This work does not contain documents supporting claims for compensation but rather contains the extensive notes of the Commissioners who heard the claims between the years 1783 and 1790. These notes contain a vertible gold mine of genealogical information and quite adequantely sum up the position of the claimants. Each document usually gives the claimant s name, country of origin, reason for emigration, date of migration, place of residence in the American Colonies, occupation, names of family members and friends, location and value of confiscated property, war service rendered, losses sustained, evidence of character, statements of witnesses, notes of deed and wills and highlights of the claimant s experiences during the war. More than 7,600 pages and more than 65,500 notarial records. Over 200,000 names.
Some volumes also contain additional genealogical information in footnote form.
This allows the user to locate the proper notarial record and makes it very easy to request a copy from the Archives. See list of notaries below. More than 2,700 pages with more than 21,000 notarial acts - over 50,000 persons mentioned. Each record mentions at least the names of the main participants, date of act, number of act and the name of the notary. A great percentage of the marriage contracts on this CD are not found on CD1 above.