Online Revolutionary War Indexes and Records

General Revolutionary War Records

• 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
  • U.S., Black and Indigenous Soldiers in the American Revolution, 1775-1783
  • Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files 1800-1900 (M804)
  • Rosters or other Revolutionary War related records for Alabama, Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia (see the individual links to some of these below)

• 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

• Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogy Databases

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

• Case Files of Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Applications Based on Revolutionary War Service, ca. 1800–ca. 1912 partially available online; from the National Archives

• A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary Or Military Services by the United States Census Office. 6th Census, 1840, published 1841; scanned book available for free download at Google Books

Revolutionary War Records by State

Alabama

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

Connecticut

• 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)

Georgia

• 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

• Illinois Revolutionary War Veteran Burials (at Ancestry/requires payment)

Indiana

• 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

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

Maine

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

Maryland

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

Massachusetts

• 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

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

New Jersey

• 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)

New York

• 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

• 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
• North Carolina and Tennessee, Revolutionary War Land Warrants, 1783-1843 (at Ancestry/requires payment)

Ohio

• 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

• Pennsylvania Revolutionary War Military Abstract Card File, 1785-1893
• Pennsylvania Revolutionary War Battalions and Militia Index, 1775-1783 (at Ancestry/requires payment)
• Pennsylvania Revolutionary War Pension Records
• Pennsylvania: Valley Forge Muster Roll

Tennessee

• North Carolina and Tennessee, Revolutionary War Land Warrants, 1783-1843 (at Ancestry/requires payment)

Vermont

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

Virginia

• Virginia: Library of Virginia Online Military Records includes...
  • Revolutionary War Bounty Land Applications and Certificates
  • Revolutionary War Public Service Claims Index
  • Revolutionary War Virginia State Pensions
  • Culpeper County Classes, 1781

• 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

Miscellaneous

• 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 (PDFs)