Wayne county illinois, War of 1812 land  bounty application for Alexander Nisbet


Alexander Nisbet
War of 1812 Military Service
Capt Thomas Stokes' Company
6th reg. Kentucky Detached Militia
Henderson Co KY mustered in Sept 1, 1812 and served till Dec 23, 1812



State of Illinois
County of Wayne

ON this 30th day of March AD one thousand eight hundred  and  fifty  five
personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in this and for  the
county and State aforesaid Alexander Nisbet aged 62 years a  resident  of
Wayne County in the State of Illinois  who  being  duly  sworn  according
colors, declares that he is the identical  Alexander  Nisbet  who  was  a
private in the company commanded by Captain Thomas Stokes in the regiment
of Kentucky Militia Commanded by Col Barber in the war with Great Britain
declared by the United States June 18, 1812 for the term  of  six  months
and continued in actual service in said war for fourteen  days,  that  he
has heretofore  made  application  for  bounty  land  under  the  act  of
September 28, 1850 and received a land warrant  NO  _____  for  40  acres
which he has since legally disposed of and cannot now  return.  He  makes
this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the additional bounty  land
to which he may be entitled under the act approved the 3rd day  of  March
1855. He also declares that he has never applied for nor  received  under
this or any other act of Congress any bounty land warrant except the  one
above mentioned.

Signed

Alexander Nisbet