In a message dated 1/22/2009 5:29:56 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: 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 These are not abstracts but verbatim transcriptions of pension applications and other documents relevant to the military service of Revolutionary War soldiers and their widows. The "kind souls" who inspired this effort are mainly Charles Baxley and David Reuwer of South Carolina, who are the driving force behind Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution (SCAR) _http://southerncampaign.org_ (http://southerncampaign.org) . They produce an online periodical that is an excellent source for anyone searching for information about the Revolutionary War in the South. The pension transcriptions are part of this overall effort. Will T. Graves manages that part of it and does most of the transcribing, with help from me and a few other volunteers. At present the site has more than 5200 transcriptions for soldiers who served from or in Virginia, the Carolinas, or Georgia, including all the Harrises. There is an excellent search engine. In my experience there is little distinction between the rejected and approved transcriptions. Rejections were often based on failure to prove at least six months of service, and they sometimes appear to have been arbitrary. Even the rejected applications contain useful historical and genealogical information. Many thousands of pension applications await transcription, so additional volunteers are desperately needed. C. Leon Harris **************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)