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A project for DAR members to meet each other, and for non-members to find ancestors that enable them to join. Use the related projects below to help focus your DAR research goals. Geni Project - DAR Patriots Geni Project - DAR Descendants Geni Project - DAR Daughters Search the DAR "The Daughters of the American Revolution is a charitable organization that requires members be wom...
Valley Forge in Pennsylvania was the site of the military camp of the American Continental Army over the winter of 1777–1778 during the American Revolutionary War. Date: December 19, 1777–June 18, 1778 Location: (current time) Valley Forge National Historical Park Result: American Army survived difficult winter From Wikipedia : With winter almost setting in, and with the prospects f...
A few Loyalists left the British colonies during the American Revolution then tens of thousands were deported after peace was concluded after the American Revolution (1783) Most did not remain in the locales to which they were sent. Histories are available detailing the numbers moved and how they swelled the temporary boom towns such as Shelburne, Nova Scotia. Populations of such regions plung...
The Battle of Wyoming (also known as the Wyoming Massacre) was an encounter during the American Revolutionary War between American Patriots and Loyalists accompanied by Iroquois raiders that took place in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania on July 3, 1778. More than three hundred Patriots were killed in the battle. After the battle, settlers claimed that the Iroquois raiders had hunted and kil...
The aim of this project is to showcase the SIGNERS and MESSENGERS who spread the word of the Battles of Lexington and Concord on 19 April 1775, and within 10 days had alerted 13 colonies to the war finally at hand. Please add their Geni profiles to this project.==The Lexington Alarm Letter==From The Lexington Alarm Letter Late on April 18, 1775, British soldiers marched from Boston, toward Conc...
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 ...
Prison Ship Martyrs Monument=* coordinates: 40° 41' 30" N. 073° 58' 32" W. Google Map * Feature Class: Park. Park: Fort Greene Park. Location: 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 profiles to this project (actions menu > add profiles) of anyone associated with the m...
This project is a holding place for the various projects created involving 1778 and the American Revolutionary War.
It happened at dawn, April 14, 1772 in Weare, New Hampshire. Twenty-forty men, faces blackened with soot, entered the room of sheriff Benjamin Whiting at the Pine Tree Inn and assaulted him and his deputy, John Quigly, with switches cut from trees. Their horses had their ears cut off, their tails and manes shaved. Whiting and Quigly were forced to ride out of town through a gauntlet of jeering ...
The Glorious Revolution of 1688 and Rebellion in the American Colonies=This project is to identify profiles of the (sometimes forgotten) patriots who led the way to what became the American nation.Collaborators, please feel free to edit the overview, add resources, and invite more collaborators.==background=====The Glorious Revolution - Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights===The Magna Carta start...