Enjoy a final great question from our inaugural “Tracing Connecticut Revolutionary War ‘patriots'” program. First of all, what’s bounty land? This finding aid from NARA offers a great brief description. In short, bounty land was a right to “public” land (owned by the state or federal government). It was issued to Revolutionary War veterans asContinueContinue reading “Did Connecticut issue bounty land for Revolutionary War service?”

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