Index of Revolutionary War Pension Applications in the National Archives
Index of Revolutionary War Pension Applications in the National Archives

Author: National Genealogical Society

Publisher:

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 688

ISBN-13:

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The first step in determining service in the Revolutionary War is to consult this work. Alphabetically listed veterans and their widows who applied for pensions and bounty land warrents, including all additions and corrections uncovered by the National Genealogical Society in their preparation for microfilming the actual pension files. With the information contained in this book Revolutionary War pensions may be ordered from the National Archives. An excellent discourse on pension legislation is in the introductory material. N0000HB - $85.99

Virginia Revolutionary War State Pensions
Virginia Revolutionary War State Pensions

Author: Virginia Genealogical Society

Publisher:

Published: 2015-10-30

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13:

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"Abstracts of some 465 pension records of the soldiers in Virginia. In the majority of these files, the date of death of the soldier or his widow is shown, and the name of the executor or administrator is often given. If the soldier was killed in service, the place or the name of the battle, as well as statement of his wounds, appear. This book contains the names of more than 10,000 individuals."--Publisher.

"Going Down Hill"

Author: Harry M. Ward

Publisher: Academica Press,LLC

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 1933146575

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This book discusses the legacies of American Revolutionary War in the context of growing American imperial hubris, overreach and permanent war abroad as well as economic and social decay of American homeland. It discusses the less admirable and tragic implications of a national war/civil war that drove many thousands of Americans from their country, destroyed numerous Native American societies, enshrined human slavery in its constitution and lead to several tragic and bloody existential crises in 19th and 20th century American history.

The "lower Sort"
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Author: Billy Gordon Smith

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780801481635

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This book recreates the daily lives of laboring men and women in America's premier urban center during the second half of the eighteenth century. Billy G. Smith demonstrates how the "lower sort" (as they were called by their contemporaries) struggled to carve out meaningful lives during an era of vast change stretching from the Seven Years' War, through the turbulent events surrounding the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution, into the first decade of the new nation.