- Virginia's Colonial Soldiers
by Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck
An authoritative register of Virginia's colonial soldiers, this volume
includes information taken from county court minutes and orders, bounty
land applications and warrants, court martial records, county militia
rosters, Hening's Statutes at Large, the Draper manuscripts,
and manuscripts in the Public Record Office in London. More than a catalogue
of names and dates, it includes the military's "size" rolls which routinely
give the soldier's place of birth, age, residence, occupation, and physical
description. Sometimes you'll even find an enlisting officer's impressions
of the soldier.
- Revolutionary War Records: Virginia
by Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh
Based on widely scattered and little known records, this 700+ page compilation
is known as one of the most ambitious collections of Revolutionary War
source materials ever published. Described as "a treasure house of information
about Virginians in the Revolutionary War," it contains list after list
of soldiers and sailors extracted from bounty land warrants, pension
applications, land scrip records, records of the State Line and the
Continental Line, militia records, Half Pay applications, etc. According
to The Virginia Genealogist (Vol. 12, No. 2), "This is one of
those basic volumes which should be in any major genealogical collection."
- Virginia Soldiers of 1776 (Three Volumes)
by Louis A. Burgess
The records collected here serve to establish proof of Revolutionary
service and descent of bounty land. They include bounty warrants, military
certificates, exchange warrants, and land vouchers. Annexed to these
claims are certificates of heirship, wills, and powers of attorney,
and dates of birth and death and place of residence of the Revolutionary
soldier. Further information includes the number of the warrant, exact
number of acres granted, and date issued.
- Virginia Colonial Militia, 1651-1776
by William Armstrong Crozier
This work references several thousand officers and soldiers complete
with information on their rank, service, and any land they received.
The information was collected from militia rosters of various counties,
county court order books, and land bounty certificates.
- List of the Colonial Soldiers of Virginia
by Hamilton J. Eckenrode
This list of colonial soldiers includes the names of those who were
known to have been engaged in active service in the French and Indian
War, the Indian Wars, Lord Dunmore's War, and other incidents prior
to the Revolution. Drawn from company rolls, bounty applications, the
Washington Papers in the Library of Congress, Hening's Statutes at
Large, and Journals of the House of Burgesses, this list
represents a large proportion of the entire Virginia militia. It is
believed that almost all members of the Virginia regiment under George
Washington are accounted for here. In all, approximately 6,700 soldiers
are identified in this work, each with references to the exact source
of information.
- Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution
by John H. Gwathmey
A compilation of more than 65,000 names, this definitive work on Virginians
in the Revolution was collected from the files of the War and Navy Departments,
the State Archives and Land Office, County Court order books and early
histories.
For officers listed, you'll learn dates of their commissions, when they
took their oaths of allegiance, their promotions, and any citations
for gallantry, deaths, and amounts of bounty land awarded them. Even
with privates, for whom data is notoriously limited, the author was
able to find men who were receiving pensions long after the war and,
thus, establish their post-war residences.
For persons interested in tracing the descendants of Virginia soldiers
and for those who wish to understand the magnitude of Virginia's contribution
to the American cause, this volume is invaluable.
- Muster Rolls and Payrolls of Virginia Militia in the War of
1812 (Two Volumes)
Here you will learn:
- Soldier's name
- Rank
- Length of service
- Dates of service
- Residence
- Records of the Revolutionary War
by William T. R. Saffell
The third edition of this collection of Revolutionary War records contains
rosters and service records for approximately 15,000 soldiers and officers
from the New England states, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia
and South Carolina, arranged by regiment, company, and corps.
- The History of Virginia's Navy of the Revolution
by Robert Armistead Stewart
The first part of this work recounts Virginia's Naval participation
in the Revolution while the second part of the work is a comprehensive
roster of officers and men who served in the Navy. Alphabetically arranged,
the entries include, wherever possible, rank or status of officers and
men, names of vessels served upon, length of service, native county,
and, in certain cases, information about heirs and descendants.
- Virginia Military Records
Essentially a compilation of articles, Virginia Military Records
collects muster and pay rolls, court order books, pension records, land
claims, depositions, petitions, militia lists, orderly books, and service
records. The majority of the articles focus on the records of the colonial
and Revolutionary War periods, but there also are some that relate to
the War of 1812.
- Catalogue of Revolutionary Soldiers and Sailors of the Commonwealth
of Virginia
by Samuel M. Wilson
This collection of records is an alphabetical list of 4,627 Revolutionary
soldiers and sailors from Virginia who received land warrants in what
is now the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The entries include the number
of each warrant, the acres of land granted, the soldier's rank and department
of service, and the term and date of warrant.
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