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Former Lieutenant Leon Dyer swore his identity on the “5 Books of Moses” to claim Bounty Land in return for his service in the Florida War, May 19, 1851. #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth 

Bounty Land Application File of Lieutenant Leon Dyer, Captain Burt's Company, Louisiana Volunteer Regiment (50-40-44606) [detail]

Series: Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, ca. 1800 - ca. 1900

Record Group 15: Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 1773 - 2007

Transcription:

STATE OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE CITY, Sct.

On this nineteenth day of ["April" overwritten] May one thousand eight hundred and ["forty" crossed out] fifty one before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace of the said State, in and for  Baltimore City, personally appeared Leon Dyer who being duly sworn on the 5 Books of Moses ["Holy Evangely of Almighty God" crossed out], declares that he is the identical individual who was a Lieut. in Company Captain Burt of the Louisiana Vol. for Florida War in active service. that he enlisted [carat] at New Orleans on the [blank] day of January one thousand eight hundred and [blank] for the Term of 8 months and [illegible] over 4 months and was honourably discharged at New Orleans in May 1835. That he never received any certificate of discharge. That he has not received nor is he entitled to Land under any other act.

[signed] Leon Dyer

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