| Military record of William P. Shields |
| Capt Goff's Co., 2 Reg't (Bissell's) Ill Foot Vols - William P. Shields, private, age 21 years. Company muster-in roll of the organization name above. Roll dated Alton [Illinois] Jul 7, 1846. Joined for duty and enrolled: [when] June 12, 1846 [where] Alton, Ill for period of 12 months. |
| Remarks: died at Camp Crockett San Antonio, Oct 4, 1846. |
| Bounty Land Application of Nancy Shields |
| State of Illinois Montgomery County SS |
| I William Brewer Probate Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify, that satisfactory proof has been made before me by the Testimony of Francis Casady and David Shields who are persons, entitled to credit, that Nancy Shields is the mother of William P. Shields who was a private in Capt Goffs Company, afterwards Captain James W. Bakers Company E, 2nd Regiment Illinois Volunteers commanded by Col W.H. Bissell. And that said Nancy Shields has no husband living. And that said William P. Shields at the time of his death left neither Father, widow nor children - given under my hand and the Seal of the Probate Court of said County of Montgomery at my office in Hillsboro this 5th day of February A.D. 1848. |
| William Brewer PJP |
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Bounty land was formed by the Congressional Act of Feb 11, 1847 for 160 acres described as NE 1/4 section 32 Township 66 [north] range 42 [west] in Atchison County, Missouri. Warrant number #16,978. William P. Shields service record below. |
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| Shields patent deed/bounty land |
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Atchison County, Missouri Book 24 page 544 The United States of America to all to whom these presents shall come Greeting Know ye that in pursuance of an act of Congress entitled an act to raise for a limited time an additional military force and for other purposes approved February 11th 1847 Nancy Shields mother and heir at law of William P. Shields deceased late Illinois Volunteers having deposited in the general land office a warrant in her favor numbered 16,978 There is therefore granted by the United States unto said Nancy Shields and to her heirs the north east quarter of section thirty two in township sixty six of range forty two in the district of lands subject to sale at Plattsburg, Missouri containing one hundred and sixty acres according to the official plat of the survey of the said land returned to the general land office by the Surveyer general which said tract has been located in satisfaction of the above mentioned warrant in pursuance of the act of congress above mentioned approved February 11th 1847. To have and to hold the said quarter section of land with the appurtenances thereof unto the said Nancy Shields and to her heirs and assigns forever. In Testimony whereof I Millard Fillmore President of the United States of America have caused these letters to be made Patent and the seal of the General land office to be hereunto affixed Given under my hand at the city of Washington the tenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one and of the independence of the United States the Seventy fifth. By the President Millard Fillmore By Alex McCormick asst Sec'y E.S. Torrey? Recorder of the General Land Office Recorded Vol 98, Page 195 filed for record Nov 25, 1876 at 9 A.M. John W. Smith Recorder |
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