My name is Jason Wickersty and this is my work.
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This project to map New Jersey’s Revolutionary veterans and their widows builds upon the work of historians Theodore J. Crackel and was inspired by the Tennessee State Library & Archives Patriot Paths mapping project.
In September 1981, Theodore J. Crackel, then a professor of history at the United States Military Academy, published Longitudinal Migration in America, 1780–1840: A Study of Revolutionary War Pension Records, which introduced the concept of using Revolutionary War pension files as a source for historical migration data. Three years later, he followed up with Revolutionary War Pension Records and Patterns of American Mobility, 1780–1830, which focused his study of pensioner migration patterns to a sample of 1,400 New Jersey veterans. However, as Crackel himself noted, his findings were only preliminary. Crackel did not separate pensioners out by cohort (those who applied under the 1818 law, and those who applied under the 1832 law), nor were the migrations mapped. This study fills those gaps in Crackel’s work by mapping the migration of New Jersery’s Revolutionary veterans using….
The Tennessee State Library & Archives Patriot Paths mapping project was revelatory to me in its use of Esri’s arcGIS software as a data visualisation tool to map the migrations of Revolutionary veterans. Suzanne White, GISP with the State of Tennessee for their assistance in all things GIS.
