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Genealogies of Rev. War Patriots at Godfrey Memorial Library TITLE AUTHOR LIBRARY CALL NUMBER PUBLISHER Daughters of the INDIANA 352 O'BYRNE Abbott, John: Green County. American Revolution. 1999 Daughters of the INDIANA 352 O'BYRNE Abell (Able), John: Dearborn County. American Revolution. 1999 Abington, Bowles. St. Charles. Houts, Alice Kinyoun MO 352 VETS DAR 1966 929.2 ADAMS 1841 v.1 & Boston, C.C. Little and J. Letters of John Adams, addressed to his wife. Adams, John 2 Brown, 1841. The life and public services of Samuel Adams, being a narrative of his acts and opinions, and of his agency in producing and forwarding the American Revolution. With extracts from his Boston, Little, Brown, and correspondence, state papers, and political essays. Well, William V. 929.2 ADAMS 1865 v.1-3 Company, 1865. Bowen, Catherine John Adams and the American Revolution. Drinker 929.2 ADAMS 1950 Boston, Little, Brown, 1950. New York : Simon & Schuster, John Adams McCullough, David G. 929.2 ADAMS 2002 2002. Rochester Hills, MI: John A. Marsh Collection on the Adgate Family 929.2 ADGATE 2006 Marsh, 2006. Alden, James Everett, of Torrington, Connecticut; born at South CONN 366 CTSAR Hadley, Massachusetts Yearbook 1892 The life of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, Major-General in New York : Pub. for the New the Army of the United States during the Revolution: with Jersey Historical Society by selections from his correspondence Duer, William Alexander 929.2 ALEXAND 1847 Wiley & Putnam, 1847. Alexander, Capt. William. St. Francois. Houts, Alice Kinyoun MO 352 VETS DAR 1966 www.Godfrey.org 134 Newfield Street, Middletown, CT 06457-2534 860-346-4375 TITLE AUTHOR LIBRARY CALL NUMBER PUBLISHER Memoir of Colonel John Allan : an officer of the revolution, born in Edinburgh Castle, Scotland, Jan. 3, 1746. Died in Lubec, Maine, February 7, 1805. With a genealogy Allan, George Hayward 929.2 ALLAN 1867 Albany : J. Munsell, 1867. 352 COLDHAM LOYALS Allen, Levi of Salisbury: [Connecticut ] Coldham, Peter Wilson 2000 The sages and heroes of the American Revolution. In two parts, including the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Two hundred and forty three of the sages and heroes are presented in 929.2 AMERICAN REV Philadelphia, The Author, due form and many others are named incidentally. Judson, L. Carroll 1851 1851. Diary of Colonel Israel Angell, commanding the Second Rhode Island continental regiment during the American revolution, Providence, R. I., Preston and 1778-1781; Angell, Israel 929.2 ANGELL 1899 Rounds Company, 1899. [New York]: The Knickerbocker press (G.P. Israel Angell: colonel of the 2nd Rhode Island regiment Lovell, Louise Lewis. 929.2 ANGELL 1921 Putnam's sons), 1921. The reasons why Rhode Island declared her independence of [Providence, R.I.: R.I. Citizens Great Britain, May 4, 1776 : by James N. Arnold. Arnold, James N. 929.2 ARNOLD 1907 Historical Association, 1907. Lucretia Shaw Chapter, National Society Daughters of Benedict Arnold: Patriot or Opportunist? Clarke, Katheryn Cilley q929.2 ARNOLD 2009 the American Revolution Benedict Arnold: Military Racketeer Sullivan, Edward Dean 929.2 ARNOLD 1932 Vanguard Press Biography of revolutionary heroes; containing the life of Brigadier Gen. William Barton, and also, of Captain Stephen Williams, Catherine Providence, The author; New Olney. Read (Arnold) 929.2 BARTON 1839 York, Connecticut Society Sons of the American BIOFILE 929.2 BISSELL Unveiling of Memorial Tablet to Daniel Bissell Revolution 1919 Bond, Frank Stuart : of New York City; vice-president of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company; born at CONN 366 CTSAR Sturbridge, Massachusetts. YEARBOOK 1892 www.Godfrey.org 134 Newfield Street, Middletown, CT 06457-2534 860-346-4375 TITLE AUTHOR LIBRARY CALL NUMBER PUBLISHER Bond, Henry Richardson: of New London, Connectiut; born at CONN 366 CTSAR Bangor, Maine YEARBOOK 1892 CONN 366 CTSAR Bond, William Williams: of Vicksburg, Mississippi. YEARBOOK 1892 Stephen R. Bradley: letters of a Revolutionary War patriot and Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, Vermont senator Bradley, Stephen Row 929.2 BRADLEY 2009 c2009. Nathaniel Brooks of Ashford, Connecticut, Revolutionary War Pensioner Fennell, Lela Brooks 929.2 BROOKS 1989 Gateway Press The Ancestors and Descendants of Silas Brooks (1760-1849) and His Wife Elizabeth Beckwith (1766-1846) Brooks, Jack R. 929.2 BROOKS 2004 Jack R. Brooks Memoir of Henry Armitt Brown: together with four historical Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott, orations Hoppin, J. M. 929.2 BROWN 1880 1880. Colonel John Brown, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the brave accuser of Benedict Arnold: an address delivered before the Fort Rensselaer Chapter of the D.A.R. and others, at the village of BIOFILE 929.2 BROWN Boston : W.B. Clarke Co., Palatine Bridge, New York, September 29, 1908 Howe, Archibald M. 1908 1908. Cincinnati, Ohio : Society of BIOFILE 929.2 BROWN Colonial Wars in the State of William Brown 1991 Ohio, 