possibly include him in the Revolutionary service, and the name of the place in which he lived. Then write to the AdjutantGeneral or Secretary of State in the Colony or State where the ancestor lived, and obtain from him a certified copy of the ancestor's record. The certificate should be filed with the Secretary of the Society, together with the names of two persons who have signified their willingness to recommend the applicant. The records, in print or manuscript, of the several States, and of the United States Departments of War, of the Navy, of State, and of the Bureau of Pensions should be consulted. In referring to printed works, the volume and page should in all cases be correctly given.

A blank form with full instructions will then be furnished. by the Secretary. A concise record of the ancestor's service is required. The pedigree need be traced only to the ancestor who served in the war, but, if desired, may be carried farther back.

Citations from authorities in proof of service are required from duly authenticated histories, town and county records, published genealogies and other printed records. If more than one line of descent is claimed, supplemental applications in duplicate should be made for each line of descent. Reference to authorities in manuscript must be accompanied by certified copies, and authentic family papers must be submitted, if required. Mere tradition is not enough. Dates of birth, marriage and death should be given as far as ascertainable. All applications, when complete, should be sent in duplicate to the Secretary.

The initiation fee is three dollars; annual dues, two dollars. Price of gold insignium, eighteen dollars ($18.00); price of rosettes, twenty-five cents (25c) each. Ordinary Certificate of Membership, issued by the local Society, costs fifty cents (50c); engraved Certificates of Membership, issued by the General Society, cost five dollars ($5.00) each. Insignia and rosettes may be obtained from The Bailey, Banks & Biddie Company, Philadelphia, or through the Secretary or Treasurer of this Society; Certificates of Membership may be obtained by applying to the Secretary and prepaying the cost of same. An authenticated copy of any application for membership may be obtained from the Secretary on payment of a fee of one dollar ($1.00).

Blank applications for membership may be had at ten cents (10c) each.

INSTRUCTIONS TO APPLICANTS.

The Society would caution applicants that very little dependence can be placed on "family tradition" as to the rank held by one's ancestors. While authentic family records are not to be despised, it is nevertheless true that if family genealogies were to be taken as evidence, or the war stories handed down from one generation to another were to be believed, it would demonstrate that the army of the Revolutionary War was composed almost entirely of captains, majors and colonels. The soldiers. of the struggle were held with such veneration by their neighbors and friends that, when they reached a good old age, nearly all were dubbed, by courtesy, captain, major or colonel, and family tradition has handed these titles down to posterity. Again, many were officers of militia after the war and obtained titles in that way. So, when the official records are examined, they disclose an altogether different rank, or, as is often the case, no rank at all, and applicants in consequence are sorely disappointed.

To begin to make a search for proofs, the applicant must know the State from which the ancestor served; and in writing for information he should simply ask for the military service of such ancestor in the Revolutionary War, giving his name, his State, and, if possible, the name of the county or town from which he served.

The following works may be consulted and the following officials and others, in the various States, may be written to for certificates of military service, and for the fees for same:

CONNECTICUT. This State has published a very complete Roster, containing 27,000 names, which volume is in the Young Men's Mercantile and Public Libraries, Cincinnati, Ohio.

DELAWARE. Write Secretary of State, Dover. The rate for office copies is two cents per line, and $1.00 additional for certificate.

GEORGIA. Write Secretary, Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, for information of Georgia soldiers. That Society

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has books and manuscripts which contain much useful information relating to the Revolutionary period.

KENTUCKY. Consult the Register of Virginia Soldiers and Sailors published in this volume, and the original records (Warrants, Land Certificates, Surveys, Depositions and Patents), in the Kentucky Land Office in the State Capitol, at Frankfort, Ky., and, for certified copies of Military Warrants or other records in the State Land Office, write the Auditor of Public Accounts or the Clerk of the Land Office at Frankfort. Also, consult the Year Book for 1896 of Kentucky Society of Sons of the American Revolution; Heitman's "Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army"; Saffell's "Records of the Revolutionary War"; Collins' History of Kentucky; Filson Club Publications, especially Vol. 2, on "The Wilderness Road," Vol. 12, on "Bryan's Station," and on "Battle of Blue Licks," Vol. 16, on "Boonesborough," and Vol. 26, on "The Kentucky Mountains," with Pension Rolls in Appendix; Green's Historic Families of Kentucky; Virginia Magazine of History and Biography; Calendar of Virginia State Papers; Waddell's Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, and other authoritative histories of Virginia counties; Chalkley's Abstracts from the Records of Augusta County, Virginia; Summers' History of Southwest Virginia; Draper's "King's Mountain and Its Heroes"; "Dunmore's War," by Thwaites and Kellogg; "The Revolution on the Upper Ohio, 1775-1777," by Thwaites and Kellogg; "Frontier Defense on the Upper Ohio, 1777-1778," by Thwaites and Kellogg; "Conquest of the Northwest," by Wm. H. English; Withers' Chronicles of Border Warfare; Lewis' History of West Virginia; Hale's Trans-Allegheny Pioneers; Albach's Annals of the West; "Old Westmoreland, or Western Pennsylvania in the Revolution," by Hassler; "The Monongahela of Old," by Veech, and other source-books of pioneer history in the South and West. The earliest original county records of Fayette, Lincoln and Jefferson counties, in Kentucky, and of the older counties of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina, may repay careful explora

tion.

MAINE. Write Bureau of Industrial and Labor Statistics, Augusta, Maine. Will make copies of services on file at the ordinary price for typewriting.