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Author: CindyMcC
Surnames: Wiilson, MacAlister, Cheshire, Weedon, Tansill
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General Land Office
May 9, 1860
Sir:
You are informed in ? to your letter of the 7th Instant that the "Deposition" of Richard W. Weedon filed by T. W. Tansill Esqr. on the ? Instant in your behalf, in addition to the sale of ? of Virginia Military Land Warrant No. 8566 issued for the services of John Cheshire, a Lieutenant in the Virginia State Navy in the War of the Revolution" though entirely satisfactory as to the fact of sale, does not at all connect you with the transaction, and is therefore no evidence of your title.
This proof might avail you in Court, but does not answer the uniform ? of this office viz: that a party claiming title to any Land Warrant for which Scrip is claimed must within produce the legal evidence thereof or by the decree or judgment of the proper legal Tribunal establish his right thereto.
Upon a full and careful examination of the case, you are advised as stated in my personal communication to you some weeks since, that, the only way in the absence of any legal assignment, or transfer in which you can satisfactorily establish your claim to the Warrant in question, is to institute legal proceedings and if, obtaining a decision duly vesting the title in you, I will at once, cause the Scrip to be issued in your favor.
I am Very Respectfully Your Obt. Sevt.
Jos. S. Wilson
Commissioner
Charles Macalister Esq.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Source: Land Bounty Records of John Cheshire as found in the National Archives
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Author: CindyMcC
Surnames: Cheshire, Macalister, Corcoran, Hayney, Baxter
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List of Papers Submitted
No. 1 Virginia Military Land Warrant No. 8566 for 2000 acres
No. 2 Copy Letter of General Land office to Chas. Macalister Feby 25, 1839
No. 3 Deed to Wm. W. Corcoran of 1000 acres of Warrant No. 8566, being the interest of Janey Hayney
No. 4 Copy Letter of General Land Office, Nov. 4, 1859, refusing for reason given, to recognize the title to the Warrant as claimed by Mr. Macalister
No. 5 Letter of S. S. Baxter, Counsel of Mr. Macalester with drawing objection to the issue of Scrip to Mr. Corcoran for the 1000 acres claimed by the letter.
No. 6 Proof furnished by Mr. Macalester showing his payment for the purchase price of the warrant in question.
No. 7 Proof showing that Cloe Cheshire has sold and received the consideration money for her interest in said Warrant.
No. 8. Copy letter of Genl Land Office to Mr. Macalister May 9, 1860, giving the reason why the ? furnished by him could not be regarded as legal evidence of his title.
No. 9 Appeal of Mr. Macalister to Secretary of the Interior
Source: Land Bounty Records of John Cheshire as found in the National Archives
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Author: CindyMcC
Surnames: McCarty, Haney, Cheshire, Macalister
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Claim No. 68
Virginia Military Land Warrant No. 8566 for 2000 acres issued may 30, 1838 to Jane Haney and Cloe Cheshire the only two heirs of John Cheshire, Decd, for the service of John Cheshire 3 years as a Lieutenant in the State Navy.
This Warrant is filed with Scrip App. No. 1305.
On the 30th Dec. 1859 Scrip was issued upon the above Warrant for 1000 acres.
For a full history of the case, see our letter to the Secretary of the Interior of date June 9, 1860, Vol. 9, Scrip Records, pages 187 & c
See also Briefs and Papers filing with Scrip Appl No. 1305.
On the 15th February 1861, the "Acting Secretary of the Interior" deciding that Scrip for the 1000 acres balance due in the case should be issued to Charles Macalister.
See Letter of acting Secretary of date Feb. 15, 1861, filing with the 6 arc.?
Scrip should be issued as follows viz:
Warrant No. 8566 for 2000 acres Scrip for 1000 acres to Charles Macalister:
12 pieces of 80 acres=960 acres
1 piece of 40 acres=40 acres
13 pieces = 1000 acres
Februay 18, 1861
Scrip will issue as above
D. McCarty
Source: Land Bounty Records of John Cheshire as found at the National Archives
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Author: CindyMcC
Surnames: MacAlister, Stanton, Thompson, Willow, Cheshire, Nourse
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Washington
October 9, 1860
Sir:
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of yesterday, and will submit my reasons for the appeal of Mr. McAllister as they can be prepared and copied.
