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Published: 1991

Total Pages: 226

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"Two catastrophic fires in 1800, one in the War Department, the other in the Treasury Department, destroyed the earliest Revolutionary War pension application records. These records consisted primarily of claims for relief based on death or disability suffered during the War. As a result of the destruction of these early records, pension application papers on file at the National Archives do not begin before the year 1800...".