index to help you to locate people who settled near each other. It is important to realize that the Federal Land Series concentrates on Ohio because that is where the first federal land was available, and the U. S. Military District of Ohio was the only place federal Revolutionary bounty warrants could be used until 1830. In the name index of Volume 2, I found a reference for John Frierson and John J. Frierson. When I looked up the number for a description of the document, I found that it was a list of army land warrants converted to scrip. Following Smith s advice, I checked John Frierson in the Index of Revolutionary War Pension Applications and found that he was from South Carolina.