Several websites such as www.ancestry.com, www.familysearch.org, and www.fold3.com have Revolutionary War index cards which are digitally indexed and easy to find. Some of these cards have lots of great information, such as the one for Deliverance Wilson. It lists the captain’s name, what town the captain was from, dates of service, and a description of what the company did in the 16 days referenced on the muster and pay roll.
read moreSometimes when a record set or image is hard to read on one genealogy website, I look for it on a different website hoping their version is better. So when I suspected a pension file was incomplete on Fold3, I examined the same file on Ancestry and was surprised at how different the images were.
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