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1833 Revolutionary War pension for John Smith, resident of Madison County, Alabama
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1833 Revolutionary War Pension for John Smith, Resident of Madison County, Alabama. . 1833. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://digitalcollections.samford.edu/documents/detail/54194.APA citation style
(1833). 1833 Revolutionary War pension for John Smith, resident of Madison County, Alabama. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://digitalcollections.samford.edu/documents/detail/54194.Chicago citation style
1833 Revolutionary War Pension for John Smith, Resident of Madison County, Alabama. 1833. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://digitalcollections.samford.edu/documents/detail/54194.Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
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- Revolutionary claim (pension) issued by the War Department to John Smith, 69 years of age, of Madison County, Alabama, Private in the Army of the Revolution, North Carolina Militia, for eighty dollars, dated 26 January 1833. According to the claim, Smith would begin receiving his pension of eighty dollars semiannually until his death. Starting in 1818, the first of four Revolutionary War veteran pension acts were passed, allowing veterans and later their widows to collect a pension from the federal government every six months.
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- This digital object is the property of the Samford University Library and is intended for non-commercial use. Users of the image are asked to acknowledge the Special Collection, Samford University Library. For information about obtaining high-resolution copies of this or other images in this collection, please contact the Samford University Special Collection department at scdept@samford.edu