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Nearly all the adult male settlers of Kentucky had seen service in the Revolutionary War, and this 0was especially true of the settlers from Virginia, many of whom had been granted bounty lands in Kentucky for their Revolutionary services. In addition to a roll of the officers of the Virginia Line who received land bounties in Kentucky, this work includes a roll of the Revolutionary pensioners in Kentucky, a list of the Illinois Regiment that served under George Rogers Clark in the Northwest Campaign, and a roster of the Virginia Navy, amounting in total to about 6,500 individuals. The important roll of pensioners, alphabetically arranged under each county, contains about 3,000 names, with rank or grade, the state they served from, character of service, the act under which they were beneficiaries, the date they were placed on the rolls, and their ages.
In no state in the Union are there so many descendants of Revolutionary soldiers, in proportion to population, as in KY. Nearly all of the original male settlers of the state saw service in the Revolutionary War and their names can be found in this valuab
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Alarmed by infringements upon American commerce during the Napoleonic Wars, Kentuckians were early proponents of war with Great Britain. As a frontier state, Kentucky feared exposure to raids by British troops and their Indian allies. And so, when President Madison finally obtained a declaration of war, patriotic Kentuckians rushed to arms. Kentucky's involvement in the agitation for war and in the war itself had political, social, and psychological consequences for the Commonwealth. In this compelling narrative, author James Wallace Hammack, Jr., traces those consequences and Kentucky's role in the developments of the war, which Kentuckians viewed as an effort to secure the American victory won in the Revolution.
This book contains a list of Kentuckians who were granted Revolutionary War pensions up to the year 1835, as well as a list of pensioners divided up by county. It also lists officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates of the Illinois Regiment who served under George Rogers Clark during the Revolutionary War, and it lists officers, sailors, and marines of the Virginia Navy.--From publisher's description.
Excerpt from History of Kentucky, Vol. 1 The following list of Revolutionary soldiers, many of them Officers, who were still living in Kentucky in 1840 - nearly sixty years after that soldier life had closed - will show how the remarkable healthfulness of the climate and the simple and steady habits of those men and their widows conduced to long life. And what is still more remarkable than the great ageattained by them, is that, even at that great age, over two-thirds (nearly three-fourths) of them were still the heads of families, and themselves housekeepers - not content to live with, much less be dependent upon, their children or others; so strangely and strongly and sternly was the spirit of personal independence implanted in their natures by their very mode of life. But this list - remarkable as it is for Showing how many Revolutionary Soldiers emigrated to Kentucky and were still living and citizens thereof in 1840 - contains the names of probably less than one-third of those who re moved to Kentucky. Until about 1830, the pension laws embraced only the permanently wounded and invalid soldiers. Many refused a pension alto gather, declaring they could support themselves, and would not seem dependent for even a portion of their bread upon a country Whose liberties they had fought to obtain, and were willing to fight again to preserve. And many died, or fell victims to Indian vengeance, in the long interval from 1780 to 1814, and from 1814 to 1840. A few Whose names are in the list, it is evi dent from their age, were too young to be in the Revolutionary war, except as drummers or wagon-boys; while a few others were probably in the Indian wars soon after the Revolution. The figures indicate their age, in 1840. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.