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Document 4570 JAMES MONROE Grant of land for military service of Virginia officers is sold to a speculator. Partly Printed DS: "James Monroe" as fifth U.S. President, 1p, 13x18. On vellum. Washington, 1823 October 28. Countersigned: "Geo. Graham" as Commissioner of the General Land Office. In part: "Know Ye, That in consideration of Military Service performed by William Mosby a captain for three years, Wood Bouldin a Lieutenant for three years, Richard Foster a Lieutenant for three years, and William Terrell a Lieutenant 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 (sic) 'An Act to enable the Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia Line on Continental Establishment, to obtain Titles to certain Lands lying northwest of the river Ohio, between the Little Miami and Sciota;' and other Acts of the said Congress amendatory to the said Act, There is granted by the United States unto Walter Dun assignee of Cadwallader Wallace assignee of Benjamin W. Ladd attorney in fact for Edmund B. Nowell executor of Thomas Nowell and for Ann Nowell widow of said Thomas Nowell assignee of William B. Chamberlayne and Ann W. Chamberlayne his wife only daughter and sole heir of said Mosby...[heirs and assignees of Bouldin, Foster and Terrell are listed] a certain tract of land containing Four hundred and sixty five acres situate between the Little Miami and Scotia rivers northwest of the river Ohio...." GRAHAM has also signed a certification on verso, which is docketed and bears a map of the land survey. Graham served as Madison and Monroe's Secretary of War ad interim from October 22, 1816 to October 7, 1817. Land bounties such as the one offered here were issued to reward military service in past wars, encourage enlistment in pending wars and to aid special groups. Virginia gave more generous bounties than any other colony or state and a special Virginia Military District was reserved north of the Ohio River to fulfill these grants. The Treaty of Greenville, signed August 3, 1795, with provisions dictated by General Anthony Wayne, established a definite boundary between Indian lands and those opened to settlement. The treaty also provided safety to settlers to encourage their settlement into the Northwest Territory. Many soldiers or their heirs refused to move to these tracts to take up their claims as they were too far from zones of settlement. Instead, they sold their warrants or locations to speculators for prices as low as ten cents an acre. In the Virginia tract alone, over one million acres were owned by just 24 people. One of these people was Walter Dun. This grant of land to Dun came from smaller tracts of land originally granted to the named Captain and three Lieutenants whose heirs and assignees transferred their land to him. Folds, 1 vertical touches the "J" in James. 2-inch paper seal at lower left. Fine condition. SEE IF DOCUMENT 4570 IS FOR SALE RIGHT NOW!!
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