'The Decisive Day is Come': The Battle of Bunker Hill Personal accounts, eyewitness descriptions, and contemporary maps and drawings fill this Massachusetts Historical Society site, designed to commemorate the 225th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill. The American Revolution and its Era: Maps & Charts of North American and the West Indies, 1750-1789 This Library of Congress site represents an important historical record of the mapping of North America and the Caribbean. The American Revolution: Military History Bibliography compiled in 1996 by Janet L. Military District of Ohio and Relating Papers (Acts of 1788, 1803, and 1806), 1788-1806 Revolutionary War Bounty Land Warrants Used in the U.S. Virginia Half Pay and Other Related Revolutionary War Pension Application Files (Microfilm Roll #M910, Record Group 15) (free from NARA computers) | ($ by subscription).National Archives Catalog (NAID: 300022).Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files (Microfilm Roll #M804, Record Group15) National Archives Catalog (NAID: 605894)įinal Revolutionary War Pension Payment Vouchers: Georgia (Microfilm Roll # M1746, Record Group 217).Army Pension and Bounty Land Applicationsįinal Revolutionary War Pension Payment Vouchers: Delaware (Microfilm Roll # 2079, Record Group 217) Final Pension Payment Records at the National Archives in Washington, DC.' Remember Me, Six Samplers, a Prologue article, by Jennifer Davis Heaps.Using Revolutionary War Pension Files to Find Family Information, a Prologue article, by Jean Nudd.

Widows of men who provided service received the right to apply for pensions beginning in 1836.

The pension's amount depended on the serviceman's military rank and length of service.

The Revolutionary War pension files, numbering around eighty thousand, consist of applications the federal government received in response to pension legislation enacted in various laws between 18. Miscellaneous Numbered Records (The Manuscript File) in the War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, 1775-1790's (Microfilm Roll #M859, Record Group 93) Numbered Records Books Concerning Military Operations and Service, Pay and Settlement of Accounts, and Supplies in the War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records (Microfilm Roll #M853, Record Group 93)

National Archives Catalog (NAID: 570910)Ĭarded Records Showing Military Service of Soldiers Who Served in Volunteer Units During the Post-Revolutionary War Period, Compiled 1899 - 1927, documenting the period 1784 - 1811 (Microfilm Roll #M905, Record Group 94).

(free from NARA computers) | ($ - by subscription)Ĭompiled Service Records of Soldiers who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War (Microfilm Roll #M881, Record Group 93).

National Archives Catalog (NAID: 572134).

($ - by subscription) | (free from NARA computers)Ĭompiled Service Records of American Naval Personnel and Members of the Departments of the Quartermaster General and the Commissary General of Military Stores Who Served During the Revolutionary War (Microfilm Roll #M880, Record Group 93).

National Archives Catalog (NAID: 602384).

Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 (Microfilm Roll #M246, Record Group 93) Regular and Volunteer United States Military Service Between the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, a reference report Search Online Revolutionary War Service, 1775–1783, a reference report Army Pension and Bounty Land Applications

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