Land grant, 1800 April 15, Philadelphia [to] Jonas Stanbery.

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Land grant, 1800 April 15, Philadelphia [to] Jonas Stanbery.

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Land grant, as military warrant, pursuant to a congressional "act regulating the grants of Land appropriated for military services and for the society of the United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the Heathen ... to Jonas Stanbery ... four thousand acres being the first quarter of the third township in the nineteenth range of the tract appropriated for satisfying warrants for military service".

1 sheet (1 p.) : vellum ; 27 x 35 cm.

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