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Letters and Correspondence, Pension Records, People, Postwar Politics (>1783), The War Years (1775-1783) February 24, 2022 February 22, 2022

Johnson Cook: Patriot Warrior

by Adrina Garbooshian-Huggins

In the fall of 1796, just months before George Washington’s presidency ended, thirty-six-year-old Revolutionary War veteran Johnson Cook (1760-1848), a Connecticut native, petitioned the…

Pension Records, People, Primary Sources, The War Years (1775-1783) April 20, 2021 April 18, 2021

“She had gone to the Army . . . to her Husband”: Judith Lines’s Unremarked Life

by John Rees

When the War of the Revolution began in April 1775, Connecticut resident Judith Jeffords née Philips was nineteen years old, had been married for two…

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