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American Revolutionary War 1777-1783

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- 15th Regiment of Foot
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- 44th Regiment of Foot
- 47th Regiment of Foot
- 48th Regiment of Foot
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- 1st (Royal Scots), 2nd battalion
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- Muster Roll NJ Volunteers Lt. Allen's Co. 6th Battalion
- Muster Roll NJ Volunteers Cpt. Shaw's Co.
- Muster Roll NJ Volunteers Cpt Hopkins Co.
- Muster Roll NJ Volunteers Cpt Shaw's Co.
- Muster Roll NJ Volunteers 5th Battalion Cpt. Crowell's Co. - Muster Roll NJ Volunteers 1st Battalion Cpt. Millidge's Co.
- Muster Roll NJ Volunteers Col. Barton's Co. 1st Battalion
- Muster Roll NJ Volunteers Cpt. Cougle's Co. 1st Battalion

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- Sir John Johnston's Brigade
- List of Men From the Turloch Militia who Joined KRRNY & Butler's Rangers
- 1778 List of Men From Pennsylvania who joined the British Army
- Muster Roll of the Detached Corps under Charge of Lt. DeBeck , New York Volunteers. Capt. Althause's Company List of prisoners 1782 after the Battle of Yorktown Virginia

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Illinois Society of the S.A.R. Yearbook, 1896 -With over 5,000 records, this database of American Revolution service men and their lines of descent is of interest to anyone whose Illinois ancestors served in the American Revolution.
Loyalists in the American Revolution
Sons of the American Revolution
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, 17 Vols.
Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books (152 Vols.)
Virginia Navy in the Revolution
New York Military in the Revolution
Tennessee Soldiers in the Revolution
North Carolina Revolutionary War Soldiers
Virginia Militia in the Revolutionary War
Revolutionary War Officers
Revolutionary War Courts-Martial
Pennsylvania Women in the Revolutionary War
Revolutionary War Pension Index
Illinois Revolutionary War Veteran Burials
Maine Revolutionary War Bounty Applications, 1835-36
American Revolutionary War Rejected Pensions
Revolutionary War Service Records, 1775-83
Maryland Revolutionary War Records
Alabama Revolutionary War Soldiers
Connecticut Revolutionary War Military Lists, 1775-83
Virginia Revolutionary War Records

Lexington, Massachusetts Cemetery Records Located a short ten miles from Boston, the town of Lexington was the famous site of a Revolutionary War confrontation between colonists and British forces.
Military Records: Revolutionary War Muster Rolls CD
Virgina Revolutionary War Bounty Land Warrants

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° Muster and Pay Rolls of the War of the Revolution, 1775-1783 by N, A
° Parole : Quebec; Countersign: Ticonderoga Second New Jersey Regimental Orderly Book, 1776 by Doyen Salsig
° Benedict Arnold : Traitor to the Cause by Norma Jean Lutz, Arthur M., Jr Schlesinger (Editor)
° Benedict Arnold and the American Revolution (Nature Close-Up) by David C. King
° What Was the American Revolution? Essay #4 in American History brought to you by CROSSROADS: A K-16 American History Curriculum, Troy, NY: Council for Citizenship Education, Russell Sage College, 1995
° Military Journal, during the American Recolutionary War from 1776 to 1783 by James Thacher MD Late Surgeon in the American Army

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Finding Your Patriot: Basic Sources for Starting Revolutionary War Research
Lest We Forget: The Value of Military Service Records
Military Regimental Histories - Military service records provide illustrative clues to an ancestor's life.
The Center of Military History and the U.S. Army Military History Institute have Web sites full of information.
Researching the Military Heroes in Your Family History
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Money of the American Revolution

° Colonial & Continental Currency * What's Available in American Revolutionary Records
* Find your Military Ancestors Search Civl War Pension Files, Revolutionary War Pensions and Muster Rols, and WW2 Military Records
* Revolutionary War Soldiers & Descendants
* Records and Histories of Soldiers who Lived or Fought in Tennessee
* 1840 CENSUS OF PENSIONERS REVOLUTIONARY OR MILITARY SERVICES
* VIRGINIA PENSION ROLL OF 1835
* Sag Harbor's Revolutionary War Patriots
* American Prisoners of the Revolution Names of 8000 Men Aboard the Old Jersey The British used the ships at Wallabout Bay, later the site of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, for naval prisoners on this side of the Atlantic. The prisoners included men captured on American privateers, merchant ships, French, Spanish, and Dutch vessels. After April 1780, the Jersey was the receiving ship where names were entered into records.

Revolutionary War Pension Search Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files
Civil War Pension Index Search the Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900.
War of 1812 Prize Cases, Southern Dist Court, NY Search Prize and Related Records for the War of 1812 of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1812-16

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