Our Patriots

One of the requirements for membership in the NSDAR is a proven, direct lineage from either a man or woman who gave military, civil, or patriotic service to secure American independence between April 19, 1775 (Battle of Lexington) and November 26, 1783 (withdrawal of troops from New York).

Listed below are our chapter members’ ancestors listed by state of service.

  • CONNECTICUT
    Robert Gray, PVT
    Jeremiah Keeler, SGT
  • DELAWARE
    Davis Meredith, CPL
  • GEORGIA
    Robert McGinty, PS
    Reuben Mitchell, PVT
    Jesse Stallings, SOL
  • MARYLAND
    Hatch Dent, PS
    Abraham Hayter, CAPT, PS
    Richard Owings, CAPT, PS
    William Turner, PS
    James Waters, PS
  • MASSACHUSETTS
    Samuel Babcock, PVT
    John Bailey, CAPT
    Jacob Bliss, PVT
    Stephen Hayward, SGT
    Nathan Hicks, PVT
    Lemuel Lucore, PVT
    William Mason, PVT
    Elkanah Smith, PVT
    Jabez Sweet, PVT
  • NEW HAMPSHIRE
    Peter Felt, SGT, PS
    Cotton Haynes, PS
    William Mansur, PVT, PS
  • NEW JERSEY
    Alexander Buchanan, PVT
    John Fite, PVT, PS
    Timothy Sexton, SGT
    Daniel Stockton, PS
  • NEW YORK
    James Allison, PVT
  • NORTH CAROLINA
    Charles Allison, PVT, PS
    Benjamin Barnes, SOL
    Anthony Bledsoe, COL, CS, PS
    James Bradley, PVT
    William Carr, SGT
    Hezekiah Cartwright, SOL
    Jeremiah Casey, PS
    Simon Clement, PS
    John Dickinson, CAPT, PS
    James Dobbins, SGT, CS, PS
    John Duke, PS
    Arthur Exum, PS
    Nathan Futrell, NONCOMM
    Bradley Gamble, SOL, CS
    George Gillespie, PS
    Conrad Goodner, PVT
    Richard Graham, SOL, PS
    John Hadsell, PS
    Thomas Hardeman, PS
    Joseph Harding, MAJ, CS, PS
    Lemuel Hardy, PS
    James Henry, CS
    Samuel Henry, CS
    David Hickerson, SOL, CS
    John Hinds, CAPT
    Jason L. Isbell, PS
    John Lewis, Sr., PS
    John Logue, SOL
    Daniel McKenney, SGT, PS
    Baptist McNabb, PS
    Thomas R. Musick, PVT
    Tillotson O’Brien, PVT
    Bailey Owen, PVT
    John Ownbey, CS, PS
    William Petty, Jr., PVT
    James Reese, CAPT, PS
    James Rogers, PVT
    Jacob Seagraves, PVT
    Charles Seale, CS
    Thomas Seale, PS
    Catherine Sharp, PS
    Samuel Sharp, PVT
    Jacob Daniel Shearer, PS
    Frederick Stump, PS
    John Taylor, PS
    Thomas Taylor, COL, CS
    Nathaniel Vannoy, CS
    Tobias Williams, PVT
    John Wright, Jr., CS, PS
  • PENNSYLVANIA
    Henry Alspach, PS
    Adam Alstott, CAPT, PS
    James Gallaher, PVT, PS
    John Gardner, COL
    Henry Goodman, PS
    Robert Gray, PVT
    James Holmes, LT
    Mary Douglass Howell, PS
    William Iddings, Sr, PS
    George Kistler, PS
    Nathaniel Patterson, PVT
    Nicholas Straw, LT
    Jacob Weaver, PVT
    George Wells, PS
    Richard Wells, Sr., PS
    Thomas Whitaker, PVT
  • RHODE ISLAND
    Peter Wells, PS
    Stukely Westcott, SGT
  • SOUTH CAROLINA
    Thomas R. Musick, PVT
    Membrance Williams, SOL
    Roger Wilson, STAFFOF, PS
  • VIRGINIA
    Elizmond Basye, SOL
    Joseph Black, CAPT
    Anthony Bledsoe, COL, CS, PS
    John Bowden, PS
    Phebe Holloway Bradley, PS
    John Bradley, Jr., PVT, PS
    John Bradley, Sr., PS
    Benjamin Branch, PS
    William G. Bryant, PVT
    Frederick Burdett, PS
    Joseph Burnett, PVT
    Charles Burton, PS
    William Butler, PVT
    Hanchrist Carlock, PS
    David Cashion, PVT
    Isaac Clark, PS
    Peter Cockrill, PVT
    George Cofer, CPL
    Mary Collins, PS
    Phineas Cox, PVT
    Jacob Farris, PS
    Bradley Gamble, SOL, CS
    Larkin Gatewood, SGT, PS
    Richard Hankins, PS
    Dorothy Hardeman, PS
    Abraham Hayter, CAPT, CS
    Benjamin Higginbotham, PVT
    Francis Higginbotham, PS
    George Holland, PS
    Richard B. Hooper, SGT, PS
    Joseph Ingraham, PS
    William Lewis, PS
    John Lillard, CAPT
    John Loftin, PS
    Joseph Martin, LTC, CS, PS
    Nathaniel Massey, Sr., CAPT
    William McClanahan, CAPT
    Agnes Woodson Morton, PS
    Joseph Morton, PS
    Joseph Morton, SGT
    Josiah Morton, LTC
    Richard Morton, PS
    Samuel Morton, PVT
    Thomas Morton, PS
    George Murphy, SOL
    Thomas R. Musick, PVT
    John Neely, SOL, PS
    Samuel Newell, CAPT
    Leonard Page, PVT
    Edward Pedigo, PVT, PS
    William Petty, Sr., PS
    Joseph Price, PS
    Cyrus L. Roberts, CAPT
    William Rowden, PS
    Francis Sampson, PVT, PS
    Joseph Scales, PS
    George Settle, PS
    John Shelton, PS
    Robert Sherman, PS
    Joseph Smith, PS
    Thomas Aldrich Sykes, PVT
    Phillip Wade, PS
    Barthalomew Warren, PS
    Richard Wells, Sr., PS
    John Word, PS

Service Abbreviations

  • ADC – Aide-de-Campe
  • BG – Brigadier General
  • CAPT – Captain
  • CHP – Chaplain
  • CL – Continental Line
  • COL – Colonel
  • CPL – Corporal
  • CS – Civil Service
  • ENS – Ensign
  • FIF – Fifer
  • 1LT – First Lieutenant
  • LTC – Lieutenant Colonel
  • MAJ – Major
  • MATR – MATROSS
  • MM – Minute Man
  • NONCOM – Non-Commissioned Officer
  • ORDL – Orderly
  • PNSR – Pensioner
  • PS – Patriotic Service
  • PVT – Private
  • PVTR – Privateer
  • S.D.I.- Signer of the Declaration of Independence
  • SGT –  Sergeant
  • SGRMAJ – Sergeant Major
  • SOL – Soldier
  • STAFFOF – Staff Officer
  • WGM – Wagon Master
  • WPNSR – Wife who received a pension