Curated dossiers · research index

Who enters
the archive?

This collection contains 24 person-specific dossiers and 506 index-only research leads. Dossiers contain individualized biographical claims. Index entries preserve names and group-level routes for further research without assigning personal movements, allegiances, events, relationships, or confidence labels.

530matches in 530 named records

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Named ties in the record

These edges name a curated family, working, command, political, or adversarial connection. Shared index-group membership never creates an edge.

Index composition

The collection is not the population.

These counts describe how names are organized for research in this edition. They do not measure historical participation, importance, survival in the archive, or confidence in an identity.

United States Army and militia89
British, Canadian, and imperial service81
Naval, privateering, and maritime labor79
Baltimore and Maryland records67
Political and diplomatic records64
Indigenous nations and coalitions58
Women, households, print, and civilian witness48
Black service, freedom seeking, and the Gulf coalition15
Unresolved identities5
Black Loyalist · Upper Canada1
Black Spanish militiaman · Florida1
British Army · Chesapeake1
British Army · Upper Canada1
Editor · Federalist politician1
Flag maker · Baltimore1
Free Black musician · Louisiana1
Indentured girl · Baltimore1
Lawyer and poet1
Maryland militia1
Maryland militia · Baltimore1
President · United States1
Red Stick Muscogee leader1
Revolutionary general · Federalist1
Revolutionary veteran · Federalist1
Royal Navy1
Shawnee leader · Indigenous coalition1
Shawnee religious leader1
United States Army1
United States Army · Gulf1
United States Navy1
United States Navy · Chesapeake1
United States Navy · Lake Champlain1
United States Navy · Pacific1