You might also try the records section of the DAR and SAR (www.sar.org) to
see if there is any mentions of this ancestor.
There might bounty and land grants from Congress as well. I remember a 2
volume set at Clayton library in Houston. I believe Clayton is online now as
well.
JP Adams
Texas
-----Original Message-----
From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jon Kukla
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 8:48 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: clarification - Unknown Revolutionary War record source
In a nutshell, the puzzle is to get from the 1912 citation "Revolutionary
Army. Four volumes of miscellaneous Ms. matter concerning the Revolution"
to whatever current form of citation will lead the researcher (with help
from archivists or librarians) to the material.
First step would be to skim the 1912 publication to see whether the
compiler provided a list of abbreviations or a bibliography in which the 4
volumes of manuscripts might be identified more fully.
Another approach: Since it was published less than a decade earlier,
the 1905 Kennedy ed. Catalogue of Transcripts (available at Google books as
below) might identify the source used by the 1912 compiler - and with that
early 20th-century information in hand a reference archivist or librarian
should be able to find her/his way to the material
URL for John Pendleton Kennedy, ed., *Calendar of transcripts: including the
annual report of the Department of archives and history*, (Richmond,
Virginia State Library. Archives Division, 1905)
http://books.google.com/books?id=rqcszh7rz30C&printsec=frontcover&dq=subject
:%22virginia%22+intitle:calendar+intitle:of+intitle:transcripts&hl=en&ei=nZk
sTNqkFIP88AaQ6IiHDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v
=onepage&q&f=false
Jon Kukla
www.JonKukla.com
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> From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of R. C. Solomon
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 10:42 AM
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> Subject: clarification - Unknown Revolutionary War record source
>
> I must apologize that my first message wasn't clear. I have the link to
> the
> online book, but each soldier's listing is followed by abbrevations that
> stand for various original sources and for Thomas Shaw those abbrevations
> stood for an very ambiguous original source. The original source that I
was
> trying to identify was listed as: Revolutionary Army. Four volumes of
> miscellaneous Ms. matter concerning the Revolution." Of course the book
> was
> written in 1912 and I guess our current form of bibliographies and
> citations
> were not being used.
>
> Thanks to all!!
>
>
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