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Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Hunterdon Militia
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:55:52 EST


In a message dated 1/5/2004 9:44:35 AM Mountain Standard Time,
writes:
Do you suspect that some of the bounty land may have been in VA/WV?
Your webpage looks interesting. I think one needs a password to see it.>>

Land bounty varies from state to state depending on availability during the
time. Some states did not have extra land to give away, and other states were
looking for expansion and bounties was one of the solutions. There were
several Virginia residents receiving land in west Virginia and West Virginia. In
several cases, they did not have to serve in the Virginia Army or militia to
get that bounty. But they lived in Virginia at the time. Also, I've seen where
land was given in exchange for final payment of military service. The
Library of Virginia http://www.lva.lib.va.us/ has on line copies of many land
bounty documents.

I thank you for your comment about my webpage. The password is not for
privacy, but just to put a brick to stop dataminers and search engines from
pirating all the information. I'll email you the password.

Affiliated families: Appley, Asbury, Ayers, Barnum, Bauder/Bader, Bowling,
Briggs, Burton, Carr, Clark, Dyer, Ecker, Finch, Flannery, Fox, Grim, Goodale,
Hall, Hardendorf, Harman, Harper, Hawk, Hayes, Henkle/Hinkle, Keith, Marcy,
Miller, Pier, Sawyer, Summerfield, Schenk, Shepard, Slocum, Strong, Teter,
Tinkham, Thompson/Thomson, Tripp, Vansant, Walker, Whitlam, Wilks/Wilkes, Wolford,
Wood, Woolever.
http://www.treelines.com
http://www.lineage.net

Regards,
Diane Wolford


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