We have gathered an interesting collection of books covering the Revolutionary War Military Pension lists and property rights for soldiers. The books are fully searchable and freely available at no cost.
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1858 records of the revolutionary war: containing the military and financial correspondence of distinguished officers; names of the officers and privates of regiments, companies, and corps, with the dates of their commissions and enlistments; general orders of Washington, Lee, and Greene, at Germantown and Valley Forge.
List of distinguished prisoners of war; the time of their capture, exchange, etc. and a list of the officers of the Continental army who acquired the right to half-pay, commutation, and lands”
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1813 Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating a transcript of the pension list of the United States : showing the number of pensioners in the several districts, also, the amount allowed to each pensioner
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1820 Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of the names, rank, and line of every person placed on the pension list : in pursuance of the act of the 18th March, 1818, &c., January 20, 1820
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1907 Revolutionary pension declarations, Strafford County, 1820-1832 Volume 1
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1907 Revolutionary pension declarations, Strafford County, 1820-1832 Volume 2
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1910 Miscellaneous revolutionary documents of New Hampshire, including the association test, the pension rolls, and other important papers
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Revolutionary pensioners : a transcript of the pension list of the United States for 1813
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Old rights, proprietary rights, Virginia entries, and soldiers entitled to donation lands (1896)
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