Our Patriot Ancestors
Our Patriot Ancestors
Below are the Patriot ancestors of the current members of Betty Martin Chapter, NSDAR. Revolutionary War Patriots include signers of the Declaration of Independence, members of local and state militias, members of the Continental Army or Continental Navy, men and women who rendered other types of aid to the cause of independence, and those taking oaths of loyalty. Other included Patriots are foreign soldiers who served the cause of American independence and Spanish soldiers serving in the presidios at Santa Fe, El Paso, and New Orleans. Patriots may have also provided civil service, conducting public business in the newly formed American states.
If you have information that one of your ancestors may have aided the cause of freedom during the American Revolution, we may be able to help you establish your genealogical line for DAR membership. If you are interested in documenting your lineage and joining our chapter, or have any questions, please visit our About Us page.
Betty Martin Chapter Ancestors (By Last Name)
**For Patriot ancestors by State
A – C |
|
Patriot Name |
State Served |
Benoni Adams |
Massachusetts |
James Adams |
South Carolina |
George Alexander |
Virginia |
Isaac Allen |
New Jersey |
Samuel Allen |
New Jersey |
Thomas Ames |
North Carolina |
Mauldon Amos |
Maryland |
Charles Anderson |
Virginia |
John Archer |
Maryland |
George Bailey |
Maryland |
David Ball |
New Jersey |
Henry Ball |
Maryland |
Stephen Ball |
New Jersey |
Jesse Ballard |
South Carolina |
Christian Ballmer, Sr. |
Pennsylvania |
Jacob Ballmer |
Pennsylvania |
John Barber |
North Carolina |
Jonathan Barber |
Rhode Island |
William Barnett |
North Carolina |
Abraham Barrett |
New York |
Peter Bashaw |
Virginia |
Jacob Bass |
North Carolina |
Robert Beadles |
Virginia |
Benjamin Beeson |
North Carolina |
Enoch Benson |
Virginia |
William Bethea |
South Carolina |
Abraham Bird |
Virginia |
Jacob Blaisdell |
New Hampshire |
James Bounds |
North Carolina |
Peter Bowmer |
Virginia |
William Boyd |
Virginia |
Peter Boyer |
North Carolina |
Gideon Brainerd |
Connecticut |
Ludwig Brandt |
Pennsylvania |
Jacob Brown, Jr. |
North Carolina |
Jacob Brown, Sr. |
North Carolina |
Richard Bryan |
South Carolina |
Philip Burbach |
Pennsylvania |
Edward Burgess |
Virginia |
William Bynum |
Maryland |
Cornelius Carmack, Jr. |
Virginia |
Joseph Carter |
Virginia |
William Chalk |
North Carolina |
Asa Clevenger |
Virginia |
John Peter Corn |
Virginia |
Ann Anderson Crawford |
Virginia |
David Crews |
Virginia |
Henry Crouthamel |
Pennsylvania |
Thomas Crow |
Virginia |
Benjamin Curtis |
Connecticut |
David Cutting |
Massachusetts |
|
|
|
|
D – F |
|
Patriot Name |
State Served |
Thomas Dagley |
North Carolina |
John Danks |
Virginia |
George Daubenspeck |
Pennsylvania |
Bela Davis |
Massachusetts |
Nicholas Davis |
Virginia |
William Decoursey |
North Carolina |
William Dollar |
Virginia |
Moses Dooley |
Virginia |
William Drumright |
Virginia |
Moses Eckles |
Virginia |
Richard Eckles |
Virginia |
Josiah Ely |
North Carolina |
James Robinson English |
New Jersey |
Andrew Ensley |
North Carolina |
Owen Evans |
South Carolina |
Ambrose Evarts |
New York |
James Farmer |
Virginia |
John Fearall |
Maryland |
Solomon Fenton |
Connecticut |
Andrew Ferrier |
Pennsylvania |
George Fockler |
Pennsylvania |
Michael Fockler |
Maryland |
Joseph Fontaine |
Virginia |
Daniel Fuller |
Massachusetts |
|
|
|
|
G – I |
|
Patriot Name |
State Served |
Anthony Gabeau |
South Carolina |
Christopher Garlington, Jr. |
South Carolina & Virginia |
John Gay |
North Carolina |
Thomas Goldthwaite |
Massachusetts |
Eliphalet Graves |
Massachusetts |
Duty Green |
Massachusetts |
Joseph Gregg |
South Carolina |
Oliver Gresham |
North Carolina |
Thomas Gresham |
Virginia |
Joshua Griffith |
New York |
Burwell Griggs |
Virginia |
John Grumbles |
Maryland |
George Hall |
Rhode Island |
Joseph Hall |
New Jersey |
Daniel Halsey |
New Jersey |
Job Hammond |
North Carolina |
Samuel Hammond |
North Carolina |
Joseph Harding |
North Carolina |
Stephen Harlan |
Virginia |
Moses Harris |
Virginia |
John Haynes |
North Carolina |
Joseph Haynes |
North Carolina |
Thomas Heard |
Virginia |
George Heim, Jr. |
Pennsylvania |
Samuel Henderson |
North Carolina |
Leonard Henley |
Virginia |
Henry High |
Pennsylvania |
Edmund Hobday |
Virginia |
Robert Hobday |
North Carolina |
Charles Holt |
North Carolina |
Moses Hopkins |
Maryland |
Christopher Horn |
