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Guideline
for Submissions and Resources Useful in Making Transcriptions As part of our mission of sharing information about the Revolution, Southern Campaign of the American Revolution (SCAR) has added this link on its website for the posting of transcriptions of pension applications filed by veterans of the Southern Campaign of the Revolution, their widows and descendants. Such veterans have been defined as anyone who was living in Virginia, North or South Carolina or Georgia at the time they rendered any service during the Revolution regards of where such services were rendered; AND veterans from any State who rendered service in any of the four Southern States at any time during the Revolution. Everyone is invited to submit their transcriptions of pension applications for posting on the website. Will Graves is the librarian. Will reserves the right to edit the submissions to assure that the contents thereof will be searchable, but transcribers retain the right to object to any such editing and to require that their transcriptions be deleted from the database. Please review and edit your submissions as thoroughly as possible: they will only be as useful as they are accurate. To assure that the transcriptions
are as useful as possible, the following guidelines for submissions are
suggested:
All submissions will be converted to Adobe PDF format prior to posting. Annotated transcriptions are particularly welcomed. Help make these valuable sources of eyewitness accounts more readily available and usable. PLEASE PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROJECT AND URGE YOUR FRIENDS TO DO LIKEWISE. Below are some resources which Leon
Harris and Will Graves have found particularly useful in transcribing
applications of interest to them: Leon's favorites include: Fredriksen, J. C. Revolutionary War Almanac. New York: Facts on File, 2006. [Includes a chronology and encyclopedia articles. Useful in spite of errors.] Gwathmey, J. H. Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution: Soldiers Sailors Marines 1775-1783. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. 1979. [reprint of 1938 edition. This book, and many others, are on a CD-ROM entitled Virginia Military Records: Colonial Wars, Revolutionary War, War of 1812 Harris, C. L. Revolutionary Warriors & Widows of Henry, Franklin, Patrick & Floyd Counties of Virginia. Athens GA: New Papyrus, 2008. [Includes a chronology of Virginia in the Revolution.] Heitman, F. B. Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution, April 1775, to December, 1783. Washington, DC: Rare Book Shop Pub. Co. [reprint by www.library.cornell.edu. Also available on Google Books. The original of this book was used by the Pension Office to verify Continental officers in applicants’ declarations.] McAllister, J. T. Virginia Militia in the Revolutionary War. Westminster MD: Heritage Books, 1989. [Originally published in 1913. A version with many corrections is available at http://lib.jrshelby.com/mcallister-harris.pdf] O'Kelley, Patrick. Nothing but Blood and Slaughter: The Revolutionary War in the Carolinas. Volume One: 1771-1779. Lillington, NC: Blue House Tavern Press, Booklocker.com, Inc., 2004 Volume Two: 1780. Lillington, NC: Blue House Tavern Press, Booklocker.com, Inc., 2004 Volume Three: 1781. Lillington, NC: Blue House Tavern Press, Booklocker.com, Inc., 2005 Volume Four: 1782. Lillington, NC: Blue House Tavern Press, Booklocker.com, Inc., 2005 Sanchez-Saavedra, E. M. A Guide to Virginia Military Organizations in the American Revolution, 1774-1787. Westminster MD: Westminster Books. 2007. [reprint of Library of Virginia edition, 1978. Available on Google Books.] Will's favorites include: American Revolution Troop Deployment Timeline website at http://home.earthlink.net/~historycarolina/AmRevTroopDeployment.htm American War of Independence – at Sea website at http://www.awiatsea.com/sn.html Lawrence E. Babits & Joshua B. Howard. "Fortitude and Forbearance" The North Carolina Continental Line in the Revolutionary War: 1775-1783, Raleigh NC: Office of Archives and History North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 2004 [no longer in print] Mark M. Boatner, III. Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 3rd ed., 1994 (Will finds this edition more useful than the more current edition for quick references to identify the major officers, battles, etc.) http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/county/taylor/rev/garevroster.htm for Georgia veterans of the Revolution. Bobby Gilmer Moss. Roster of the Loyalists in the Battle of Kings Mountain. Blacksburg, SC: Scotia-Hibernia Press, 1998 ...The
Loyalists in the Siege of Fort Ninety Six. ...Roster of the Patriots in the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge, Blacksburg, SC: Scotia-Hibernia Press, 1992 …Roster
of ...The Patriots at the Cowpens, Revised Edition, Blacksburg, SC: Scotia Press, 1985 …The Patriots at King's Mountain. ...The Snow Campaign 1775: First Land Battle of the American Revolution in South Carolina, Blacksburg, SC: Scotia-Hibernia Press, 2007 …& Michael C. Scoggins. African-American Patriots in the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution. Blacksburg, SC: Scotia-Hibernia Press, 2004 ............................................African-American Loyalists in the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution, Blacksburg, SC: Scotia-Hibernia Press, 2005 The American Revolutionary War website at http://myrevolutionarywar.com/index.htm Websites of John Robertson including http://gaz.jrshelby.com/ (his Global Gazetteer –'place finder') and http://lib.jrshelby.com/ (his online library of books, articles, etc. dealing with the Southern Campaigns) William Thomas Sherman. Calendar and Record of the Revolutionary War in the South: 1780-1781,
(n. p., Sixth Edition, 2009), http://www.angelfire.com/d20/htfh Thanks! Will Graves |
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