As part of our mission of sharing information about the Revolution, Southern Campaign of the American Revolution (SCAR) has added this link on its website for the posting of transcriptions of pension applications filed by Revolutionary War veterans, their widows and descendants. Everyone is invited to submit their transcriptions of pension applications for posting on the website. Will Graves is the librarian. No attempt will be made to edit the submissions. Consequently, please review and edit your submissions as thoroughly as possible: they will only be as useful as they are accurate.

To assure that the transcriptions are as useful as possible, the following guidelines for submissions are suggested:

1. Correct the spelling of proper names of people and places to reflect the modern spelling. This should be done by inserting the modern spelling in parentheses or brackets after the name as spelled in the original. For example: “…Col. Thomas Brannon (sic, Brandon) commanded the regiment.” It is important, however, to preserve the original spelling in order not to compromise the authenticity of the transcription of the original and as a safeguard against misinterpretation by the transcriber.

2. Indicate whether punctuation, grammar and/or spelling have been modified from the pension application originally filed with the War Department.

3. Begin each submission as follows: "Pension Application of [insert the name of the soldier using first name, middle name or initial, if any, and last name]: [insert the applicable National Pension Claim number]: transcribed [and annotated, if applicable] by [insert the name of the transcriber]."

4. In the event of submission of more than one transcription of an application, the submission judged to be the most complete and accurate will be posted and substitution of more accurate or complete transcriptions of already posted applications will be made when deemed appropriate.

5. Each transcription should be in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, a "text rich" format or Adobe PDF format and submitted to Will Graves by email at revwarapps with the words "Pension Application" in the subject line.

All submissions will be converted to Adobe PDF format prior to posting.

All pension application transcriptions are welcomed regardless of whether or not the pensioner claimed service in the Southern Campaigns. Annotated transcriptions are particularly welcomed. Help make these valuable sources of eyewitness accounts more freely available on the Web.