New Jersey’s Revolutionary Generation is a data visualization project that traces the lives of the men and women of New Jersey, Whig and Loyal, free and enslaved, who fought for, survived in, or escaped from the Crossroads of the Revolution during the American War of Independence.
This ongoing project aims to contribute to the scholarship surrounding the role of New Jersey and its people during the Revolutionary War by analyzing and visualizing archival primary source research through the use of interactive GIS maps, charts, and other digital tools.
DISCOVER
Mapping New Jersey’s Revolutionary Soldiers and their Families
Where did New Jersey’s Revolutionary Generation come from? Using demographic information from the Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land-Warrant Application Files, NARA Record Group 15, Microfilm Publication 804, held by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, follow the journey of New Jersey’s Revolutionary Veterans, from where they were born, where they were living when they became soldiers, and where their lives led them after the war.
Jersey Continental Veterans
Learn about the 690 veterans of the New Jersey Continental Line who survived the war to apply for pensions beginning in March 1818.
Jersey Militia Veterans
Learn about the 2,005 veterans of the New Jersey Militia who survived the war to apply for pensions beginning in June 1832.
Jersey Widows
Learn about the 964 widows of veterans of the New Jersey Continental Line and Militia who lived to apply for pensions beginning in July 1836.
“I may say I have lived in an eventful period of the world. [I] have not only seen, but have borne some humble part in effecting a revolution involving the dearest interest of man...”
- Thomas Ware, Samuel Forman’s Battalion of “Detached Militia.” Pension S.773, September 22, 1832.