I am with great respect
Your Obt. Sert.
Edwin M. Stanton
Hon. J. Thompson
Sec'y of the Interior
Philadelphia July 20, 1860
Hon. Jacob Thompson
Secretary of the Interior
Washington
Sir:
Commissioner Willow informed me under date of 9th ult. that he had submitted to you "a full and fair statement of all the facts relating to your pay letter to the 1000 acres of Scrip founded upon Virginia Military Land warrant No. 8566 and has ? all the papers in the case." This having been done, it only remains for me to say that the only difficulty I have recently encountered in obtaining the Scrip which I claim was the absence of any conveyance? time by the heirs a legal representative of John Cheshire. This evidence was no doubt originally filed or Commissioner Whitcomb would not have advised me as he did under date of Feb. 25, 1839. Upon that letter I found my claim. Charles Nourse who purchased the warrant under date of 23rd Feby./39 advised me that he had filed it for my use that I could be so advised on Monday which was the 25th Feb. and I was so advised. The assignment has no doubt been lost or abstracted from the office when business was formerly very badly at!
tended to.
Submitted the case by examination.
I am very respectfully yours,
C. MacAlister.
Source: Land Bounty Records of John Cheshire as found at the National Archives
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Author: CindyMcC
Surnames: Wilson, Ellis, Nourse, MacAlester
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Philadelphia December 8, 1859
Joseph S. Wilson, Esqr.
Commissioner of General Land Office
Washington City
Sir,
Referring to your letter of 4th inst. I beg leave to hand you enclosed the affidavit of Mr. Howard Ellis in reference to my ownership of warrant No. 8566 issued to the heir of John Cheshire which I have always believed and do still believe issued first on the 2nd March 1839--During that year Charles Nourse purchased a considerable amount of these warrants for my account therein the habit of sending me the certificate of commissioner Whitcomb from time to time to show they were filed from my account.
In regard to the warrant in question, this one so far as I am concerned is a very plain one. On the 23rd Feby. 1839 C. I. Nourse wrote me a letter advising the purchase of 2000 acres land warrants--copy of letter enclosed. In this letter he says he has purchased 2000 acres of land warrants at 65 --$1300 that he has ? for $1500 the additional $100 being for $125 of Sink which in the letter of Commissioner Wilson of December 14, 1852 in which he states that a list of Virginia Land Warrants which I sent to Geo. C. Whiting Esq who transmitted it to MacAllister per numation was correct, except warrants No. 8433, 8523, 8588, 85889, 8586, 8571, 8587. I had no. 8586 and I suppose that number was intended for No. 8566. To show here irregularily things ? in those days. I will merely add that upon arrival to Washington, I had the two first and two last of these numbers unassigned and have since received the Sink for them. No. 8588-8589 I abandoned all claim to as they never belon!
ged to me.
The affidavit of Mr. H. Ellis will show the payment of the draft drawn by C. I. Nourse against the very warrant No. 8566--upon the payment ? Mr. Whitcomb letter of 25th Feby. I found my claim that there ? aforesaid somewhere is palpuble and I trust you will not decide this case against me without an opportunity of being heard. The President of the United States and the Attorney General will I think certify that I never could have been a party to any dishonorable transaction.
Respectfully yours,
C. MacAlester
P. S. I have written to S. S. Baxter Esq to represent the decision. I acknowlege charge of it some years since whether he is Washington or not. I do not know if he is not I will appear in person upon any day after the present with you may appoint.
Source: Land Bounty Records of John Cheshire as found at the National Archives
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Surnames: Ellis, Macalester, Nourse, Johnson
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State of Pennsylvania County of Philadelphia
Personally appeared Howard Ellis who being duly sworn according to law did depose and say that he was examined the cash book of Charles Macalester and finds that on the 2nd day of March AD 1839 he paid Charles J. Nourse's deft for $1400 and from his acquaintance in the account he knows that the said draft of $1400 was the draft which was drawn by said Nourse at Washington DC on the 23 February 1839 at ? days date as advised in the letter of said Nourse which is thus "Washington Feby 23 1839.
Dear sir,
Yours of the 20th is rec'd. I have apprised Mr. Johnson of what you say in regard to his notes.
I have purchased $2000
(This appears to be all that is here of this record).
