Someone on the list asked whether there was a published list of Continental line (soldiers--regular army types, not county militias). This paragraph is from Dick Eastman's Online Newsletter. It gives the URL for Genealogical Publishing Co. However, this book is a reprint, and it is conceivable Pierce's Register is in a large genealogical library--or a University or college library-- near your home. Do some browsing of online catalogs. Also, ask at your public library about interlibrary loan. From Eastman's newsletter Pierce’s Register. Register of the Certificates issued by John Pierce, Esquire, Paymaster General and Commissioner of Army Accounts for the United States, to Officers and Soldiers of the Continental Army Under Act of July 4, 1783, by U.S. War Department. A Revolutionary War source book of the highest caliber, this Paymaster's record is both exhaustive and authoritative. It names 93,000 soldiers, for each of whom is given the certificate number and the amount owed. From a table at the front, the researcher will find the certificate number indicating the state and sometimes the regiment to which it relates. No militiamen are included, nor are there names of South Carolinians; otherwise, it is a complete roster of the Continental Army. $38.50. http://www.genealogical.com/item_detail.asp?ID=5935 One man I was helping at a large LDS center found his ancestor listed in Pierce's Register, and he left the library in a state of elation. E.W.Wallace