Online Revolutionary War Indexes & Records

A Genealogy Guide

• Revolutionary War Records and Documents at Footnote
  (searches are free - you can obtain copies of the records online for a fee) includes...
  • Compiled Service Records of American Army Soldiers During the Revolutionary War 1775-1783 contains scanned documents of the service records from National Archives Microfilm Publication M881
  • Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files contains scanned documents of these records from National Archives Microfilm Publication M804
  • Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 (M246), and other historical records

• Revolutionary War Indexes Online at Ancestry...
  (these require a subscription fee)
  • U.S. Compiled Revolutionary War Military Service Records 1775-1783
  • Revolutionary War Rolls 1775-1783 (nearly 426,000 names)
  • Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books - 152 Vols.
  • Sons of the American Revolution Database list of members of the SAR from its beginning to 1901
  • Partial Revolutionary War Pension Index - about 1700 listings
  • American Revolutionary War Rejected Pensions - about 8600 listings
  • Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots
  • Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants
  • Rosters or other Revolutionary War related records for Alabama, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia (see the individual links to some of these below - they are marked "requires payment")

• Sons of the American Revolution - Revolutionary War Patriots Index & Graves Registry (click on "Patriot Lookup Page" when you get there)

• Alabama Revolutionary War Soldiers (requires payment)
• Alphabetical List of Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama

• Connecticut Revolutionary War Military Lists, 1775-1783 nearly 13,000 men listed (requires payment)
• Connecticut Men in the Revolutionary War (requires payment)

• Georgia Revolutionary War Veterans Land Lottery Records 1820-1832
• Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia (3 volumes - scanned searchable books) requires payment - all 3 volumes are included in a single subscription to Ancestry's USA genealogy records collection - compiled by the Daughters of the American Revolution
  • You can search all 3 volumes here: American Revolutionary War Collection
• List of Loyalists Banished from Georgia - 1783 (Loyalists are those who remained loyal to Britain)

• Illinois Revolutionary War Veteran Burials (requires payment)
• Index to the George Rogers Clark Collection of Papers Pertaining to the Illinois Regiment of Virginia State Forces

• Indiana Revolutionary War Burials
• Indiana: Surname Index to Roster of Soldiers & Patriots of the American Revolution Buried in Indiana, Vol. I & II (requires payment)

• Kentucky Revolutionary War Warrants Database (Before June 1, 1792, Kentucky was a part of Virginia)

• Maine Revolutionary War Bounty Applications, 1835-36 (requires payment)

• Maryland: Muster Rolls & Other Records of Service of Maryland Troops in the American Revolution
  • Index for these Records
• Maryland Revolutionary War Records (requires payment)

• Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War (requires payment)

• New Jersey: Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War
• New Jersey Volunteers (Loyalists) in the Revolutionary War (requires payment)

• Index to New York Revolutionary War Invalid Pension Records 1801-1815
• New York Revolutionary War Pension Lists of 1792-1795
• New York in the Revolution (requires payment)

• North Carolina Revolutionary War Soldiers (requires payment)
• North Carolina in the Revolutionary War

• Revolutionary War Pensioners Living in the State of Ohio in 1818-1819
• The Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in the State of Ohio scanned searchable book (requires payment)

• Pennsylvania Revolutionary War Military Abstract Card File Indexes
• Pennsylvania Militia Officers Index Cards 1775-1800
• Pennsylvania: Valley Forge Muster Roll

• South Carolina Revolutionary War Letters, Diaries & Orders searchable online

• Vermont Men in the Revolutionary War (requires payment)

• Virginia: Library of Virginia Online Military Records includes...
  • Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants
  • Revolutionary War Virginia State Pensions
  • Revolutionary War Rejected Claims
  • Revolutionary War Public Service Claims
  • Revolutionary War Land Office Military Certificates
  • Culpeper County Classes, 1781
  • Virginia Military Dead Database - ongoing project
• Virginia Revolutionary War Records (requires payment)
• Virginia Militia in the Revolutionary War (requires payment)

• Hessian Soldiers of the Revolutionary War
• List of 8000 Prisoners on the Old Jersey Prison Ship
• Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements a partial collection of pension applications for participants in the Southern Campaign or to claimants who resided in Virginia, the Carolinas or Georgia (PDF files)