It's Patriot's Day (19 April) in Massachusetts - where they honor the persons involved in the "shot heard round the world" at Lexington and Concord.
I wanted to list, and link to my blog posts about, my known Revolutionary War soldiers - not just from Massachusetts, but from all of the colonies.
* Martin Carringer (1758-1835) of Mercer County PA (RevWar Pension file)
* Philip Row (1752-1817) of Hunterdon County NJ (RevWar Pension File)
* Peter Putman (1760-1835) of NJ and Yates County NY (RevWar Pension file)
* Stephen Feather (17??-1804) of NJ and Westmoreland County PA
* Rudolf Spengler (1738-1811) of York County PA
* Philip Jacob King (1738-1792) of York County PA
* Burgess Metcalf (1741-1816) of Piermont NH
* Isaac Buck (1757-1846) of Sterling MA (RevWar Pension File)
* Thomas Dill (1755-1830) of Eastham MA (RevWar Pension File)
* Joseph Champlin (1758-1850) of S. Kingston RI (RevWar Pension File)
* Norman Seaver (1734-1787) of Westminster MA
* Benjamin Seaver (1757-1816) of Westminster MA
* Zachariah Hildreth (1728-1784) of Westford MA
* Zachariah Hildreth (1754-1828) of Townsend MA
* Amos Plimpton (1735-1808) of Medfield MA
* David Kirby (1740-1832) of Westport MA
* Joseph Oatley (1756-1815) of S. Kingston RI.
I can see that I have some future blog posts to do about the Revolutionary War service of these persons in my ancestry.
The URL for this post is: http://www.geneamusings.com/2012/04/patriots-day-my-revolutionary-war.html
Copyright (c) 2012, Randall J. Seaver
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