Children awarded pension
Pvt. Jacob Shoemaker of Pennsylvania served in Col. Henry Haller’s Battalion of the Flying Camp. He was in the Battle of Long Island, New York, and was discharged...
Christian Nichols
Christian Nichols served six months as a private in Col. John Keller’s regiment of the Bucks County (PA) Militia during the Revolutionary War. In 1820 P. Atta...
Claim rejected
Pennsylvanian Philip Schwartz served in the Artillery Company of the Fourth Continental Regiment for the duration of the Revolutionary War. The state of Pennsylvania...
Claim rejected
Thomas Pinkham’s family submitted this illustrated family record to the Federal Government when they filed for a pension based upon his Revolutionary War service....
Colin McLachlan
Revolutionary War Sgt. Colin McLachlan of New Jersey served six years in the Canadian Regiment during the battles of Hanover (NJ), Staten Island, Brandywine,...
Commander in Chief of the American Fleet
Commodore Esek Hopkins, Commander-in-Chief of the American Fleet, Continental Navy, Revolutionary War, 1776
Deciphering the code
Messages in secret code traveled across the Atlantic between the peace commissioners and Congress throughout the Revolutionary War. Ciphers like this were used to...