These records may contain valuable details about Revolutionary War veterans and their families, such as rank, unit, period of service, age, residence, date and place of marriage, and date and place of death of spouse. Also within these records, you may find copies of marriage or other family records, information pertaining to military activities or details about soldier’s lives, along with letters, diaries, family trees, or even photographs.
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Here’s an example of what you could find in these Revolutionary War Pension Files:
“That this applicant… performed the service of that tour at White Plains, East and West Chester, and Mamaroneck and continued in that service to the fifteenth or sixteenth day of November than following. He… distinctly remembers that once or twice while on this service he performed the duty of sergeant of the grand rounds with that officer in the night, visiting the sentinels and guards at the various posts and giving them the countersign. He remembers also that, for the first time, he had the pleasure to see Generals Washington and Fayette at White Plains.”
