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The Depreciation Lands were a 720,000-acre land grant in western Pennsylvania set aside as compensation for soldiers who fought in the American Revolution. At the time of the grant, the entire tract lay within the boundaries of Allegheny County, but it includes portions of modern-day Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, and Lawrence counties.[1]
The name "Depreciation Lands" refers to the postwar depreciation of the American dollar. Because of this depreciation, officers and soldiers of the Pennsylvania Line were paid in certificates of depreciation, redeemable for unallocated lands equal in value to a set gold and silver amount. This scale was set forth in the Act of 3 April 1781, and ranged from 3:1 in July 1888 to 75:1 in 1781.
also "donation lands"? Different item?
History
editAct of 18 December 1780
Preservation
editReferences
editSome of these don't meet WP:N criteria, but might lead to sources that do.
- http://www.depreciationlandsmuseum.org/
- http://usgwarchives.org/maps/pa/county/butler/deplands.htm
- http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-185DepreciationLands/r17-185MainInterface.htm
- http://www.sewickleyhistory.org/sewickley-history/10-general-history/17-depreciation-lands.html
- http://images.library.pitt.edu/w/warrantee/historical_sketch.html
- http://www.hampton-pa.org/land_museum.asp
- http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pabutler/census/1790depr.htm
- http://www.amazon.com/district-depreciation-formerly-Westmoreland-Pennsylvania/dp/B00ABEQ9BE/ - available in Sewickley library history room
- https://catalog.einetwork.net/record=b1929508
- https://catalog.einetwork.net/record=b2555353