US Revolutionary War pensions can contain names of individuals born well after the war, including:

  • names of children of the patriot
  • names of witnesses
  • names of justices of the peace, county clerks, etc.
  • names of descendants who inquired about the patriot, etc.

This blog post contains a letter from the great-grandson of the man who supposedly married the veteran and his wife in Virginia shortly after the war.

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