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Glasgow Land Fraud papers: 1783-1800 : North Carolina Revolutionary War, Bounty Land in Tennessee

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This book contains the opinions of a Board of Inquiry as to the fraud (or lack of fraud) in the issuance or sale of military bounty land warrants issued by North Carolina to its former soldiers in the Continental Line. The introduction to the book contains a history of the land fraud related to North Carolina's bounty land warrants (known as the Glasgow land fraud). A Board of Inquiry reviewed the warrants to determine if there was fraud involved in the way the warrants were issued or in the way they were sold. For each warrant, the opinion of the Board is mentioned. Some warrants are mentioned more than once because more than one person were involved in the fraud. The book also includes some information about the court trial of five men accused of fraud. There is a complete name index and a place name index, but these are a little tricky to use because the warrants aren't in numerical order in the book. The indexes refer to warrant numbers. After finding the number, you have to refer to the list of warrant numbers (prior to the index) to determine on which page to look for the warrant (and the man's name). This book is written primarily for genealogist and historians interested in finding out more about military bounty land warrants.