Online Revolutionary War Indexes and Records

A Genealogy Guide

• Revolutionary War Records and Documents Online at Fold3
  (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)
  • Numbered Record Books Concerning Military Operations and Service, Pay and Settlement of Accounts, and Supplies in the War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records (from National Archives Microfilm Publication M853)
  • Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 (M246), and other historical records

• Revolutionary War Records at FamilySearch
  (these are free with registration)
  • Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 from National Archives (NARA) microfilm publication M246
  • Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872 from NARA microfilm publication T718
  • Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Applications, 1800-1900 from NARA microfilm publication M804
  • Revolutionary War Compiled Service Records, 1775-1783 from NARA microfilm publication M881
  • Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783 for Alabama, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Vermont, and Virginia

• Revolutionary War Indexes Online at Ancestry...
  (these require a subscription fee)
  • U.S. Compiled Revolutionary War Military Service Records 1775-1783 (from National Archives Microfilm Publications M880 and M881)
  • Revolutionary War Rolls 1775-1783 nearly 426,000 names (M246)
  • Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books - 152 Vols.
  • Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications 1889-1970
  • Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files 1800-1900 (M804)
  • 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)

• Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogy Databases

• Sons of the American Revolution - Revolutionary War Patriots Index and Graves Registry

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

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

• Land Grants to Georgia Revolutionary War Veterans (at Ancestry/requires payment) from: Authentic List of All Land Lottery Grants Made to Veterans of the Revolutionary War by the State of Georgia
• List of Loyalists Banished from Georgia - 1783 (Loyalists are those who remained loyal to Britain)

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

• Indiana: Surname Index to Roster of Soldiers & Patriots of the American Revolution Buried in Indiana, Vol. I & II (at Ancestry/requires payment)
• Indiana Society Sons of the American Revolution Patriot Graves Registry

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

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

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

• Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War (at Ancestry/requires payment)
• Massachusetts Revolutionary War Index Cards to Muster Rolls, 1775-1783 from FamilySearch

• New Hampshire Revolutionary War Records, 1675-1835 from FamilySearch

• New Jersey: Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War
• New Jersey Revolutionary War Damage Claims, 1776-1782
• New Jersey Volunteers (Loyalists) in the Revolutionary War (at Ancestry/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 (at Ancestry/requires payment)

• North Carolina Revolutionary War Soldiers (at Ancestry/requires payment)
• North Carolina Troop Returns, 1747-1893 from the State Library of North Carolina; includes lists (pay or muster rolls), returns, records of prisoners and records of draftees
• North Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782 from FamilySearch
• Revolutionary War Soldiers of North and South Carolina

• 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 (at Ancestry/requires payment)

• Pennsylvania Revolutionary War Military Abstract Card File Indexes
• Pennsylvania Revolutionary War Battalions and Militia Index, 1775-1783 (at Ancestry/requires payment)
• Pennsylvania Militia Officers Index Cards 1775-1800
• Pennsylvania: Valley Forge Muster Roll

• Vermont Men in the Revolutionary War (at Ancestry/requires payment)

• Virginia: Library of Virginia Online Military Records includes...
  • Revolutionary War Land Office Military Certificates
  • Revolutionary War Public Service Claims
  • Culpeper County Classes, 1781
  • Virginia Military Dead Database - ongoing project

• Virginia Memory - Military Service Collection includes...
  • Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants
  • Revolutionary War Rejected Claims
  • Revolutionary War Virginia State Pensions

• Virginia Militia in the Revolutionary War (at Ancestry/requires payment)
• Revolutionary War Records, Vol. 1, Virginia by Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh scanned book at the Internet Archive

• 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)