@article{Goodwillie2020,
       author = "Goodwillie, Christian",
       title =  {{"The Price of Blood": Shaker Revolutionary War Veterans and Military Pensions}},
       howpublished = "\url{https://ir.hamilton.edu/do/ae85017f-fe4c-44bb-ad0b-93bc578604d9}",
       publisher = {Richard W. Couper Press and Hamilton College Library Special Collections},
       journal = {American Communal Societies Quarterly},
       year = 2020,
       month = jul,
       volumen = {14},
       number = {3-4},
       pages = {142--197},
}

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Date

July 2020

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2023-10-01

Description

Many Shakers fought in the Revolutionary War. Research for this article has yielded the names of more than one hundred individuals (see Appendix 1). There are surely more to be discovered. Future Shakers were present from the first battles of the war through to the last. Autobiographical narratives given later in life as evidence for pension applications, as well as stories passed down by communities, allow for the reconstruction of the Revolutionary War service of many Shaker veterans.

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• Article

Source Title

American Communal Societies Quarterly

ISSN

1939-473X

Volume

14

Issue

3-4

First Page

142

Last Page

197

Publisher

Richard W. Couper Press

Hamilton College Library Special Collections

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