Don Dickason <Dickason31@aol.com> > Can some one help me understand why a soldier in the Rev. (or spouse) would > NOT have applied for or gotten either a pension or a land bounty warrant. > Would there be some other post war compensation that they could have gotten > in lieu of these? My ignorance of Rev. War pensions and other perks is very deep and profound. However, a newly found long- lost cousin recently sent me the text of my umpteenth grand uncle's Rev. War pension that has two interesting points: 1. "On this 28th day of September 1832, personally appeared in open Court before the County Court of Livingston County [NY] ... Elisha Powell ... in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832." Supposing that there were no earlier pension laws before this one (I have no idea if there were or not), well, my direct ancestors did not apply for Rev. War pensions for the simple reason that they happened to be dead in 1832. Being dead, it would have been considered highly irregular for them to appear in court. 2. "That ... his name is not in the pension roll of any agency of any state." I.e., assuming that he had served in, say, the War of 1812 and was pensioned for that (assuming there were such pensions), he would be ineligible for a Rev. War pension. Any other sort of pension would have disallowed a second, Rev. War pension. I have also heard rumor of land grants awarded to some Rev. War vets. The only example of this I know of personally was for land in "the Ohio country." If that happened to be the rule (and I don't know if it was or not), then vets who were unable to move for some reason (ornery spouse or other injuries) might not have been able to claim such land because they couldn't get there. But, that's just a guess. Another point might also be that many of the Rev. War vets simply didn't serve very much or for very long. The militias were part-time, perhaps even spare-time activities in many cases. Elisha Powell's pension hearing transcript shows that he was *VERY* active in the military for several years. The document reads like some kind of history book. Just guessing, again, it might be that pensions went to the long-term troopers, like Elisha, who were probably a minority. But, again, I must say that this is guesswork. I just happened to notice that this one case involved an awful lot of marching and fighting. Lester Powers ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.