Stories of Forgotten Patriots

I have just posted the first drafts of the German Battalion Reports on the Maryland Patriots page. I included a list of soldiers and a narrative with one or two paragraphs on each soldier. The German Battalion was drawn from Maryland and Pennsylvania, and while most soldiers were of German heritage, some were definitely not. This project represents my first research work in PA and MD. It's so interesting to learn of the differences between each of the states. PA is particular

I have started to research the German Regiment, a continental regiment approved by the Continental Congress on May 25, 1776. The intent...

I just posted the full list of Sussex County Delaware Revolutionary War Patriots. Primarily this list is of soldiers, but there are also...

I am working on creating lists of all of the Revolutionary War Patriots from Sussex County Delaware and catagorizing them by the Hundreds...

Revolutionary War Pension Files contain a wealth of information on veterans of the war. The earliest pensions were awarded to men who...

I was just notified by the Veterans Administration that my application for a veterans monument for Daniel Hunt of Bath NH has been...

Pension files often contain the most detailed information on Revolutionary War Veterans and their families. Veterans and their family...

I'm working on finding the James Miller Family Cemetery in Frankford Delaware. This cemetery is mentioned in several deeds, including a...

I decided to reorganize the Forgotten Patriot reports by state for ease of understanding. Many of the veterans of a state experienced...

Nicholas Whitman was the son of German immigrants to rural Ashburnham MA. He served in 2 Massachusetts Regiments in 1777 and 1778. After...

I contacted the Cemetery Committee of the Town of Bath New Hampshire to request that a Veteran’s monument be placed in West Bath Cemetery...

Ozias Partridge was born in Medway in eastern Massachusetts in 1763. Like many young men in that region at that time, he served in the...

A remarkable facet of this family is that each of the 4 daughters of Josiah and Elizabeth Whittlesey married Revolutionary War soldiers....

The main source of information for the life, family, and Revolutionary service are his declarations in his Revolutionary War pension...

Daniel Hunt has been described as a mystery man due to the lack of information on his life and family. What is certain about him is that...