Re: Weldy in the American Revolution?
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Weldy in the American Revolution?
debbie zsigray 6/27/08
Debbie,
You can search for yourself on the internet.Here are some useful sites:
--an incomplete listing of PA militiamen
http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/
--a fairly comprehensive search engine for many published NY Revolutionary War lists.Since a huge amount of NY Rev. War records were destroyed by fire in 1919, in many instances the books are all that survive
http://www.threerivershms.com/search.htmhttp://www.threerivershms.com/search.htm
--footnote.com has the published Pennsylvania Archives volumes that give militia rolls and lists.They have a free trial.
--you can subscribe to ancestry.com for a month and utilize a wealth of materials related to the Rev. War, including images of the rolls of the Continental Troops (plus some state troops and some assorted militia bodies).
HeritageQuest has partial Rev. War pension application files.Footnote.com has the complete files.
Persons with surname Weldy / Welty etc. are not necessarily of a cloasely related single family.There may have been persons by this surname also in the Carolinas, Maryland, Georgia and elsewhere.
Militiamen often had no active duty, but may appear on muster rolls for the required regular musters for drill.But individuals or groups might have done some parolling, guarding prisoners, or other assorted duties that did not usually involve 'fighting'.All able-bodied free white males aged roughly 16-60 (varies by time and place) were required to be available for militia duty unless enrolled in State Troops or Continentals or having been exempted due to holding high elective or appointive office.
Military service records often do not state that a unit was 'fighting', you have to follow a Regiment's specific history to determine what campaigns or battles or skirmishes it was involved in.
Have fun,
Jade