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1820 Pension List for Revolutionary and Military Service
The 1820 pension list is a report of the names, rank and line of every person placed on the pension list in pursuance of the act of the 18th March, 1818.
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1840 Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary and Military Service
1840 Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary and Military Service as returned under the act for taking the sixth census.
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1840 Census: A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services
A census of pensioners for revolutionary or military services; with their names, ages, and places of residence, as returned by the marshals of the several judicial districts, under the act for taking the Sixth Census. Published by authority of an act of Congress, under the direction of the Secretary of State.
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A Transcript Of The 1813 Pension List Of The United States For Revolutionary Pensioners
1813 Pension List: Letter from the secretary of war communicating a transcript of the pension list of the United States shewing the number of pensioners in the several districts. Also the amount allowed to each pensioner. June 1, 1813, Referred to the Committee of Claims.
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Ancestry.com - Search Military Records
Searching Ancestry's databases is free, and then viewing the final results in the genealogical datasets is available by paid subscription.
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Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots
Original source: Hatcher, Patricia Law. Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots. Vol. 1-4. Dallas, TX, USA: Pioneer Heritage Press, 1987.
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Original source: Burns, Annie Walker,. Abstract of pension papers of soldiers of the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and Indian wars, who settled in Knox County, Kentucky. Washington, D.C.: unknown, 1935.
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Abstract of pensions of North Carolina soldiers of the Revolution, War of 1812 & Indian Wars
Original source: Burns, Annie Walker,. Abstract of pensions of North Carolina soldiers of the Revolution, War of 1812 & Indian Wars. Washington, D.C.: unknown, 1960.
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Original source: Hatcher, Patricia Law. Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots. Vol. 1-4. Dallas, TX, USA: Pioneer Heritage Press, 1987.
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Original source: Burns, Annie Walker,. Abstracts of pension papers, Revolutionary War, and 1812 War soldiers who settled in Hardin County, Ky. (Elizabethtown, Kentucky). Washington, D.C.: unknown, 193-?.
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Original source: McGhee, Lucy Kate.. Abstracts of pensions, soldiers of the Revolution, 1812 & Indian wars, who settled on the Kentucky side of the Ohio River.. Washington, D.C.: unknown, 1900.
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Alabama Revolutionary War Soldiers
Original source: Alabama Department of Archives and History. Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama. Montgomery, AL, USA: The Brown Printing Co., 1911.
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American Revolutionary soldiers of Franklin County, Pennnsylvania [sic]
Original source: Fendrick, Virginia Shannon.. American Revolutionary soldiers of Franklin County, Pennnsylvania [sic]. Chambersburg, Pa.: Historical Works Committee of the Franklin County Chapter, c1944.
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American Revolutionary War Rejected Pensions
Original source: Rejected or Suspended Applications for Revolutionary War Pensions. Washington, D.C.: n.p., 1852.
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Connecticut Men in the Revolutionary War
Original source: Johnston, Henry P., ed.. The Record of Connecticut Men in the Military and Naval Service During the War of the Revolution 1775-1783. Vol. I-III. Hartford, CT, USA: 1889.
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Original source: United States Senate. Report from the Secretary of War, in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834, and the 3d of March, 1835, In Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States. [Connecticut. Washington, D.C.: Duff Green, 1835.
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Connecticut Revolutionary War Military Lists, 1775-83
Original source: Johnston, Henry P., ed.. Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society Revolution Rolls and Lists, 1775-1783. Vol. VIII. Hartford, CT, USA: Connecticut Historical Society, 1901, 1999.
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Death Seem'd to Stare: The New Hampshire and Rhode Island Regiments at Valley Forge
Original source: Boyle, Joseph Lee. Death Seem'd to Stare: The New Hampshire and Rhode Island Regiments at Valley Forge. Baltimore, MD, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2005.
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Original source: United States Senate. Report from the Secretary of War, in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834, and the 3d of March, 1835, In Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States. [Delaware Section]. Washington, D.C.: Duff Green, 1835.
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Illinois Revolutionary War Veteran Burials
Original source: Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Illinois. n.p.: n.p., 1917.
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Illinois Society of the S.A.R. Yearbook, 1896
Original source: Year Book of the Illinois Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Chicago, IL, USA: Wm. Johnston Printing Co., 1896.
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Loyalists in the American Revolution: Miscellaneous Records
Original source: a mixture of various Loyalist databases.
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Original source: United States Senate. Report from the Secretary of War, in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834, and the 3d of March, 1835, In Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States. [Maine Section]. Washington, D.C.: Duff Green, 1835.
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Maine Revolutionary War Bounty Applications, 1835-36
Original source: Names of Soldiers of the American Revolution Who Applied for State Bounty under Resolves of March 17, 1835, March 24, 1836, and March 20, 1836, as Appears of Record in Land Office. n.p., 1893.
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Mariners of the American Revolution
Original source: Kaminkow, Marion. Mariners of the American Revolution. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1993.
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Maryland Revolutionary War Records
Original source: Newman, Harry Wright. Maryland Revolutionary Records. Baltimore, MD, USA: Maryland Archives, 1938..