1991. Cincinnati, Ohio : Society of The Order of the purple heart: an account of Sergeant William BIOFILE 929.2 BROWN Colonial Wars in the State of Brown who brought his badge of merit to Columbia, Ohio Dickorâe, Marie Paula 1943 Ohio, 1943. Memoir of William Burke Burke, William 929.2 BURKE 1837 Case, Tiffany Boston : Ticknor and Fields, The life and times of Aaron Burr ... Parton, James, 929.2 BURR v1 1867 1867. Families of Our Revolutionary Ancestors, Eunice Dennie Burr Chatfield, Mrs. Chester CONN 366 DAR FAIRFIE Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution H. 1956 The Chapter Chapins who served in the French and Indian Wars, 1754-60 the Revolutionary War, 1775-83; the War of 1812-15, and others Chapin, Charles Wells 929.2 CHAPIN 1895 Springfield, Mass., 1895. www.Godfrey.org 134 Newfield Street, Middletown, CT 06457-2534 860-346-4375 TITLE AUTHOR LIBRARY CALL NUMBER PUBLISHER William Cooper : the town clerk of Boston : a paper read at the BIOFILE 929.2 COOPER meeting of the Boston Antiquarian Club, April 12, 1881 Tuckerman, Frederick 1885 Amherst : [s.n.], 1885. Journal and letters of the late Samuel Curwen, judge of Admiralty, etc., an American refugee in England, from 1775 to 1784, comprising remarks on the prominent men and measures of that period. To which are added, biographical notices of many American loyalists, and other eminent persons Curwen, Samuel 929.2 CURWEN 1842 New York, C.S. Francis, 1842. William Davis's personal account of service in the American BIOFILE 929.2 DAVIS [Missouri: Mary Jane Beasley, Revolution 1990 1990. Silas Deane, a Connecticut Leader in the American Revolution Clark, George L 929.2 DEANE 1913 G. P. Putnam's Sons Denison Genealogy Denison, Elverton Glen 929.2 DENISON 1939 The Fredonia Censor Connecticut Revolutionary, Eliphalet Dyer Willingham, William 929.2 DYER 1976 The ancestors and descendants of Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth and his wife, Abigail Wolcott : and the story of Elmwood, their Baltimore : Gateway Press, homestead Siemiatkoski, Donna L. 929.2 ELLSWOR 1992 1992. A memorial of the opening of the Ellsworth homestead at Connecticut Daughters Windsor, Connecticut, October eight, nineteen hundred and of the American Connecticut Daughters of the three Revolution 929.2 ELLSWOR 1907 American Revolution Supplement to A memorial of the opening of the Ellsworth Connecticut Daughters homestead at Windsor, Connecticut, October eight, nineteen of the American 929.2 ELLSWORTH SUP Ellsworth Memorial hundred and three Revolution 1969 Association The works of Benjamin Franklin : containing several political and historical tracts not included in any former edition, and many letters, official and private not hitherto published : with notes Boston : Hilliard, Gray, & Co., and a life of the author Franklin, Benjamin 929.2 FRANKLI 1844 1836-1840. Waynesboro, Tenn. : National Genealogical abstracts of Revolutionary War pension files White, Virgil D. REF q352 WHITE 1990 Historical Pub. Co., 1990- www.Godfrey.org 134 Newfield Street, Middletown, CT 06457-2534 860-346-4375 TITLE AUTHOR LIBRARY CALL NUMBER PUBLISHER History of the Girtys: being a concise account of the Girty brothers - Thomas, Simon, James and George, and of their half- brother, John Turner - also of the part taken by them in Lord Dunmore's war, in the western border war of the Revolution, and in the Indian war of 1790-95; with a recital of the principal events in the West during these wars, drawn from authentic sources, Butterfield, Consul largely original ... Willshire 929.2 GIRTYS 1890 Cincinnati, Clarke, 1890. General Joseph Graham and his papers on North Carolina Revolutionary history; with appendix: an epitome of North Carolina's military services in the Revolutionary War and of the Graham, William Raleigh, Edwards & laws enacted for raising troops. Alexander 929.2 GRAHAM 1904 Broughton, 1904. Memoirs of an American lady. With sketches of manners and New York, Dodd, Mead and scenes in America, as they existed previous to the Revolution, Grant, Anne MacVicar 929.2 GRANT 1909 Co., 1909. The life of Nathanael Greene : major-general in the army of the Greene, George Boston ; New York : revolution Washington 929.2 GREENE v1 1890 Houghton, Mifflin, Halloway, Charlotte Nathan Hale: the Martyr-Hero of the Revolution Molyneux 929.2 HALE 1899 A.L. Burt Life of Captain Nathan Hale Stuart, I.W. 929.2 HALE 1856 F.A. Brown SPEC 929.2 REEVES bx1 [New York, NY : John Harland John Harland Reeves Collection Reeves, John H. 2005 Reeves, 2005] The Harmons in the revolution : Harmon soldiers of 1776, with genealogical notes on the first Harmon settlers and early colonial New York : W.M. Clemens, families. Madden, Laura A. 929.2 HARMON 1913 1913. Ancestry of Col. John Harvey, of Northwood, New Hampsire, an officer of the line in the war of the revolution, and an original member of the New Hampshire Society of the Cincinnati. Treat, John Harvey 929.2 HARVEY 1907 Boston, Priv. print., 1907. Memoirs of Major-General Heath : containing anecdotes, details Printed at Boston : By I.
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