{"title":"Pennsylvania: Blair County","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"109-220","title":"Mother Bedford and the American Revolutionary War","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpecial Order Item\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBeing a History of the Blair County Chapter and the Somerset-Cambria Chapter of The Sons of the American Revolution and A View of Bedford County in The American Revolutionary War\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis publication demonstrates the involvement of Bedford County in the American Revolutionary War. Bedford County was the mother of present-day Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Fulton, Huntingdon, and Somerset Counties.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has a three-fold purpose. The first is to provide a history of the Blair County Chapter of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, The Blair County Chapter encompasses the region that includes Bedford, Blair, Fulton and Huntingdon Counties, Pennsylvania. In addition to the general history of the chapter, all members of the Blair County Chapter, past and present, are listed with genealogical information tracing their lineage back to all their proven Patriot ancestors. The second purpose is to provide a history of the Somerset-Cambria Chapter of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. As its name implies, the Somerset-Cambria Chapter includes those two counties. As in the case of the Blair County Chapter section, this section includes a general history of the chapter along with information on its members, past and present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book will be of value to anyone with ancestors from this region who might be interested in joining the Sons of the American Revolution or Daughters of the American Revolution. Mother Bedford contains the most extensive listing ever published of the war service of the Patriots.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso included are references to the Hessians buried within the region. Larry D. Smith serves as the Historian for the Blair County Chapter and who has spent a number of years researching the subject of the American Revolutionary War, the third purpose of the volume is to provide the most complete and accurate history, to date, of Bedford County's participation and role in the American Revolutionary War. The following items are included in the section title, A View of Bedford County, Pennsylvania during the American Revolutionary War:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eComplete rosters of the various companies of Militia raised within Bedford County, including those which were raised in 1775-76 and later became part of the Continental Line\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA brief history of the establishment of the Militia and the Continental Line\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn explanation of the Battalion\/Company numbering scheme used in the Bedford County Militia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe most complete listing ever published of the Patriots who were buried in this six-county region, along with fully footnoted references to their war service. Also included are references to the Hessians buried within the region\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInformation on the forts and fortified structures in this six-county region\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 658 page book is augmented by 49 photographs of sites of Revolutionary War activity in the region. A subject index includes 238 entries and an every name index includes over 9,000 entries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLarry D. 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If you are one of the many Americans searching for family connections in these counties of south-central PA, this guidebook will be a valuable reference for understanding the history of the area and locating the records that can help you document your ancestors¿ presence there. Before and after the American Revolution, pioneers of English, Irish, Scotch-Irish, German, and other ethnic stocks passed through Mother Cumberland in large numbers on their way to Ohio, Maryland, Virginia, and other regions. With this book, you can identify their migration routes and find out more about the settlements they created on the western frontier. Illus.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRaymond M. 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In the first 6 sections, the reader will discover a brief history of the war \u0026amp; the units serving that war, followed by sketches of the Veteran of that war giving data such as: name, rank, unit served in, date of birth \u0026amp; death, location of burial, spouses name and last known residence. In each section, the soldiers are listed in alphabetical order. And in the final section, the reader will a more detailed sketch of the various soldiers from the county giving a complete military and genealogical record of the soldier, identifying the soldier for all time to come by recording together the military services and the names of the members of his family, giving the rank, organization, date of enlistment and discharge, place and date of birth, place of residence or burial, where discharged is recorded, names of parents, names of brothers and sisters, and children, name of wife, and wife’s parents, and of marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFloyd G. 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