Patriot Ancestors

Joshua ABSTON

Patriotic Service Description: 

Captain in the Pittsylvania County, Virginia Militia


Robert ACKERMAN

Patriotic Service Description: 

Corporal in the 13th Reg. Albany Co., NY Militia


Charles William Wesley BICKLEY

Patriotic Service Description: 

CAPTS RUSSELL, MONTGOMERY, SHELBY, SNODDY, COLS BLADSOE & CAMPBELL


Nathan BABBITT

Patriotic Service Description: 

1st Lt., in Captain John Cranes Company - 2nd Norton Train Band, 1771.Also on Alarm List at Norton, 1775.


James BARBER

Patriotic Service Description: 

Pvt under Capt James Babcock, and Col Charles Dyer


Conrad BEIGHLEY/BECHLE

Patriotic Service Description: 

Private Fourth Class, Lt Bachmann and Capt Wagner's First Company, Lt Col Philip Boehm's Fourth Battalion, Northampton Co., PA, Continental Line, until 1782


Rufus BENNETT

Patriotic Service Description: 

  • Pvt and Personal Body Guard to General George Washington

  • Pvt under Capts Samuel Ransom, Durkee, Spaulding, & Edward Eels' Companies; Cols Grosvenor & Zebulon Butler's Regts, CT Troops


Elisha BOWMAN

Patriotic Service Description: 

Private and Corporal in Catp Lyon and Col Malcomb's CT Troops


Jonathan BUCK

Patriotic Service Description: 

Private in Capt George Enslow's Company, 1st Battalion, Bedford County Militia, Pennsylvania 26 Jul - 29 Oct 1782


Benjamin CATCHINGS

Patriotic Service Description: 

  1. MEMBER OF HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY

  2. JUSTICE FOR WILKES CO.

  3. RECD BOUNTY LAND AS REFUGEE CITIZEN AS PER ACT OF 20 AUGUST 1781


John CRAIG Sr

Patriotic Service Description: 

  1. Private-Virginia Continental Line, Montgomery County Virginia Militia

  2. NSDAR RC #362984 states: PATRIOTIC SERVICE; TOOK OATH OF ALLEGIANCE BEFORE JOHN MONTGOMERY.


Shadrach/Shadrack CLAYWELL

Patriotic Service Description: 

Private., Cav. and Inf., VA Militia


John DENSON

Patriotic Service Description: 

  1. NC LINE;

  2. MARINE ON 'SARAH GRAY' COMMANDED BY CAPT JAMES BRISTELL, 1782;

  3. POW


John Jacob DIEFENDORF

Patriotic Service Description: 

  1. Served as an Orderly Sergeant under Captain Jacob Diefendorf

  2. Also served under Captains Henry Diefendorf and Robert Krous, Colonels Campbell, Clyde, and Willett at Fort Plank

  3. Seerved at Fort Stanwsix and fought at Battle of Fort Johnston


Hawkins DOWNES

Patriotic Service Description: 

  1. Subscribed to Oath of Fidelity to State of Maryland 01 Mar 1778

  2. TOOK OATH OF ALLEGIANCE, 1778, CAROLINE COUNTY


Michael ECKARD

Patriotic Service Description: 

Signed Oath of Allegiance to Maryland 1778.


Nathan EDSON

Patriotic Service Description: 

  1. PVT, LEXINGTON ALARM IN CAPT HAYDEN'S CO OF MINUTEMEN;

  2. PVT & SGT, CAPTS COLE, COBB, COL TITCOMB;

  3. As a Private - Lexington Alarm in Captain Haydens Company of Minutemen, Colonel Bailey's Regiment. which marched on the Alarm of April 19, 1775; service of 12 days. Private and Sergeant in Captain Cole and Cobb under Colonel Titcomb, MA Militia. Enlisted as a Sergeant in 1777 & 1778.


