{"id":32899,"date":"2018-06-25T10:48:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T14:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=32899"},"modified":"2018-06-27T08:04:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T12:04:16","slug":"revolutionary-war-veterans-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/revolutionary-war-veterans-part-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Revolutionary War Veterans \u2013 Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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<p>Their stories were told in America\u2019s newspapers \u2013 especially in the veterans\u2019 obituaries, such as this one.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32903\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32903\" style=\"width: 424px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A10E31A16165915A8%40GB3NEWS-10E68E126676FC20%402381260-10E68E12C91E7CE8%402-10E68E1435B056C8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32903\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/peoples-friend-newspaper-0727-1807-thomas-blackburn-obituary.png\" alt=\"An obituary for Thomas Blackburn, People\u2019s Friend newspaper article 27 July 1807\" width=\"424\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/peoples-friend-newspaper-0727-1807-thomas-blackburn-obituary.png 424w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/peoples-friend-newspaper-0727-1807-thomas-blackburn-obituary-245x300.png 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People\u2019s Friend (New York, New York), 27 July 1807, page 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here are just some of their stories that you can find in GenealogyBank\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/explore\/newspapers\/all?utm_source=social&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=SM_Blog_txtlnk_2014_00&s_referrer=social&s_siteloc=blog&s_trackval=SM_Blog_txtlnk_2014_00&kbid=69919&pq=1&prebuy=no&intver=&CCPRODCODE=\">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<p><strong>Bentalou, Paul (-1826)<\/strong><br \/>\nMaryland<br \/>\nBaltimore Gazette and Daily Advertiser (Baltimore, Maryland), 11 December 1826, page 2<br \/>\nRepublican Star (Easton, Maryland), 19 December 1826, page 3<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blackburn, Thomas (1743-1807)<\/strong><br \/>\nNew Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia<br \/>\nPeople\u2019s Friend (New York, New York), 27 July 1807, page 3<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blackshear, David (1763-1837)<\/strong><br \/>\nGeorgia, North Carolina<br \/>\nCharleston Courier (Charleston, South Carolina), 22 July 1837, page 2<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blackwell, Joseph (1751-1826)<\/strong><br \/>\nVirginia<br \/>\nAlbany Argus (Albany, New York), 10 November 1826, page 2<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blair, Robert (1762-1841)<\/strong><br \/>\nNew York<br \/>\nHudson River Chronicle (Ossining, New York), 30 March 1841, page 2<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bloom, Abraham (about 1729-1829)<\/strong><br \/>\nNew Jersey, Pennsylvania<br \/>\nBattles fought in: Germantown<br \/>\nWashington Whig (Bridgeton, New Jersey), 10 January 1829, page 3<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bowie, Robert (1754-1818)<\/strong><br \/>\nPennsylvania<br \/>\nBaltimore Patriot (Baltimore, Maryland), 12 January 1818, page 2<br \/>\nPoulson&#8217;s American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 15 January 1818, page 3<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boyer, Lewis (1759-1843)<\/strong><br \/>\nOhio, Pennsylvania<br \/>\nTimes-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana), 19 October 1843, page 2<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bradley, Gilead (1756-1851)<\/strong><br \/>\nMassachusetts<br \/>\nBattles fought in: Trenton<br \/>\nAlbany Evening Journal (Albany, New York), 20 November 1851, page 2<br \/>\nSalem Register (Salem, Massachusetts), 24 November 1851, page 2<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/revolutionary-war-veterans-part-1.html\">Revolutionary War Veterans \u2013 Part 1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/revolutionary-war-veterans-part-2.html\">Revolutionary War Veterans \u2013 Part 2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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":32915,"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":[32407,12,2719,2020],"class_list":["post-32899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-american-revolutiionary-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-2.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32899","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=32899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}