Amanuensis Monday: Mansfield Anderson Chooses Land, 13 December 1850

Continuing with papers from Mansfield and Harriet Anderson’s pension and bounty land warrant applications file. Previous posts include:

• Mansfield’s declaration of service in the War of 1812
• His discharge of service.

The following letter was a bit puzzling because I couldn’t make out the location of land desired.

Franklin N C Dembr 13^th 1850

Dear Sir

Inclosed I Send you my declaration
for Land bounty & discharge which I wish
you would have the case attended to I wish the
to locate my land in the [illegible]

Yours &c
Mansfield Anderson

To the commission of Pensions

The illegible location looks to me like a possible phonetic rendering of Arkansas, but you be the judge:

Any thoughts on what that word could be?

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