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A Bounty Land Warrant is a gift of “bounty land” due to a person entitled by military service.
Bounty Land is public land given by the government to induce young men to join the military. Applicable to soldiers prior to the Civil War.
Avoid the pitfalls of merging same-named people into one. Assume that at least two people of the same name lived in a given town. Land and tax records are important documents for sorting out people of the same name. No two people owned the same property, nor would they be taxed on the same possessions.
The inaccuracy of early maps and land grants often created land disputes in New England's Colonial era.
You'll find land records in county courthouses except in New England states where you should find them in local town halls.
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We are indebted to Lee County Genealogy Society (FL) for a large majority of the "Facts" available on this page. Their list originally contained just over 490 facts. We have reduced that number for our site but will add some as we continue to build our new website.