Revolutionary War Claims 

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Source:  Sprague's Journal of Maine History
Vol. V
November, December, January 1917-18
No. 4 pages pages 196
An Alphabetical Index of Revolutionary Pensioners Lining in Maine.   Complied by 
Charles A. Flagg, Librarian, Bangor, (Maine) Public Library.  Published by 
John Francis Sprague, Dover, ME

CLAIMS
While the foregoing lists include the veterans who were pensioned under the 
general laws and many others, they do not by any means give all Revolutionary 
pensioners; many of course (died before the date of our earliest lists; and many 
must have been pensioned by special act between the date of the last list (1840) 
and the death of the last Revolutionary veteran in the late "sixties."

Fortunately each House of Congress publishes from time to time indexes of private 
claims brought before them and these claims include special pension bills. 
Furthermore these indexes are strictly alphabetical and therefore easy to 
consult (as the pension lists are not)

House Lists
1st-31st Congress, 1789-1851
(32d Congress 1st session. House misc. doc. [unnumbered] serial no. 653-655).
32d-41st Congress, 1851-1871
(42d Cong. 3d session. House misc. doc. no. 109. Serial no. 1574). 

Senate List
14th-46th Congress, 1817-1881
(46th Cong. A session. Senate. misc. doc.no. 14 Serial no. 1945-1946.)