Certificates submitted by disabled Revolutionary War veterans claiming pensions and audited accounts of pensions, 1779-1789.

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Certificates submitted by disabled Revolutionary War veterans claiming pensions and audited accounts of pensions, 1779-1789.

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The records in this series consist of copies of certificates and accounts of money paid to pensioners.

5.3 cu. ft., (9 volumes)

New York State Archives

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New York (State). Auditor-General.

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New York (State). Auditor.

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During and immediately after the Revolutionary War the U.S. Congress passed resolutions recommending that the states make provisions to pay pensions to soldiers and sailors wholly or partially disabled from earning a living by means of wounds, illness, or accidential injury sustained while in military service. Pensions were to be paid on account of the United States. In 1779 New York established procedures for paying these pensions. Claimants were required to submit cert...