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Partly-printed vellum DS, signed “James Madison" as president and "Jas. Monroe" as secretary of state, one page, 12.25 x 15, September 13, 1811. Military land grant awarded by President Madison for service in the Revolutionary War. In part: "In consideration of Military Service performed by Baylor Hill (a captain for three years), to the United States, in the Virginia Line on Continental Establishment, and in pursuance of an Act of the Congress of the United States, passed on the 10th day of August, in the year 1790, intituled 'An Act to enable the Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia Line on Continental Establishment, to obtain Titles to certain Lands lying north west of the ricer Ohio, between the Little Miami and Sciota'…there is granted by the United States unto John Barid, assignee of William Mackenzie, who was assignee of the said Baylor Hill, a certain Tract of Land containing three hundred and ninety acres." Signed at the conclusion by James Monroe and countersigned by Secretary of State James Monroe. The original off-white seal remains affixed to the lower left corner. In very good to fine condition, with some light toning and soiling.
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 of 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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