I have not yet begun to fight!
This is a photograph of a print of John Paul Jones, created in the 1930s by the George Washington Bicentennial Commission. Jones, an officer in the Continental Navy...
Illustrated family record of Abijah Stow
This family register was filed with Fife Maj. Abijah Stow's pension application. He enlisted as a musician in Col. Moses Hazen's regiment in Albany in 1777 and...
Instructions to American Peace Commissioners
During the Revolutionary War, Congress directed the peace commissioners “to undertake nothing in the negotiations for peace or truce” without the knowledge of the...
James Runnals
Sgt., later Ensign, James Runnals, served six months in 1779 in Col. Mooney’s New Hampshire Militia regiment. James began receiving a pension of $50.34 in 1833 for...
Jefferson’s Motion
Signed by the American peace commissioners on September 3, 1783, the Treaty of Paris formally ended the Revolutionary War. Thomas Jefferson wrote this motion for...
Kentucky wants statehood
After the Revolutionary War, some of the original thirteen states had no western boundary. The District of Kentucky (then part of Virginia) sought to be “a...
Land grant at age 92
Pvt. Theophilis Swain, who died in 1819, served in the New Hampshire Militia for three months in 1780 defending West Point, New York. His widow, Elizabeth, filed this...