Bounty Land Warrant - Nathan Culver of Coosa Co., AL
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Bounty Land Warrant - Nathan Culver of Coosa Co., AL

On November 21, 1851, Nathan Culver entered land in Coosa County,
Alabama, under the Military Act of 1850.  Under Bounty Land Warrant #
11153, he received 40.74 acres in NW 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of S 18, T 23, R
19.  Under the same warrant, he received 40.74 acres in SW 1/4 of the SW
1/4 of S 18, T 19.

State of Alabama}
Talladega County}

On this the fourth day of December A. D. one thousand Eight hundred and
fifty, personally appeared before me, Jas. D. Copeland, an acting
Justice of the Peace within and for the county and State aforesaid,
Nathan Culver, aged sixty-two years, a resident of Coosa County in the
State of Alabama, who being duly sworn according to Law, declares that
he is the identical Nathan Culver, Jr. who was a private in the company
commanded by Captain Willis Shivers in the Regiment Commanded by Col.
Ignatius Few in the War with Great Britain, that he was drafted at
Sparta (?) in Hancock County, Georgia, on or about the first day in
September A. D. 1814 for the time of Six months, and continued in actual
service in the State of Georgia on or about the first day of March A. D.
1815, as will appear by the muster rolls of said company, his
certificate of discharge having been lost or mislaid is that he cannot
now find it.

He makes this application for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land
to which he may be entitled under the Act granting bounty Land to
certain Officers and Soldiers who have been engaged in the military
service of the United States.

September 28, 1850                                                His

Nathan "X" Culver

Mark
Witness:  John Moore


State of Alabama}
County of Coosa}

On this 18th day of May, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and five
personally appeared before me, a Justice of Peace, within and for the
county and State foresaid, Nathan Culver, aged sixty-six years, a
resident of Coosa County in the State of Alabama who received under Act
of 28 September 1850, a land warrant for eighty acres NO. ___ for
service in Capt. Willis Shivers’ Company in the infantry regiment of
Drafted Men commanded by Col. Few, War of 1812 against Great Britain
which warrant is and cannot be located, herewith surrendered, and that
he continued in actual service in said war for six months.

Note: Nathan Culver, Jr. was born about 1790 in Somerset Co., MD. His
death date is unknown. He died in Coosa Co., AL.  He married Nacy J.
Rayfield on 9 Jan 1812 in Hancock Co., GA.  She was born about 1790 in
MD.  She died in Coosa Co., AL.  It appears they are both buried in
Flint Hill Methodist Cemetery,  Coosa Co., AL.