Pursuing Pennsylvania Patriots: Two Trails to Follow (pdf download)

Illustrated step-by-step guide to digging deep into both state and federal Revolutionary War records. Learn precisely how to access your ancestor's service through the major online RW records in the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (that's the official name for the Pennsylvania State Archives), the National Archives, and other repositories. This Nutshell provides links to the indexes and then to the major record groups so that you can find the original county muster rolls, state Military Loan Certificates, entries in ledgers, disability pensions, and Depreciation & Donation Land records. It addresses the war on the PA/VA frontier and how to determine if they served in Virginia rather than Pennsylvania.

The second half of the Nutshell covers federal pensions and Bounty Land Warrants, how to follow the Compiled Military Service Records (CMSRs) to the original entries in federal orderly books, financial records (payrolls, reimbursements, fines, etc.), entries in Papers of the Continental Congress (it's amazing how many records for individuals hide in these papers), and federal bounty land grants. Resources for Loyalists, Pacifists, Hessians are given, as well as links for a wide variety of organizations and publications.