Patriots
Listed by the state of service are the names and ranks of the ancestors of the Halifax Convention 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 American Revolutionary War Service webpage for more information.
Connecticut
Edward Bulkley, STAFFOF, PS
Sherabiah Butts, Sr., CAPT
Thomas Hurlburt, SGT
Andrew Moore, LT
Jacob Richards, PVT
Jacob Stevens, SGT
William Wilbur, STAFFOF
Continental Line
Benjamin Hart, CNT
Delaware
Caleb Farabee, CAPT, CS, PS
Joshua Pepper, PS
Georgia
Joseph Avant, PS
Thomas McClendon, Sr., SOL
John Twiggs, BGEN
John Casper Waldhauer, CS, PS
James Wright, PS
Absalom Hooper, PVT
Louisiana
Francois de Verges de St. Sauver, PS
Maryland
George Arnold, PVT
William Boreman, PS
Samuel Brown, LT
Zadock Ford, PVT
George Handy, PS
Michael Miller, SOL, PS
William Turner, PS
Massachusetts
Abel Amsden, PVT
James Blossom, LT
Phineas Butler, Sr., CPL
Elisha Capron, PVT
Nathaniel Carl, SGT
Timothy Copp, PVT
James Fairbanks, SGT
Abraham Knowlton, PVT
Benaiah Loomis, PVT
Oliver Mills, LT
Zadok Nichols, CPL
Stephen Sibley, PVT
John Stowell, CS
Joshua Walker, Sr., CAPT
Nathan Woodman, CPL
David Webster, SGT
New Hampshire
Joshua Copp, PS
Nathaniel Powers, CPL
David Webster, SGT
New Jersey
Jacob Drake, COL, PS
New York
Eleazor Gedney, ENS
Andrew Mitchell, MAJ
Abraham Newkirk, PVT
Abijah Stow, NONCOM
Job Swift, PS
Joseph Winter, ENS, PS
North Carolina
Adam Alexander, COL, PS
Hezekiah Alexander, PS
John McKnitt Alexander, CS, PS
Robert Alexander, CAPT
William Alexander, CAPT
Hudson Allen, CAPT
Gray Barbee, PS
Jacob Bass, PVT, PS
Isaac Bass, PS
Stephen Beckman, PS
Nathan Bell, LT, CS
Brittain Belk, PS
Benjamin Biggerstaff, CS
John Billingsley, PVT
John Bland, PS
Alexander Brevard, COL
John Bradford, COL, PS
William Brantley, PVT
Hugh Brown, PS
William Brown, COL
William Bryan, BGEN, PS
Gray Bynum, PS
Rachel Craighead Caldwell, PS
Rev. David Caldwell, PS
Gilbert Clark, SOL
Robert Cleveland, CAPT
Nicholas Coble, PS
Thomas Cowing (Cowan), CAPT
Thomas Crawford, PS
John Davidson, MAJ, PS
John Devane, MAJ, CS, PS
John Dickey, CAPT
Gilbraith Falls, CAPT, CS, PS
Walter Farr (Pharr), PS
Jacob Forney, Sr., PS
Maria Forney, PS
Joseph Gibson, PS
Felix Glatfelder, PS
Robertson Goodwin, PVT
Peter Graham, PVT
Joseph Graham, MAJ
William Graham, Sr., PS
William Gregory, PVT
William Gudger, PVT
Benjamin Gunter, PVT
William Hackney, PS
David Haley, SOL
Obadiah Hammond, PVT
Samuel Hammond, PS
Jeduthan Harper, LCOL, PS
Samuel Harrell, MAJ
Philemon Hawkins, Jr., COL
William Hayward/Haywood, COL, PS
Richard Henderson, CS, PS
Pleasant Henderson, MAJ
Moses Henry, PVT
Abraham Hester, PVT
Thomas Hicks, PS
Richard Hill, PVT
Robert Hill, CAPT
James Hockaday, PS
Jacob Hoffman, PS
Christopher Houston, CAPT, PS
Joseph Hull, SOL
Arthur Irwin, SOL, PS
Etheldred Jones, CAPT, PS
James Jones, CAPT, PS
Elizabeth Johnston Keenan, PS
Joseph Lamb, PS
John Laughinghouse, PVT
Walter Leake, PVT, PS
Jacob Lowdermilk, CS, PS
John Lyon
Harrison Macon, CAPT, PS
Peter Mallett, CMSRY, CS, PS
Benjamin May, MAJ, CS, PS
Alexander McAllister, COL, PS
John McDowell, CS
Hector McNeil, LT
Alexander Mebane, Jr., CS, PS
Massey C. Medearis, PVT
Samuel Merrill, PS
James Miller, PS, CAPT
Wendell Miller, LT
Malcolm Monroe, PVT
James B. Morrison, CAPT
John Mull, PS
John Shears Olliff, PVT
William Palmer CS, PS
Jacob Parrott, SOL
John Parrott, PVT, PS
William Pate, PVT
John Patterson, CS
John Phifer, LCOL, PS
Martin Phifer, CAPT
Thomas Polk, PS
William Polk, CAPT
John Query, PS
Samuel Reed, CAPT, PS
David Reese, Sr., CS, PS
James Robertson, PS
William Robertson, SOL, PS
Thomas Robinson, COL, PS
Benjamin Rush, PS
Moses Shelby, Sr., CS
John Shuford, PS
John Simmons, PVT
David Smith, CAPT, PS
Patrick Smith, PVT
John Stanton, SGT
Abraham Stevenson, SOL
John Swicegood, SOL
George Tucker, CS, PS
Charles Tull, PVT
Jacob Van Hook, SGT
James Wahab, SOL, CS, PS
James Walkup/Wahab, CAPT
