Scope and Content: Resolution of Aug. 24, 1780 (U.S. Congress) allowed widows or orphaned children of officers of the Revolutionary War to collect half pay for seven years, providing the officer met the requirements of Resolution of May 15, 1778, permitting half pay for officers in the Continental Army until the end of the war.  Series consists of orders, Jan. 1786-Feb. 1787, requesting half pay to be issued to survivors of members of Massachusetts regiments by state treasurer Thomas Ivers (1782-1787). –Orders in this series come from survivors of the following officers: Edward Kingman (2nd Regiment), Lieutenant Turner (5th Regiment), Capt. David Patrick (7th Regiment), Lt. Ebenezer Fisk (8th Regiment) (two orders), Jonathan Woodward (9th Regiment), Capt. Samuel King (10th Regiment), Maj. Abner Cranston (13th Regiment), Joseph Fenton (13th Regiment), Maj. Joseph Morse (14th Regiment), Capt. Paul Ellis (15th Regiment), and Capt. Edmund Munro (15th Regiment)
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