Bounty Land Applications and Certificates
Virginia awarded bounty land to soldiers and sailors who served for at least three years. Heirs could apply if the person who served had died. Proofs of service submitted with bounty land applications are known as Bounty Land Warrants. Veterans whose land applications were approved received Land Office Military Certificates listing their rank and the amount of land to which they were entitled. Bounty land application files are available online, and also available on microfilm, which are often more legible than the online images. Certificates are available on microfilm and an index is available online.
Bounty Land in Kentucky and Ohio
Bounty land awarded by Virginia was located in present-day Kentucky and Ohio; Virginia did not keep copies of the surveys and grants for those lands.