John EMERSON

Patriotic Service Description: 

Served as a Lieutenant under Captain George McCormick, and Captain under Colonels William Russell and John Gibson in the 13th Virginia Regiment


Benajah GENTRY

Patriotic Service Description: 

  1. Patriot, confiscated property of Tories

  2. Juror in Albemarle County, VA 1779


Thomas GIBSON

Patriotic Service Description: 

  1. FIRST LIEUTENANT IN CONTINENTAL LINE

  2. FURNISHED BEEF


Joseph GUYTON

Patriotic Service Description: 

Juror, Ninety-Six District, Spartan District, South Carolina.


Samuel HAIGHT

Patriotic Service Description: 

Captain, NY Militia


John HARRINGTON

Patriotic Service Description: 

Soldier serving from South Carolina and patriotic service


Henry SMITH Sr

Patriotic Service Description: 

  1. Provided home for distressed patriots duing Revolutionary War

  2. CARED FOR WOUNDED GEN THOMAS SUMPTER AT HIS HOME


Alpheus HARMON

Patriotic Service Description: 

Captain's Grant, Cochran, Noble, Conckey, Colonel's Thean Allen, Warner, Easton


Josiah HAYWARD

Patriotic Service Description: 

  1. Served as a Private in Captain Simon Hunt's Company, Colonel Brook's Regiment in Acton, Massachusetts

  2. was in the contest at Concord


Patrick HENRY

Patriotic Service Description: 

  1. Member of Convention

  2. Member of House of Delegates

  3. Governor of Virginia 1776 - 1779

  4. Member of Continental Congress

  5. Colonel and Commander-in-Chief, Virginia Forces, September 1775 - February 1776


Henry HOTCHKISS Jr

Patriotic Service Description: 

  1. Private

  2. Also, signed Oath of Fidelity and Petition Against Disloyal Officers, Wallingford 1821


Henry HOTCHKISS Sr

Patriotic Service Description: 

Private.  Also, took Oath of Fidelity, Wallingfor CT


John HURLBUT Sr

Patriotic Service Description: 

  1. Member of Committee of Correspondence, officiated as a Selectman.

  2. MEMBER OF COMMITTEE OF INSPECTION, 4 DEC 1774;

  3. SELECTMAN, 4 DEC 1775;

  4. JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, MAY 1779


Israel JONES Sr

Patriotic Service Description: 

  1. Private, 18th CT Militia

  2. Captain Connecticut Militia, 7th and 18th Regiments


Thomas JONES

Patriotic Service Description: 

CAPT JAMES JUDSON, MAJ JOHN SKINNER


John KESTER

Patriotic Service Description: 

  1. Private, Captain Thomas Carpenter, West Bradford Twp - Chester Co. PA, Militia

  2. Colonel Bradfors First Battalion. First Company, Private - PA

  3. PAID SUPPLY TAX 1782, 1783


Phillip MALLORY

Patriotic Service Description: 

Provided material aid


Chester MAY

Patriotic Service Description: 

Private in the MA Militia


Nehemiah MAY

Patriotic Service Description: 

  1. Captain of 14th Company, 1st Hampshire County (MA) Regiment, COL David Leonard; 72 days of service at Fort Ticonderoga, New York

  2. Selectman

  3. Representative to the General Court


James MELROSE

Patriotic Service Description: 

RENDERED MATERIAL AID


John MELROSE

Patriotic Service Description: 

Private in the New Jersey Militia serving in Captain James Moore's Company, Seely's Regiment.


James MIDDLETON

Patriotic Service Description: 

At the Provisional Congress held at Wilmington, North Carolina on June 13, 1776, it was resolved that James Middleton be appointed as Lieutenant  to the Independent Inlet stationed between the New River and Deep Inlet under the command of Brigadier General John Ashe of Cape Fear. On July 12, 1776 he was referred to as Captain.


Temperance AVERY/MORGAN

Patriotic Service Description: 

Rendered aid, supplied stockings and "Rifel frocks.”


