Revolutionary War Pensions, Awarded by State Governments 1775-1874, the General and Federal Governments Prior to 1814, and by Private Acts of Congress

by Lloyd De Witt Bockstruck

This book brings together for the first time all the data from federal and state sources used to reconstruct Revolutionary War pension records. It is an attempt to identify and recreate the Revolutionary War pension files generated prior to the disastrous fire in the War Department on 8 November 1800, which destroyed nearly a quarter-century of records. Despite the best efforts of the War and Treasury Departments to reconstruct the files, a second...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806318694
• ISBN13: 9780806318691
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
• Length: 1068 Pages
• Weight: 4.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 7.0" x 10.0"