Guards of Camp Security 7: Henry Baumgardner
The pension act of June 7, 1832 extended benefits to some Revolutionary War veterans that had not qualified under the 1828 act. The war had been over for 49 years, so most applicants were at least...
View ArticleGuards of Camp Security 8: John Stewart
Here is another clue from the National Archives records into life at Camp Security. John Stewart as 77 years old when he applied for a Revolutionary War pension in Clermont County, Ohio in 1832. He...
View ArticleCall put out for information on previous Camp Security finds
Hole showing distinct difference in the soil coloration I stopped by the site of the Camp Security archaeology dig yesterday and took a few photos. There have been some small Revolutionary War period...
View ArticleGuards at Camp Security 9: Philip Werntz & Jacob Beam
Here are two more excerpts, possibly related, from Revolutionary War pension applications at the National Archives concerning erecting a stockade for the British prisoners held at York (Camp...
View ArticleCamp Security exploration will go on
This is a 1779 plan to house the Saratoga captives in Virginia. Camp Security was said to be similar, but two-thirds in size. Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration The hunt goes...
View ArticleGuards at Camp Security 10: Ebenezer Ferguson
For nearly a year my research at the National Archives has been focused on copying Camp Security related Revolutionary War pension applications from the microfilm at the National Archives. (They also...
View ArticleFinding Nicholas James
Nicholas James from Lewis Miller’s People, recently published by York County Heritage Trust Nicholas James was a York County teenager during the closing years of the Revolutionary War. He was evidently...
View ArticleEscape from Camp Security
How easy was it to escape from Camp Security near York? It doesn’t seem to have been very difficult. Many of the first group of British Revolutionary War prisoners confined there, the so-called...
View ArticleGuards at Camp Security 11: Manuel Zeigler
(A public meeting with information on the May/June 2015 dig at Camp Security will be held at the Springettsbury Township building, 1501 Mount Zion Road at 7 p.m. Wednesday March 25.) There are 42...
View ArticleGuards at Camp Security 12: Waiting for pay
Since the states were responsible for Militia Pay Rolls during the Revolutionary War, and Camp Security was guarded by York County Militia during much of its existence, the Pennsylvania State Archives...
View ArticleYork County Revolutionary War Militia Registration
PA State Archives RG-4, Records of the Comptroller General, Military Accounts, Militia, York County 1777-1794, 3 May 1779. I have learned a lot about the Revolutionary War era in the past six years or...
View ArticleWhat’s new with Camp Security?
English musket or pistol flint and hand-wrought nails The 2015 archaeology dig at the site of Camp Security has come to a close. Over eighty volunteers participated in various ways: shuttling workers...
View ArticlePrehistoric and other finds at Camp Security
Spear point of rhyolite from the South Mountian region, possibly Caledonia area. Late Archaic period (1800-1000 B.C.) In my last post, I shared some of the artifacts found at the 2015 Camp Security dig...
View ArticleCamp Security appears in new popular mystery
Award winning author Rita Mae Brown has incorporated Camp Security into the latest volume of her best-selling Mrs. Murphy mystery series. Tail Gait is available in hard cover, as an eBook and as a...
View ArticleNew Camp Security booklet is available for students and teachers
In the past we have shared the overall history of Camp Security, York’s Revolutionary War prisoner-of-war camp. We have heard snippets of accounts of the camp, in their own words, from the pension...
View ArticleCamp Security on a vintage Christmas Card
Looking through the antique and vintage Christmas cards at York County Heritage Trust Library and Archives yesterday, I found one with a Camp Security theme. It had a printed signature of Mr. and Mrs....
View ArticleCamp Security Review, Part One
Digging and sifting at Camp Security 2015 The Friends of Camp Security organization, of which I am a board member, is holding a public meeting Tuesday March 22 at 6:30 p.m. at the Springettsbury...
View ArticleCamp Security Review, Part Two
General Greene’s 1779 plan for Virginia camp to hold Convention prisoners. Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration This is the second in a series of posts reviewing the history and...
View ArticleCamp Security Review, Part Three
This post continues an overview of York County’s Revolutionary War prisoner-of-war camp. Click here for the first two installments as well as many other posts that I have written over the past ten...
View ArticleCamp Security Review, Part Four
I am sharing two shorter portions of the history of Camp Security in this post. The entire recently revised narrative can be found at www.campsecurity.org under the History tab. In addition, scrolling...
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