In This Article His Story His First Recorded Service: 1776 Service on the Northern Frontier Was He a Green Mountain Boy? Remembering a Fellow Veteran Recognition for His Service From His Account Military Service Later Life & Burial Family & Descendants Research Priority & Unanswered Questions Original Sources & Historical Note His Story Elijah Blodgett … Read more
In This Article His Story From Brattleboro to the Revolutionary Army Nine Months in Fletcher’s Vermont Regiment A Veteran in the Indiana Frontier The Bemmis Spelling and Conflicting Records From His Account Military Service Later Life & Burial Family & Descendants Original Sources & Historical Note His Story Levi Bemis Born Approximately 1757, calculated from … Read more
In This Article His Story A Soldier in the Closing Years of the Revolution Service Associated with Scammell’s Regiment The War Draws to a Close A Pension Claim in 1818 Historical Research Alert: Which Isaac Annis? From His Account Military Service Later Life & Burial Family & Descendants Research Priority & Unresolved Questions Original Sources … Read more
In This Article His Story A Young Man from Newbury Answering the Call in 1775 Six Periods of Revolutionary Service A Fellow Soldier Remembers West Point From Massachusetts to New Hampshire From His Account Military Service Later Life & Burial Family & Descendants Original Sources & Historical Note His Story Enoch Adams Born 1756, Newbury, … Read more
In This Article His Story Early Life and Family Enlisting in the Revolution Saratoga and Valley Forge Serving Tadeusz Kościuszko The Southern Campaign Washington’s Signature From His Account Military Service A New Life in Stockbridge Landowner and Businessman Later Life and Burial Family and Descendants Historical Legacy Original Sources and Historical Note Agrippa Hull Born … Read more
In This Article His Story Early Life and Family A Revolutionary War Father and Son Service in the Connecticut Line Life in Massachusetts The Pension Application of 1832 From His Account Military Service Later Life and Burial Family and Descendants Original Sources and Historical Note Sherebiah Butts Historical illustration representing a Revolutionary War soldier. Not … Read more
In This Article His Story Born in Colonial Brookfield Answering the Call in 1780 Serving Under the Thayers The Military Record That Survived Seeking a Pension Fifty Years Later Recognition by the Federal Government From His Account Military Service Later Life & Burial Family & Descendants Original Sources & Historical Note His Story Elias Adams … Read more
In This Article His Story A Childhood Spent in Other People’s Homes The Enlistment That Failed Becoming Robert Shurtliff A Soldier in Washington’s Army Wounded Near British-Held New York The Fever That Revealed Her Identity An Honorable Discharge The Making of a Revolutionary Legend Taking Her Story Before the Public Paul Revere Comes to Her … Read more
In This Article His Story The Minister’s Son Who Wanted to Fight A Fifteen-Year-Old Goes to War The Disastrous New York Campaign Returning to the Continental Army Under Fire at Fort Mifflin Hunger at Valley Forge The Heat and Gunfire at Monmouth Faith, Providence, and the Hungry Soldier Digging Toward the British at Yorktown The … Read more
In This Article His Story A Young Soldier from Pelham Under Colonel John Stark Sickness and the Surrender at Saratoga Guarding Major John André A Crossed-Out Account of Privateering Building a Life in Maine The Pension He Lost and Regained From His Account Military Service Later Life & Burial Family & Descendants Original Sources & … Read more
