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Joshua S Fletcher Land Bounty

Joshua S Fletcher Land Bounty

Posted: 15 Jul 2009 11:55AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Fletcher/Evans
How would I find out if he ever did get the land and where it would be?

The Bounty Land number is 5664 -160 - 50

He was Joshua S Fletcher married to Eliza Evans Philadelphia.

If you would tell me where to look, I would be most appreciative.
Thanking you in advance for your assistance.
Joyce Fletcher Menard
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Re: Joshua S Fletcher Land Bounty

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 4:37PM GMT
Classification: Query
You can go to the Bureau of Land Management website at: www.glorecords.blm.gov and put in the soldier's name, searching for him as the "warrantee". When you find him, you will see 5664 as the "document number" (the "160" in the number you gave means 160 acres, and the "50" means that they applied for the warrant under the act of 1850).

In this case, Eliza the widow applied for it under the act of 1850, and sold it to someone else. Most widows did not actually patent land with the warrants themselves, they sold the warrant certificates to someone else for cash.

The bounty land application paperwork would be in with the pension file (at NARA), but the surrendered warrant certificate itself would be in a separate file at NARA.

Re: Joshua S Fletcher Land Bounty

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 10:25PM GMT
Classification: Query
Peggy thanks for your reply - in the intervening 3 years since my original post I found where the land was and the family that it went to. Interestingly enough it went to an Ankeny family, who had one of their sons go to FL and start a village "Ankona" on the SE coast of FL, about 5 miles from where I grew up. Couldn't get the connection to why Eliza sold the property to the Ankeny's but... Eliza didn't really even know where her husband died... poor dear.
Thanks for your help.
Joyce

Re: Joshua S Fletcher Land Bounty

Posted: 14 Nov 2013 8:59PM GMT
Classification: Query
The card you have attached is the index card showing that the soldier's widow applied for, and received, widow's pension for Joshua's service. She also applied for bounty land under the act of 1850, which made some 1812 soldiers eligible for bounty land for the first time. Their widows and even their heirs could apply for it, and that is what Eliza did.

The bounty land application should be filed in as part of the pension file. Those 1812 pensions are being scanned and put online for free at the Fold3 site, however, it is slow going and they are not up to letter "F" yet.

You can go to the Bureau of Land Management website at www.glorecords.blm.gov and click on "land patents" and scan for the soldier's name. A list of men with that name will come up. Look for the one that has Joshua with a "w" beside his name, and other people, including his wife, with a "p". If Eliza patented land, she will have the "p" (for "patentee), and there won't be any other names. If she sold the warrant to someone else, there will be another name besides hers with a "p" beside it. You can click on "document image" to see the patent certificate.

This soldier/widow would have a service record, a pension & bounty land file, and a surrendered warrant file at NARA DC. None of this is microfilmed or online yet. I can made color PDF scans for any or all of these files.

Re: Joshua S Fletcher Land Bounty

Posted: 15 Nov 2013 1:45AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Fletcher, Ankeny
Peggy, I would love it if you could make the color scans of the service record, a pension & bounty land file for Joshua Fletcher (h/oEliza Evans Fletcher). I will share it with my cousin with whom I've been researching for nearly a decade. Let me know what I owe you... Thanking you in advance for this early Christmas present.

Re: Joshua S Fletcher Land Bounty

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 4:46AM GMT
Classification: Query
Joyce, you can reach me via email at peg@reeveweb.com if you want to talk more about it.
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