A Demographic View of the Georgia Continental Line and Militia: 1775–1783
byTo complement my two studies of the North Carolina Continental Line and militia/state troops, I’ve researched the demographics of the Georgia Continental Line and militia…
Revolutionary War Pension Statements
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“Good and Sufficient Testimony:” The Development of the Revolutionary War Pension Plan
byOne of the greatest sources of information on the American Revolution is the collection of pension applications submitted by American veterans of the war…
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Virginia’s Swamp Fox: Captain Amos Weeks of Princess Anne County
byAnyone who has ever tackled genealogical or historical research knows that the process is very much like putting a jigsaw puzzle together or working…
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William Babcock and His Inaccurate Pension Application
byThe Healey Library at the University of Massachusetts Boston defines primary sources as “immediate, first-hand documents of a topic, from people who had a…
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A Demographic View of North Carolina Militia and State Troops, 1775–1783
byAfter nearly a quarter of a millennium, what do we really know about the militia and state troops that served during the Revolutionary War?…
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Enoch Crosby: A Hudson Valley Spy in Fact and Fiction
byJames Fenimore Cooper published his wildly popular second novel, The Spy: a Tale of the Neutral Ground, in 1821. The book tells the story…
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The Lost Journal of Private Freeman Judd
byOver the years, historians have located about thirty first-hand accounts of the American expedition into Canada in the fall of 1775. These accounts detail…
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10 Disabled British Pensioners
byWars were fought by soldiers, but it is the campaigns and commanders that are remembered and studied. This is a shame because the soldiers…
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John Butler’s “Want of Good Generalship”
byI plan to write about how the Tory guerrilla David Fanning changed after being made a Loyalist Colonel and given his own red coat,…