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• The Road to Guilford Courthouse, by John Buchanan. Book

• The Revolutionary War in the Southern Backcountry, by James Swisher, Book
• "The Journal of the American Revolution" Free subscription site detailing many items of historical significance during the Revolution. Well researched, New articles all the time. [1]
• Virginia soldiers of 1776 Vol 1 &2
• [https://revwarstudy.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/connecticut-in-the-american-revolution.pdf
• Peter Force, American Archives Series IV (6 Volumes) Series V (3 Volumes).Contains. Creation of units, Orders and Officers commissions. Available on Archive.org Sample:[2]
• Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. Multiple Volumes. Contains Creation of units orders and Officers comissions Available on Archiver.org Sample[3]
• List of Free African Americans in the Revolution
• Chevalier de Pontgibaud (Robert Douglas, ed.) A French Volunteer of the War of Independence (1898) , PDF, [4]
• Muster Roll for Valley Forge - https://valleyforgemusterroll.org/ Provides a search feature.

CONNECTICUT Record of Connecticut Men in the Military and naval Service of the American Revolution]

• "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors" Digital Images of books at Museum of the Revolution, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.("Familysearch.org" Digital Images, searchable)
• [Space:WikiTree_Genealogy_Guide:_Founding_Fathers WikiTree Genealogy Guide: Founding Fathers]
• Correspondence and other writings by George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and family), Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. Over 182,000 searchable documents, fully annotated, from the authoritative Founding Fathers Papers projects.
• Southern Campaigns Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters FREE https://revwarapps.org
• Fold3 Revolutionary War documents
• Revolutionary War Pensions Free July1-july 15, 2018
• Fold3 Revolutionary War Service Records Free July 1-15, 2018
• Fold 3 Revolutionary War War Rolls Free July 1-15, 2018
• Fold 3 Revolutionary War Payment Vouchers Free July1-15, 2018
• Fold3 Revolutionary War Miscellaneous Records Free July1-15, 2018
• All, HETRINA, Hessian Troops in America, HETRINA is a database of all German soldiers hired by the British crown to serve in the American Revolution, https://www.lagis-hessen.de/en/subjects/index/sn/hetrina, Free
• https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=UvwxAQAAMAAJ&rdid=book-UvwxAQAAMAAJ&rdot=1
• https://www.newspapers.com/clip/17250490/letters_from_gen_greene_about_the/?utm_source=tmih&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tmih-march-2018
• Fold3 Revolutionary War documents
• Revolutionary War Pensions Free July1-july 15, 2018
• Fold3 Revolutionary War Service Records
• Fold 3 Revolutionary War War Rolls Free July 1-15, 2018
• Fold 3 Revolutionary War Payment Vouchers Free July1-15, 2018
• Fold3 Revolutionary War Miscellaneous Records Free July1-15, 2018
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• Located graves of soldiers and patriots of the American revolution 1974-1977 (NSDAR) book
• http://web.archive.org/web/20020208235213/http://members.home.net/teylu/woodlief/eatons.html
• http://www.rafert.org/colonial/Eaton1773.htm
• https://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/nc_patriot_military_lieutenants.html
• https://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/nc_patriot_military_privates_s.html
• https://smithharper.org/north-carolina-revolutionary-soldiers-sailors-patriots-descendants-vol-1/
• https://www.influencewatch.org/movement/1776-project/
• https://www.carolana.com/SC/Revolution/patriot_military_sc_privates_s.htm
• http://www.ncgenweb.us/cumberland/civilwardead.pdf
• http://www.ncdar.org/EdentonTeaParty_files/html/patriots.html
• http://www.huntersofnansemond.info/military/
• Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut and Public Records of the State of Connecticut. Multiple volumes. Contains Unit Creations, Orders and Officers Commissions. Available on Hathitrust.org. Sample [5]

MASSACHUSETTSMassachusetts Soldier and Sailors of the Revolutionary War

NEW HAMPSHIRE

• The Revolutionary Journal of Col. Jeduthan Baldwin 1775-1778. North Stratford, NH: Ayer Company Publishers, Inc, Reprinted 1995, 2001. LC#73-140853; ISBN 0-405-01223-3. Eyewitness Accountes of the American Revolution, Series III (ISBN for complete set: 0-405-01100-8).

NEW JERSEY

• Official register of the officers and men of New Jersey in the revolutionary war by New Jersey. Adjutant-General's Office; Stryker, William Scudder, 1838-1900
• Revolutionary war index : a compilation of Revolutionary war slips and documented materials from other sources, FamilySearch Catalog with access restricted to FamilySearch Center (formerly Family History Center) or FamilySearch Affiliate Library. Original data: New Jersey State Archives. Dept: Genealogical Society. Rec: Revolutionary War Index.
• Revolutionary war slips, single citations of the New Jersey Department of defense materials, FamilySearch Catalog with access restricted to FamilySearch Center (formerly Family History Center) or FamilySearch Affiliate Library. Original data: New Jersey State Archives. Dept: Genealogical Society. Rec: Revolutionary War Slips.
• Revolutionary war manuscripts, New Jersey numbers 1-10811, FamilySearch Catalog with access restricted to FamilySearch Center (formerly Family History Center) or FamilySearch Affiliate Library. Original data: New Jersey State Archives. Dept: Genealogical Society. Rec: Revolutionary War Manuscripts.

NEW YORK

• New York Revolutionary War Records
• Journal of the Provincial Congress ... of the State of New York. Contains unit Creations, Orders and Officers Commissions. availbable of Archive.org. Sample [6]

OHIO

• Website download-http://ohssar.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Revolutionary-War-Patriots-Buried-in-Ohio-1.pdf
• OHIO, Ohssar.org

"Revolutionary War Patriots Buried in Ohio", 1244 online pages of Documents, Includes the Roster that was started by the Daughters of the American Revolution and the WPA -State of Ohio, amendments to the docs were done, and notations of amendments can be found at the end of the records. -Edited by Ohio Society of Grave Comittee Chairman, Michael B. Gunn & Vice Chairman, Michael Blum- 2015

NORTH CAROLINA

• NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA table of Revolutionary War Soldiers

SOUTH CAROLINA

• American Revolution South Carolina Loyalists
• WHIG MILITIA COMMANDERS' ENEMIES LISTS OF 1783, Spartanburg District.
• NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA table of Revolutionary War Soldiers
• https://www.ourfamtree.org/soldier/search.php?page=1&

SOUTHERN STATES

• Colonial Soldiers of the South, 1732-1774 $ Ancestry.com
• Colonial Soldiers of the South, 1732-1774 pdf version

VIRGINIA

• Contact me at thamesbecky"@"gmail.com - I have the complete 3 volume set of Ambercrombie and Slatten's Virginia Publick Claims (claims for supplies and services made during the Revolutionary War, all VA counties).

CANADA

• Acadians in the American Revolution [7]
• Index to French Canadian Revolutionary War Patriots [8]

FRANCE

• Nelson, Ralph D., Jr., "French-Source Officers Who Served in U.S. or French Military Units in the U.S. Theater of the Revolutionary War," 2020-07-07