Virginia's Colonial SoldiersAmerican military history began with the establishment of the Virginia colonial militia in the seventeenth century. Although ill-trained, it was the colony's only defense against Indian attacks and invasion by hostile powers. The records left are fragmentary and scattered, and it has always been hard to locate them and make them accessible. With the publication of this work that problem is now behind us. From research based on county court minutes and orders, bounty land applications and warrants, records of courts martial, county militia rosters, Hening's Statutes at Large, the Draper manuscripts, and manuscripts in the Public Record Office in London, we now have an authoritative register of Virginia's colonial soldiers. And it is not merely a dry catalogue of names and dates, for included are the military's "size" rolls which routinely give the soldier's place of birth, age, residence, occupation, and physical description. And sometimes this was made even more informative when the enlisting officer recorded his impressions of the soldier! |
Contents
| 1 | |
King Georges War 17391748 | 39 |
French and Indian War 17541763 | 45 |
Dunmores War 1774 | 137 |
Militia Miscellany | 157 |
Section II | 199 |
Section III | 215 |
Section IV | 223 |
Section V | 229 |
Bounty Land Applications | 243 |
Bounty Land Warrants | 267 |
Courts Martial Records | 319 |
| 355 | |
Index to Names | 359 |
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