Source: Land Bounty Records of John Cheshire as found in the National Archives
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Author: CindyMcC
Surnames: Baxter, MacAllister, Smith
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Washington Dec. 22, 1859
Hon. B. A. Smith
Commr. General Office
Sir:
I received from my client C. A. MacAllister a letter dated Dec. 22nd of this month from which I am authorized to say that he will not resist the right of Mr. Concoroan to the 1000 acres of warrant, assigned to Mr. Concoran by Jane Hayney, but Mr. MacAllister claim the 1000 acres of such warrant Mr. McAllister as assignee of Chloe Chesher.
Very Respectfully yours,
S. S. Baxter
Source: Land Bounty Records of John Cheshire as found in the National Archives
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Author: CindyMcC
Surnames: McAllister, Cheshire
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Washington Decr. 12, 1859
Hon. S. A. Smith--
In the case of warrant No. 8566 paid for the military service of John Cheshire I make application on behalf of Mr. McAllister for twelve days from this date enlargement of the time given by your letter of Nov. 4th 1859 to Mr. McAllister to produce his evidence of his right to the warrant in question.
S. S. Baxter
Atty for McAllister
Source: Land Bounty Records of John Cheshire as found in the National Archives
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Author: CindyMcC
Surnames: Wilson, Tansill, Wheedon
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Philadelphia May 7th 1860
Hon. Joseph S. Wilson
Commissioner General Land Office
Washington City
Sir:
Mr. T. W. Tansill has forwarded me your letter of 2nd inst. acknowledging receipt of a deposition of Richard W. Wheedon of Mason County Kentucky relating to a claim I have for 1000 acres of Land Bounty Sink ? Virginia Military Land Warrant No. 8566 issued to John Cheshire.
Since I had the honor of conferring with you in regard to this matter. Mr. Tansill agreed for a certain consideration to perfect my letter to said 1000 acres of scrip in which he says he has done, but as I stipulated that the testimony must be of a character, ? insuch the issue of the scrip. Thus with reluctance I ask your consideration to the case. Knowing the ? of Virginia upon ? which Congress is in session testify in case decide the whether the testimony furnished by Mr. Tansill is sufficient. I will be greatly obliged.
Very respectfully yours,
C. MacAlister
Source: Land Bounty Case of John Cheshire as found at the National Archives
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Author: CindyMcC
Surnames: Cheshire, Hayney
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Land Office Warrant No. 8566
To the Principal Surveyor of the Land set apart for the Officers and Soldiers of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
This shall be your Warrant to survey and lay off in one or more surveys, for Jane Hayney and Cloe Cheshire the only two heirs of John Cheshire deceased, their heirs or assigns, the quantity of two thousand acres of land, due unto the said heirs in consideration of the said John Cheshire's services for three years as a Lieutenant in the State navy agreeably to a certificate from the Governor and Council, which is received into the Land Office.
Given under my hand, and the Seal of the said office, this 30 day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and 38.
2000 acres
In pursuance of an advice of Council, I certify that this Warrant has issued in conformity with Laws of Virginia, in force prior to the cession by that State of her Western Lands to Congress; and I furthermore certify, that no other Warrant has issued from the Land Office of Virginia, on occount of the services of the within mentioned John Cheshire, except nos. 8567 and 8568 for 1000 acres each.
Given under my hand, and the Seal of the said Office, this 30 day of May 1838.
Source: Land Bounty Records of John Cheshire as found in the National Archives
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Surnames: MacAlester, Wilson
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Philadelphia, November 17, 1859
Joseph S. Wilson, Esq.
Commissioner of General Land Office
Washington City
Sir:
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter of 4th inst. in regard to the Virginia Military Land Warrant No. 8566 for 2000 acres to one half of which there appears to be a conflict of title between Will W. Careran and myself--In to that I have 30 days from the 10th inst "to produce my evidences of title and establish the same by legal process" Before the expiration of that time, I shall submit to you all the papers I have in support of my claim.
