The final payment vouchers for Delaware and Georgia have been microfilmed and were formerly only available from NARA or the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Now, the images can be viewed on Fold3.

Final Revolutionary War Pension Payment Vouchers: Delaware (M2079) was funded by the National Institute on Genealogical Research Alumni Association (NIGRAA) and the National Archives Trust Fund.

Final Revolutionary War Pension Payment Vouchers: Georgia (M1746) was funded by The R.J. Taylor, Jr., Foundation and the National Archives Trust Fund.

A Fold3 Blog post describes using the payment vouchers in your research and what you can do with them.

The remaining states are only available as textual records and files. They can be ordered from NARA. (See below.)

Several books offer abstracts of the records. Titles for "Selected Final Pension Payment Vouchers, 1818-1864" by either Alycon Trubey Pierce or Kathryn McPherson Gunning include:

Alabama: Decatur-Huntsville-Mobile-Tuscaloosa (Pierce)
District of Columbia (Pierce)
Louisiana: New Orleans (Pierce)
Maryland: Baltimore (Pierce)
Mississippi: Natchez & Jackson (Pierce)
New Jersey: Trenton (Pierce)
Pennsylvania: Philadelphia & Pittsburgh (Gunning)
Rhode Island (Gunning)
South Carolina: Charleston (Pierce)
Virginia: Richmond & Wheeling (Pierce)

Pensions Enacted by Congress for American Revolutionary War Veterans

History of Military Pension Legislation in the United States, by William Henry Glasson, is available as a download from Google Books.

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