OUR BULLER / BULLERT FAMILY HISTORY​

 David Bullert  (arrival 1857)

  Sept. 1, 1869 

 160 acres, Sibley County, Minnesota

The earliest of our Bullert ancestors came from the village of Vandsburg and Zempelburg, Kreis Flatow, West Prussia.  

They arrived in Sibley County, Minnesota Territory, in 1853, 1856 and 1857.   (Minnesota did not become a state until May 11, 1858.) 

The Bullerts were farmers and landowners.  

Not surprisingly, many other families from Zempelburg also settled in Sibley County and farmed in the area near the Bullerts

including family surnames ABRAHAM, BEHNKE, BLUMKE, BOETTCHER, BROCKHOFF, BRUCH, DUPSLOFF, ERDMANN, FENSKE, JAHR, JAHNKE, KORNIG, KIRSCHBAUM, KRIESE, LUCHT, MIEHLKE, MILBRANDT, MOSKOP, MUELLER, NEUBAUER, RATHKE, RISTAU, RUCKS, SCHAUER, SCHMIDT, TUCHTENHAGEN, WEGNER, WENDLANDT, WENTZLAFF, WINTER

and many more who left West Prussia for a new life in America).   

​  Gottfried Bullert  (arrival 1856)

  Aug. 1, 1861

  160 acres, Sibley County, Minnesota 

​              Gottlieb Bullert  (arrival 1853)

  July 3, 1860, 40 acres, Sibley County, Minnesota

  Oct. 1, 1860, 120 acres, Sibley County, Minnesota

In July and October of 1860, Gottlieb Bullert bought military bounty land warrants from War of 1812 veterans Stephen Cumbrelling (New York Militia) and Caleb Stansbury (Maryland Militia).  U.S. Military Bounty Land Warrants were certificates given to eligible War of 1812 veterans granting them free land as a way to encourage them to enlist in the military.   Only a few soldiers actually received title to the bounty land or settled on it.   Most veterans sold or exchanged their warrants.