I am,
Very respectfully,
Your obt. servant
C. MacAlester
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Author: CindyMcC
Surnames: Chesshire, Simons, Smith
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Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
January Term 1860
It was the 9th day of February 1860 proved to the satisfaction of the Court that Chloe Chesshire late of this District and now deceased intestate to whom the State of Virginia issued two thousand acres of Virginia Revolutionary Bounty Land Warrant on account of the services of her father Lieutenant John Chesshire an officer of Virginia in her State Navy during the Revolutionary War--left at her decease the following named children her only heirs who now survive to wit: sons. James B. Cheshire and George W. Chesshire and daughters Ellen Chesshire, Ann Chesshire, and Susan Simons wife of William Simons all which is ordered to be certified.
By order of Court
Test.
Jno A. Smith Clk.
District of Columbia
County of Washington to wit:
I, John A. Smith, Clerk of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for the county of Washington, do hereby certify that the above is a true and perfect copy of the original taken from the minutes of proceedings of said Court.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court this 9th day of February AD 1860--
Jno. A. Smith Clk
Source: Land Bounty Records of John Cheshire as found in the National Archives
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Author: CindyMcC
Surnames: Macalister, Wilson, Corcoran, Haney, Cheshire, Helm, Nourse, Wharton, Powell, Heaney
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Copy
General Land Office
November 4, 1859
Sir,
I have to advise you that the claim founded on Virginia Military Land Warrant No. 8566 for 2000 acres, issued May 30, 1838, to Jane Haney and Cloe Cheshire for the services of John Cheshire a Lieutenant in the Virginia State Navy in the war of the Revolution has been allowed so far as the question of service is concerned under a recent opinion of the attorney General of the United States--a copy of which is herewith enclosed--but there appears to be a dispute as to the title to said Warrant between Wm. W. Corcoran Esqr. of this city and yourself.
The facts of the case as they appear from the Files and Records of this office, are the following, viz: On the 1st June 1838 Dr. Wm. Helm, who had prosecuted the claim before the Virginia authorities, as the attorney of the Heirs, and obtained the allowance thereof filed said warrant No. 8566 in this office for the benefit of the Warranties; on the 22nd day of December 1838, Jane Haney one of the Warrantees and entitled to the one half part of said Warrant, sold and conveyed to Wm. W. Corcoran, in consideration of the sum of $525.00 the one undivided moity thereof; This conveyance was duly acknowledged on the day of its execution, and placed on our files with the warrant in question; some two months afterwards, viz; on the 25 Feby 1839, you were advised by this office, by letter of that date, "that Virginia Warrants No. 86115 for 500 acres No. 8587 for 1.111 acres, and 8566 for 2000 acres"--the warrant in question--"with, certain Powers of Atty, relating thereto, have been!
filed in this office by Charles J. Nourse Esqr. in your name.
As, I am advised, you claim that under this communication, you are recognized, as the assignee of said Warrant, No. 8566, adn the evidence of your title duly filed.
Since the claim has been allowed, I have, caused with careful search to be made of the Scrip Files of this office, but have been unable to find any paper, showing, either that Charles J. Nourse, ever had any connection with the case, or that any assignment or transfer of the Warrant in question was ever made to you by any person; though it is, ascertained that you were the assignee of the other two warrants as mentioned in the said letter above referred to and the transfers thereof duly filed.
Under the circumstances of the case, as herein stated, I must conclude in the absence of all proof to the contrary--that an error was committed in our said letter of 25 Feby 1839, and that it was intended to embrace some other Warrant than No. 8566; and that Mr. Corcoran is entitled to receive Scrip for 1000 acres of said Warrant and that the title to the remaining 1000 acres, is still vested in the said Cloe Cheshire.
Nothing, however, will be done in the matter, without allowing you a reasonable period, either to produce the evidences of your title, or to endeavor to establish the same by legal process; for which purpose you will be allowed thirty days from the 10th Instant; at the expiration of which time, if no action is had by you, in the matter, the Scrip for the 1000 acres, will be issued and delivered to Mr. Corcoran.
Very Respectfully, Your Obt. Svt.
Jos. S. Wilson,
Acting Commissioner
Charles Macalister Esq
Philadelphia Pa.
