"Hugh Watkins" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > "Pat Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > > I found an ancestor that received payment for American Revolutionary > > War service from North Carolina. This payment is listed in "Pierce's > > Register" and I have the claim # from that register. How do I find > > the actual entry? I know John Pierce, Esq. was the US Paymaster that > > paid these claims to Continental Soldiers. I know the Register is the > > list of these payments. Where do I find the actual entry? > > my friends on AOL genealogy say try NARA The North Carolina State Archives houses all NC Revolutionary War service records. Do a Google search. They have a web site. Merely request the record and send whatever fee they want. It's cheap and a helluva lot easier than tangling with the Federal Bureaucracy.