Some kind soul has abstracted many Revolutionary War pension files, including rejected ones, and created a website.. This is the website. Remove any punctuation fore and aft which rootsweb may add. _http://southerncampaign.org/pen/index.htm_ (http://southerncampaign.org/pen/index.htm) _http://southerncampaign.org/pen/index.htm#h_ (http://southerncampaign.org/pen/index.htm#h) [This one with *#h* has surnames beginning with H - many Harrises!!!] He/she, the webmaster, calls this *southern campaign.* I did not read an introduction, which I had better go back and do. S = service man got the pension himself W = the widow of the service man [may have been a third wife] got a pension based on her spouse's Revolutionary War activity. She generally had to produce LOTS of genealogical info. (Upon helping a DAR applicant complete her application, I found her New England ancestress had torn out a page of the family Bible to show the birthdates of her children for the pension office. Unfortunately, on the film, the ink was so faded, I could not read it. However, the applicant, a good researcher, found another avenue for obtaining the children's names and birthdates.) R = rejected, frequently for not having proved he had given six months service. Even the rejected pensions give some genealogical information, I have found through experience. (I found an ancestor's birthplace and the year of his birth. A great help, because he had migrated from NC to KY. It was in the latter state where he applied for the pension when he was about 78 years old.) If you are a *do-it-yourself* genealogist, and you live near an LDS Family History Center, you can generally order the NARA [National Archives] films of selected veterans from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Get a volunteer at the center to help you untangle the catalog entries. as each film has a different number. Some centers may have a notebook which lists the film numbers for the various surnames, but if this is NOT the case at your center, I suggest you telephone the FHL Library in SLC during their night hours, especially in the winter, when they are not overwhelmed with patrons, and ask for the USA/Canada floor and a reference librarian. Ask if they can help you find a film number for your veteran(s). [Salt Lake "City is on Mountain Standard time--until Daylight savings comes around again.] I think some online genealogical databases such as HeritageQuest have images of selected RW pensions, but I am unsure of the rejected ones. I suggested to Footnote.com that they include the rejected ones, as they too give some needed information!!! They took my suggestion under advisement but I do not know the result. If you find the URL above to be satisfactory for your purposes, tell others in your genealogical circle--either by e-mail or in person!!! E.W.Wallace **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1215855013x1201028747/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%26bcd=De cemailfooterNO62)