This indenture made and concluded on the twenty second day of December 1838 by and between Jane Hayney of Prince William County Va. of the one part and W. W. Corcoran of Washington City of the second part. Witnesseth that the said Jane Heaney for and in consideration of the sum of five hundred and twenty five dollars in hand paid to her full satisfaction before the ensealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged. She, the said Jane Heaney, hath bargained and sold, and by these presents doth bargain and sell assign transfer and set over to the said W. W. Corcoran his heirs adn assigns all her right, title, claim, interest, and demand in and to one undivided moiety of a certain Virginia Military Land Warrant No. 8566 for two thousand acres, which said Warrant hath been granted to said Jane Heaney and Cloe Cheshire jointly in consideration in part for the services of Lieut John Cheshire of the Virginia State Navy and is now on file in the !
Gen. Land Office at Washington City, and for the purpose of investing the said W. W. Corcoran fully with all her rights in and authority over the said warrant and scrip which may issue thereon the said Jane Heaney doth hereby make, constitute and appoint him her true and lawful attorney with power of substitution to ask, demand, and receive from the Gen. Land Office all such lands, scrip, with full power to sell and assign the same, and to do and perform all and every act or acts, necessary for receiving, selling, assigning, or enjoying said scrip or said moeity aforsaid warrants, hereby satisfying and confirming whatsoever her said attorney may do or cause to be done in the premises.
In testimony whereof the said Jane Heaney hath hereunto set her hand and seal the day and date above written.
Jane Heaney (her mark)
Witnesses: William Nourse, W. H. Powell
District of Columbia, County of Washington--Be it remembered,that on this twenty second day of December 1838, personally appeared before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the county aforesaid, Jane Heaney, and acknowledged the foregoing instrument of writing to be her act and deed, as witness my hand and seal the day and year before written.
? W. Wharton (seal)
Source: Land Bounty Records of John Cheshire as found in the National Archives
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Surnames: McCarty, Corcoran, Baxter, Macalester, Hayney, Cheshire
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Claim No. 68
Virginia Military Land Warrant No. 8566 for 2,000 acres issued May 30, 1838, to Jane Hayne and Cloe Cheshire, the only two heirs of John Cheshire, decd., for the services of John Cheshire, three years, as a Lieutenant in the State Navy.
For Evidence of Service, heirship see scripp app. no. 1292.
For decision of the office as to the title of Wm. W. Corcoram and Charles MacAlester see our letter to Mr. Macalester Nov. 4, 1859. See also our letter to S. S. Baxter, Dec. 15, 1859.
See also Mr. Baxters letter to this office of date Dec. 22, 1859.
Scrip should be issued as follows, Warrant No. 8566 for 2000 acres; Scrip for 1000 acres to William W. Corcoran; 12 pieces of 80 acres =960 acres; 1 piece of 40 acres=40 acres; 13 pieces 100 acres
Dec. 30, 1859
Joint will issue as above
D. McCarty
Source: Land Bounty Records of John Cheshire as found in the National Archives
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Surnames: McAllister, Cheshire
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McAllister vs. Cheshires heirs
Note for Mr. McAllister
In this case the question has been raised whether the land warrant from Military service is real or personal estate.
On this question I refer to the following acts of the Virginia legistlature promising land bounty.
10 Henning Slat page 24
Do Do 26-7
Do Do 141
Do Do 198
Do Do 375
11 vol. 83.4
Most of these statutes merely promise the land bounty to the officer or soldier but the acts which speak of deceased officers or soldiers give the warrant to the heirs. The clear result is that as between the adm. and heir the promise to the deceased result to the heir and has that modicrum of real estate.
McLairer, all Genl. in an opinion 2nd Land Laws pages 176.7 holds the warrant to be real estate. That has found no judicial decision directly on the point.
2nd. But however this may be when the claim is settled and the warrant is issued, it passes by assignment and a deed is not necessary to hold. This has been settled in numerous cases.
Before I refer to the cases I will state the legislative history of the issuance of warrants.
In May 1779 when Virginia made her first promise of land bounty, the Legislature established the land office. See Hin. Stat. at Large real 10, pages 50-65.
The first sect directs the appointment of a Register.
The second provides the mode in which the officer or soldier may obtain his certificate of service and also how the purchaser for money may obtain his certificate.
The third section directs the Register on the production to heir of the military certificate, on treasury certificates to issue his warrant to the surveyor.
The act then directs the manner of entirey? surveying an patenting land, but makes no distinction between the legal character and office of a military warrant and treasury warrant.
Page 60 authorizes the apraisement of the warrants
Page 240 authorizes duplicates if the warrant is lost.
