Pennsylvania Archives, Fifth Series. Edited by Thomas Lynch Montgomery, under the direction of the Hon. Frank M. Fuller, Secretary of the
Commonwealth. Published in eight volumes and printed by Harrisburg Publishing Co., State Printer (Harrisburg 1906). Contents of this series include: vol. 1:
officers and soldiers in service of the province of Pennsylvania, 1744-1775, Indian traders, 1743-1775, ships registers, 1762-1776, Muster rolls of the
navy, 1776-1779, letters of marque, 1778-1782; vol. 2: Wm Thomson’s battalion of riflemen, 1775-1776, appointment of battalion officers, 1775, 1st Pa.
battalion, John Philip de Haas, 1775-1776, 2d Pa. Battalion / Arthur St. Clair, 1776-1777, 3d Pa. Battalion / John Shee, 1776-1777, 4th Pa. battalion /
Anthony Wayne, 1776-1777, 5th Pa battalion / Robert Magaw / 6th Pa. battalion / Wm. Irvine, 1776-1777, Pa. rifle regiment / Samuel Miles, 1776,
musketry battalion / Samuel J. Atlee, 1776, state regiment of foot / John Bull, Walter Stewart, 1777, Pa. line from July 1, 1776 to Nov. 3, 1777
(Continental line, 1st-4th Pa.); vol. 3: Continental line (cont’d), 1777-1783, 5th to 13th Pa. German regiment, artillery, other regiments; vol. 4: Continental
line (cont’d), 1777-1783, invalid regiment, depreciation pay, pension applications; list of soldiers of the revolution who received pay for their
services, formerly published in series 3, vol. 23; vol. 5: associators and militia Pa. Co. Bedford to Chester; vol. 6: associators and militia (cont’d)
Co. Cumberland; vol. 7: associators and militia (cont’d), co. Lancaster; vol, 8: associators and militia (cont’d), co. Northampton & Northumberland (The
preface in vol. 1 explains the reprinting of select muster rolls that appeared in earlier series. The index to the Fifth Series appears in the Sixth
Series, vol. 15.)
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