Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

John Gassaway (1754-1820)
MSA SC 3520-16923

Sources:

Archival Sources:

Copy of family Bible record of Gassaway family. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files. NARA M804. W.8842, from Fold3.com.

Maryland State Papers, Series A, Application for Military Commission. May 6, 1776 [MSA S1004-2-565, 1/7/3/25].  

Maryland State Papers , Red Books, Gassaway to the House of Delegates.November 19, 1787 [MSA S989-46, 1/6/4/34].

Veterans pension of John Gassaway. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files. NARA M804. W.8842, from Fold3.com.

Widow’s pension of Elizabeth Gassaway. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files. NARA M804. W.8842, from Fold3.com.  

Published Sources:

Extract of a letter from New-York: Account of the battle on Long-Island. September 1, 1776. American Archives Online, series 5, vol. 2.

Heitman, F.B. Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution: April 1775, to December 1783. Washington, D.C. , 1893.  

Kilbourne, John Dwight. A Short History of the Maryland Line in the Continental Army. Baltimore: The Society of the Cincinnati of Maryland, 1992.

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

Newman, Harry Wright. Anne Arundel Gentry: A Genealogical History of Some Early Families of Anne Arundel County, Maryland . Annapolis : Published by the author, 1970.  

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

Newspapers:

“General Orders.” Federal Gazette. May 21, 1812. 

Maryland Gazette. September 29, 1780. American Archives Online: Maryland Gazette Collection. MSA SC 2731. M 1283. Image 178. 

Republican Star. July 9, 1816. 

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