Levi Bemis: A Vermont Revolutionary

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

Isaac Annis: A Revolutionary War Soldier

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

Enoch Adams: A Revolutionary from Newbury, Massachusetts

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

Amos Gage – The Soldier That Guarded John Andre

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

Reuben Howe: The Revolutionary War Soldier Who Guarded Burgoyne’s Captured Army

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

Thomas Proctor: Revolutionary War Soldier and Bunker Hill Witness

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

James Nourse: The Revolutionary War Soldier Who Lost His Health and His Home

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

Gideon Foster: Revolutionary War Captain, Major General & Chocolate Maker

In This Article His Story A Young Man from Danvers A Captain Ten Days Before War The Bloody Fighting at Menotomy Ammunition for Bunker Hill The Siege of Boston From Captain to Major General The Chocolate-Making General Two Fires and a New Beginning A Soldier in Public Office Remembering the Men of 1775 From His … Read more

Jonathan Harwood: Captured by the British, Forgotten in Poverty

In This Article His Story Answering the Call to Arms Service in the Continental Army Captured and Taken to New York Freedom, but Not Recovery A Veteran’s Life in Poverty A Family Facing Hardship From His Account Military Service Later Life & Burial Family & Descendants Original Sources & Historical Note His Story Jonathan Harwood … Read more