Records of the Revolutionary War

OF THE

REVOLUTIONARY WAR:

CONTAINING

THE MILITARY AND FINANCIAL CORRESPONDENCE
OF DISTINGUISHED OFFICERS;

NAMES OF The officerS AND PRIVates of regIMENTS, COMPANIES,
AND CORPS, with the DATES OF THEIR COMMISSIONS
AND ENLISTMENTS;

GENERAL ORDERS OF WASHINGTON, LEE AND GREENE
AT GERMANTOWN AND VALLEY FORGE;

WITH A LIST OF

DISTINGUISHED PRISONERS OF WAR; THE TIME OF THEIR
CAPTURE, EXCHANGE, ETC.

TO WHICH IS ADDED

THE HALF-PAY ACTS OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS; THE REVO-
LUTIONARY PENSION LAWS; AND A LIST OF THE OFFICers of
THE CONTINENTAL ARMY WHO ACQUIRED THE RIGHT TO
HALF-PAY, COMMUTATION, AND LANDS.

BY W. T. R. SAFFELL,

COUNSELLOR, and AGENT FOR REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
THIRD EDITION.

BALTIMORE:

CHARLES C. SAFFELL,

224 WEST FAYETTE STREET.

1894.

8203 53 18940

Copyright 1894,
BY

CHARLES C. SAFFELL.

Press of Thomas & Evans, 600-60G Water Street, Baltimore, Md.

PREFACE.

As great numbers of the descendants of Revolutionary officers and soldiers are, at this time, eagerly in search of information relative to the service of their ancestors, for purposes of profit and satisfaction as well as of history; and, as many of them reside at places where nothing of the kind can be had without considerable difficulty and expense, I have thought it my proper duty to place my collections within the reach of all interested.

In so doing, I am not without a strong reason to induce a belief that they will be of some considerable historical interest in indicating the different locations and movements of the army, and in showing the whereabouts of individual officers, regiments, detachments, and corps, as well as in giving the precise dates of important events; and as the financial difficulties of the infant Republic in 1780 has been a subject of great interest, both in history and in legislation, new light is thrown upon it by the correspondence dated in that year.

As the Congress of the United States, the Court of Claims, and the Executive Departments are constantly engaged in the legislation upon, and in the investigation and adjustment of, claims against the United States for military service, I am convinced that much of the matter included in my collections, especially the correspondence of officers, and the list of their deaths, will serve as an important guide to individuals in asserting their claims, and as a protection of the interests of the government in adjusting them.

They will, also, be found useful in answering at once, and without trouble, the thousands of letters to members of Congress from their constituents, asking information relating to military service, pensions, and the Pension and Bounty Land Laws of the Revolution.

In preparing this work, I have availed myself of the free use of “Irving's Life of Washington,” “ 'Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution," and "McSherry's History of Maryland," which, I am free to acknowledge, are the best and most accurate works extant, on their respective subjects, and should be owned by every reader in the land.

W. T. R. S.