I need some help on this one. I'm trying to determine George Burton's Revolutionary War service and/or find his pension application. He is listed on the 5th page of the Indiana Pension Roll in the 1838 "Report from the Secretary of War ... in relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States": https://books.google.com/books?id=mIQFAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA1838 Ancestry also has a "U.S. Pensioners, 1818-1872" collection of images that track the payments of the pensions. I find George Burton receiving payments in Pennsylvania in the early 1820s and then in Indiana after that. I've found nothing earlier than 1820. I've no idea why he was receiving payments in Pennsylvania, as he was already in Madison, Jefferson Co., Indiana before that (losing the 1817 election for Justice of the Peace, and counted in the 1820 Jefferson Co. census) and supposedly lived and married in Kentucky before that. Though I'm mellow ... if he was in Pennsylvania before Indiana, that could prove interesting. ;-) A random snippet on the Internet (so it's gotta be true), found here: http://stephenfranklin.tripod.com/burtgeor.html Has this: "Burton, George, U.S. Soldier, Rev. War, served in NW Indian War." Am I not finding his Revolutionary War "stuff" because it's the wrong war? "Pension record shows that he was not in the War of the Revolution but served in the Northwest Indian Wars." "George Burton served eight months as a private and marched 75 miles from Salemtown to Neals Station then to Robinson's Station and back." (Not sure where Salemtown was but Neals Station is perhaps the one on a Historical Marker in Parkersburg WV and Robinson's Station might be Isaac Robinson's blockhouse 50 miles or so down the Ohio River from there, built in 1794.) If he served instead in the NW Indian Wars, where should I be looking? Would those 75 miles of marching make sense? How do I find the pension application? Etc. Based on his census records (1820, 1830, 1840), he was probably born about 1770, which seems very young for the RW. I don't have Fold3.com, should I? (And yes, I need to drop a note to Stephen D. Franklin, author of that interesting page on Tripod. Hopefully the address is still valid.) Karen karen@mtpinos.com kareneyvonne@gmail.com (in case mail to the mtpinos.com address boucnes)