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Federal Pension Records prior to 1813 were destroyed when the British burned Washington, DC.  State records may help provide information otherwise lost to history.

Pension Records

Old age and disability payments
from military service

٠U.S. Pensioners 1818-1872
Pensioners Under Acts of 1818 Through 1858
  - database @ ancestry.com

٠USGenWeb Pensions Project

٠Ordering NARA records online

 

Revolutionary War

Classes of Pensioners

Pension Lists

Southern Campaign Rev War Pension Statements
over 7,000 pension records transcribed


The searchable databases below are found at: 
  Ancestry.com

The Pension Lists of 1792-1795

Index to U.S. Invalid Pension Records, 1801-1815

Revolutionary Pensioners of 1813

Revolutionary Pensioners of 1818

Pension List of 1820

The Pension Roll of 1835, Vol. III

Revolutionary War Pensioner Census, 1841

Revolutionary War Rejected Pensions

Pensioners of the Revolutionary War--Struck Off the Roll


The searchable databases below are found at: 

 Footnote.com

Rev. War Rolls, Service Records and Pension Lists


County/ST Specific:

Georgia North Carolina Tennessee South Carolina

1835 Pension Roll

See Land Records for all the bounty grants offered in GA to its veterans, widows and orphans

 

1784 to disabled veterans and widows and orphans of deceased soldiers of the Continental Line units.  This amounted to 97 pensions.

1804 state militia veterans now included

1808 some 40 pensioners were transferred to federal rolls

State pension records may be examined in the Research Room at the NC State Archives.

The Archives staff will check the "State Pensions to Invalids and Widows" for inquiries by mail when specifically requested to do so. Please note that these records are not routinely searched for correspon-dence requests.

1835 Pension Roll

 

Tennessee Soldiers
Rejected or Suspended Pensions*


 

1835 Pension Roll

SC Sources for the American Revolutionary War

 

 

War of 1812

Twenty-four Hundred Tennessee Pensioners  - @ ancestry.com

War of 1812 Pension Application Files Index, 1812-1815 - @ ancestry.com


Mexican War

NARA Microfilm #T317       Index to Mexican War Pension Files, 1887-1926

 


Civil War

Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 @ ancestry.com

and

 Footnote.com

has Pension Index:  1865-1900, Navy Survivors' Certificates,
Navy Widows' Certificates

 

Georgia North Carolina Tennessee South Carolina

1870 to Conf. veteran amputees

1879 to other disabled Conf. veterans and their widows who were residing in Georgia

1890 those with disabilities now included old age and indigents

A published index is available in many libraries:

 

North Carolina did not give pensions to Union veterans or widows.

1867 to Confederate veterans who were blind or an amputee

1885  to all other indigent or disabled Confederate veterans and widows

The indices are also available online through the Manuscript and Archives Reference System (MARS)

1891 to Conf. indigent veterans

1905 to Conf. veteran widows
 

The records are on microfilm at the TSLA and a published index is available in many libraries:

Online:

˙ Conf. Pension Applications: Soldiers and Widows

˙ Conf. Soldiers Home Applications

˙ Veterans' Questionnaires
(Conf. and Fed.)

˙ TN Conf. Doctors

 

A state law enacted December 24, 1887, permitted financially needy Confederate veterans and widows to apply for a pension; however, few applications survive from the 1888-1918 era.

Beginning in 1889, the SC Comptroller began publishing lists of such veterans receiving pensions in his Annual Report. From 1919 to 1925, SC granted pensions to Conf. veterans and widows regardless of financial need. These files are arranged alphabetically. Pension application files are typically one sheet of paper with writing on both sides. Also available are Confed-erate Home applications and inmate records for veterans (1909-1957), and applications of wives, widows, sisters, and daughters (1925-1955)

˙ Online Index to Confederate Pension Records 1919-1938

 

 

Pension List of 1820 - Letter from the Secretary of War Transmitting a Report of the Names, Rank and File of Every Person Placed on the Pension List in Pursuance of the Act of the 18th March, 1818, Etc. Washington, 1820  [1820; 2000]  ISBN: 9780806316475

Sistler, Samuel. Index to Tennessee Confederate Pension Applications  [1995]

White, Virgil D. Index to Georgia Civil War Confederate Pension Files [1996]

A list of North Carolina Rev. War Veterans receiving pensions as of December 31, 1807, was published in The North Carolinian, The Quarterly Journal of Genealogy and History, Vol. VI (1960: 679-680).

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