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
James Graves, PS

MARYLAND
Richard Owings, CAPT

MASSACHUSETTS
Samuel Babcock, PVT
John Bailey, CAPT
Jacob Bliss, PVT
Stephen Hayward, SGT
Nathan Hicks, PVT
William Mason, PVT
Elkanah Smith, PVT

NEW HAMPSHIRE
Peter Felt, SGT, PS
Cotton Haynes, PS
William Mansur, PVT, PS

NEW JERSEY
Alexander Buchanan, PVT
Timothy Sexton, SGT
Daniel Stockton, PS

NEW YORK
James Allison, PVT

NORTH CAROLINA
Benjamin Barnes, SOL
William Bertram, PVT
Anthony Bledsoe, COL, CS, PS
James Bradley, PVT
William Carr, SGT
Jeremiah Casey, PS
Simon Clement, PS
James Collins, PS
Major Croom, CS, PS
James Dobbins, SGT, CS, PS
John Duke, PS
Ephraim Evans, SOL
Arthur Exum, PS
Bradley Gamble, SOL, CS
Thomas Gibbons, PS
George Gillespie, PS
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 Logue, SOL
John Magee, Sr., PS
Daniel McKenney, SGT, PS
Baptist McNabb, PS
Thomas R. Musick, PVT
Tillotson O’Brien, PVT
John Ownbey, CS, PS
William Petty, Jr., PVT
James Reese, CAPT, PS
James Rogers, PVT
Jacob Seagraves, PVT
Catherine Sharp, PS
Samuel Sharp, PVT
John Taylor, PS
Nathaniel Vannoy, CS
Tobias Williams, PVT
John Wright, Jr., CS, PS

PENNSYLVANIA
Adam Alstott, CAPT, PS
James Gallaher, PVT, PS
John Gardner, COL
Henry Goodman, PS
Robert Gray, PVT
James Holmes, LT
Mary Douglass Howell, PS
George Kistler, PS
Nathaniel Patterson, PVT
Nicholas Straw, LT
George Wells, PS
Richard Wells, Sr., PS
Thomas Whitaker, PVT

SOUTH CAROLINA
Tandy Clark Key, PVT, PS
Levi Long, SOL
Alexander Love, PS
Nimrod Mitchell, LT, PS
Thomas R. Musick, PVT
Lott Warren, PVT
Membrance Williams, SOL
Roger Wilson, STAFFOF, PS

VIRGINIA
Elizmond Basye, SOL
Joseph Black, CAPT
Anthony Bledsoe, COL, CS, PS
John Bradley, Jr., PVT, PS
Frederick Burdett, PS
Charles Burton, PS
William Butler, PVT
William G. Byrant, PVT
David Cashion, PVT
Isaac Clark, PS
Peter Cockrill, PVT
George Cofer, CPL
Phineas Cox, PVT
Lucy Rootes Dixon, PS
Bradley Gamble, SOL, CS
Larkin Gatewood, SGT, PS
Dorothy Hardeman, PS
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, SGT
Joseph Morton, PS
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
James Ramsay, PVT
William Reeves, LT
Cyrus L. Roberts, CAPT
Francis Sampson, PVT, PS
Joseph Scales, PS
George Settle, PS
John Shelton, PS
Joseph Smith, PS
Thomas Aldrich Sykes, PVT
Benjamin Tipton, LT
John Tipton, COL, CS, PS
John Tollett, SGT, PS
Phillip Wade, PS
Barthalomew Warren, PS
Richard Wells, Sr., PS
Jesse Witt, PVT
Thadeus Hartwidge Wormouth, PVT

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