Charles wrote, >>George, still enjoy reading all you have posted about the Rev. War. I need to ask another question, yesterday or today you posted and in your email it was about getting a Rev. War pension and that a person needed to have served 9 months or more to be eligible to receive one. I have misplaced this email and can't remember what was said. The reason I am asking I am researching my 4th great grandfather Abraham Fuller for a possible SAR supplement. I have found some info that he served in Caswell Co. NC with Capt. Turner's Company and the info I have is he served from March 15 to July 30, 1779. I find no evidence that he applied for a pension, so if you had to serve 9 months or more this is probably the reason I haven't found a request for a pension for Abraham.<< Charles, it was I who wrote the item concerning 9 months' service required--for a Congressional pension. Various States also had pension provisions. You can find a summary of the legislation concerning Congressional Pensions in the Archives of this list. Search in 2005, Ed St. Germain posted it at least three times. There is also a good tutorial on Revolutionary War pensions and bounty land accessible from the Rootsweb Home Page. Also About.com has some good articles on such matters. As to your conclusion about why your man did not receive a pension, his having less than 9 months that you can document may not be the reason. For example, some served on the Patriot side early in the war but later went over to the British--one example of this was a son of a famous Mohawk Valley commander; the son started out as a commissioned officer in the First New York Continental Regiment. Good hunting, Judy

Thanks Judy, I'll do the search you suggested. Charles ----- Original Message ----- From: <Frostfreedet@aol.com> To: <AMERICAN-REVOLUTION@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 9:20 PM Subject: [AMERICAN-REVOLUTION] Pension Item: term of service > Charles wrote, > >>>George, still enjoy reading all you have posted about the Rev. War. I >>>need > to ask another question, yesterday or today you posted and in your email > it > was about getting a Rev. War pension and that a person needed to have > served > 9 months or more to be eligible to receive one. I have misplaced this > email > and can't remember what was said. The reason I am asking I am researching > my 4th great grandfather Abraham Fuller for a possible SAR supplement. I > have found some info that he served in Caswell Co. NC with Capt. Turner's > Company and the info I have is he served from March 15 to July 30, 1779. I > find no evidence that he applied for a pension, so if you had to serve 9 > months or more this is probably the reason I haven't found a request for a > pension for Abraham.<< > > Charles, it was I who wrote the item concerning 9 months' service > required--for a Congressional pension. Various States also had pension > provisions. You > can find a summary of the legislation concerning Congressional Pensions in > the > Archives of this list. Search in 2005, Ed St. Germain posted it at least > three times. There is also a good tutorial on Revolutionary War pensions > and > bounty land accessible from the Rootsweb Home Page. Also About.com has > some good > articles on such matters. > > As to your conclusion about why your man did not receive a pension, his > having less than 9 months that you can document may not be the reason. > For > example, some served on the Patriot side early in the war but later went > over to the > British--one example of this was a son of a famous Mohawk Valley > commander; > the son started out as a commissioned officer in the First New York > Continental > Regiment. > > Good hunting, > Judy > List Mom for the AMERICAN-REVOLUTION mailing list: > Diana Boothe philsbarbie1@arkansasfamilies.net > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > We have archives! Search for your AMERICAN-REVOLUTION information > here..... > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=AMERICAN-REVOLUTION > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out other genealogy resources on the net at John Fuller's most > helpful site http://www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AMERICAN-REVOLUTION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message