INTRO FOR 1812 FRANKLIN COUNTY ROSTERS, FRANKLING, NEW YORK

Copyright (c) 1999 by John Austin (uncajohn@emirates.net.ae). .

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The following is a list of about 439 men from Franklin Co. NY who served in the War of 1812.  Until 
now, the only general list of Franklin Co. War of 1812 soldiers was in Seaver's 1918 book on the 
history of Franklin County.   In his book, he listed the men found on several militia pay rolls, but 
missed one entire company of men and made no attempt to alphebetize the list or to do any other 
sort of explanation as to who the men were or where they lived.  

These same muster rolls were used as a starting point for the following list, but in order to provide as 
much biographical information as possible, several other sources were also consulted.  They included 
all the pension records that could be found for these men, the list of claims against the state which 
were accepted in the early 1850's, the wills registered at the Court house in Malone, cemetery lists, 
the card file at the Franklin County House of History in Malone,  the censuses up to 1860, and certain 
groups of marriage and death records.

In all, 439 men are listed, but probably as many as 10 of them are either names that were mis-read, 
or are names that were inadvertently repeated (eg Sanders vs. Saunders).  There are also 129 wives 
mentioned for whom the maiden name is known.  Many of these maiden names were found in the 
pension records and may prove valuable for genealogists in the future.  An index at the end of the list 
gives an alphabetical listing of all the soldiers and the wives whose maiden names are known.  Those 
men appearing in bold print are men for whom a pension application is on record in Washington DC