Gone for Soldiers: Richmond Worden (1758 - 1837) Soldier with the Green Mountain Boys, Vermont

Richmond Worden*, my fifth great grandfather, served in the Vermont Militia under Seth Warner during the American Revolution.

[Ancestry.com. U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files (NARA microfilm publication M804, 2,670 rolls). Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15. National Archives, Washington, D.C.]

Richmond volunteered at several different times, serving in militias in Massachusetts and Vermont as this 1834 Massachusetts document describes:

[NARA M804. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files. Fold3.com]

But the index card shown at the top of the page only credits him with his service as a Green Mountain Boy.


You can read more about my ancestor's military history here.

Here's how I'm descended from Richard Worden.

[Ancestry.com]

*Note the three different ways his surname was spelled in records.






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