Patriots
Listed by their state of service are the names and ranks of the ancestors of the Yates Mill Chapter, NSDAR, members. This list includes Patriots of the American Revolutionary War and ancestors who contributed to the cause for independence through civil or patriotic service. For more information on a particular Patriot, please visit the NSDAR Ancestor Search webpage.
For a list of acceptable services see the Accepted Revolutionary War Service webpage for more information.
CONTINENTAL LINE
Benjamin Hart
Connecticut
John Abbott, PS
Nathan Booth, CS, PS
Thaddeus Cook, CS
Sylvanus Ferris, PS
Benadam Gallup, Sr., LCOL, PS
Zachariah Green, CPL
Noah Hoyt, PVT
Jacob Hyde, Sr., CS
Elisha Mason, SOL
William Matteson, PVT
Stephen Mills, PVT
Moses Robbins, PS
Benjamin Webster, CS, PS
Delaware
Manlove Virden, PS
Absalom Willey, SOL
Georgia
Phillip Coombs, Sr., SOL
Thomas McClendon, Sr., SOL
John Swint, PS
John Torrence, SOL, CS
Maryland
Richard Chenoweth, PS
John Dale, PS
Benjamin Darby, PVT, PS
John Ford, CAPT, PS
Raphael French, SOL, PS
Peter Graybill, PS
Hezekiah Murphy, PVT
James Orr, PS
Richard Owings, CAPT, PS
Massachusetts
John Abbott, PS
Aaron Bartlett, PVT
Benjamin Bickford, PVT
Levi Bowker, PVT
John Bradstreet, PVT
John Calderwood, PS
James Cowing, SGT
Christopher Dyer, Sr., LT
Judah Ely, PVT
Jonathan Ely, Sr., PS
Bartholomew Fuller, PVT
Samuel Green PVT
Zachariah Green, CPL
Ephraim Hildreth, PS
Hezekiah Hildreth, PVT
John Hoar, PVT
Robert Hoar, CS
Joseph Miller, Sr., PS
Benjamin Mills, CPL
Daniel Parker, PVT
Amos Parlin, PVT,
Zebulon Rhodes, NONCOM
Isaac Rider, Jr., PVT,
John Shaw, PVT,
David Vaughan, SGT
Eleazer Warner, Sr., CAPT
Ichabod Wood, PVT, PS
James Wood, PVT
North Carolina
Solomon Arnold, PVT,
John Paul Barringer, PS
Michael Becton, CS
Mercy Raymond Bedford, PS
Jesse Boone, PS
John Bristow, PVT
Robert Carson, SOL
Richard Caswell, MGEN, CS, PS
Absalom Codill, PVT
William Darden, ENS, PS
Aaron Deveny, CAPT
William Dugan, PS
Millington Easley, PS
Peter Ehler, PS
John Ellsberry, SOL, PS
Edmund Fair, CAPT
William Ferebee, Jr., CAPT
Benjamin Fordham, Jr., PS
Frederick Grady, PVT
William Gray, CAPT
Jeremiah Green, PVT
Thomas Grimes, PS
Lemuel Hardy, PS
Whitmel Hill, COL, PS
Stephen Hollingsworth, PVT
Zebulon Hollingsworth, PVT
Alexander Hunt, PS
Nathan Jackson, SOL
Joseph Keaton, PS
James Keenan, COL, PS
Elizabeth Johnston Keenan, PS
Edward King, PVT
Peter Kivett, CS, PS
Elijah Lassiter, PVT
Bartholomew Marion, PVT
Daniel May, CS
Francis McCorkle, CAPT, CS, PS
Daniel McKenney, SGT, PS
William McKenney, PVT
William McSwain, PVT
Alexander Mebane, Sr., CS
George Moye, Sr., CS, PS
Malone Mullins, PVT
Reuben Norfleet, CS, PS
Robert Peele, PS
Thomas Privett, PS
William Richmond, PS
Sihon Smith, PVT, PS
Seth Speight, CAPT
William Speight, CS
Burwell Utley, PVT
Peter Vendrick, PVT
Marmaduke Vickery, PS
Thomas Wade, COL, PS
Henry Wakefield, PVT
Christian Weatherman, PS
John Wells, PS
Charles Whitlock, CS, PS
James Withrow, CAPT
Nicholas Worley, SOL
New Hampshire
William Abbott, PS
Gideon Bridgman, PVT
Samuel Fellows, PVT, PS
Benjamin Fifield, PVT, PS
New Jersey
John Allerton, PVT
David Beaman, PS
Jesse Corson, PVT, PS
Rem Corson, PVT, PS
George Drake, PVT
James Godfrey, PS
Josiah Haynes, CS
Daniel Lake, PVT
Aaron Leaming, PS
Peter Salmon, CAPT, PS
David Stiles, SOL
Ferdinand Van Sickler, PVT
New York
Job Austin, SGT
Joshua Badger, CPL
Jeremiah Coon, PVT
Matthew Coon, Sr., CS, PS
Lewis Cornell, SGT
Mark Dempsey, PVT
Jacob Ford, LCOL
William Griffis, Sr., PVT
William Mead, STAFFOF
Sands Raymond, LT
Henry Wiltse, Jr., SOL
