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The Kentucky Migration Note: This project is intended for anyone that moved to Kentucky during this period. If you have more info on why these families migrated, please feel free to add it here, or on their profiles. The first serious explorations of the Kentucky territory by English colonists had begun around 1750, and it was found that the area was not generally inhabited by Indians, but wa...
* please feel free to add your ancestor's profile to this project For an extensive list of Patriot participants, please see below or click here . A list of Loyalist soldiers is below.==Sources==Draper, Lyman, King's Mountain and its Heroes , Cincinnati, 1881 (digitized on archive.org: , Robert, The Battle of Kings Mountain: Eyewitness Accounts , The History Press, 2007Dykeman, Wilma, Battle of ...
Battle of Fort Charlotte:
The Siege of Charleston was one of the major battles which took place towards the end of the American Revolutionary War, after the British began to shift their strategic focus towards fighting in the southern colonies. As a defeat, it was the biggest loss of troops suffered to the revolutionary army in the war wherein the losses consisted essentially of the major part of the forces available to...
Crypt for the Prison Ship Martyrs=* coordinates: 40° 41' 30" N. 073° 58' 32" W. Google Map * Type: Crypt (cemeteries, graveyards)* Location: Fort Greene Park, Myrtle to Dekalb Avenues, Edwards and Cumberland Streets* County: Kings. City: New York. Borough: Brooklyn. State: NY (New York) Country: US (United States)Please add Geni profiles of these American Patriots to this project (actions menu ...
The Battle of Springfield was fought during the American Revolutionary War on June 23, 1780. After the Battle of Connecticut Farms, on June 7, 1780, had foiled Lieutenant General Wilhelm, Baron von Knyphausen’s expedition to attack General George Washington’s army at Morristown, New Jersey, Knyphausen and Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton, British commander-in-chief in North America, decided...
Scope of Project ===The Battle of Musgrove Mill , August 19, 1780, occurred near a ford of the Enoree River, near the present-day border between Spartanburg County, South Carolina|Spartanburg, Laurens County, South Carolina|Laurens and Union County, South Carolina|Union Counties in South Carolina. During the course of the battle, 200 Patriot militiamen defeated a combined force of approximately...
“Unhappy and Afflicted Women?”: Free Colored Women in Barbados: 1780-1834, by Pedro L.V. Welch
Please join and bring your pioneer ancestors with you. ==Cumberland Compact==* from Westerly Journeys - COLONIAL KENTUCKY FRONTIER In the spring of 1780 despite the hazards of life at the frontier, Judge Richard Henderson initiated the Cumberland Compact and obtained the signatures of 236 would-be settlers to the land south of Kentucky called "Tennessee." Many of his own family were among the p...