Why can't I find 90th Regiment for the Revolutionary War?

Question

My probable ancestor Wroten-60 Shadrack Wroten, with various spellings, including Shredrick Wroten on his military headstone, shows he was a sergeant in Company K, 90th Regiment.  He enlisted in Dorchester County, Maryland (at a pretty young age, born 1763) and the county history says he served five and a half years.  He moved from Delaware in 1806 to Ross County, Ohio, where he died in 1840.  I find no 90th Regiment in the Revolutionary War.  Since he has a military headstone, he wouldn't be a Loyalist, would he?  Both his tombstone and his widow's pension file say 90th Regiment; the Pension file says Ohio Regiment, which was not yet in existence.  Strangely years of birth and death appear on the military tombstone--probably somebody added them when he was buried.  Did they also put the tombstone on the wrong grave (Twin Township, Ross County, Ohio) when the CW casualty would have been buried in Tennessee?

Answer 1

Looks like someone conflated the 18th century Shadrach with a 19th century one.  Rachel Wroten, the widow of Shadrach C. Wroten, a Civil War veteran from the 90th Ohio, filed for a pension in 1863.  He died in 1862 and is buried in Tennessee.

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I don't find the earlier Shadrach in any Revolutionary War records on Fold3, Ancestry, or the DAR database.  It may just be that his name is spelled very differently in those records, but maybe he didn't actually serve...

Comments

Thanks, Kathie.  It is wrong in the book Pioneer record and reminiscences of the early settlers and settlement of Ross County, Ohio by Finley, Isaac J; Putnam, Rufus, 1738-1824; Publication date 1871; Cincinnati: Printed for the authors by R. Clarke & Co.  No wonder I couldn't find it.

Answer 2

There was no 90th Regiment in the Revolutionary War. This is a Civil War record.

He is being confused with his son Shadrach C Wroten (1826-1862) who joined Company K, 90th Regiment of the Union Army in Ohio on 23 July 1862. This Shadrach died of disease while still in the army on 14 November 1862 at Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Comments

Thanks for your help.