Revolutionary War

ROSTERS

• 4th PA Battalion Captain James Moore's Company (incomplete)

• 4th PA Battalion Caleb North's Company (incomplete)

• 4th PA Battalion Captain Thomas Robinson's Company

• 4th Battalion Captain Frederick Vernon's Company (incomplete)

• 5th Regiment of the PA line, commanded by Colonel Robert Magaw

• Uwchlan Citizens in 7th Battalion Chester County Militia - 1777

• 8th Battalion Chester County Militia 1780

• 8th Battalion of Chester County Militia 1781

• Captain John Parker's Company, Lt. Colonel John Harris' Detachment of Militia, 1794

• Rev. War: Captain Jas. McDowell’s Company of Militia, 4th Battalion; Chester County PA

• Militia and Associators

• Armed Boats and their crews on the Delaware River 1776

• Officers - Chester Flying Camp 1776

• Revolutionary War Officers from Chester County

RECORDS

• Quaker efforts during the American Revolution

• 1777 - persons appointed to collect "articles of clothing" from those who hadn't taken the oath of allegiance

• Traitors/Patriots of Pennsylvania - 1778 Proclamation

• Some confiscated area estates

• Civilian War Claims from Chester County

• Pensions for service - Chester County

• Revolutionary War pension info - 1820

• 1774 Committee from Chester - Continental Congress

• Recollections of the Battle of Brandywine

• Further reflections on the Battle of Brandywine

• Proclaimed traitors to the US 1778

• Chester County Revolutionary War reparation requests & reported losses

• Uwchlan and the Revolutionary War

• Chester County Revolutionary War pensioners ... no injuries

• Chester County Revolutionary War pensioners, wounded, taken prisoner or disabled

• collectors for Army clothing - Revolutionary War

• Chester Troops at the Battle of Long Island

• Contemporary newspaper article about the 2nd Battalion, Chester Militia

• Pension Record for Isabella Johns

OFF-SITE RESPOURCES

• The American Revolution
  • americanrevolution.org

  • Online Library of the Revolutionary War

• Military: Revolutionary War: ROLL OF ANCESTORS: Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution, 1898 Membership List
  • Surnames A - G

  • Surnames H - M

  • Surnames N - Z

• Military: Papers relating to the Province of Pennsylvania prior to the Revolution: PA Archives, Series II, Vol. II

• Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution

• Revolutionary War Military Abstracts and File Index ( in the PA archives )

• Valley Forge Muster Roll

• Access to Military Service and Pension Records

PA Revolutionary War Records from Archives

George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799: Series 2 Letterbooks George Washington to Battaile Muse, February 19, 1789

Revolutionary War Documents from the Harvard University Library http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/houghton/2013/07/11/a-revolutionary-discovery-in-the-stacks/

This section updated on January 24, 2017