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Description

Exceptional and handsome land grant for Bernard Case Private  in Captain’s  White’s Company  First Regiment Mass Militia War of 1812;  Receiving 40 acres in Des Moines, Iowa for his service.
 
 
President Franklin Pierce
 
issued June 16th 1856
 
 
10 x 16 inches
 
 
This land grant is part of an important archive associated with the Collings/Kirker family of Adams Co., Ohio that I have listed in my shop. The Archive over-all consists of materials from the Kirker-Collings-Gibson family of Adams Co., Ohio, from just before statehood to the end of the 20th century. Two of the progenitors of this clan are James R. Gibson and his wife, Martha King Gibson. This land grant and the archive appear to have been accumulated and come through Mary King Collings, who, it appears never married.