A search for a place to call home.

Life after the Revolution

They measured freedom in places.

During the Revolution, he fought for independence. After the war:

“He was dissatisfied with that country” and moved from South Carolina to Pontotoc County, Mississippi, then to Marion County and Marshall County, Alabama, “being unable to settle himself in the other named places to his satisfaction.”John Biddie pension transfer application, December 6, 1837

John Biddie described his movement in his pension file. Other veterans also carried their pension payments west or filed pension claims after settling in new homes. Their movement spread the lives recorded in the Atlas far beyond the original states.

Open the national Atlas to see the fifteen states from which these journeys began, or follow the prepared list of the people who moved west.