For some time now, researchers have had access to Virginia Military District land records through the indexes compiled by Jillson (on Kentucky), Brumbaugh (on Ohio), and, more recently, Bockstruck (on various state grants).These indexes remain the first ones you should consult for information on individuals in this district, along with the online databases found at the Library of Virginia and the Kentucky Secretary of State’s Office.

Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt, Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants Awarded by State Governments (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996).

Brumbaugh, Gaius Marcus, Revolutionary War Records, Vol. 1, Virginia (Washington, DC: Lancaster Press, 1936); for a listing of state grants including Virginia, see Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck, Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants Awarded by State Governments (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996).

Jillson, Willard Rouse, The Kentucky Grants: A Systematic Index to All of the Land Grants Recorded in the State Land Office at Frankfort, Kentucky, 1782-1924, Filson Club Publication No. 33 (Louisville, KY: Standard Publishing Co., 1925).

Jillson, Willard Rouse, Old Kentucky Entries and Deeds, Filson Club Publication No. 34 (Louisville, KY: Standard Printing Co., 1926).

The index most directly related to the Anderson Papers is that of Clifford Neal Smith’s Federal Land Series:

Clifford Neal Smith, Federal Land Series: A Calendar of Archival Materials on the Land Patents Issued by the United States Government, with Subject, Tract, and Name Indexes, Vol. 4 (Parts 1 and 2), Grants in the Virginia Military District of Ohio (Chicago, IL: American Library Association, c1973-c1986).

These are transcriptions of bound volume 6 (Leather bound volume 10 ¼ x 15. Backbone stamped "record book." List of persons making entries in Virginia Military District arranged numerically. Entries 102-15763). However, Smith noted that he also used Vol. #9 (Leather bound notebook 4 ½ x 7 ½. Stamped "A. Latham." Contents names of persons, 1-3115, with number of acres granted, to whom transferred, etc.) and Vol. #10 (Leather bound notebook 4 ½ x 7 ½. Stamped "A. Latham" but falls in administration of Col. R. C. Anderson. Lists persons, nos. 1840-1939, 3116-6729).

Smith also listed the names of those having cash accounts (volume 5):

Clifford Neal Smith, "Virginia Land Grants in Kentucky and Ohio, 1784-1799," National Genealogical Society Quarterly 61 (1973): 16-27.

Other Helpful Sources

Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Archives, Revised (Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1985).

Curtis, Frank B. and William H. Webster, A Digest of the Laws of the United States Governing the Granting of Army and Navy Pensions and Bounty-Land Warrants; Decisions of the Secretary of the Interior, and Rulings and Orders of the Commissioner of Pensions Thereunder (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1885).

Freund, Rudolph, "Military Bounty Lands and the Origins of the Public Domain," Agricultural History 20 (1946): 8-18.

Heitman, Francis B., Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution, April, 1775, to December, 1783, New, Revised, and Enlarged Edition (Washington, DC: Rare Book Shop Publishing Company, 1914).

Hibbard, Benjamin H., History of the Public Land Policies (New York, NY: Macmillan, 1924).

Horton, J. J., "Virginia Military District Papers," unpublished four-page finding aid at the Western Reserve Historical Society, dated February 15, 1962.

Hutchinson, William Thomas, "The Bounty Lands of the American Revolution in Ohio," (doctoral dissertation, University of Chicago, 1927).

Luebking, Sandra Hargreaves and Loretto Dennis Szucs, eds., The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy, rev. ed. (Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry, 1977).

Oberly, James W., Sixty Million Acres: American Veterans and the Public Lands before the Civil War (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1990).

Rubenstein, Asa, "Richard Clough Anderson, Nathaniel Massie, and the Impact of Government on Western Land Speculation and Settlement, 1774-1830," (doctoral dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1986).

Yoshpe, Harry and Philip Brower, Preliminary Inventory of the Land-Entry Papers of the General Land Office, Preliminary Inventory No. 22, Publication No. 49-30 (Washington, DC: National Archives, 1949).