Military Pension Accounts and Related Papers (PA) circa 1789-1883

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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. Images are arranged alphabetically by surname of pensioner. Indexed externally, alphabetically by surname of pensioner. This collection is part of the Office of the Auditor General which audits the fiscal affairs for the Commonwealth.
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Military Pension Accounts and Related Records (Roll 6948)
Pennsylvania. Department of the Auditor General, Military pensions, Veterans, Special legislation
Department of the Auditor General, Records Relating to Military Service, Military Pension Accounts and Related Records: Pension Ledger, Special Acts of Assembly, 1808-1813, Indexed, Accounts of payments made for pensions granted to soldiers and widows; Pension Ledger, Special Acts of Assembly, 1812-1838, Indexed; and Pension Ledger, Special Acts of Assembly, 1824-1843, Indexed.
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Military Pension Accounts and Related Records (Roll 6949)
Pennsylvania. Department of the Auditor General, Military pensions, Veterans, Special legislation
Department of the Auditor General, Records Relating to Military Service, Military Pension Accounts and Related Records: Pension Ledger, Special Acts of Assembly, 1824-1843 Continued; and Pension Ledger, Special Acts of Assembly, 1833-1843, Indexed.
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Military Pension Accounts and Related Records (Roll 6950)
Pennsylvania. Department of the Auditor General, Military pensions, Veterans, Special legislation
Department of the Auditor General, Records Relating to Military Service, Military Pension Accounts and Related Records: Pension Ledger, Special Acts of Assembly, 1839-1843, Indexed; Indexes to Pension Ledgers, Volumes 8-10 by county; and Pension Ledger, Special Acts of Assembly, 1839-1848.
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Military Pension Accounts and Related Records (Roll 6951)
Pennsylvania. Department of the Auditor General, Military pensions, Veterans, Special legislation
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.
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Military Pension Accounts and Related Records (Roll 6952)
Pennsylvania. Department of the Auditor General, Military pensions, Veterans, Special legislation
Department of the Auditor General, Records Relating to Military Service, Military Pension Accounts and Related Records: Pension Ledger, Special Acts of Assembly, 1866-1874; Pension warrant Index Book, War of 1812, 1866-1880; Pension Payment, 1874-1878, pensioner listed by county; Pension List, 1878; and Pension List and Payments, 1878-1883.
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Military Pension Accounts and Related Records (Roll 6953)
Pennsylvania. Department of the Auditor General, Military pensions, Veterans, Special legislation
Department of the Auditor General, Records Relating to Military Service, Military Pension Accounts and Related Records: Pension Payments, War of 1812, 1879-1881; List of Pennsylvania Pensioners from the United States Pension Books Commencing on the 4th of March 1789, 1813; List of Pensioners Living in Pennsylvania on United States Pension Rolls under Act of 18 March 1818, 1820; List of Pensioners Living in Pennsylvania on United States Pension Rolls under Act of 1 May 1820, Undated; List of Pensioners Extracted from the Laws of the United States, circa 1810; and Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary and Military Services as returned under the Sixth Census, 1840.
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