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Military records -- Colonial wars

Neagles, James C. and Lila Lee Neagles.  U. S. military records: a guide to federal and state sources, colonial America to the present.
Comprehensive guide to records of all wars and military conflicts in which the United States was involved.

National Archives and Records Administration
Genealogy Research in Military Records

Online Military Indexes & Records: a genealogy guide

 

Colonial Wars (1622-1763) (before Tazewell County formed)

Consult these sources for soldiers' names:

Bockstruck, Lloyd. Virginia's colonial soldiers.

Clark, Murtie June. Colonial soldiers of the South, 1732-1774.

Crozier, William. Virginia colonial militia, 1651-1776.

Koontz, Louis R. The Virginia frontier, 1754-1763.

Pension Roll of 1835.
See Vol. III for Virginia records.

Stoner, Robert Douthat. A seed-bed of the republic: a study of the pioneers in the upper (southern) Valley of Virginia

Summers, Lewis Preston. Annals of southwest Virginia, 1769-1800.

Virginia Military Records

 

Dunmore’s War, 1775

Library of Virginia
Dunmore’s War: Virginia Payroll, Public Service claims, 1775