{"id":32607,"date":"2018-06-19T11:08:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T15:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=32607"},"modified":"2018-06-21T08:36:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T12:36:42","slug":"revolutionary-war-veterans-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/revolutionary-war-veterans-part-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Revolutionary War Veterans \u2013 Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Estimates are that 92,000 American and French troops fought 314,000 British troops, Hessian mercenaries and loyalists during the American Revolutionary War. Of that number 25,000 Americans died in the war and an estimated 25,000 more were wounded.<\/p>\n

Their stories were told in America\u2019s newspapers \u2013 especially in the veterans\u2019 obituaries, such as this one.<\/p>\n

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Boston Traveler (Boston, Massachusetts), 30 May 1826, page 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here are just some of their stories that you can find in GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a>. We\u2019ve included the name of the newspaper and the exact page where you can find an article about that veteran.<\/p>\n

Allen, Joseph (1758-1849)<\/strong>
\nMaine
\nGospel Banner (Augusta, Maine), 24 February 1849, page 3<\/p>\n

Amos, Maulden (1748-1845)<\/strong>
\nGeorgia, Maryland
\nAugusta Chronicle (Augusta, Georgia), 5 June 1845, page 3<\/p>\n

Anderson, Andrew (-1823)<\/strong>
\nVirginia
\nNew Hampshire Gazette (Portsmouth, New Hampshire), 1 July 1823, page 3<\/p>\n

Anderson, Richard C. (-1826)<\/strong>
\nNew York
\nEvening Post (New York, New York), 4 November 1826, page 2<\/p>\n

Anglin, Henry (1763-1853)<\/strong>
\nGeorgia
\nAugusta Chronicle (Augusta, Georgia), 5 November 1853, page 2<\/p>\n

Armstrong, John (1751-1845)<\/strong>
\nNew York
\nAlbany Religious Spectator (Albany, New York), 25 October 1845, page 3<\/p>\n

Averhill, Robert (1755-1828)<\/strong>
\nVermont
\nEvening Star (New York, New York), 20 September 1828, page 6<\/p>\n

Avery, Rufus (-1842)<\/strong>
\nConnecticut
\nBattles fought in: Fort Griswold
\nAlbany Argus (Albany, New York), 9 August 1842, page 1
\nKalamazoo Gazette (Kalamazoo, Michigan), 26 August 1842, page 1
\nNewburyport Herald (Newburyport, Massachusetts), 9 August 1842, page 1
\nSpectator (New York, New York), 6 August 1842, page 1
\nSun (Baltimore, Maryland), 5 August 1842, page 2
\nTimes-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana), 20 August 1842, page 2<\/p>\n

Bacon, Johnathan (1760-1844)<\/strong>
\nMassachusetts
\nDaily Atlas (Boston, Massachusetts), 24 February 1844, page 2<\/p>\n

Baker, Albert (1766-1845)<\/strong>
\nNew York
\nAlbany Evening Journal (Albany, New York), 3 October 1845, page 2<\/p>\n

Baker, John (1741-1826)<\/strong>
\nHungary, Massachusetts
\nBoston Traveler (Boston, Massachusetts), 30 May 1826, page 3<\/p>\n

Ball, Blackwall W. (-1812)<\/strong>
\nPennsylvania
\nPoulson’s American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 8 February 1812, page 3<\/p>\n

Barbain, Jean Louis (-1844)<\/strong>
\nSouth Carolina
\nCharleston Courier (Charleston, South Carolina), 21 October 1844, page 2
\nNew York Evangelist (New York, New York), 31 October 1844, page 3
\nNew York Observer (New York, New York), 2 November 1844, page 3
\nRepublican Farmer (Bridgeport, Connecticut), 29 October 1844, page 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An article about the stories of American Revolutionary War veterans that can be found in the pages of historical newspapers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[1902,12,2719,2020],"class_list":["post-32607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-american-revolutionary-war","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogy-search-tips","tag-newspaper-archives"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/illustration-0810-2016-washington-crossing-the-delaware.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}