Benjamin Wages is only listed on the roll of Revolutionary War Pensioners. He is not listed as private from Virginia Line receiving land bounties in Kentucky. We do see Lieutenant Colonel William Washington receiving land bounties in Kentucky.
Benjamin Wages did have Kentucky Land Grant of 50 acres which was surveyed 8 May 1825 in Morgan County, Kentucky at Water Course: Puncheon Camp Creek.
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Kentucky Land Grants
about Wages, Benjamin
Grantee:
Wages, Benjamin
Acres:
50
Book:
Q
Survey Date:
8 May 1825
County:
Morgan
Water Course:
Puncheon Camp Cr
Reference:
THE KENTUCKY LAND GRANTS
Volume 1
Part 1
CHAPTER VI KENTUCKY LAND WARRANTS (1816-1873)
THE COUNTIES OF KENTUCKY
page 761
More Info:
Grantee: Wages, Benjamin
Acres: 50
Book: Q
Page: 326
Date Survey: 5- 8-1825
County: Morgan
Watercourse: Puncheon Camp Cr
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Kentucky Land Grants [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997.
Original data: Jillson, Willard Rouse. The Kentucky Land Grants. Vol. I-II. Louisville, KY, USA: Filson Club Publications, 1925.
Description:
This database contains the records of the Kentucky Land Office from 1782 to 1924. The work is intended as a source book for historical workers, genealogists, and others who need a complete and chronological index to the early documentary land records and history of Kentucky.
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