593:. Veterans who held on to their warrants finally received relief by the act of May 30, 1830, which allowed them to exchange their warrants for land scrip issued in 80-acre (320,000 m) amounts, good for $ 1.25 an acre on land anywhere in the public domain available for private entry. This act, plus seven other warrant exchange acts, caused more than 12,138,840 acres (49,124.1 km) of land scrip to be issued. Researchers will find that land scrip could be bought cheaply, depending on market conditions. Its use in land transactions does not infer the holder was entitled to it by military service. Veterans often sold their land scrip to land jobbers.
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the 262 quarter townships claimed by military warrants was determined by a drawing. Few absentee owners ever visited their land, and fewer still spent any time on it. They sold it, sight unseen, as a speculative venture, often paying no regard to any attachment of sale made by Ohio officials for delinquent taxes.
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to a point due west of the Seven Ranges
Terminus, then east to the point of beginning. It turned out that the Tuscarawas River leg was unnecessary because Fort Laurens happens to be due west of the Seven Ranges Terminus. This tract contains 2,539,110 acres. Survey of the land began in March, 1797.
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In the USMD, as elsewhere in the surveyed lands, many veterans sold their warrants to speculators or jobbers at a fraction of their true value. Of the 1,043,460 acres (4,222.7 km) claimed by land warrant, 569,542 acres (2,304.85 km) were patented to just 22 persons. The actual location of
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had little money to pay the soldiers who fought for independence. They made promises of land to induce army enlistment. By resolutions of
September 16 and 18, 1776, and August 12, September 22, and October 3, 1780, they proposed to give each officer or private continuously to serve in the
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along the south of the tract. The quarter townships were numbered starting with 1 in the northeast and proceeding anti-clockwise. The Act of March 1, 1800 provided for dividing quarter townships into lots of 100 acres (0.40 km) each, 880 yards in width by 550 yards in height.
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By 1823, the United States government had issued 10,958 warrants for service in the
Revolutionary War totaling 1,549,350 acres (6,270.0 km), and more were issued under various laws thereafter. These warrants could only be used in the USMD except for those used in the
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On June 1, 1796, Congress created the United States
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five miles (8 km) square (16000 acres), the only instance of a government conducted survey not based on the six mile (10 km) square township standard of the
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178:, Regimental Surgeon, Asst. Apothecary
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605:at the Tuscarawas County villages of
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804:- Text of Act of March 3, 1803
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34:United States Military District
1282:Surveying of the United States
1077:Twelve Mile Square Reservation
716:- Text of Act of June 1, 1796
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1347:Veterans' settlement schemes
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838:The Official Ohio Lands Book
156:, Chief Physician, Purveyor
36:was a land tract in central
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1082:Two Mile Square Reservation
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849:Higgins, Jerome S. (1887).
820:Peters, William E. (1918).
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965:Ohio Company of Associates
835:Knepper, George W (2002).
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251:Download coordinates as:
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20:The US Military District
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1287:Coshocton County, Ohio
1153:Ephraim Kimberly Grant
1052:Moravian Indian Grants
641:Military Tract of 1812
603:Moravian Indian Grants
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402:39.98972°N 83.06750°W
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314:40.65194°N 81.33472°W
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872:Ohio History Central
1327:Morrow County, Ohio
1322:Marion County, Ohio
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1047:Indian Land Grants
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1267:Geography of Ohio
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558:Chillicothe
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1251:Categories
910:Ohio Lands
814:References
631:Ohio Lands
597:Exclusions
562:Zanesville
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301:40°39′07″N
229:Under the
198:Lieutenant
92:counties.
54:Tuscarawas
1019:Firelands
1003:Five-Mile
647:veterans.
530:Firelands
62:Coshocton
58:Muskingum
918:Six-Mile
625:See also
550:sections
542:baseline
538:meridian
102:Congress
82:Delaware
78:Franklin
50:Guernsey
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556:by the
222:Soldier
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