NYGenWeb: Westchester in the Military

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Westchester County,
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Westchester in the Military

Colonial Wars

Westchester Only

The following rosters also include place of birth and age at enlistment. Additionally, the rosters from the 1760s may also have each person's height and possibly a description.

A Muster Roll of Men Raised and Passed Muster in the County of West Chester for Capt. —— Company, April, 1760
A Muster Roll of Men Raised and Passed Muster in the County of Westchester for Capt. Joshua Bloomer His Company, May 13^th, 1760.
A Muster Roll of Men Raised and Pass'd Muster in the County of Westchester for Capt. Jonathan Haight's Company, May Ye 13th 1760.
A Muster Roll of Men Rais'd and Pas'd Muster in the County of West Chester for Capt. Bayeaux's Company, May 13th 1760
A Muster Roll of Men Rais'd and Pas'd Muster in the County of Westchester for Capt. Gilchrist's Company, May 13th 1760.
A Muster Roll of Men Rais'd and Pas'd Muster in the County of Westchester for Capt. Joshua Bloomer His Company, April 30th 1759.
A Muster Roll of Men Rais'd and Pas'd Muster in the County of Westchester for Capt. Jonathan Haight His Company, April 30th 1759.
A Muster Roll of Men Rais'd and Pas'd Muster in the County of Westchester for Capt. William Gilchrist His Company, April 30th 1759.
A Muster Roll of Men Rais'd and Pas'd Muster in the County of Westchester for Capt. James Holmes Company, April 30th 1759.
A Muster Roll of Men Rais'd and Pas'd Muster in the County of Westchester for Capt. Jonathan Fowlers Company, April 30th 1758.
A Muster Roll of Men Rais'd and Pas'd Muster in the County of Westchester for Capt. Jonathan Ogden's Company, April 22d 1758.
A Muster Roll of Men Rais'd and Pas'd Muster in the County of Westchester for Capt. John Verplank's Company, April 24th 1758.
A Muster Roll of Men Rais'd and Pas'd Muster in the County of Westchester for Capt. Ruben Lockwood's Company, April 22d 1758.

Revolutionary War

Westchester Only

Revolutionary War Pensioners in Westchester county, NY
Westchester Military Veterans and their Interments
Rev. War Payroll (1776), Capt. Glode Requa, Col. J. Drake's Regiment, Westchester, New York
John Cronk Rev. War Pension, Westchester, New York
Revolutionary War Land Bounty Rights
Cemetery Records Veterans, Revolution to World War I Personal Name Index at the Westchester County Archives
The 1899 Membership Register for The Empire State Society, S.A.R.— Currently only those 1899 members or their ancestors who resided in a town within Westchester county have been transcribed and listed here.
Johannes Van Tassel — Revolutionary War Pension File
Cowboys and Skinners — an explanation of these groups at encyclopedia.com

Some General Web sites

Sons of the American Revolution (SAR)
- NY Graves Index: County Listing
- NY Graves Index: Westchester county soldiers interred
The David Library of the American Revolution
Fold3.com, a subscription service, has the National Archives veterans files for the Revolutionary War and for the Revolutionary Pension files. If you don't have a subscription, you can use Fold3.com.com for free at an LDS Family History Center:
- Revolutionary War Service Records
- Revolutionary War Pensions
American Revolution in Hudson River Valley
The DAR Genealogical Research System — From here you can search a variety of databases online for free, including the following:
- Ancestor database
- Member Database -- However, the member's number is required.
- Descendants database
- Genealogical Records Committee Index (GRC)
- Revolutionary War
- Bibles
- Resources — Other
- DAR Library Catalog

Books — Resources

Westchester County, New York, during the American Revolution by Henry Barton Dawson [Morrisania, NYC.: [s.n.], 1886].
New York in the Revolution. [Albany, NY: Weed-Parsons Printing Company, 1897] This book can be viewed on Google Books in PDF format.
Military minutes of the Council of appointment of the state of New York, Volume 1; By Council of Appointment of the State of New York (State). State Historian. This book can be viewed on Google Books in PDF format.
A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary Or Military Services: With Their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, as Returned by the Marshals of the Several Judicial Districts, Under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census
The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution
Many SAR Yearbooks can also be found among Google Books if you search for them on line or at a library:
- Yearbook of the Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, 1896
- National Yearbook - National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, 1909

NOTE: SAR stands for Sons of the American Revolution Society. DAR stands for Daughters of the American Revolution Society.

