Re: Revolutionary born in Quebec City: Peter V Ma(y)hew a.k.a. Pierre V Mailloux
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Revolutionary born in Quebec City: Peter V Ma(y)hew a.k.a. Pierre V Mailloux
Jean-Pierre Gendreau-H 10/09/09
Jean-Pierre,
There is indeed a Peter Mayhew listed among the rosters of the 2nd NY Regiment (Continental).
These are microfilmed on the US National Archives Micropublication 246 ("Revolutionary War Rolls"), roll 67.
The surviving lists very seldom include a Company's "SizeRoll" that includes a physical description, where they lived and an occupation or trade.
Sometimes they include a 'dateline' that gives place as well as date of the list (usually muster rolls and pay rolls).
What you will not find is a narrative: what we did, who did what.But there are often notations concerning persons being assigned elsewhere, wounded or sick, that can give you some little clues.
You may be able to borrow the microfilm through a University library to look at.Images of the microfilm have been posted on ancestry.com, which has free trials available.They are tedious to page through, but rewarding.You want to look at the actual images because you want to compile a list of those who were in his Company.
Once you have a list of those in his Company or Companies, you can begin to look for Pension Application Files of these men, hoping for a narrative that can shed light on what they were involved in, how some persons came to join the Regiment, etc.
A very brief history of the Regiment can be found here:
http://www.myrevolutionarywar.com/index.htmhttp://www.myrevolutionarywar.com/index.htm
--click on American Regiments link, then on the State, then the Regiment number.
It will help in going through the roster images if you know what Company or Companies your man served in (there were organizational changes in 1777-1780).You can most easily find this by looking at your man's Compiled Service Record.The Compiled Service cards were created 100 years ago by the US War Office, where clerks transcribed information from the original rosters to individual cards for each time a particular person was mentioned in one of the lists.
Ancestry.com has images of the Compiled Service Records (you can only browse through them alphabetically; they are arranged by Regiment, then by names).They are also available on www.footnote.com, which has indexed these with links; the site also offers a short free trial period -- you must have an updated version of Flashplayer 10 to view the images.
Footnote.com also has the complete Pension Application Files with every-name indexes.If your man made an affidavit that was in another man's file, you may be able to find it here.
As far as I know, no Regimental History has been written of the 2nd NY (Continental).
I hope this will help you in your search.