Abbreviations for
Patriot Service Ranks

CAPT—Captain
COL—Colonel
CS—Civil Service
LT—Lieutenant
MAJ—Major
PS—Patriotic Service
PVT—Private
SOL—Soldier
 
Note: An “X” is used when part of a name is unknown or not proven.  
 
 
 
 

Photo Courtesy Jimmy Haire Photography


Chapter Patriots

Listed by state of service are the names and ranks for the ancestors of the Joseph Kerner Chapter NSDAR members. This list includes Patriots of the American Revolution and ancestors who contributed to the independence cause through civil or patriotic service. (Please note that the information below does not constitute proof of lineage and cannot be used in place of record copy.)

Connecticut

  • Solomon Lee, PS
  • Perrin Ross, LT

Georgia

  • Joseph Piatt, PVT

Maryland

  • John Mills, CAPT
  • Alice X Orrell, PS
  • Jonathan Shepard, PVT, PS

Massachusetts

  • Ebenezer Gardner, PVT
  • Miller Paine, PVT
  • Solomon Pierce, LT
  • Stephen Reynolds, PVT
  • Jeremiah Fogg Thoits, LT

New Hampshire

  • Henry Butler, CAPT
  • Jedediah Wellman, PS

New Jersey

  • Bethuel Farrand, LT

New York

  • Abraham David Blauvelt, MAJ

North Carolina

  • Charles Allen, Sr., CAPT
  • Solomon Burroughs, PVT
  • Amos Church, PVT
  • Henry Dellinger, SOL, PS
  • John Dixon, PVT
  • Joshua Herring, CS
  • Barnett Idol, PS
  • Thomas Poindexter, CAPT, CS, PS
  • Solomon Stevenson, Sr., SOL
  • Adam Strope, PVT
  • Jacob Strope, PS
  • Thomas Tyree, CAPT
  • Jacob Utley, CS, PS
  • Henry Wood, PVT

Pennsylvania

  • Martin Bash, PVT
  • Conrad Sherman, CAPT

South Carolina

  • Solomon Burroughs, PVT
  • William Mcelwee, Sr.
  • John Nesbitt, PVT, PS

Virginia

  • James Allen, PVT, CS
  • John Crawford, CS
  • John George Crisler, PS
  • James Ellison, Jr., SOL, PS
  • John Green, COL
  • Lewis Hancock, PS
  • Mary Barbara Teter Hinkle, PS
  • Enoch Osborn, CAPT, PS
  • Joseph Piatt, PVT
  • Robert Powell, PS
  • Henry Walton, CAPT, CS

 
Field of Honor photo
Photo Courtesy Forsyth County Parks & Recreation at Triad Park
The Carolina Field of Honor is a symbol of historical fact that our community has the highest respect and honor to our veterans.

 

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