Dear Germanna descendants, There was a question about which Kentuckians may have been participants in the American Revolution. DAR indicates the dates of the American Revolution dated from Lexington, MA (April 1775 the ride of Paul Revere, as I remember) to the Treaty of Paris, which took place in late 1783.  I do not currently have the DAR booklet which specifies the proper dates. It may be on the DAR webpage (and is given below in my quote from Dr. George K. Schweitzer).. However, I found my Pennsylvania-born German, but living in Kentucky, patriot, in some of the papers of George Rogers Clark.  There is a book published some years back by Marjorie Harding entitled George Rogers Clark and his men:  Military records, 1778-1784.  I recollect it was published by the Kentucky Historical Society.  (Amazon has it listed for a price of $144.)  My ancestor was not only a hunter (to supply meat for the men) but also a spie [sic].  Wiki has a list of battles fought in Kentucky, but I don't recall these listed battles were with Tories but with the native Americans.  (Remember, wiki is put together by the likes of you and me and not ordinarily by a professional, who probably would want to copyright any of his/her works.) Although a hard copy of this book about George Rogers Clark military records will cost a good deal from Amazon, if you are near an LDS Family History Center, you can find that the catalog lists this book by Margery Harding and it has been microfiched.  Each microfiche costs 15 cents apiece when ordered though your local FHC, and most FHCs retain the fiche in their files.  Although I have heard that some small rural FH centers allow the patron to take the fiche home (but not the fiche reader) because they have no storage space for the fiche.  There are three microfiche and the number is 6050443. While prowling the shelves of my FHC some years go, I found a book entitled Illinois Papers [of George Rogers Clark], published by the Illinois Historical Society I believe.]  When I told a skilled reseacher of this book, she told me it was a rare book. Dr. George K. Schweitzer, in his paperback book entitled Kentucky Genealogical Research [Knoxville, TN:  Published by author, 1983] under the heading Military Records:  Revolutionary War, writes: *The Revolutionary War was fought before KY became a state--that is, in the years 1775-83. During this time what is now KY was a part of VA.  Since the area which is now KY was quite sparsely populated during these years, very few *Kentuckians* actually fought in the Revolution.*  He goes on to say how quickly Kentucky filled with veterans of the Revolution, however, in later years, and he gives a rather extensive bibliography, but does not include Ms. Harding's book, which may have been published at about the time Dr. Schweitzer's book was published. Anyway, your Revolutionary War veteran may be hiding in some obscure record, and you may have to consult with a professional librarian to help you find an adequate source.  More and more military information of all kinds is being digitized, and you may have to sharpen your hunting skills.  (I personally find google is a great help.  I may type in a place or a surname with the words *family* and *+ genealogy* and frequently find SOMETHING--maybe not detailed enough, but something ...)  You may find an old paperback by Allen Eckert entitled something like The Frontiersmen, which used the Draper Manuscripts (Kentucky Papers) as much of his source material.  He tells of many battles--but again, not with the Tories.  Eckert's work is fictionalized, but I used his citations of Draper MSS to track down some of my early Kentucky ancestors and found some gold mines of info, but I did have to squint a lot, as much/most of Draper's collections are in faded handwriting, which the old film does not enhance.  Many Universities have the multiple films of the Draper Manuscripts.  Ask around your State--or search their online catalogs.  The Family History Library in Salt Lake City also has the films of this collection--which are like multiple scrap books with recorded interviews with descendants of the pioneers.  E.W.Wallace