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    <abstract id="aspace_b5c7fbc308617c064b6a569462740364">Records of a pension, bounty land, and bounty money agency in Orange, Massachusetts, operated by Damon E. Cheney, include the War of 1812 military service rosters of the Delaware, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia militias; record of the Georgia and Florida militias in the Second Seminole War, 1835-1843; and an "Index to Militia in the Florida War; and the New York Militia, Northern Frontier Disturbance, 1837-8." Other records include applications for bounty lands under the Act of 3 March 1855, and applications for invalid pensions under the Act of 14 July 1862.</abstract>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], United States, Claim Agency, Records, A&amp;M 1456, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <subject source="ingest">Militia - New York.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Militia - Ohio.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Militia - Virginia.</subject>
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    <subject source="ingest">Seminole War.</subject>
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    <corpname source="local_LC">Delaware. Militia</corpname>
    <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001067561" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Florida. State Troops</corpname>
    <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92033346" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Georgia. Militia</corpname>
    <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91075232" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Maryland. Militia</corpname>
    <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85271800" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Pennsylvania. Militia</corpname>
    <corpname source="ingest">United States - Claim Agency.</corpname>
    <persname source="ingest">Cheney, Damon E.</persname>
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