American Revolution Pension Acts
A word about pensions:
The first Pension Act was in 1818 and it was only for men who were invalids or destitute. It wasn’t until 1832 till men could apply for pensions who were not destitute. Doing some elementary math, you will find that most men who served in the American Revolution were very old by 1832, if they were still alive. Then each man must find two other soldiers to swear in a deposition that they had served with you and that you did have the service you claimed. So these very old men had to locate two other very old men for their depositions. There were no Internet bulletin boards on which to say, “Hey, anyone still alive who served with Capt. Habakkuk Turner and remembers me, Pvt. Jeremiah Carpenter?”
The lists that are used by genealogists today for Revolutionary War service, i.e. Mass. Soldiers and Sailors and Pennsylvania Archives 5th Series were not available to the men seeking pensions.
It is no wonder few men who served received pensions.
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Sherry Marshall 6/20/00
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Still trying to justify ignorance, eh?
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