U. S. Navy Pension Fund Records
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During its earliest years, the United States Congress decided to provide disability pensions for the Navy. While many researchers are familiar with the term pension as it is often associated with retirement, the Navy Pension Fund was a fund for disabled naval personnel, or in the case of deceased servicemen, the families that they left behind.
The U.S. government sponsored plan was initially funded through the sale of prizes captured on the high seas which were placed in the Navy Pension Fund.
The lists of pensioners herewith presented, furnish the information usually afforded by annual reports, such as the names of the pensioners, their rank, places where disabled, and the amount of the pensions granted to them. In addition to this, there is given much information in relation to pensions granted to widows and orphans, not found on the records, but which has been collected from the original papers on file.
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Reports Online
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- 1811 Annual Navy Pension Fund Report
- 1817 Annual Navy Pension Fund Report
- 1822 Annual Navy Pension Fund Report
- 1830 Annual Navy Pension Fund Report
- 1840 Census of Pensioners
- 1851 Annual Navy Pension Fund Report
- 1883 List of Pensioners on the Roll (Iowa Only)
Additional Information
- Revolutionary War Pension Files (with images)
- History of Military Pension Legislation in the United States
- Unlikely Sources: Government Documents
- Privatization: The U.S. Navy Pension Fund, 1800-1842
