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 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
In This Article His Story From Ipswich to Rowley Drafted for the New York Campaign A Second Enlistment: White Plains and Bound Brook Guarding Burgoyne’s Captured Army The Old Soldier Seeks His Pension The Mystery of the Missing Certificate His Widow’s Years of Hardship From His Account Military Service Later Life & Burial Family & … Read more
In This Article His Story A Soldier of Essex County Serving Under Colonel Glover The Uncertain Connection to Bunker Hill Returning to Service in 1776 The Widow Who Remembered A Pension More Than Thirty Years After His Death From His Account Military Service Later Life & Burial Family & Descendants Original Sources & Historical Note … Read more
In This Article His Story A Soldier from Lynn The Illness That Changed His Life Service in the Invalid Regiment Returning Home with a Disability The Long Fight for a Pension The Loss of His Home A Veteran’s Final Appeal From His Account Military Service Later Life & Burial Family & Descendants Original Sources & … Read more
In This Article His Story A Soldier with Two Names Six Years and Five Months Discharged by George Washington A Discharge That Was Not Yet Final Marriage and Life in Danvers A Widow’s Struggle for Recognition When a Name Stood in the Way From His Account Military Service Later Life & Burial Family & Descendants … Read more
In This Article His Story A Sailor from Salem A Remarkable Account of Bunker Hill The Continental Frigate Boston The Capture of the British Fox Lieutenant of the Black Prince The Disaster at Penobscot From Naval Officer to Merchant Captain A Privateer in the War of 1812 The Extraordinary Voyage of Cleopatra’s Barge A Federal … Read more
