Augusta Newman received a warrant for military service in the War of 1812.
Yet another man “gets his land.” Why?
The reason is that Augusta Newman assigned his warrant over to that man–Thomas J. Stone. Stone likely paid Newman for the warrant.
It was sometimes easier for veterans to simply sell their warrant than to move into new federal lands and “start over.”
The image with this post is from the Bureau of Land management. The surrendered warrant (which has Augusta’s signature on the back where he assigns it to Stone) is at the National Archives.
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I have one of these too. My 2nd great grandfather bought the land my family has been on since 1856 through a War of 1812 bounty land transaction. This land is STILL in my family’s possession.