Bounty and Donation Land Grants in British Colonial America by Lloyd deWitt Bockstruck Chapter 6: Acceptance of '08

Chapter 6: Acceptance of '08 Pistols up to 1918

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Bounty and Donation Land Grants in British Colonial America by Lloyd deWitt Bockstruck Chapter 6: Acceptance of '08From Nova Scotia south to Florida, the British Crown awarded land to approximately 6,500 soldiers and sailors for service in the various colonial wars. Grants of land were generally made on the basis of rank, with veterans from colonies with no vacant lands sometimes taking up land in other colonies; certain Massachusetts soldiers receiving grants of land in Virginia, for example; or Virginia militiamen drawing land in Kentucky. Land grants provide