As the authors dug into records we do not have at hand and compiled these men. I think that they are worth having in a personal library if your local library does not already have them. I applaud those who dig through records and identify patriots and give the source of the records found. Tree Mother "She is insane, of course. The family history has become a mania for her." Hercule Poirot http://www.FrontPorchRockerNews.blogspot.com "Truth and reason are eternal. They have prevailed. And they will eternally prevail; however, in times and places they may be overborne for a while by violence, military, civil, or ecclesiastical." --Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson, 1810 ----- Original Message ----- From: <Smileson@aol.com> To: <american-revolution@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 12:33 PM Subject: Re: [AMERICAN-REVOLUTION] AMERICAN-REVOLUTION Digest, Vol 1,Issue 18 > > Need someone 's opinion are these books worth buying, since I do research > on > the War. > > REVOLUTIONARY WAR: > The Pension Lists of 1792-1795 With Other Revolutionary War Pension > Records > (Clark) Murtie June Clark > > Two catastrophic fires in 1800, one in the War Department, the other in > the > Treasury Department, destroyed the earliest Revolutionary War pension > application records. These records consisted primarily of claims for > relief based on > death or disability suffered during the War. Nevertheless, certain pension > records pre-dating the critical year 1800 survive in the form of > Congressional > reports, and these reports would appear to be the earliest Revolutionary > War > pension records extant. Four such reports have been identified and are > transcribed > in this work. Within each report the claims are arranged by state, giving, > generally, name, rank, regiment, description and circumstances of wounds > incurred, and information regarding pension, place of residence and > physical fitness. > With an index to nearly 4,000 persons. > Hardcover, 216 pp., (1991) Reprint 1996 > > > MARYLAND: Maryland Revolutionary Records. Data Obtained from 3,050 Pension > Claims and Bounty Land Applications, Including 1,000 Marriages of Maryland > Soldiers and a List of 1,200 Proved Services of Soldiers and Patriots of > Other > States (Newman) > Harry Wright Newman > This extremely useful work derives from an examination of more than 3,000 > Revolutionary War pension claims and bounty land applications. Part I, > "Maryland > Revolutionary Pensioners," gives the name of the veteran, his date of > birth, > rank, name of the group in which he served, and the name of the pension > applicant (the widow, for example). Part II consists of "Maryland Federal > Bounty > Land Grants," giving the name of the soldier, his rank, acreage received, > date > the warrant was issued, and the warrant number. Part III is a list of > Maryland > soldiers who did not receive pensions but whose service has been > established > through records. Part IV consists of a list of marriages proved through > Maryland > pension applications, and Part V is a list of soldiers whose Revolutionary > service was in states other than Maryland. > Hardcover, 155 pp., (1938) Reprint 2002 > > > > > > > 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