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1812 Records

Posted: 30 May 2010 1:00AM GMT
Classification: Query
Foot note has some service date. The National Archives has the records. Look for all possible people you might have and ask to pull the records. In the afternoon go upstairs and look at recordes one at a time and ask them to copy what you want. You may think that serving one to three months is very little, but it all counts. If the record says your guy was a deserter, see if there service after that entry. People took off to plant, harvest, etc. They missed roll call, thats all. Still good. Get an 1812 Society in your area, fill out the paperwork, meet at the country club and enjoy some new friendships. Skip Gustafson

Re: 1812 Records

Posted: 5 Jan 2012 4:49AM GMT
Classification: Query
for those who may not know, Footnote is now Fold3

Re: 1812 Records

Posted: 5 Jan 2012 5:02AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 5 Jan 2012 5:09AM GMT
Surnames: Dunheiffer, Duniver, Beatty
I found this today. a search of Fold3 found no-one with either known spelling of my surname of interest. correction, their search engine malfunctioned, there is information for Dunivers, but I had to go back and search from the home page to get them to come up. there is nothing for Christopher, however.

.....""Chris" Duniver had been the wagoner of Capt. C. P. Beatty's company in the war of 1812. And when a war-cloud again rose in the northwest, and the call to arms was made by Governor Robert Lucas in 1835, drum and fife, in martial strains, inspired the latent patriotic spark to blood heat, "Chris" again kept step, as a recruit, to go and hurl the invading "Wolverines" from Ohio's sacred soil. This war cloud blew away, but its heroes still live in history."

Christopher Dunheiffer is related to my husband, either an older brother, cousin or uncle of his ancestor.

does anyone have access to records, esp. for 1835, and for Capt. Beaty's troup? do these records have as good data in them as some Civil War records?

Re: 1812 Records

Posted: 3 Jun 2013 3:05AM GMT
Classification: Query
Yes, 1812 records have the same kind of information that Civil War pension files have, they just aren't usually as voluminous or as detailed. 1812 widows had to prove their date and place of marriage, give info on any previous marriage, prove they had not remarried, etc... You don't see lists of children in those files as often as with the Civil War.

Even if the 1812 soldier/widow was not pensioned (and most of them were not), most will at least have a bounty land application file. Bounty land was a benefit that could be used or sold, so most of them applied and got it. If the soldier was dead by the time the more generous bounty land acts were passed in 1850 and 1855, the widow or even the heirs could apply for it, as long as they could prove the veteran's service and their relationship to him.

You can put in your soldier's name at the BLM website which is:
www.glorecords.blm.gov
Click on land patents. Change the state to say "any state", then put in your soldier's name and uncheck the box that says "patentees" so that the only thing checked is "warrantees". Search and when the list of names comes up, click on the image of the patent certificate for each one. That will tell you if it was a military warrant because it will give the regiment and the war, and the bounty land act that he filed under.

Yes, I have access to those files at NARA, but NARA doesn't let me copy them for free.

peg@reevesweb.com

Re: 1812 Records

Posted: 3 Jun 2013 3:06AM GMT
Classification: Query
Yes, 1812 records have the same kind of information that Civil War pension files have, they just aren't usually as voluminous or as detailed. 1812 widows had to prove their date and place of marriage, give info on any previous marriage, prove they had not remarried, etc... You don't see lists of children in those files as often as with the Civil War.

Even if the 1812 soldier/widow was not pensioned (and most of them were not), most will at least have a bounty land application file. Bounty land was a benefit that could be used or sold, so most of them applied and got it. If the soldier was dead by the time the more generous bounty land acts were passed in 1850 and 1855, the widow or even the heirs could apply for it, as long as they could prove the veteran's service and their relationship to him.

You can put in your soldier's name at the BLM website which is:
www.glorecords.blm.gov
Click on land patents. Change the state to say "any state", then put in your soldier's name and uncheck the box that says "patentees" so that the only thing checked is "warrantees". Search and when the list of names comes up, click on the image of the patent certificate for each one. That will tell you if it was a military warrant because it will give the regiment and the war, and the bounty land act that he filed under.

Yes, I have access to those files at NARA, but NARA doesn't let me copy them for free.

peg@reevesweb.com

Re: 1812 Records

Posted: 3 Jun 2013 5:12AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Duniver, Dunifer, Dunheifer
thank you. unfortunately Chris must not have applied for his patent-and neither did any other Duniver/Dunifer/Dunheifer. no one with that surname is listed, even misspelled. maybe Ohio's incomplete.
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