In a message dated 8/26/2008 11:04:53 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Hdanw writes: There were many Rev War pension acts, and the ones which appear in most of the online databases, such as HeritageQuest and Footnote.com, etc. were probably the Act of 1832, after the death of a good many men who participated in the Revolution. I saw a chart one time of ALL the acts, but the 1832 was the most generous and that is when widows could make claims. I appreciate the opportunity to mention the continuing project of transcribing the pension applications of Revolutionary soldiers and widows who served from or in VA, NC, SC, and GA. The transcriptions can be found at _www.southerncampaign.org/pen_ (http://www.southerncampaign.org/pen) and are fully searchable. So far Will Graves and I, as well as a few other contributors, have done more than 4200 of the applications, which I estimate to be about 20% of the total. Pardon my shouting, but MORE TRANSCRIBERS ARE NEEDED. I have transcribed all the applications of Harrises who served from or in VA and elsewhere in the South, as well as those of many others with surnames associated with Harrises of VA (Maupin, Dabney, Eppes, Worsham, etc). The transcriptions are of applications made under all the pension acts covering soldiers and widows, even if they were rejected. There is a link at the above web site to an explanation of the various acts, but the main ones are as follows: Act of 18 Mar 1818 covering only Continental soldiers who were impoverished Act of 1 May 1820 requiring pensioners under the 1818 act to declare their property and describe their family living with them Act of 7 Jun 1832 covering both Militia and Continental soldiers regardless of income. Soldiers had to state the year and place of their birth and where they had lived during and after the Revolution. Acts of 1836 and later covering widows. These acts generally required widows to prove their marriages, so many of the files include original family registers and copies of marriage bonds. The web site is mainly devoted to the history of the Revolutionary War, but whenever appropriate we indicate any records of genealogical significance in the file. As always, serious researchers will want to see the original records. Footnote.com is by far the best source, since it includes every item in each file, and the images are often clearer than those of either NARA microfilms or HeritageQuest, which are not complete. Footnote.com also has other searchable Revolutionary-War records, as well as documents from all other periods of American history. C. Leon Harris **************It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047)