Scope and Content: As early as the seventeenth century, the Massachusetts legislature provided pensions to soldiers wounded or disabled while in military service. Pension payments disrupted because of government upheavals in 1774 led the Provincial Congress to establish a new pension list in 1775.
Notes: Contents: [v. 1] Pension book, 1775-1802. [v. 2] State pension book/Book of accounts of annual pensions, 1802-1830. [v. 3] New pension book 1830, 1829-1833. [v. 4] Pension book, 1802-1836, with name index. [v. 5] Pension book 1829 to–, 1829-1839, with name index. [v. 6] [no title], 1836-1852, with name index.
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