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Patriots

Each Patriot proven as an ancestor of our chapter members is listed below. Could you be the descendant of an American Revolutionary War Patriot? To search for established DAR Patriots, use the Ancestor search tool on the NSDAR website.

Key

Capt = Captain

Col = Colonel

Cpl = Corporal

CS = Civil Service

LCol = Lieutenant Colonel

Lt = Lieutenant

Noncom = Non-commissioned Officer

PS = Patriotic Service

Pvt = Private

Sgt = Sergeant

Sol = Soldier

Connecticut

  • Daniel Alderman, Sol

  • Aaron Bush, CS

  • John Bush, Sol

  • Deliverance Eastman, Pvt, PS

  • Hezekiah Holcomb, Sr., Capt

  • Timothy Holcomb, Pvt

  • Eleazer Hutchinson, Capt, CS

  • Dan Loomis, Pvt, PS

  • Silas Olmstead, PS

  • George Stancliff, Sol

  • Thomas Yale, PS

 

Georgia

  • Thomas Carter, CS, PS

  • Samuel Chewning, Sol, PS

  • Henry Haymond, Sol

  • Isaac Jackson, Col, CS, PS

  • Thomas Johnson, Pvt, PS

  • Jesse Peters, Pvt

  • John Stanford, Pvt

  • Joseph Sumner, Sol

  • Abner Webster, Pvt

  • William Wise, Sol, PS

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Massachusetts

  • Isaac Ball, Lt

  • Joseph Cooper, Pvt

  • Isaac Davenport, Cpl

  • Samuel Davenport, Pvt

  • Oliver Earle, Lt

  • Sherebiah Fay, Sgt

  • Nehemiah Grover, Pvt

  • Aza Hazeltine, Lt

  • Joshua Murdock, Sgt

  • Samuel Murdock, Cpl

  • Stephen Whipple, Pvt

 

Maryland

  • Thomas Thorne, PS

North Carolina

  • John Barnes, PS​

  • Jeffrey Beck, Pvt, PS

  • Luke Bynum, CS, PS

  • Tapley Bynum, Pvt

  • Bailey Chandler, Sol, PS

  • Richard Christmas, Pvt

  • Benjamin Cleveland, Col, CS, PS

  • Conrad Crump, Pvt, PS

  • William Davenport, Sgt

  • Benjamin Dumas, NC, PS

  • William Harbin, Pvt

  • Drury Harrington, Lt

  • Abraham Helton, Pvt

  • Arthur Herring, Sol

  • John Holbrook, CS, PS

  • Henry Holliday, PS

  • Jacob Kettell, Sgt

  • James Knott, PS

  • Peter Little, PS

  • Joseph May, Pvt

  • Avington Mcelroy, PS

  • Jesse Neville, Pvt

  • William Neville, Capt, CS

  • John Ogletree, PS

  • John Parker, CS

  • John Patterson, PS

  • James Petty, CS, PS

  • Willis Pope, Lt

  • William Rhodes, PS

  • John Ricks, PS

  • Joel Simms, CS, PS

  • William Simms, CS

  • Frederick Thompson, Pvt

  • Mitchell Watkins, Sol

  • Joseph Wells, Sr., PS

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New Hampshire

  • Ebenezer Drury, Pvt

  • Zedekiah Drury, Pvt

  • Paul Dustin, Pvt, PS

  • James Gage, Capt, PS

  • Drury Harrington, Lt

  • Peter Knight, PS

  • Moses Little, Lt

  • James Murch, Sgt

  • Ephraim Page, CS

  • Samuel Spiller, Pvt

  • Abel Webster, CS, PS

  • Nathaniel Webster, Pvt

  • Abel Woodward, CS, PS

  • Thomas Wooley, PS

​New York

  • William Burnside, PS

  • Zebulon Cornell, Sol

  • John Hazeltine, Sr., PS

  • Joseph Safford, Sr., PS

 

Pennsylvania

  • Nicholas Hostetler, PS

  • Christian Lesnett, Sgt

  • John Loudon, Pvt

  • Peter Montfort, Pvt, PS

  • Andrew Pinkerton, Pvt

  • John Prior, Pvt

  • David Rankin, Pvt

  • George Slagle, Noncom

  • Richard Tennant, Noncom

  • John Wagner, Pvt

 

South Carolina

  • Joseph Anderson, Pvt

  • Andrew Berry, CS

  • Thomas Carter, CS, PS

  • John De Loach, Sol

  • Major Duke, Sol

  • Sarah Duke Murphy, PS

  • James Dunn, CS

  • Enoch Grigsby, Lt

  • Drury Harrington, Lt

  • Lodowick Hill, Sgt

  • Frederick Kern, Pvt

  • Benjamin Kilgore, Col, PS

  • John De Loach, Sol

  • Patrick Mcgriff, LCol

  • Mark Murphy, Sol

  • James Pettigrew, PS

  • Charles Smith, PS

  • William Smith, Lt

  • Samuel Walker, Capt

  • William Wise, Sol, PS

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Virginia

  • James Adams, PS

  • Thomas Adams, Sgt

  • John Baldwin, PS

  • Zadock Barnett, PS

  • Edward Beville, PS

  • Valentine Bloss, Pvt

  • Mercer Brown, PS

  • Benjamin Butterworth, Lt

  • John Chastain, PS

  • James Christy, Pvt

  • Philip Clayton, PS

  • Lucy Clayton Williams, PS

  • Benjamin Clement, Sr., PS

  • Isaac Clement, Capt, PS

  • James Christy, Pvt

  • Joseph Cooper, Sol

  • David Davidson, Pvt

  • Jacob Duncan, PS

  • John Edwards, Sgt

  • George Green, PS

  • John Green, Col

  • Thomas Griffin, Pvt, PS

  • George Grimes, PS

  • David Gwinn, Capt

  • Graves Harris, PS

  • Thomas Heard, PS

  • Peter Hedrick, Sol, PS

  • Amos Hicks, PS

  • John Hicks, PS

  • Susanna Hill Clement, PS

  • John Jones, Sr., Col, CS, PS

  • Bryant Lester, PS

  • Robert Lilley, PS

  • Cottrell Lively, Pvt

  • George Mason, Sr., PS

  • Walter Maxey, Sr., PS

  • Angus McDonald, CS, PS

  • Gideon Moon, CS, PS

  • Samuel Pack, PS

  • John Ryckman, Sol

  • William Sanford, Capt

  • George Taylor, Lt

  • Richard Tennant, Noncom

  • Meshack Turner, PS

  • William Williams, CS

  • Thomas Winn, Sr., CS

  • Lucy Williams, PS

  • John Woodson, Jr., PS

 

Vermont

  • Reuben Rowley, Sgt

  • David Safford, Pvt

  • Jonathan Underwood, Sr., CS

  • Thaddeus Underwood, Pvt

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