War of 1812

For information about researching records relating to the War of 1812, please see the FamilySearch web site relating to US War of 1812 Pension Records.

Civil War

Westchester Only

Muster Rolls
- Westchester Chasseurs, Seventeenth Infantry
- Fourth New York Cavalry
- Fifth Independent Battery
- The First Regiment Mounted Rifles
- Sixth Heavy Artillery – Partial Muster Roster — Arranged by Company
- Sixth Artillery — The complete muster roll is slowly being transcribed and added here.
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- Sixteenth (Sprague Light) Cavalry
Civil War Enlistments from Eastchester— These records have been scanned and are available for viewing for free on the Virtual Archives web site of the Westchester County Archives. These records include the following information of interest to genealogists, viz., date and place of birth, and names of parents. See both Military Records I and Military Records II. They can be viewed two ways:
1. a scan of the original hand-written registers in faded color, and
2. a scan of the transcription in black and white.
Westchester and the Civil War — On the Westchester County Archives web site is the Virtual Archives which focuses on the Civil War era in Westchester from the early 1860's through the post-war period.
Roster of the John C. Fremont Post No. 590 GAR in Yonkers
The Communities of New York and the Civil War: Westchester County
Westchester County, New York, in the Civil War — from the New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center, New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs
70th Regiment of NY Infantry enlisted from Cortlandt, Westchester Co. NY — Contains a listing of soldiers extracted from the book by William T. Horton entitled: Peekskill and the town of Cortlandt during the War of the Rebellion 1861 - 1865.
2nd Regiment of NY Cavalry from Cortlandt, Westchester Co. NY — Contains a listing of soldiers extracted from the book by William T. Horton entitled: Peekskill and the town of Cortlandt during the War of the Rebellion 1861 - 1865.
17th Infantry Regiment Civil War Westchester Chasseurs
Poster for 3rd Regiment N.Y.S.V. enlistments.

General Web sites

Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System — online searchable database.
The Official Records of the War of the Rebellion — Cornell University, as part of their "Making of America" series, has put the ENTIRE -- over 60 volumes -- on the Internet!!! This series of 128 volumes is commonly referred to as simply the "O R". It includes scanned images of reports, correspondence, seizures of Southern property, etc. sent to the War Dept. during the Civil War. It includes both Union and Confederate accounts. It is in chronological order but there is no online index. Many libraries have the index. Find the volume and page number for your subject in the index at the library. To see online versions of this work, go to Cornell University's Making of America web site: http://digital.library.cornell.edu/m/moawar/waro.html

Additionally, a very few volumes of the OR are available on Google Books:
New York Civil War Medal of Honor Recipients
The New York GenWeb Site of the Civil War. Also copy of same site at http://civilwar.nygenweb.net/
Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War National Headquarters also, link to their Department of New York
The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW)
- Grave Reservation Database
Civil War Rosters – New York Links
New York in the War of the Rebellion, 1861 to 1865, compiled by Frederick Phisterer, [Albany, NY: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1890] See a copy on Google Books.
The Union Preserved: A Guide to the Civil War Records in the New York State Archives by Harold Holzer and Daniel Lorell [Fordham University Press, January 1999, ISBN-13: 9780823219001] This is a book and not a web site, but since it may be of interest to the researcher, it is being included here.
Fold3.com, a subscription service, has the National Archives veterans files for the Civil War period. See the listing below for details If you don't have a subscription, you can use Fold3.com for free at an LDS Family History Center:
Guide to Civil War Records at the National Archives — The National Archives (NARA) has an online guide to researching Civil War records – both Confederate and Union – which identifies many records of interest to genealogical researchers.