Virginia |
George Hostetter |
North Carolina |
George Hostetter |
North Carolina |
Thomas Howard |
Pennsylvania |
Joshua Howell |
Virginia |
John Howland |
Rhode Island |
Nathaniel Hudson |
Georgia |
Timothy Hurley |
North Carolina |
George Hyatt |
North Carolina |
George Ilgenfritz |
Pennsylvania |
Elijah Isaacs |
North Carolina |
|
|
|
|
J – L |
|
Patriot Name |
State Served |
Josiah Jackson |
Virginia |
Stephen Jackson |
New Jersey |
Thomas Jefferson |
Virginia |
Benjamin Johnson |
Virginia |
John Jude |
Virginia |
Peter Keator |
New York |
John King |
North Carolina |
John Lapsley |
Virginia |
James Lea |
North Carolina |
Richard Lee |
Virginia |
Peter Livengood |
Pennsylvania |
James Allison Love |
North Carolina |
Jackson Lyle |
North Carolina |
Aaron Lyon |
New Jersey |
Mattaniah Lyon |
New Jersey |
M – O |
|
Patriot Name |
State Served |
Hudson Martin |
Virginia |
Solomon Massengill |
North Carolina |
Nehemiah May |
Massachusetts |
Michael McCarty |
South Carolina |
Willis McDonald |
South Carolina |
Daniel McKenney |
Virginia |
John McKinley |
Virginia |
Harmanus Minckler |
New York |
William Morton |
Virginia |
Samuel Motheral |
North Carolina |
David Motley |
Virginia |
Teter Nave |
North Carolina |
John Needham |
North Carolina |
John Oliver |
Massachusetts |
|
|
|
|
P – R |
|
Patriot Name |
State Served |
Aquilla Paca |
Maryland |
John Palmer |
New Hampshire |
John Parker |
Virginia |
Richard Pennington |
Virginia |
John Perry |
North Carolina |
Thomas Pettus, Sr. |
Virginia |
John Portlock |
Virginia |
Isaac Remick |
New Hampshire |
Ruler Richardson |
Virginia |
Shubel Rowley |
New York |
William Rule |
Pennsylvania |
|
|
|
|
|
|
S – T |
|
Patriot Name |
State Served |
Robert Sanders |
Virginia |
John Sarvis |
South Carolina |
Henry Schnebly |
Maryland |
Moses Seabrook |
Pennsylvania |
Elisha Sellers |
North Carolina |
Peter Seynor |
North Carolina |
Abraham Shecut |
South Carolina |
James Shelburn |
Virginia |
Patrick Shockney |
Pennsylvania |
Israel Shreve |
New Jersey |
Daniel Shumate |
Virginia |
Elisha Sibley |
Massachusetts |
John Sibley, Sr. |
Massachusetts |
John Skrine |
South Carolina |
Ericus Smith |
Virginia |
Frederick Smith |
Connecticut |
James Smith, Sr. |
Connecticut |
Robert Snead |
Virginia |
Sharp Spencer |
Virginia |
Johan Melchior Spohn |
Pennsylvania |
Ninian Steele |
North Carolina |
Charity Brown Stevens |
North Carolina |
David Stewart |
North Carolina |
William Stewart |
Pennsylvania |
Charles Taliaferro |
Virginia |
Thomas Tallent |
North Carolina |
John Taylor |
Virginia |
John Taylor |
North Carolina |
Job Thomas |
Virginia |
John Threldkeld |
Virginia |
Leonard Thrush |
Pennsylvania |
Benjamin Thurmond |
Virginia |
Joshua Tillery |
North Carolina |
Joshua Tillman |
North Carolina |
Daniel Tonkry |
New York |
Obadiah Trimmer |
Virginia |
John Tucker |
South Carolina |
Noah Tyson |
North Carolina |
Benjamin A. Tyus |
Virginia |
|
|
|
|
V – Y |
|
Patriot Name |
State Served |
Michael Van Der Cook |
New York |
Simon Van Der Cook |
New York |
Henry Van Tassel |
New York |
Hendrick Vanderhof |
New York |
James Vaughan |
Vermont |
William Vereen |
South Carolina |
Daniel Wade |
New Jersey |
Charles Waldron |
North Carolina |
Edward Walker |
North Carolina |
James Walker |
Massachusetts |
Leonard James Mourning Waller |
Virginia |
Nathaniel Warner |
Connecticut |
John Watson |
Rhode Island |
Moses Webster |
Connecticut |
Nathaniel Wells |
North Carolina |
Obadiah Wells |
New Hampshire |
Jacob Wetzel |
Pennsylvania |
Thomas Wheeler |
Virginia |
William Whetstone |
North Carolina |
Solomon Whitley |
Virginia |
Thomas Whitten, Jr. |
Virginia |
Frederick Whittington |
Virginia |
William Wilkie |
North Carolina |
Samuel Williams |
New Jersey |
Stephen Williams |
North Carolina |
Jonathan Willis |
New Jersey |
William Willis |
Virginia |
Frederick William Wills |
Virginia |
John Winfree |
Virginia |
William Witcher |
Virginia |
Charles Womack |
Virginia |
Nathan Wood |
Connecticut |
Lance Woodward |
Virginia |
Joshua Wyeth |
Massachusetts |
William Yonce, Jr. |
North Carolina |
Henry Yost |
Maryland |
|
|
"The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity."
-George Washington (letter to people of South Carolina, c. 1790)
Contact Us | Webmaster | Last Updated: May 25, 2022
The content contained herein does not necessarily represent the position of the NSDAR. Hyperlinks to other sites are not the responsibility of the NSDAR, the state organizations, or individual DAR chapters.