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