Officers of the Continental army who served to the end of the war and acquired the right to commutation pay and bounty land : also officers killed in battle, or died in service

Preface

The subscriber having been engaged for some years in the prosecution of Claims before Congress, and the Departments of Government in this city, has, in the progress of such business, gathered from the most reliable and authentic sources many very valuable Revolutionary documents, from which he has imbodied and arranged with great care, in alphabetical order, and in States, the names and rank of all the officers of the Continental line who engaged for the war, and served to the end thereof, or became supernumerary under the resolves of Congress, on or subsequent to the 1st January, 1781, and thereby acquired the right to commutation pay under the resolve of October 21st, 1780; together with the names of officers killed in battle or died in service, to whose widows or children seven years' half-pay was promised under the resolve of August 24th, 1780.

In a separate list are also shown the names and rank of officers, giving the States in which service was performed; to whom upwards of thirty thousand acres of United States bounty land is due, and will issue under the existing laws, on proper application and proof of heirship.

This valuable material has been obtained and prepared only at considerable expense of time, labor, and money; and, to indemnify himself to some extent, the subscriber has determined to have a limited number of copies of it printed, for sale to such as may desire this rare and useful information.

Although many claims for commutation and seven years' half-pay may have been liquidated, yet it is an established fact, that within the last few years numerous acts have passed for the relief of the legal representatives of officers who failed during their lives to assert their rights to commutation, or tht widow or children to seven years' half-pay. That many meritorious claims aire still pending, and others being presented, the reports of the two Houses of Congress show. To all such, if entitled, and their claims are unsupported by proper evidence, the information now offered will afford recourse to direct testimony,

of a character never before made public.

ALEXANDER RAY.

RESOLUTIONS, LAWS, AND ORDINANCES,

PROMISES MADE BY CONGRESS TO OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLU- TION J TO SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNTS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE SEVERAL STATES; AND TO FUNDING THE REVOLUTIONARY DEBT.