4th Battalion of New Jersey Volunteers

Documents, Interviews, Loyalists, Pension Records, People, The War Years (1775-1783) October 3, 2022 October 3, 2022

This Week on Dispatches: Sarah Swift on Searching for Samuel Babcock’s Military Service

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On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews actor, research, and JAR contributor, Sarah Swift on her research on the service record of Loyalist Samuel…

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Loyalists, Pension Records, People, The War Years (1775-1783) September 27, 2022 September 26, 2022

Searching for Samuel’s Service: Stories of the Revolution Revealed Through One Man

by Sarah Swift

The American Revolution was perhaps America’s first civil war—a dispute that forced neighbors to choose between country and King; to declare themselves Patriots or…

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1. John Fitzhugh Millar The American Invasion of Canada

Benedict Arnold could see in the summer of 1774 that when a war broke out the British could simply send troops down Lake Champlain from Canada and clamp a lid…
2. Darren Sharrocks The American Invasion of Canada

Good article and very interesting but the spelling and grammar needs correcting.
3. William Cooke The American Invasion of Canada

It may have been more appropriate to use the spelling Canadien to refer to the French-speaking inhabitants of the Province of Quebec during the Revolutionary War.