Patriots
Listed by the state of service are the names and ranks of the ancestors of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence Chapter, NSDAR, members. This list includes Patriots of the American Revolutionary War and ancestors who contributed to the cause for American 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.
Canada
Michel Richard, PS
Continental Line
Luther Waterman, STAFFOF
Connecticut
David Blish, Sr., PS
Philip Burr, PVT
Haynes Fitch, PVT
Edmund Freeman, Sr., CS, PS
Abel Gould, CS, PS
Milo Lee, PS
Hezekiah Lockwood, PVT
Gideon Morgan, CPL
Elisha Scofield, CPL
Thomas Treadwell, PVT
Jesse Waldo, Jr., PVT
Jesse Waldo, Sr., LT
Luther Waterman, STAFFOF
Georgia
Elijah Pugh, PS
Louisiana
Augustin Verret, PS
Maryland
John Egenbrode, PS
Joseph Evans, PS
John Ray, Sr., PS
Massachusetts
Solomon Barber, PVT
Samuel Carr, CAPT
Jonathan Chase, PVT
Zephaniah Chase, PVT
Samuel Crittenden, Sr., CS, PS
Ebenezer Cutler, Jr., PVT
Jonathan Evans, CAPT
Amos French, PVT, CS
Simon Hunt, CAPT
Joseph Lewis, CS, PS
John O’Brien, PVT, PS
Levi Packard, CPL
Benjamin Pettengill, PVT
Abial Pierce, CAPT
Edmund Wilson, CS
North Carolina
Adam Alexander, COL, PS
Elias Alexander, PS
Ezra Alexander, SOL, PS
Hezekiah Alexander, PS
John McKnitt Alexander, CAPT, CS, PS
Stephen Alexander, CAPT
Burrell Bass, SOL
Brittain Belk, PS
John Billingsley, PVT
James Blackwell, CAPT
Joseph Blount, Sr., CS, PS
William Boone, PVT
Robert Brashear, PS
James Burton, LT
Robert Cleveland, CAPT
John Cockrill, PS
John Davis, PVT
John Dowden, PVT
James Drake, PS
John Duckworth, PVT
John Elwell, PS
Benjamin Farmer, PVT
Richard Fenner, LT, PS
Samuel Ferebee, ENS
William Fletcher, SGT
John Ford, CS, PS
Joseph Freeman, PS
James Griffin, CPL
Samuel Hammond, PS
Hugh Harris, SOL
James Haynes, PS
Tunis Hood, Sr., PS
Samuel Job, PS
Samuel Johnson, CAPT
Ann Robertson Johnston, PS
David King, PVT
James Lanier, CS, PS
William Little, CAPT, PS
William Littlejohn, CS, PS
Dixon Marshall, LT
John Marshall, PS
Thomas Massey, PS
Matthew McClure, CS, PS
Joseph Minzes, PVT
William Morris, CS
Nathan Musselwhite, PVT
Julius Nichols, CS, PS
Henry O’Daniel, PS
William Packard, PS
Holloway Pass, PVT
Nathaniel Pass, SOL, PS
Edward Richardson, PS
Edward Rippey, PVT
Thomas Robertson, CS
James Robinson, PS
John Rooker, PVT
Frederick Shaffer, SOL
Joseph Shearin, CS
Henry Shofner, PVT
John Sloan, PS
William Wilkens Taylor, CS
Francis Timberlake, PVT
Richard Timberlake, PVT
Isaac Waters, PVT
Benjamin Weaver, PVT
William White, PS
William Winston, PS
New Hampshire
Samuel Gunnison, Sr., CAPT, CS, PS
New Jersey
Philip Farber, PVT, PS
Jesse Hart, STAFFOF, PS
John Hart, PS, SDI
Jacob Kent, PVT
Jacob Matteson, Sr., PS
John Rockefeller, LT
New York
William Kinner, PS
Shubel Rowley, PVT
Elisha Scofield, CPL
Israel Underhill, ENS, PS
Pennsylvania
Jacob Artz, PS
Richard Bard, PVT
Christopher Beeler, SOL
Henry Carpenter, PVT
John Comly, PVT, PS
James Duncan, PVT
John Eblin, PS
Johann Dieter Fahl, SOL, PS
Alexander Faulkner, SGT
Jacob Faust, PS
Phillip Faust, PS
William Frampton, PVT, PS
Casper Freeman, PS
John Hall, PVT
Robert Hughey, PS
George Michael Immel, PVT
Nicholas Keefer, PS
Robert Levers, COL, CS, PS
William McCoy, PVT, PS
Andrew McKee, PVT
Robert Moore, SOL, PS
John Oblinger, LT
Henry Rhodes, PS
Thomas Speakman, PVT
Christian Stutzman, PS
George Summers, PVT
South Carolina
Andrew Baskin, PVT, PS
David Nunez Cardoza, SGTMAJ, PS
Catlett Corley, PVT
Robert Crawford, MAJ, PS
Henry Etheridge, SGT
Henry Felder, Sr., CAPT, CS, PS
William Forbes, PVT
Wilson Glover, LT
James Hawthorne, PVT
John Hogg, PVT
Alexander Ingraham, PS
Martin Martin, PVT, PS
Joel McLemore, CAPT, PS
Hugh McManus, LT
Edward Shipman, PVT
George T. Sloan, SGT
Virginia
Henry Bonner, PS
Daniel Boone, COL, CS, PS
Ratliff Boone, PS
David Branham, SOL
Samuel Brawford, PS
James Callaway, COL, PS
Richard Callaway, COL, CS, PS
John Cary, SOL
Samuel Davis, LT
Martin Dawson, PS
Edward Dyehouse, PVT
Thomas Elliott, PS
Richard Eubank, SGT
Lodowick Farmer, Jr., CAPT, PS
James Fulkerson, CAPT
Charles Gwatkin, CAPT, CS
William Hancock, SGT
William Harding, PVT
John Harding, Sr., PS
Michael Harlow, PVT
Edward Herndon, SOL, PS
James Hill, PS
Robert Johnson, PVT
George McDaniel, PS
William McMechen, PS
Jeremiah Monday, PVT
Nicholas Mooney, PS
John Morton, CAPT, PS
Anthony Owsley, PS
Thomas Owsley, Sr., PS
Benjamin Plunkett, ENS
William Quarles, PS
Henry Roush, PVT, PS
James Rousseau, SOL
Ambrose Rucker, LCOL, CS, PS
Solomon Stratton, SGT, PS
Edward Tinsley, PS
Joshua Tinsley, PS
Thomas Walthall, PS
Drury Watson, LT
John Watson, Sr., PS
John Wells, CAPT, PS
George Whitaker, PS
George Willett, SGT
Luke Williams, PS
Vermont
Josiah Page, SGT
Abbreviations for Patriot Service Ranks
CAPT — Captain
CS — Civil Service
COL — Colonel
CPL — Corporal
ENS — Ensign
LT — Lieutenant
LCOL — Lieutenant Colonel
MAJ — Major
PS — Patriotic Service
PVT — Private
SDI — Signer of Declaration of Independence
SGT — Sergeant
SGTMAJ — Sergeant Major
SOL — Soldier
STAFFOF — Staff Officer