The War of 1812 Muster Rolls and Payrolls Index gathers approximately 40,000 names of Virginia Militia soldiers from the following sources:
Index entries cite sources using the following abbreviations:
- PR = Pay Rolls
- MR = Muster Rolls
- HDD = House of Delegates Documents (usually accompanied by the legislative year and page number)
- B = Legislative Petitions
Search Tips
- The index uses the name listed in the original documents. This name was often abbreviated. For example, Wm., Benj., Jas., and Jno. In addition, numerous entries only have a last name, or a last name and first initial.
- Using quotes around phrases may return fewer, more relevant results.
- Boolean operators OR, NOT and AND written in ALL CAPS may be used. By default, all search terms will be combined with the AND operator. To exclude terms, use the NOT operator before a term.
- Wildcards can be used to find variant spellings. The question mark (?) will match any one character. For instance, "Ols?n" will match "Olsen" or "Olson". The asterisk (*) will match any number of characters (including zero characters). "Ch*ter" would match "Charter", "Character", and "Chapter", and "Temp*" will match "Temptation", "Temple" and "Temporary". Wildcards cannot be used as the first character of a search or within phrase searches (quotation marks).