Bounty Land Warrant Information relating to Bazdale (Basdel) Rice BLW1472-100 f6VA
Transcribed by Will Graves 6/20/12
[cover sheet]
Va. Rice, Bazdale or B.L.Wt.1472-100
Basdel February 18th 1829 Received from the war office a military mark, number 1472, for 100 acres of land issued to the heirs Basdel Rice a soldier of the Virginia line in the Revolutionary war.
S/ John Rice
Virginia to wit
At a Court held for Bedford County at the Courthouse the 26 day of January 1829
Satisfactory evidence was adduced in Court to prove that John Rice and Peter Rice are the brothers & only heirs at law in fee of George and Bazdale Rice deceased late soldiers of the 6th Regiment of the Virginia line on Continental Establishment.
I Gustavus A. Wingfield deputy Clerk of the County Court aforesaid do certify that the above evidence is taken from the records of my office.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my official seal
This 28th day of January 1829
S/ G. A. Wingfield, D. Clk.
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The Library of Virginia in its online digital collection of documents relating to bounty land
claims honored by that state contains the following documents relating to this veteran:
Certified that Basdell Rice was enlisted as a Soldier
in the 1st Regiment of Dragoons in June one thousand
seven hundred & eighty and Served until the Close
of the War & received no pay.
S/ Thos. Yarbrough, Lt. Regt. Lt.
July 28th 1784
S/ Thos. Meriwether
[reverse]
[illegible]
I do assign the
For Value rec'd of the within Content
to James Jinkins
S/ Basdil Rice
Test
Benjamin Mosby
https://www.revwarapps.org/blwt1472-100.pdf