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Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War (Images Online)
Original source: Massachusetts. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War. Vol. 1-17. Boston, MA, USA: Wright & Potter Printing, 1896-1908.
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Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, 17 Vols.
Searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images available with fee-based subscription. Original source: Secretary of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution. Vol. I-XVII. Boston, MA, USA: Wright and Potter Printing Co., 1896.
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Michigan Military Records, 1775-1836
Original source: Michigan Military Records. n.p., 1920.
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Muster and Pay Rolls of the War of the Revolution, 1775-1783: Miscellaneous Records
Original source: Originally published as Volumes XLVII and XLVIII of Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the years 1914 and 1915 (New York: 1916).
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New Hampshire Pensioners, 1835
Original source: United States Senate. Report from the Secretary of War, in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834, and the 3d of March, 1835, In Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States. [New Hampshire Section]. Washington, D.C.: Duff Green, 1835.
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Original source: United States Senate. Report from the Secretary of War, in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834, and the 3d of March, 1835, In Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States. [New Jersey Section]. Washington, D.C.: Duff Green, 1835.
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New York Military in the Revolution
Original source: Electronic reproduction of New York in the Revolution as Colony and State, Vol. II, originally published in 1897.
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Original source: United States Senate. Report from the Secretary of War, in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834, and the 3d of March, 1835, In Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States. [New York Section]. Washington, D.C.: Duff Green, 1835.
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North Carolina Revolutionary War Soldiers
Original source: Roster of Soldiers from North Carolina in the American Revolution. Durham, NC, USA: The North Carolina Daughters of the American Revolution, 1932.
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Original source: United States Senate. Report from the Secretary of War, in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834, and the 3d of March, 1835, In Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States. [Pennsylvania Section]. Washington, D.C.: Duff Green, 1835.
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Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants
Original source: Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1998.
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Revolutionary War Courts-Martial
Original source: Neagles, James C. Summer Soldiers, A Survey & Index of Revolutionary War Courts-Martial. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: Ancestry, Inc., 1986.
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Original source: Heitman, Francis B. Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution. Washington, D.C.: The Rare Book Shop Pub. Co., 1914.
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Revolutionary War Pension Index
Original source: Washington, D.C.: A. and G. Way, Printers, 1813. Taken from a book in the collection of the Leavenworth County Genealogical Society titled Letter from the Secretary of Way, communicating A Transcript of the Pension List of the United States showing the Number of Pensioners in the Several Districts. Also, The Amount Allowed to each Pensioner dated June 1, 1813, Referred to the Committee of Claims.
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Revolutionary War Pensioner Census, 1841
Original source: A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services. Washington, USA: Blair and Rives, 1841.
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Original source: United States Senate. Report from the Secretary of War, in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834, and the 3d of March, 1835, In Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States. [Rhode Island Section]. Washington, D.C.: Duff Green, 1835.
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Roster of Revoloutionary Soldiers in Georgia Vol. I
Original source: McCall, Mrs. Howard H. Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.
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Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution
Original source: Moss, Boby Gilmer. Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994.
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South Carolinians in the Revolution . . .
Original source: Ervin, Sara Sullivan. South Carolinians in the Revolution . . ... Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2003.
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The Pension Roll of 1835, Vol. I
Original source: United States Senate. Report from the Secretary of War, in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834, and the 3d of March, 1835, In Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States.
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Original source: United States Senate. Report from the Secretary of War, in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834, and the 3d of March, 1835, In Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States.
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Original source: United States Senate. Report from the Secretary of War, in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834, and the 3d of March, 1835, In Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States.
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Original source: United States Senate. Report from the Secretary of War, in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834, and the 3d of March, 1835, In Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States.
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U.S. Military Burial Registers, 1768-1921
Original source: Burial Registers for Military Posts, Camps, and Stations, 1768-1921; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M2014, 1 roll); Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, Record Group 92; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
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U.S. Revolutionary War Miscellaneous Records (Manuscript File), 1775-1790s
Original source: Miscellaneous Numbered Records (The Manuscript File) in the War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, 1775-1790s, 1775-1790; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M859, 125 rolls); War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, Record Group 93; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
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U.S. Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
Original source: Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M246, 138 rolls); War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, Record Group 93; National Archives, Washington. D.C.
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U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006
Original source: National Cemetery Administration. Nationwide Gravesite Locator.
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U.S. War and Conflict Images, 1765-1970
Original source: Defense Visual Information Center, comp. War and Conflict. Defense Visual Information Center, Riverside, CA, USA, in collaboration with the National Archives, Washington, D.C.
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U.S. War Bounty Land Warrants, 1789-1858
Original source: U.S. Revolutionary War Bounty Land Warrants Used in the U.S. Military District of Ohio and Relating Papers (Acts of 1788, 1803, and 1806), 1788-1806; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M829, 16 rolls); Records of the Bureau of Land Management, Record Group 49; National Archives, Washington, D.C.; War of 1812 Military Bounty Land Warrants, 1815-1858; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M848, 14 rolls); Records of the Bureau of Land Management, Record Group 49; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
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Vermont Men in the Revolutionary War
Original source: Goodrich, John E., ed.. The State of Vermont. Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War 1775 to 1783. Rutland, VT, USA: Tuttle, 1904.
