Department of the Auditor General, Records Relating to Military Service, Military Pension Accounts and Related Records: Pension Court Minutes, May 1812-December 1817. Court established by Act of 31 March 1812 to relieve the distresses of the disabled or infirm and poor Officers and Soldiers of the Pennsylvania Line. Indexed; Pension Court Minutes, 1812-1832; Pensions decreed by Orphans' Court per Act of 24 March 1790 and Special Acts of Assembly, 1795-1821. Partial Index; Pension Ledger, Special Acts of Assembly, 1846-1874; and Index to Pension Ledger, 1866-1874., This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER LIBRARY: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education., Arranged alphabetically by surname of pensioner. Indexed externally, alphabetically by surname of pensioner. The file consists of various pension books and lists of the names of Pennsylvania veterans who served between 1795 and 1883. Most of the accounts concern pensions granted by special legislative acts and usually provide the pensioners' names and counties of residence, dates on which pension payments were either due or made, the amounts of money paid, and the act governing the allotment. Sometimes the claimants' approximate dates of death are also recorded. These records are continued from a series of Comptroller General records, Revolutionary War Pension Files and Related Accounts, 1785-1809 (series 4.52). See also the following related series, and the online name index to the Revolutionary War pensioners documented therein: RG-2, Records of the Auditor General (2.60) Revolutionary War Pension File, 1809-1893; RG-7, Records of the General Assembly, (7.11) House File, 1790-1903; RG-28, Records of the Treasury Department, (28.82) Revolutionary War Pension List Book, 1834-1838; RG-33, Records of the Supreme Court, (33.98) Revolutionary War Soldiers' Claims and Related Papers, 1786-1789.
