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• American Prisoners of the Revolution | American Wars

  "American Prisoners Of The Revolution" is the definitive work on the American Prisoners of the Revolutionary War. The bulk of the book is devoted to personal accounts, of the conditions endured by United States prisoners at the hands of the British, as preserved in journals or diaries kept by physicians, ships' captains, and the prisoners themselves. Titles of genealogical interest is the alphabetical list of 8,000 men who were imprisoned on the British vessel The Old Jersey, which was copied from the papers of the British War Department and incorporated in the appendix. Also included is a Muster Roll of Captain Abraham Shepherd's Company of Virginia Riflemen and a section on soldiers of the Pennsylvania Flying Camp who perished in prison, 1776-1777.

• Forgotten Patriots - African American Indian Patriots of the Revolutionary War: A Guide to Service, Sources and Studies

  Digital download of DAR book that lists thousands of African American and Native American men who fought or otherwise provided service for Patriot side of American Revolutionary War.

• Inspection Roll of Negroes, Book No. 2

  List of black men, women and children who left with British at the end of the Revolutionary War. From the U.S. National Archives.

• Internet Listing of Hessian Soldiers of the Revolution

  German troops serving the British in the American Revolution. Many were captured or deserted and remained in America.

• Johannes Schwalm Historical Association, Inc.

  JSHA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to researching those German auxiliary troops (generically called Hessian) who remained in America after the Revolutionary War, became loyal citizens, made cultural contributions and were the progenitors of any thousands of Americans living today.

• Old South Meeting House - List of Tea Party Participants

  Boston, Massachusetts. Over 5,000 colonists participated in the fateful meetings at Old South Meeting House that decided the fate of the tea in December of 1773, but only about 100 to 150 men actually boarded the ships to destroy the tea.

• Pvt Joseph ELDER 2nd Regiment Ulster Co Militia

• The Hessian Page

  The loyal German auxiliary soldiers of King George III, who settled in America after the American Revolution (1776-1783).

  • Hessian Books and Research

  • The Hessians and the American Revolution

• The Hessians and the Other German Auxiliaries of Great Britain in the Revolutionary War

  Online edition of the 1884 original.

• The Hessians in the Revolution | American Wars

  The Hessians and the other German Auxiliaries of Great Britain in the Revolutionary War, by Edward J. Lowell. Reprinted for the web.

• The Revolution's Black Soldiers