Under the Military Bounty Land Acts of July 9, 1788 (Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 34, p. 307-308), the Federal
Government granted public land to veterans and heirs of Veterans of the Revolutionary War. Under an act of June 1, 1796
(1 Stat. 490), a U.S. Military District in Ohio was reserved solely for the use of these warrants. (Taken from the
introduction of Ohio Military Land Warrants 1789-1801. Jackson, Ronald Vern, ed. North Salt Lake, Utah: Accelerated
Indexing Systems, 1988.)
This data set is an index to the land warrants granted in the Military District in Ohio between 1789 and 1801. Information
contained in this index includes the name of the individual who filed for the warrant, the date the application was filed,
and source information including the page number the record can be found on and the record title. Please keep in mind that
this data set is an index only. It is important to use the information gathered from this index to locate your ancestor
in the original records as original records usually provide more information than do their indexes. Land records are
valuable sources for genealogical research because they help you locate an individual in a particular time and place.
Source Information
Jackson, Ronald Vern, ed. Ohio Military Land Warrants 1789-1801. North Salt Lake, Utah: Accelerated
Indexing Systems, 1988.
