Chambers County AlArchives Military Records.....McGinty, Sr., George Washington 
Indian - Enlistment Georgia Militia
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Gerald K. McGinty, Sr. mcgintyboy@aol.com May 31, 2005, 10:57 am

Seminole War Record
In 1818, at the age of thirty-two, Washington was activated to serve in the 
Seminole Indian War in FL for six months. He served in the Company commanded by 
Capt. David Childs (Confirmed on his Bounty Land Application). There were 
actually three Seminole wars, and he served in the first one. It was short, 
beginning in December 1817, when Gen. Andrew Jackson received orders to move 
into the area of Spanish-owned FL where fierce Seminole Indians, some 
discontented Creek (referred to as Red Stick Creeks) and groups of escaped 
slaves and vagabonds had been raiding settlements north of the FL/GA border. 
Jackson’s army of backwoodsmen fighters, which included Washington, pursued 
them into northwest FL all the way to Pensacola.  The war was over in 1818. 
Washington served for fourteen days and was honorably discharged on April 7, 
1818 at Irwinton, GA.
 
    On November 11, 1850, when he was sixty-four years old, he made a 
declaration for the purpose of obtaining Bounty Land under a recent “Act 
Granting Bounty Land to certain Officers and Soldiers who have been engaged in 
military service of the United States,” passed on September 28, 1850.  He 
received the above forty acres Bounty Warrant. 

On October 27, 1855, at age sixty-nine, he applied for additional bounty land 
under the act approved on March 3, 1855.  He was granted an additional 120 
acres for a total of 160 acres. He never exercised this warrant and actually 
owned the property. In this application, he says that he is sixty-nine years 
old. If correct, he was born in 1786.



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