Posted on 03/20/2014 7:23:24 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
You might want to check to see if your Loyalist ancestors filed any claims against the US government after the Revolutionary War. Many Loyalists lost property, goods, homes, etc., when they left. There was a method set up after the War to file claims for restitution. Never can tell what you may find but any claims could show exactly where your ancestors lived, worked, etc.
Thank you. I do not know of any ancestor who fought in any of the Indian Wars. There many have been some but so far I have not found a record. I do have the pension records of my g-g-grandfather who served in the Mexican-American War. That led me to getting his service records from the National Archives, very interesting reading. By following the dates of his company muster records you can deduce which battles he found in.
On one my many trips to the Archives, I did manage to find a Revolutionary War pension claim from the children of a collateral relative. Turns out this relative had briefly served at Fort Stanwix in Rome, NY. The Fort was originally built during the French & Indian War. I moved to Rome back in 2000, not having known any of that. There's a reconstructed fort on the site of the original. The Fort was abandoned in 1768, but reoccupied by Colonial troops in 1776. My relative was sent there with a group of other militia men that summer to strengthen the Fort. I'm not sure if my relative was still there at the time of the Battle of Oriskany and the Siege of Fort Stanwix in August of 1777.
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