American Historical Ephemera and Photography Featuring the Civil War and American Militaria Collection of Bruce B. Hermann

1 page, 15 x 13 1/4 in, on vellum, paper seal at bottom, creased with minor soiling and a few small holes, window-mounted and framed, unexamined out of frame.  Additionally inscribed on verso by Secretary of War James McHenry (31 January 1800), and Jacob Wagner. Docketed verso. 

A military land grant, issuing two hundred acres between the Little Miami and Sciota Rivers northwest of the Ohio River to John Brown, who served as Sergeant for three years, "in consideration of military service...to the United States, in the Virginia line on Continental Establishment, and in pursuance of an Act of the Congress of the United States." The Virginia Military District comprised a nearly four-million-acre tract of land in the southwestern part of Ohio. State officials used land grants to reward veterans for their military service in lieu of payment. In order to promote recruitment, Washington offered tracts of land in exchange for three or more years of service to the Continental Army during the war.