Partly-printed vellum DS as president, one page, 12 x 16.5, September 5, 1812. Military land grant awarded by President Madison for service in the Revolutionary War. In part: "In consideration of military service performed by Thomas Moore, (a Captain for three years) to the United States, in the Virginia Line on Continental Establishment…There is granted by the United States, unto John A. Fulton, assignee of James Moore, Attorney in fact of the said Thomas Moore, a certain react of land containing Thirty acres situate between the Little Miami and Sciota rivers, north west of the river Ohio." Nicely signed at the conclusion in ink by President James Madison and countersigned by Commissioner of the General Land Office Edward Tiffin." In very good to fine condition, with damage to the seal, and restored paper loss to the ends of the horizontal folds.
The land referred to here, known as the Virginia Military District (in what is now Ohio), consisted of a tract in the southwestern part of the state that contained more than four million acres. General George Washington had enticed residents to join the Continental Army by offering them large bounties in land in exchange for either three years of service, or the duration of the war. Claims on the property continued to be made for decades in the aftermath of the war, by veterans, their heirs and assignees, until the land was ceded to the state of Ohio in 1871.
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