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Original source: United States Senate. Report from the Secretary of War, in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834, and the 3d of March, 1835, In Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States. [Vermont Section]. Washington, D.C.: Duff Green, 1835.
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Original source: Excerpted from The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the William and Mary College Quarterly, and Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine.
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Virginia Navy in the Revolution
Original source: Stewart, Robert Armistead. History of Virginia's Navy in the Revolution. Richmond, VA, USA: Mitchell and Hotchkiss, 1934.
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Virginia Revolutionary War Records
Original source: Brumbaugh, Gaius Marcus. Revolutionary War Records. Vol. 1 - Virginia. Washington, D.C.: 1936.
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Virginia Soldiers of 1776, Vol. 1
Original source: Burgess, Louis Alexander. Virginia Soldiers of 1776. Richmond, VA, USA: Richmond Press, 1927.
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What Can't Brave Americans Endure?
About the six-month encampment of the Continental Army at Valley Forge in 1777-1778. Original source: Boyle, Joseph Lee. What Can't Brave Americans Endure?. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2001.
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Ancestry.com - U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900 $
Original source: Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files (NARA microfilm publication M804, 2,670 rolls). Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15. National Archives, Washington, D.C. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.
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Ancestry.com - U.S., The Pension Roll of 1835 $
Original source: United States Senate.The Pension Roll of 1835.4 vols. 1968 Reprint, with index. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1992. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.
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Early Navy Personnel Records at the National Archives, 1776
Article by Lee D. Bacon.
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Fold3 is an online repository for original historical documents, combined with the ability for users to make comments, annotations, and upload their own documents. The focus of Fold3 is to be a comprehensive collection of U.S. Military records. Some areas of Fold3 are free to use, while others can be freely searched and then viewed with a paid subscription.
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Original source: NARA M804. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files.
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Revolutionary War Prize Cases - Captured Vessels
Original source: NARA M162. Records of prize cases heard on appeal from Colonial and state courts by the Continental Congress and the Court of Appeals in Cases of Capture, 1776-1787.
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Original source: NARA M246. These documents include muster rolls, payrolls, strength returns, and other miscellaneous personnel, pay, and supply records of American Army units, 1775-83.
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Revolutionary War Service Records
Original source: NARA M881. Compiled service records of soldiers who served in the American Army during the Revolutionary War, 1775-1783.
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Genealogy Quest - Rebel Prisoners from America
A list of prisoners taken near Montreal, 25 September 1775.
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HeritageQuest Online is not available to individual users. Instead, you can access the collection through many public libraries. Most often, you can use the collection from home by logging in through your library's web site. Check with your local library for details. The collection consists of six core data sets: U.S. Federal Censuses feature the original images of every extant federal census in the United States, from 1790 through 1930, with name indexes for many decades. Genealogy and local history books deliver more than 7 million digitized page images from over 28,000 family histories, local histories, and other books. Periodical Source Index (PERSI) is recognized as the most comprehensive index genealogy and local history periodicals. It contains more than 2 million records covering titles published around the world since 1800. Revolutionary War records contains original images from pension and bounty land warrant application files help to identify more than 80,000 American Army, Navy, and Marine officers and enlisted men from the Revolutionary War era. Freedman
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Index to Revolutionary War Pensioners FREE
Database from the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
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Maine State Archives - Revolutionary War Land Grants and Pension Applications
These lists tell the soldier's name, residence, and the source of the application. Maine means a Maine Land Grant, Mass. a Massachusetts Land Grant, HCCR is from the Hancock County Court Records, LCCR is Lincoln County Court Records, and YCCR is York County Court Records. Many of the County Courts still have their pension applications there.
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These roster lists are for men from Kingston Parish/Mathews County, Virginia who fought for the colonies in the American Revolutionary War. The collection contains links to original and transcribed application files from officers and enlisted men in all branches of the American military, as well as, applications for pension or bounty-land warrants by a veteran's widow or his heirs. The list only includes men who have been proven to have served unless otherwise noted.
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Military Lots assigned to soldiers, Garrett County, Maryland. 1787
Lots assigned to Marylanders who served 3 years in the American army during the Revolutionary War. Each soldier was assigned 50 acres, and officers 200 acres, in Garrett County, Western Maryland. Map by Frances DEAKINS and list of land grants.
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Nicholas LYBARGER’s Revolutionary War Pension File
This is a *beautiful* example of how to transcribe a pension file, and how to publish the results on the web. This pension file contains genealogical and historical data on the LYBARGER and BALL families of Bedford and Erie counties, Pennsylvania. Other surnames mentioned include BRINDLE, COCHRAN, DEVORE, GUTHRIE, HART, LARGE, LAUGHLIN, MCKEE, MILLER, RIED, SALISBURY, SAWTIL. [The original link is gone. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]
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Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War
Extractions relating to about 2000 Revolutionary War soldiers from Hunterdon and Somerset Counties, New Jersey. Source is Stryker's Official Register published in 1872.
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Orderly Books of the Continental Army
Bibliography of all known orderly books of the Continental Army.
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