John MORTON

Patriotic Service Description: 

Co. Capt in the VA 4th Reg


Thomas NEAL

Patriotic Service Description: 

  1. Private - Captain Wood's Calvary, Col Malmedy's North Carolina Regiment; Gunner - Col Long;

  2. Gunstroker, Artificers of Halifax, NC, 8-23-1781


Thomas OWEN

Patriotic Service Description: 

  1. Ens. David Lynn, Major Francis Deakins.

  2. Took Oath of Fidelity.


Benjamin POLLARD

Patriotic Service Description: 

  1. Commissioned as a Lt of Virginia Marines on 29 Mar 1776 and assgned to the Virginia Navy Galley Hero under Captain George Muter

  2. Later promoted to Captain replacing Samuel Hanway and sered until the end of the war

  3. Rewarded with land in KY for his service and moved there in 1790

  4. Also signed the Oath of Allegiance to the State of Maryland in 1778


William POLLARD

Patriotic Service Description: 

  1. Signed Oath of Fidelity to the State of Maryland before Thomas Jones of Dorchester County, Maryland in 1778

  2. Served as Private in Thomas Jones Company, Seventh Maryland Regiment, 30 Apr 1778 - September 1779

  3. Paid Supply Tax 1783.


Henry RHODES/RHOADS Jr

Patriotic Service Description: 

  1. Captain, Brothers Valley Third Company, Col William Parker's Regiment, Bedford Co. PA Militia

  2. Member of the Constitutional Committee, 1776

  3. DAR RC # 983960 and A095980 cite: BROTHERS VALLEY 3RD CO, COL WILLIAM PARKER


Anthony RITTER

Patriotic Service Description: 

Signed the Oath of Fidelity to the State of Maryland in 1778 before Richard Cromwell


Daniel ROBINS

Patriotic Service Description: 

Served as a Private in Captain Jonathan Danforth's Company, Colonel Asa Whitcomb's Continental Regiment of the Masachusetts Line


Jacob ROBBINS

Patriotic Service Description: 

Served under Captain James Burt, Colonel Asa Whitcomb, Lexington Alarm


John SEXTON

Patriotic Service Description: 

Private in the Continental Line of Virginia in 10th Co., 14th Regiment under Captain Joseph Michaux.


Adam SIMMONS

Patriotic Service Description: 

Soldier of York County, Pennsylvania Militia 1st Battalion, st Company, 4th Class under Captain William Dodds


John SIMMONS

Patriotic Service Description: 

  1. Guarding the Prisoners confined in the New York City Hall

  2. Allowed Meetings to be held at his House, 1775

  3. John Simmons had an inn on Wall Street near City Hall in New York, New York at which committee and council meetings were held for the welfare of the City and the Cause of Independence


Anthony STAHLER

Patriotic Service Description: 

  1. Pvt, 8th Class, 7th Co, 2nd Battalion under Colonel George Breinig and Captain Christian Fisher.

  2. TOOK OATH OF ALLEGIANCE, 1777

  3. CAPT CHRISTIAN FISHER, COL GEORGE BREINIG


Thomas SUMRALL/SUMMERALL/SUMERLIN Sr

Patriotic Service Description: 

  1. Took Oath of Allegiance to Make Land Entry, Anson County, North Carolina, 26 August 1778.

  2. Provided Beef for the South Carolina Militia on 14 Jul 1780 and 22 Nov 1782.


Moses THOMPSON

Patriotic Service Description: 

Col. Baldwin's Regt. of NJ


Soloman WALES

Patriotic Service Description: 

  1. Captain of Alarm Company of Connecticut Militia for 15 months

  2. Appointed by the Connecticut Assembly in 1777 as a Justice of the Peace


Samuel WALKER Jr

Patriotic Service Description: 

  1. Private in the 6th Co. of NH Militia

  2. Signer of the NH Declaration of 12 Apr 1776


Capt Samuel WALKER Sr

Patriotic Service Description: 

Private with Captain Henry Haskell, 1775 (Lexington Alarm)


Peter WHEELER

Patriotic Service Description: 

Signed the NH Declaration of 12 Apr 1776


John YOUNG

Patriotic Service Description: 

  1. Captain, VA Militia, Commissioned by Committee of Safety for the Colony of Virginia, 14 Nov 1775.

  2. FURNISHED BEEF