Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File
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National Archives Microfilm Publications
Microcopy No. 804

Revolutionary War Pension
and Bounty-Land-Warrant
Application Files

Roll 1096

Gordan, Bernard - 
Gordon, Jesse

The National Archives
National Archives and Records Service
General Services Administration
Washington: 1969
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documents were filmed first, preceded by a target headed “SELECTED RECORDS.”  The documents may include pension applications, jackets showing the act under which pension payments were made, bounty-land-warrant applications, jackets showing the warrant numbers of warrants granted, property schedules, family-record pages from Bibles or other books, copies of marriage records, and final payment vouchers.  All remaining documents in that file were filmed after a target headed “NONSELECTED RECORDS.”  No distinction was made between selected and nonselected records in filming the envelope files that contained 10 or fewer pages of records; these files can be recognized by a star next to the veteran’s surname in the heading.

Related Records and Sources of Information

Also in Record Group 15 are letterbooks, registers, and other administrative records of the Pension Office and its successors relating to Revolutionary War pension and bounty-land-warrant applications.  Bounty-land warrants are in Record Group 49, Records of the Bureau of Land Management.  Pension payment books and final payment vouchers are in Record Group 217, Records of the United States General Accounting Office.  Correspondence of the Secretary of War and of the Secretary of the Interior concerning their supervision of pension and bounty-land-warrant matters is in Record Group 107, Records of the Office of the Secretary of War, and in Record Group 48, Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior.
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Military Pension Legislation in the United States (New York, 1900), and Federal Military Pensions in the United States (New York 1918); and Payson J. Treat, The National Land System, 1785-1820 (New York, 1910).  Many of the laws relating to pensions and bounty-land warrants granted for Revolutionary War service, and regulations established by the Secretaries of War, the Treasury, and the Interior for administering them, are compiled in Robert Mayo and Ferdinand Moulton, Army and Navy Pension Laws and Bounty Land Laws of the United States . . . From 1776 to 1852 (Washington, 1852).