Richard Warren, CS, PS
William Webb, PS
James White, CAPT
John Williams, COL, PS
Eleanor X. Wilson, PS
Robert Wilson, PS
John Michael Winecoff, CS
John Woody, PVT
Shadrach Wooten, PS
John Wright, CAPT
Pennsylvania
John Henry Antes, Sr., LCOL, PS
John Armstrong, MGEN, PS
William Barton, FIFER
George Brinton, PS
John Burleigh, SOL
Mathias Harter, PVT
Job Helm, PVT
John Jacobs, PS
Jacob Lanius, PS
John Montgomery, PVT
Michael Ohl Sr., CAPT, PS
David Phillips, CAPT, PS
Joseph Phillips, Sr., PS
Elisha Price, PS
Robert Ramsay, CAPT
Abraham Reiff, SOL
Alexander Roddy, CS, PS
Andrew Russell, PS
Henry Rutter, PS
George Seem, PVT
George Sowers, PVT
George Steele, PS
Andrew Susong, PVT, PS
James Turner, LT
Jacob Walters, PVT
John Walters, PVT
David Watson, PS
Peter Withington, CAPT
South Carolina
Joseph Alexander, PS
William Alexander, CAPT
John Blakeney, Sr., CAPT
Giles Bowers, CAPT
Simms Brown, PVT
David Nunez Cardoza, SGM, PS
John Carruth, PVT
Henry Council, CAPT
Robert Crawford, MAJ, PS
John Futhey, CAPT
Joseph Gaston, Sr., CS
John Godbold, CS
David Goodlett, PVT
Joseph Guyton, CS
George Abbott Hall, CAPT, CS, PS
James Harrison, PVT, PS
Absalom Hooper, PVT
William Houseal, CAPT, CS, PS
James Johnston, CAPT
Cornelius Keith, CPL
George Kennemore, SOL, PS
Christopher Loving, PVT
Robert Marr, PS
George Martin, CAPT
Henry Massey, PVT
John Mayfield, CS
George McCall, PVT
William McElwee, Sr., CS
Hector McNeil, LT
Martin Mehaffey, SOL
George Miller, PS
John Miller, PVT
Matthew Mullinax, PVT
Thomas Neal, COL, PS
William Nettles, CAPT
Barnaby Pope, PS
Henry Rutter, PS
Thomas Sanders, SOL
James Steen, LCOL
Thomas Stribling, SOL
Hugh Swinton, PS
Alexander Vernon, PS
Hugh Wardlaw, CAPT, PS
Adam Weidman, SOL
Joseph White, III, CAPT
James Williams, COL, PS
James Witherspoon, CAPT
Thomas Woodward, CAPT
Michael Ziegler, PVT, PS
Vermont
Zachariah Harwood, CS
Virginia
Hudson Allen, CAPT
Charles Anderson, SGT
Daniel Asbury, PS
Harrison Ashworth, PVT
Samuel Bailey, CAPT
Farlin Ball, CAPT
James Ballinger, SOL
William Bibb, CAPT, PS
Isham Blake, SOL
Richard Bland, PS
Francis Boykin, MAJ, PS
Carter Braxton, SDI, PS
John Brown, PS
William Burt, Sr., PS
Nathaniel Burwell, COL
Philip Bush, PS
William Cabell Sr., PS
Charles Campbell, CAPT
David Campbell, Jr., MAJ, CS
John Campbell, CAPT
William Carpenter, Jr., PVT
Philip Clayton, LT
Tolliver Craig, Sr., PS
John Parke Custis, CAPT
Ezekiel Dance, 2LT
Charles Dibrell, ENS
William Dula, PVT
John DuPree, PS
Richard Eggleston, PS
Henry Field, Jr., PS
Thomas Gaines, CPL
George Givens, CAPT
Robert Goodwin, PS
John Gunnell, Sr., PS
David Haley, SOL, PS
Seth Hatcher, PVT
William Hubbard Hobbs, PS
James Hockaday, PS
Henry Hopson, PS
William Hopson, PVT
Ralph Humphrey, SOL
John Philip Lee, PS
Reuben Long, LT
Joseph Martin, LCOL, CS, PS
George Mason, Sr., PS
William McClung, ENS
John McCorkle, ENS
William Mcferrin, PVT
John McKinley, CAPT
William Miner, PVT
Tully Moore, 2LT
Edward Hack Moseley, COL
Thomas Moseley, PVT
John Nash, SOL
Giles Newton, PS
Oliver Porter, PVT
Richard Price, SGT
John Pruitt, PVT
Samuel Scruggs, PVT
Naomi Seay, PS
William Shackelford, LT
Robert Smith, ENS
John Spotswood, CAPT
Thomas Stark, PS
John Stowell, CS
Henry Jacob Trolinger, PS
St George Tucker, LCOL, CS
Henry Van Meter, PS
Jacob Van Meter, CAPT
Jesse Watson, CAPT
John Webb, LCOL
Benjamin Wheeler, PVT
Barrett White, PS
James Williams, PS
John Woodson, COL, CS, PS
Andrew Yeargin, PS
Abbreviations for Patriot Service Ranks
BGEN — Brigadier General
CAPT — Captain
CS — Civil Service
COL — Colonel
CMSRY — Commissary
CNT — Cornet
CPL — Corporal
ENS — Ensign
FIFER — Fifer
LT — Lieutenant
1LT — First Lieutenant
2LT — Second Lieutenant
LCOL — Lieutenant Colonel
MAJ — Major
MIL — Militia
NONCOM — Non-Commissioned Officer
PS — Patriotic Service
PVT — Private
SDI — Signer of Declaration of Independence
SGM — Sergeant Major
SGT — Sergeant
SOL — Soldier
STAFFOF — Staff Officer