Henry Wiltse, Sr., PS
Pennsylvania
Joseph Ambler, PS
John Adam Anspach, SGT
Eli Bailey, PVT
John George Burkhart, PVT
Frederick Cooper, PVT, PS
Thomas Copenhaver, Sr., CAPT, PS
John Dohner, PS
John Dups, PS
Peter Dygert, MAJ, PS
William Ferguson, PVT
Matthias Firestone, PVT
Samuel Fisher, PS
James Glover, CPL
Francis Hopp, PS
Nicholas Hower, LT
William Jackman, CAPT, PS
Isaiah Keith, PVT, PS
William Keith, PS
Christopher Keller, CAPT
Timothy Kirk, PS
William Kirk, PS
George Lemley, PVT, PS
Henry McCartney, SGT
James McClung, LT
Elias Middaugh, SOL
Mathias Miller, PS
Thomas Mitchell, PS
William Momeyer, LT
Patrick Murray, PVT
Johann Weibrecht Nushag, PS
Michael Nushag, PS
Christian Plantz, PVT
Joseph Quaintance, PS
Dennis Rardin, PS
John W Rardin, PS
Daniel Reckner, PVT
Barnet Reinhard, PVT
Frederick Rudy, PVT
Christian Scheid, STAFFOF
Martin Spohn, PVT, PS
Michael Springer, Sr., PS
Andrew Swearingen, CAPT
Enoch Taylor, SOL
Nathan Taylor, PS
Joseph Van Pelt, LT
Adam Weaver, PVT, PS
Christian Weidel, PS
Daniel Weidel, PVT, PS
William Wood, PVT
Cornelius Woodruff, PVT
Johannes Woolaver, PS
Peter Woolaver, PS
Achor Worley, CS, PS
John Worley, PVT
Cornelius Wynkoop, ENS
Rhode Island
Andrew Brown, PS
Benjamin Colwell, PS
Gideon Cornell, CAPT
South Carolina
John Carroll Adams, SGT
Josiah Bronson, PVT, CS
Daniel Bush, PVT
James Cloud, SOL
John Douglas, SOL
Andrew Du Bose, Jr., CAPT
Levi Harrell, SOL
William Hicklin, SOL
Henry Lusk, LT
Martin Martin, PVT, PS
Alexander McCown, SOL, CS
Robert Templeton, PVT
George Wade, LT
John Watson, PS
Willis Murphy Watson, LT
Vermont
Gideon Bronson, MAJ, PS
Samuel Higgins, PVT
Samuel Poppleton, ENS
John Rickey, PVT
Edward Wellborn, PS
Virginia
John Alexander, CAPT, PS
John Bowman, PS
Frances Chiles Breeden, PS
Richard Breeden, PVT
Thomas Burke, SOL
John Burnside, PS
John Campbell, PVT
John Canterbury, SOL
John Chapman, LT
Frances X Chiles, PS
Henry Chiles, PS
James Chiles, PVT
Sterling Cooper, PVT
John Davenport, PS
Samuel Dedman, LCOL, CS, PS
James Dillon, PS
Edward Eanes, PVT
Elisha Estes, PS
Richard Estes, LT, PS
Simmons Everett, CS, PS
George Foster, PVT
John Fudge, PS
Bradley Gamble ,SOL, CS
Samuel Gilliland, CS
Rowland Gooch, PS
Ann X Graves, PS
Rice Graves, SOL, PS
John Hanson, PVT
Housen Harrell, PS
William Harris, PVT
William Humphrey, PS
Stacey Janney, PS
Margaret Eskridge Kenner, PS
Robert Kent, PS
James Hardage Lane, CS, PS
Swanson Lunsford, LT
Peter McCune, PVT
Joel Meader, Jr., PVT
Joel Meader, Sr., PS
Henry Miller, PS
Jacob Miller, Jr., SOL, PS
Jacob Newsum, PVT
Adam O’Brien, PS
John Pace, PS
William Pace, PS
Samuel Packwood, PVT
Luke Palmer, PS
Martin Palmer, PS
Jacob Prilliman, PS
Thomas Ramsay, Jr., SGT, PS
Daniel Ross, LT, PS
Henry Rule, Sr., PS
William Scarborough, PS
William Seaton, ENS, PS
Carter Seward, PVT
Daniel Shively, PS
Daniel Smith, PS
John Smith, PVT
Samuel Smithson, PS
Philip Snidow, PVT
Richard Stone, Sr., PS
Anthony Street, PS
Abraham Sublett, CS
Sarah X Swearingen, PS
William Thayer, SGTMAJ
Daniel Trigg, LCOL, CS
Shadrack Turner, PS
William Urquhart, PS
Reuben Ware, PS
John Watson, Sr., PS
Osias Welch, PVT
James Westervelt, PS
John Whitehead, PS
Burwell Williamson, CAPT
Moses Wilson, SOL
Benjamin Wright,,PS
Moses Wright, PVT
Abbreviations for Patriot Service Ranks
CAPT — Captain
CS — Civil Service
COL — Colonel
CPL — Corporal
ENS — Ensign
LT — Lieutenant
LCOL — Lieutenant Colonel
MAJ — Major
MGEN — Major General
NONCOM — Non-Commissioned Officer
PS — Patriotic Service
PVT — Private
SGT — Sergeant
SGTMAJ — Sergeant Major
SOL — Soldier
STAFFOF — Staff Officer