Not 11, page 311 the regrets of assignments of military warrants are recognized
Under the 1st law military warrants could be located on a vacant land in Virginia. Subsequently they were restricted to the military distances in Kentucky and Ohio but no change was made in the legal character of the warrant or with assignability.
As few or no military warrants, were ? in Virginia, the cases decided on to to be found in the reports of Kentucky, Ohio, and the Supreme Court of the US
I have herewith the 2nd vol. of Lomax Digest which briefly estabishes doctrine page 379 also page Virginia teller
The following prosecutions are ( I think) clearly settled.
1st The warrant is not land, given not right to any specified land, but gives a more right to acquire land. Wilson , Mason, Cruich, 45 Taylor, Nown, Cramer 236
2 The warrant may be assigned by endoresement or on a separate paper and no special form is required.
Boulden by Mapee Wheat 122
Seper of McArthur vs. Gallaher 8 Ohio 574
Duhr vs. Thompson 16 Ohio 14.15.16
Indeed the proper form is to the party or his assigns.
3. An assignment will often be presumed. page on lila pages 14, 15, 16.
4. More profacron sufficient page 17. Thus principles seem to me conclusions of this case.
It is fully proved Chloe Chesire sold and assigned the warrant many years ago. The warrant came to the land office as the property of Mr. McAllister. Mr. Whitcomb wrote to Mr. McAllister and on the back of this letter Mr. McAllister paid for the warrant. Chloe Cheshire never denied the rate or questioned the right.
The assignment has been lost or mislaid since it was in the office.
Some difficulty is felt because Mr. Whitcombs letter is not entirely explicit. On this point I ask attention to the opinion of the supreme court in Baildin vs. Mapie 7 Wheat 154
On the character of the principals surveyor no imputatiu is cast. His office is proof of the confidence rebond in his integrity by all who knew him. His testimony in concert is studiously calculated to establish an untruth, and his official conduct is fraudulent if he had no sufficient knowledge of the verely of the assignment that is less explicit than it ought to have been that it omit the express asverment of a fact, ? by sell he says, and which is necessary to ? and its truth will not we think justify a presumption against the fact." These remarks of Judge Marshall are applicable to Mr. Whitcombs letter. Unless the assignment was in his office the letter was studiously calculated to establish an untruth anull his official conduct a fraud on Mr. McAlister. As the Supreme courts no such a case would not admit the assembliou of fraud and established the fact by the scope and effect on the suveyors testimony, in the abscence of an express avisment, so here the presentat!
ion of falsehood and fraud in the com should be rejected, and the fact the assignment was in his office should be established from the general scope and effects of his letter, although when critically nammed it may contian no express ?.
It is clearly proved Chloe Cheshire and ? this warrant in her life time, and this ? her right. The warrant is I think to her and her assigns. No warrant remained in her. It ? to her assignees. Mr. McAllister is clearly ? as her assignee by the payment of the money for it and by Mr. Whitcombs letter. Nobody disbunks his right except the heirs of Chloe Cheshire. They are ? ? claim a warrant to her and her assignees. If it had passed to any assignees ? ? heir no right to it.
I ask scrip may issue to Mr. McAlister.
S. S. Baxter for McAllister.
Sources: Land Bounty Records of John Cheshire as found at the National Archives
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Author: CindyMcC
Surnames: Cheshire
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To the Governor of Virginia
Your petitioners, residents of the County of Prince William are the only children of John Cheshire who died in this County during the War of the Revolution and when we were infants. We have always understood that the said John Cheshire (our father) served in the Navy of this state as a Lieutenant during the WAr of the REvolution and that he was entitlted to bounty in land for his services, but that he died before he could or did, receive his grants in land for his said services, leaving his family in poverty. He died with or leaving a will, and we are the only surviving heirs and respectfully ask your excellency to take one case into your consideration, and if you find, our father by his services in the said Navy, entitled himself to the bounty in land due to Lieutenants of the Navy, we only ask to be allowed the quantity of land due to him. We are your Excellency's obedient servants.
Jane Hayney
Cloe Cheshire
Prince William County to wit
This day Jane Hayne and Cloe Cheshire personally appeared before me a justice of the peace in the County aforesaid and made oath that the facts stated in the foregoing memorial are ture as far as they have always understood and verily believe. Given under my hand and seal 6th March 1838.
