Mike, I just went on line and tried to search by location. I put "New York" in the state box, but there is no space for the county so I got 300 names. If you have names I can check them. Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael McAlonie" <mmcalonie@msn.com> To: <american-revolution@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 9:14 AM Subject: [AMERICAN-REVOLUTION] DAR patriot index can it be searched by location > Is there a way to search the patriot index by location? If there is, can > anyone tell me if there are any listed for Cambridge, now Washington > County (then Albany County) NY. Or Salem or Easton NY. Payrolls and > muster rolls seemed to have been destroyed in a fire for NY militia, and I > am trying to get an idea of how other local patriots were proven, other > than pension records. The men I am interested in were listed in the > surviving militia rosters and have modern veterans markers stating Rev. > War service (but are not in Dar patriot index), but I can not find any > documents in NYS archives to prove it. Only a 1900 church "vanity" > history that says that they were in the American army in the Burgoyne > Campaign. And one document that states a man by the same name of one of > his brothers was a LT. in that same militia regiment, but the brother is > not in my direct line. > > So what exactly is necessary to document service. I did find an old > interview from the 1840s that stated that one of them tried to save the > local county judge from attack from a band of vengeful Tories back from > Canada during the war by warning him to stay away from his house. But to > me that sounds funny that he knew about it, and probably doesn't quite > count as aiding the cause. > > So again, what is acceptable proof? Thanks! > > Mike > List Mom for the AMERICAN-REVOLUTION mailing list: > Diana Boothe philsbarbie1@arkansasfamilies.net > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > We have archives! Search for your AMERICAN-REVOLUTION information > here..... > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=AMERICAN-REVOLUTION > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out other genealogy resources on the net at John Fuller's most > helpful site http://www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AMERICAN-REVOLUTION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >