Our Patriot Ancestors

Below is a listing of our members' Patriots, the state they served, and their service.

Abbreviations used for types of service in the list below:  CAPT= Captain, CHP=Chaplain, COL= Colonel, CPL=Corporal, CS=Civil Service,  DRM=Drummer,  ENS=Ensign,  LT=Lieutenant,  2LT= Second Lieutenant, LCOL=Lieutenant Colonel,  MAJ=Major,  MID=Midshipman, NONCOM= Con-commissioned Officer, PS=Patriotic Service, PVT=Private, SGT=Sergeant, SOL=Soldier. 

 

California - Spanish America

Jose Francisco de Ortega - PS

 

Connecticut

Jonathan Bingham - PS

Jacob Boutelle - CPL

James Boutelle - PVT

Thomas Brockway - CHP 

William Fosdick - NCO

Levi Gates - PS

James Gould - PS

Peter Johnson - CAPT

William Kilbourn - PVT

Nathaniel Loomis - ENS

Nathaniel Osborn - SGT

Samuel Pearson - LT

Giles Pettibone - MAJ, CS, PS

John Salter - PS

Ashbel Stillman - CS

Reuben Stockwell - DRM

Thomas Tanner - LT, PS

Ezekiel Williams - CS, PS

 

Delaware

John Manning - PVT

 

Georgia

James Bowdoin - SOL

Peter Brumback - PVT, PS

Henry Leverett - SOL

 

Maryland

Levin Bestpitch - LT, CS, PS

 

Massachusetts

James Fosdick - PS

Justus Ames - SOL, PS

Nathaniel Austin - PVT 

Absalom Blair - LT

Samuel Blanchard, Sr. - PVT

Samuel Blanchard, Jr. - PVT

Zadock Bliss - PVT

Jewett Boynton - PVT

John Boynton - COL

Abijah Bush - PVT

Obadiah Bush - PVT

Joseph Callender - PVT

Jacob Cook, PS

Asa Cottrell  - PVT

Samuel Clapp  - PVT

Alpheus Davis - PVT

Isaac Davenport - CPL

John Dillingham - PVT

Ezekiel Ellis - PVT

Jacob French - PVT

Abner Gleason - PVT 

Joseph Hagar - PVT

Daniel Hemmingway, Sr - CS, PS

Israel Hendrick - PVT

Reuben Hendrick - PVT 

Charles Hutchins - PS

William Hutchins - PVT

Purchase Jewett, Jr. - PVT

Samuel Kellogg - PVT

Aaron Kneeland - PVT

Daniel Knowlton - PVT

John Peabody, Sr. - PS, SGT 

William Pixlee - LT

Isaac Potter - PVT

Joseph Rice - PVT

Nathaniel Rich - CS

Zebulon Richmond - PVT

Benjamin Simmons - COL

Solomon Spaulding - SGT

John Tolman - ADJ, SGT

Joshua Twitchell - MA, PVT

Phineas Ward - PVT

Daniel Wardwell - PS

Joseph Wheeler - PVT, CS, PS 

Samuel Woods - CS, PS

 

 

New Hampshire

Joseph Abbott - PVT

Jonathan Bingham - PS

Stephen Blanchard - PVT

Samuel Brown, Jr. - PS

Simeon Bullard - SGT, CS

Ebenezer Day, Sr. - PS

Josiah Ellis - PS

Benjamin Huntoon - SGT, PS

John Knowlton - SGT

David Marston, Sr. - CS, PS

Joseph Marston - PVT

Daniel Philbrick - SGT

John Wight - PVT

 

New Jersey

Peter Apgar - SGT

Burditt Ashton - PS

David Campbell - PVT

John Martin - LT

Zebulon Park - SGT

Abraham Quick - COL

Jacob Westervelt - PS

 

New York

Elisha Adams - PS

John Barnes, Sr. - CAPT

Aaron Carrington - PVT

Anthony Van Bergen - COL- PS

John Van Buren - PVT-ENS

Killian Van Rensselaer - COL

Christopher Peter Yates - MAJ

Stephen Yeomans - PVT, PS

 

North Carolina

Thomas Beale - PS

John Billingsley - PVT

William Blake - SGT, PS

John Brown - SOL

Peter Brumback - PVT, PS

Gideon Crews - PS

Philip Cruse - SOL

William Davidson - CAPT

John Douthet - 

Christopher Dudley - CS, PS

Philip Gruss - SOL

Green Hill - MAJ, PS

Zachariah Lyerly, Sr. - PVT 

John McConnell - PS

John Meisenheimer - CS

William Milliken, Sr. - CS

Thomas Mock - PS

William Nash - PVT

John Shaffer - PVT

Thomas Taylor - CS

Edmund Williams - CS

Michael Winecoff - PS

 

Pennsylvania

Samuel Cochran - SGT

Christian Cressman - PVT

Ann Simpson Davis - PS

Abraham Flory - PVT

George Groff - CAPT

John Hamilton, Sr. - PVT

Benjamin Harbison - CAPT

Jacob Harroff - PVT

Conrad Leisenring - PVT

John Manning - PVT

Joseph McClintock - PVT

Samuel McElwaine - ENS

Christopher Myers - PVT, PS

Abraham Powers - PS

Peter Rhodes - PS

Christopher Stark - PVT

Henry Steckel - PVT

Peter Steckel - PS

Andrew Waltman - PVT

Adam Zerfass - CAPT

 

Rhode Island

Edward Ballou - PVT

James Durfee - PVT

Gray Pardon - LCOL, PS

Joshua Tanner - ENS

   

South Carolina

Joseph Burton - PS

Ephraim Cannon - PS

John Cunningham, Sr. - COL

Absolom Davis, Sr. - SOL

Robert Frierson - PVT, PS

William Pratt, Sr. - SOL

Reuben Roberts - PVT

James Carr Veale - PVT

John Witherspoon, Sr. - PVT

John Witherspoon, Jr. - LT, CS

 

 

 

Vermont 

Bildad Easton - SGT

 

 

 

Virginia

Benoni Banning - PVT

Richard Bland, II - PS

Benjamin Bowman - SOL

Joel Buffington - PS

Henry Burton - PVT

Bartlett Cash - PVT

Ann Joplin Childress - PS

Thomas Joplin - PS

William Crutcher - PVT

Joseph Dickens - PVT

Thomas Ellis - PS

Churchill Gordon - MID

William A. Halbert - LT

Arthur Herring -PS

William Herring - PVT

Aaron Higginbotham, Sr. - PS

Samuel Higginbotham - CAPT, CS

William Keyser - PVT

John Miller - PS

Simon Miller, Sr. - CS, PS

George Mountjoy - CAPT

William Mountjoy - PS

Drury Overby - PS

Matthew Parham - PS

Ann Price Satterwhite - PS

Jasper Seybold - PS

Richard Ship - SOL

Zedekiah Shoemaker - PVT

Armistead Ellis Stokes - SOL

Elizabeth Stokes - PS

William Stokes - PS

Henry Tate - PS

Jesse Tate - LT

James Turman - PS

John Wansley - PVT

John Whitehead - SOL

Andrew Wright - PVT

Moses Wright - PVT

Lewis Wolfe, Sr. - PS

  

 


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