Life Atlases

# Life atlases reconstructed through geography.

These maps trace military service, migration, settlement, captivity, freedom, and memory across a lifetime. They show why the atlas must operate at both scales: communities and individual lives.

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## Movement, service, and memory.

### Peter Jennings

Continental Army service from Connecticut and Rhode Island through major Revolutionary campaigns, with later ties to Tennessee and the Bahamas.

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### Cato Mead

Connecticut service, Valley Forge, discharge at Peekskill, and postwar movement through Ohio, Illinois, and Iowa.

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### James Robinson

Major movements from Maryland's Eastern Shore through Revolutionary service, the lower Mississippi Valley, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Detroit.

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### John Biddie

A Revolutionary veteran’s search for a place “to his satisfaction,” moving from Virginia and South Carolina toward Mississippi and Alabama.

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### Absalom Ailstock

Virginia Revolutionary service movements from Louisa County to Yorktown during the closing phase of the war.

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### John Womble

War service and later life through North Carolina, South Carolina, Savannah, Charleston, captivity, parole, and later residence.

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