{"id":50245,"date":"2019-05-20T11:29:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T15:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=50245"},"modified":"2019-05-20T11:30:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T15:30:01","slug":"revolutionary-war-soldiers-get-the-details-of-their-lives-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/revolutionary-war-soldiers-get-the-details-of-their-lives-service.html","title":{"rendered":"Revolutionary War Soldiers \u2013 Get the Details of Their Lives & Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

Included in GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Documents & Records<\/a> collection are many details about the lives and service of Revolutionary War soldiers, such as reports from the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.<\/p>\n

Notice the detail in these reports.<\/p>\n

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Eighteenth Report of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, October 11, 1914, to October 11, 1915. March 30, 1916. Page 155.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Eighteenth Report of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (1916) included Revolutionary War service and burial information on over 3,000 veterans.<\/p>\n

For example, the entry for Thomas Abell tells us that he was born 9 October 1749 in Norwich, Connecticut, and died 10 October 1814 in Fredonia, New York. It states that he was buried in the Old Fredonia Cemetery in Pomfret, Chautauqua County, New York.<\/p>\n

His entry continues, stating that he enlisted as a private, serving at the Battle of Bennington on 17 August 1777, and again enlisted as a \u201csergeant in Col. Samuel Herrick\u2019s regiment, Vermont, 1780\u201d and that he \u201cserved on an alarm in 1781, and under the same command in 1782.\u201d<\/p>\n

Look at this entry for John Abston of Pittsylvania County, Virginia:<\/p>\n

\u201cBorn Jan. 2, 1757; died 1856. Son of Joshua Abston, captain of Virginia militia; served two years in war of the American Revolution. Enlisted from Pittsylvania County, Va; was in Capt. John Ellis’s company under Col. Washington. The evening before the battle of Kings Mountain, Col. Washington, who was in command of the starving Americans at this point, sent soldiers out to forage for food. At a late hour a steer was driven into camp, killed, and made into a stew. The almost famished soldiers ate the stew, without bread, and slept the sleep of the just. Much strengthened by their repast and rest, the next morning they made the gallant charge that won the battle of Kings Mountain, one of the decisive battles of the American Revolution. After the battle Col. Washington went to the place where the steer had been slain, and finding one of the horns, gave it to John Abston, a person friend, saying, \u2018This is the horn of the steer that won the battle of Kings Mountain.\u2019 Abston took the horn, carried it as a powder horn until war was over.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Source: GenealogyBank, Eighteenth Report of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, October 11, 1914, to October 11, 1915. March 30, 1916. Page 155.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What a terrific story.<\/p>\n

I wonder if the family still has this powder horn, \u201cthe horn of the steer that won the battle of Kings Mountain,\u201d to this day?<\/p>\n

Find your family\u2019s stories in GenealogyBank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about Revolutionary War documents and records included in GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Documents & Records collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50261,"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":[1902,12,2719,42839],"class_list":["post-50245","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-historical-documents-and-records"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/illustration-0810-2016-washington-crossing-the-delaware-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50245","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=50245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}