New Jersey’s Revolutionary Generation is a data visualization project that traces the lives of the men and women of New Jersey, Whig and Loyal, free and enslaved, who fought for, survived in, or escaped from the Crossroads of the Revolution during the American War of Independence.

This ongoing project aims to contribute to the scholarship surrounding the role of New Jersey and its people during the Revolutionary War by analyzing and visualizing archival primary source research through the use of interactive GIS maps, charts, and other digital tools.

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Mapping New Jersey’s Revolutiony Soldiers and their Families

Where did New Jersey’s Revolutionary Generation come from? Using demographic information follow the journey of New Jersey’s Revolutionary Veterans, from where they were born, where they were living when they became soldiers, and where their lives led them after the war.

“I may say I have lived in an eventful period of the world. [I] have not only seen, but have borne some humble part in effecting a revolution involving the dearest interest of man...”
- Thomas Ware, Samuel Forman’s Battalion of “Detached Militia.” Pension S.773, September 22, 1832.

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Mapping New Jersey’s Revolutiony Soldiers and their Families

Jersey Continental Veterans

Jersey Militia Veterans

Jersey Widows

“I may say I have lived in an eventful period of the world. [I] have not only seen, but have borne some humble part in effecting a revolution involving the dearest interest of man...”

- Thomas Ware, Samuel Forman’s Battalion of “Detached Militia.” Pension S.773, September 22, 1832.