At 05:28 PM 10/23/99 -0500, Herbert Barnes wrote: [snip] >Are there records of service for the revolutionary war relating to >residents of the Old Rowan Co.? Are there old wills and/or probate >records for Old Rowan Co.? If so, does anyone know where they might be >archived? A good place to start, for looking for Revolutionary War records, is Virgil White's abstracts of Revolutionary War pensioners. Not every Revolutionary War veteran signed up for a pension -- most seem to have done so only if they had serious financial reverses or lived to be *very* old, if they hadn't been disabled by their war service -- but it's a good place to start. Also check the Patriot Index (published by the DAR, and in most genealogical libraries) for your ancestor: many listed by the DAR didn't do military service, but rendered other service to the state or Continental government. (If your ancestor filed for a pension, it may not have been where you think he lived: many, many people moved around quite a bit after the Revolution.) Who the DAR or SAR (men's equivalent, which is headquartered in Louisville, KY) accept as ancestors can change: the latest edition of the Patriot Index of which I'm aware was published in 1991, and the DAR publishes ancestor updates periodically in its magazine. (Many libraries subscribe to the magazine: even nonmembers can subscribe.) Elizabeth Whitaker