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From: "karen wood" <>
Subject: Re: [LEWIS-L] Migrational Tidbit
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 16:16:52 -0400


In VA. land grants for services rendered to the King in French & Indian war
and for services rendered to continental line (3 year minimum), were in GA,
SC, and what would become KY and Tn, but were then mostly VA. It was the
main cause of migration of many of parts of my lines. Mine tended to stay,
selling thier bounty lands to others or bequeathing them to their children.
Many of my old wills mention land in Ky or Ga to be sold and the money
divided, as early as 1782 (from French & Indian war bounty).
----- Original Message -----
From: Kathleen T. Choi <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 5:27 PM
Subject: [LEWIS-L] Migrational Tidbit

> I've known this for so long through research into my father's side that
> it just occurred to me it might be a useful fact for others. After the
> American Revolution, the new Congress had no money to pay its soldiers.
> Instead it offered them land in northern NH, VT, and ME. Almost 75% of
> my father's lines were in Massachusetts from the 1630's. If I'd
> continued searching for them there, I'd have been horribly frustrated.
> Fortunately, I was going the other way, from Maine relatives backwards
> and knowing our roots were in MA.
>
> It wouldn't surprise me to learn that Congress also offered land in the
> sparsely settled southern colonies as well, such as GA and SC.
>
> Also, these lands were in the boonies. Unless there was a dedicated
> town historian, early births and marriages were simply not recorded.
> That applies to every state when it's the frontier. When I wrote
> various historical societies in Indiana about my great-grandfather, they
> reminded me that the town in which he was born in 1859 didn't even exist
> until 1836, and then it had about a dozen families. Record-keeping was
> not a high priority when you hadn't built your cabin yet.
>
> Oops, that's the bell. History class is over. Kathleen
>
>
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