Thos. Nelson, J. P. (seal)
Virginia Fauquier County to wit:
This day James Green of this County personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace in said County and made oath that he was very well acquainted with a John Cheshire in the Virginia State Navy from teh fall of 1777 until the Spring of the year 1780 that the said Cheshire was a Master in the service when he (Green) first knew him (Cheshire) and that said Cheshire was commissioned a Lieutenant in the winter of 1778-9; and in that capacity rendered service until the Spring of the year 1780. He Green further states on oath that he thinks said Cheshire entered the service as a Master inteh fall of the year 1775 and that he lived in Prince William County Virginia. That he settled there previous to the War of the said Revolution and after leaving the Navy lived there until his death. He further states that he was himself a midshipman in the Navy aforesaid and witnessed what he has stated above. Given under my hand and seal this 9th day March 1838. I consider the said Gre!
ens evidence entitled to full confidence.
Unit Rasins (Seal
Wednesday the 2d day of September 1778
This Board doth recommend to his Excellency the Governor and the Honble the council Mr. John Cheshire as a proper person to be appointed a Leiutenant of the navy of this Commonwealth.
The above entry is truly extracted from the Journal of the Navy Page 461
Given under my hand at the auditors office Richmond this 30th day of March 1838
Jas. E. Heath
It appears that John Cheshire a Lieutenant in the State Navy has not been allowed land bounty.
Teste. W. Selden R. L. Off
March 30, 1836
Executive Department
Richmond Va. march 28th, 1853
I hereby certify that the foregoing are true copies of papers on file in this department
George W. Mumford, Secty of ?
Washington Nov. 8th 1859
Jos. S. Wilson Esqre
Acting Comm. Genl. Land office
Sir:
I have just received your favor of the inst, covering a transcript of a letter addressed by you to Chas. Macalester Esr. dated the 4th ? in reference to Va. ? Land Wt. No. 8566, for 2000 acres, one half of which is claimed by him and the other hald by myself; and note that in the absence of further action on the part of her, Macalister for 30 days from the 10th instant, you will issue to me the 1000 acres I claim
With thanks for your atention, I am
Respectfully yours
W. W. Corcorau
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Author: CindyMcC
Surnames: Cheshire
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General Land Office
Jany 12th, 1860
Received of the Commissioner of the General Land Office 13 pieces of Scrip, numbered 11,152 to 11,164, includsive, issued in my name, Decr. 30, 1859; founded on Warrant No. 8566 for 1000 acres, and issued for the services of John Cheshire, a Lieutenant in the Va State Navy.
W. W. Corceran?
Witness J. Nelson?
Deed: Land Bounty Case of John Cheshire as found at the National Archives
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Author: CindyMcC
Surnames: Baxter, Chesher
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Washington March 13, 860
Hon. Jos. Wikou
Sir:
In the case of Chloe Chesher ? ? MacAllister I believe variable ? can be obtained in the case and I ask an enlargement of time for ? days.
Source: Land Bounty Case of John Cheshire as found in the National Archives
Yours Obt.
S. S. Baxter
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Author: CindyMcC
Surnames: Cheschire, Helms, Tansill, Greenwood
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Independent Hill Va.
January 5th, 1860
Sir,
I am requested by some of the heir's at law of Captain John Cheschire of the Virginia line of the Revolutionary War to inquire if there is some land due them by a late decision of your office upon an application formerly presented by Major Helms. If so, please inform one if any other proceeding other than proof of heirship be necessary in order to obtain a warrant for the same,
I am
Very respectfully
Your Obt. Servant
T. W. Tansill
Hon:
M. Greenwood,
Com. Public lands
Washington, DC
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Author: CindyMcC
Surnames: Cheshire, Coresrau, Corcoian
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Application No. 1305
Virginia State Navy Warrant No. 8566 for 2000 acres (Scrip for 1000 acres) and issued for the services of "John Cheshire, a Lieutenant in the State Navy."
Issued December 30th, 1859
12 pieces of 80 acres=960 acres
1 piece of 40 acres =40 acres
No. 11152 to 11164 incl--
To William W. Coresrau
Scrip delivered Wm. W. Corcoian Jany 12th 1860
Receipt inclosed
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