Michael Barnett - Military Bounty Land

According to Michael Barnett's Revolutionary War pension records in 1855, he had not received his bounty land for being a private in the War:

Colleen Murphy Paggi located the bounty land grants with the Bureau of Land Management.  Notice on one are the signatures of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in 1802 and on the other is the signature of James Buchanan in 1859.

This bounty land was located in Decatur County, Iowa and must have been sold to Jesse Roberts II.  Below is a picture of Mr. Roberts along with an obituary stating he first went to Decatur County, Iowa in 1855

Decatur County Journal
January 26, l905

ISOPHENA R. BAKER was born in Chester, Penn., December ll, l824, and
moved with her parents to Hyland County, Ohio, in l827, and in l83l to
Montgomery County, Ohio, and in l848 to near Richmond, Indiana. Was
joined in marriage to JESSE ROBERTS, July l7, l844. They moved to
Hamilton County, Indiana in l846 and in l855, to Decatur, Iowa. To Mr.
and Mrs. ROBERTS were born six children; MAHALA J., EMMA I., JESSE A.,
RACHEL E., WEBSTER T., and LINCOLN F., all of whom survive, except
MAHALA.

Sister ROBERTS made profession of faith in Christ about thirty-six years
ago and united with the Christian Church at Van Wert, of which she
remained a consistent member until death. Her husband having died at
Eureka Springs, Arkansas, December, l894. The writer has been well
acquainted with the deceased for more than forty years. She was a good
kind neighbor. Loving and kind in her family, and in all the relations
of life proved herself faithful and worthy.

She died in Corydon, January 20, l905. Her remains were brought to Van
Wert for burial. Funeral services were conducted in the M.E. Church at
Van Wert, by Rev. R.J. Tennant, pastor of the M.E. Church, after which
her remains were laid to rest beside those of her husband in the
cemetery at Van Wert.
S. SAMSON.