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<\/a>This DAR report tells us that Solomon Titus was:<\/p>\n
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- A private in the Revolutionary War<\/li>\n
- In the\u00a0Battle of White Plains (October 28, 1776)<\/li>\n
- In the Battle of Monmouth (June 28, 1778)<\/li>\n
- Buried in the Pennington, New Jersey, Presbyterian Churchyard<\/li>\n
- There is a file on him at the Veteran\u2019s Administration (now at the National Archives)<\/li>\n
- W-2491\n
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<\/a>Casualty list from the Revolutionary War Battle of White Plains, published by the Freeman’s Journal (Portsmouth, New Hampshire), 3 December 1776, page 2<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n We can then dig into GenealogyBank\u2019s newspaper archives and find articles about each one of the military battles Titus fought in as the Revolutionary War unfolded. Historical newspaper articles such as this one, providing a summary of the soldiers killed at the Battle of White Plains, published in the Freeman\u2019s Journal <\/em>(Portsmouth, New Hampshire), 3 December 1776, page 2.<\/p>\n
Or the many old newspaper articles about the pivotal Battle of Monmouth, such as this one providing George Washington\u2019s own account of the famous military battle, published in the Continental Journal <\/em>(Boston, Massachusetts), 23 July 1778, page 1.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Collage of the Revolutionary War\u2019s Battle of Monmouth, featuring a newspaper article from the Continental Journal newspaper and a painting of George Washington by Emanuel Leutze<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n (Painting, Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth, by Emanuel Leutze. Wikimedia Commons.)<\/p>\n
GenealogyBank is the only genealogy website complete enough to let us read about our ancestor\u2019s experiences\u2014like those of Solomon Titus in the Revolutionary War\u2014day by day.<\/p>\n
The Daughters of the American Revolution report said that the U.S. government had a file on Solomon Titus, and in the last column it gives the reference number W-2491.<\/p>\n
W-2491. What does that mean?<\/p>\n
It means that the widow of Solomon Titus applied for a military pension based on his service in the Revolutionary War. We learned in this report that he died on 19 December 1833. Looking in GenealogyBank we find that his wife applied for a widow\u2019s pension and that it was approved in 1839.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Page from the December 2, 1839, Journal of the House of Representatives showing recipients of Revolutionary War pensions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n (Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States: being the first session of the Twenty-sixth Congress, begun and held at the City of Washington, December 2, 1839, in the sixty-fourth year of the independence of the said states<\/em><\/span> on page 175.)<\/p>\n
So, now we know that his wife\u2019s name was Susannah Titus. A quick search of the early New Jersey marriages<\/a> shows that her name was Susannah Read and that she and Solomon married in April 1779 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.<\/p>\n
We can see a copy of Solomon\u2019s military personnel file, available from the National Archives. Use \u201cStandard Form 180<\/a>\u201d to make your request.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>National Archives military records request form 1080<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n ![\"National](\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/natf-pension-application-form-85-150x150.png\" "\\"natf-pension-application-form-85\\"")
<\/a>National Archives pension application request form 85<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n We can also request a copy of Susannah\u2019s pension application by using Form 85<\/a>. Be sure to include the pension number: W-2491.<\/p>\n
We can gather so much information about our ancestors in the Revolutionary War era!<\/p>\n
The Daughters of the American Revolution report also told us that Solomon Titus was buried in the Presbyterian Churchyard in Pennington, New Jersey.<\/p>\n
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A quick search on Google locates a wide-angle photo of that cemetery on flickr.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Grave of Revolutionary War veteran Solomon Titus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n