Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File
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National Archives Microfilm Publications
Microcopy No. 805

REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION
AND BOUNTY-LAND-WARRENT
APPLICATION FILES

Roll 215

Bennet, Aaron -
Bennet, Jeremiah

[Government seal of The National Archives of the United States]

THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

Washington: 1969
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INTRODUCTION

On the rolls of this microfilm publication are reproduced an estimated 80,000 pension and bounty-land-warrant application files based on the participation of American military, naval, and marine officers and enlisted men in the Revolutionary War. Most of the records in the files are dated between 1800 and 1900. The files are part of Record Groups 15, Records of the Veterans Administration.

Pension and Bounty-Land-Warrant Legislation and Administration Relating to Participation in the Revolutionary War

Pension Legislation

For more than a century before the beginning of the Revolutionary War, British colonies in North America provided pensions for disabled soldiers and sailors. During and after the Revolutionary War, three principal types of pensions were provided by the U.S. Government for servicemen and their dependents. "Disability" or "invalid pensions" were awarded to servicemen for physical disabilities incurred in the line of duty, and "widows' pensions" to women whose husbands had been killed in the war or were veterans who had served for specified periods of time.