Depredation Claims

for Victims

Depredation Claims

Depredation claims were filed by nearly 3000 settlers after the uprising for losses and damages. These documents are priceless as they give first-hand slices of the life of our ancestors. These claims itemize the losses of their cabins, crops, animals, tools, clothes and many of their irreplaceable family possessions.


Here is a link posted on the Park Genealogical Books website that lists some of the names and their residences of those submitting affidavits, which are in the National Archives, Record Group 75. Some were approved, and some were rejected. They are compiling a list of all claimants, though the affidavits appear to have been lost. Go to http://www.parkbooks.com/Html/res_depd.html to find this entry.

Index to Claimants for Depredations

following the Dakota War of 1862


Alphabetical list of the approximately 2500 who filed for property claims. ISBN 0-915709-86-4, 2001, paper, map.

$15.00 M-429









Claims from the Dakota Conflict

Supplying the Local Militia - -

Volume 6: Dakota Territory


Compiled and edited by Mary Bakeman. The story of why it took more than ten years to pay these claims, plus the names and amounts each person received. ISBN 1-932212-27-2, 2011, paper, index, 24 pp.

$10.00 M-616


(Available at Park Genealogical Books www.parkbooks.com (Click on Shop Online, then Minnesota Military to find this and other books.)




Emergency Aid for the Sufferers--Claims from the Dakota Conflict, Volume 5: 1862-1863


Compiled by Mary Hawker Bakeman. Financial requests of individual sufferers and reimbursement requests from those who provided shelter, food and clothing, taken from the records of the Minnesota State Archives. Those still needing aid in January 1863 are listed, mostly widows and their families, as they try to survive and return to normal lives. ISBN 1-932212-25-6, 2009, paper, 130 pp., index, illus.

$19.95 M-604


(Available at Park Genealogical Books www.parkbooks.com (Click on Shop Online, then Minnesota Military to find this and other books.)







Gregory Michno's book "Delta Dawn" lists Record Group 75, Entry 702, Depredation Claims from the National Archives on page 407.