PETERS, Isaac

PETERS, TEMPLE, JAMES, PATTERSON, PORTER, LOGAN

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Date: 2/4/2006 at 22:34:03

ISAAC PETERS A VETERAN OF THE WAR OF 1812.

Rev.: “JEFFERSON COUNTY RECORDS,” compiled 1960-1961 by Log Cabin Chapter DAR, p. 60. The tombstone in Abingdon Cemetery to which we gave the number 435 shows inscription:

“ISAAC PETERS, Died May 21, 1861, Aged 66 y. 7 m. 19 d.”

Original Land Entry records of Polk Township, Jefferson County, Iowa, show that on May 21, 1846, Isaac Peters entered the east one-half of the North East Quarter, Section 28, Township 73, Range 11, 80 Acres. The 1850 Federal Census of Polk Township, and the 1856 Iowa State census show Isaac Peters, age 56 in 1850; age 61 in 1856, born in Maryland; the 1856 Iowa census shows he had been in Iowa ten years.

From National Archives:
Isaac Peters, of Jefferson County, Iowa, (aged 56 years), on 19 Nov. 1850, made application for bounty land due him for service in the War of 1812. His declaration made before George D. TEMPLE, Notary Public, shows that he served as a Private from Lewis County, Kentucky, in Captain Joseph LOGAN’s company of Kentucky Militia, Col. PORTER, from 10 Sept. 1814 to 10 March 1815; honorably discharged at Malden, Upper Canada, on 10 March 1815. BLW No. 11,245 for 80 Acres (Vol. 61, p. 190) sent to Hon. A. C. Dodge, Burlington, Iowa, Aug. 9, 1851. A second application, after a later Act of Congress granting additional land to 1812 veterans, was dated 19 May 1855, Isaac PETERS then 60 years of age, witnessed by Llewellyn E. JAMES and Bruce PATTERSON. Second BLWt. 29229-80-55.