Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Solomon Slocum (1759-1781)
MSA SC 3520-17345

Sources:

Archival Sources:

Journal and Correspondence of the Maryland Council of Safety, August 29, 1775 to July 6, 1776, Archives of Maryland Online Vol. 11.

Journal and Correspondence of the Maryland Council of Safety, July 7-December 31, 1776 Archives of Maryland Online Vol. 12.

Kirkwood, Robert, The journal and order book of Captain Robert Kirkwood of the Delaware regiment of the continental line Part I: A journal of the Southern campaign, 1780-1782, Wilmington: The Historical Society of Delaware, 1990

Martin, Joseph Plumb, Ordinary Courage: The Revolutionary War Adventures of Joseph Plumb Martin, ed. James Kirby Martin, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2013

Maryland State Papers, Red Books, List of Regular Officers by Chamberlaine, December 1776, MdHR 4573, Liber 12, p. 66 [MSA S989-17, 1/6/4/5].

Maryland State Papers, Revolutionary Papers, Descriptions of men in Capt. Edward Veazey’s Independent Comp, 1776, MdHR 19970-15-36/01 [MSA S997-15-36, 1/7/3/13].

Muster rolls of the Second Maryland Regiment, Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783, National Archives, NARA M246, Record Group 93, Roll 0033, Folder 15. Courtesy of Fold3.com.

Muster Rolls and Other Records of Service of Maryland Troops in the American Revolution Archives of Maryland Online vol. 18.

Pension of Abram Acherson, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, National Archives, NARA M804, Record Group 15, Roll 6. Courtesy of Fold3.com.

Pension of Stephen Avery, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, National Archives, NARA M804, Record Group 15, Roll 96. Courtesy of Fold3.com.

Pension of Samuel Ferguson, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, National Archives, NARA M804, Record Group 15, Roll 1038. Courtesy of Fold3.com.

Pension of Robert Humphries, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, National Archives, NARA M804, Record Group 15, Roll 1367. Courtesy of Fold3.com.

Pension of David Moore, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, National Archives, NARA M804, Record Group 15, Roll 1753. Courtesy of Fold3.com.

Pension of John Trotter, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, National Archives, NARA M804, Record Group 15, Roll 2414. Courtesy of Fold3.com.

Revolutionary War Rolls, NARA M246, p. 92, From Fold3.com.

Service card of Solomon Slocum, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War, National Archives, NARA M881, Record Group 93, Roll 401. Courtesy of Fold3.com.

Seymour, William, "A Journal of the Southern Expedition, 1780-1783 (concluded)." The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 7, no. 4 (1883): 377-394

Published Sources:

Alexander, Arthur. How Maryland Tried to Raise Her Continential Quotas. Maryland Historical Magazine 42, no. 3 (1947). 184-196.

Babits, Lawrence E. and Joshua B. Howard, Long, Obstinate, and Bloody: The Battle of Guilford Courthouse, Chapel Hill: Univesity of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Bauman, Arthur R., General "Mad" Anthony Wayne & The Battle of Fallen Timbers: A Look at Some Key Events in the Life and Times of General Wayne, Blommington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2010

Black, Jeremy, Crisis of Empire: Britain and America in the Eighteenth Century, New York: Continuum, 2008.

Braisted, Todd W., "Light Infantry Never Surrender!," Journal of the American Revolution, May 19, 2015. Accessed November 11, 2016.

Daughan, George C., If by Sea: The Forging of the American Navy - From the Revolution to the War of 1812, New York: Basic Books, 2011, paperback.

"Mortuary Notice," Salem Gazette, Salem, Massachusetts, March 1, 1833, Vol. XI, issue 18, p. 3.

Neimeyer, Charles Patrick, America Goes to War: A Social History of the Continental Army, New York: New York University Press, 1996.

Rankin, Hugh F., The North Carolina Continentals, Chapel Hill: Univesity of North Carolina Press, 2005, updated.

Schuyler, David, Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820-1909, London: Cornell University Press, 2012.

Schellhammer, Michael, George Washington and the Final British Campaign for the Hudson River, 1779, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2012.

Tacyn, Mark Andrew. “'To the End:’ The First Maryland Regiment and the American Revolution” (PhD diss., University of Maryland College Park, 1999).

Town, Ithiel, Detail of Some Particular Services Particular Services, Beford, PA: Applewood Books, 1835.

Wright, John W., "The Corps of Light Infantry in the Continental Army," The American Historical Review 31:3 (Apr. 1926), 455-457. 


 

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