Abbreviations for
Patriot Service Ranks

CAPT—Captain
COL—Colonel
CPL—Corporal
CS—Civil Service
CTYLT—County Lieutenant
ENS—Ensign
MAJ—Major
LT—Lieutenant
LCOL—Lieutenant Colonel
PS—Patriotic Service
PVT—Private
SDI—Signer of Declaration of Independence
SGT—Sergeant
SOL—Soldier
STAFFOF—Staff Officer

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Chapter Patriots

Below is a list of the ancestors for members of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence Chapter, NSDAR. This list includes Patriots of the American Revolution and ancestors who contributed to the independence cause through civil or patriotic service. For more information on a particular Patriot, go to Ancestor Search at DAR.org.

Continental Line

  • Luther Waterman, STAFFOF

Connecticut

  • David Blish, Sr., PS
  • Haynes Fitch, PVT
  • Abel Gould, CS, PS
  • Milo Lee, PS
  • Hezekiah Lockwood, PVT
  • Gideon Morgan, CPL
  • Elisha Scofield, CPL
  • Jesse Waldo, Sr., LT
  • Luther Waterman, STAFFOF

Louisiana

  • Augustin Verret, 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
  • Joseph Lewis, CS PS
  • John O'Brien, PVT, PS
  • Levi Packard, CPL
  • Benjamin Pettengill, PVT
  • Abial Pierce, CAPT
  • Edmund Wilson, CS

Maryland

  • John Yost Egenbrode, PS
  • Joseph Evans, PS
  • John Ray, Sr., PS

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
  • 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
  • Fleet Cooper, Sr., 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
  • Edward Freeman, PS
  • Joseph Freeman, PS
  • Soloman Fuller, PS
  • James Griffin, CPL
  • Samuel Hammond, PS
  • Hugh Harris, SOL
  • James Haynes, PS
  • Moses Henry, PVT
  • Tunis Hood, Sr., PS
  • Samuel Job, PS
  • Samuel Johnson, CAPT
  • Ann Robertson Johnston, PS
  • David King, PVT
  • Abraham Kuykendall, CAPT, CS, PS
  • James Lanier, CS, PS
  • William Little, CAPT, PS
  • William Littlejohn, CS, PS
  • Dixon Marshall, LT
  • John Marshall, PS
  • Thomas Massey, PS
  • Matthew McClure, C, PS
  • Joseph Minzes, PVT
  • William Morris, CS
  • Nathan Musselwhite, PVT
  • Julius Nichols, CS, PS
  • William Packard, PS
  • Holloway Pass, PVT
  • Nathaniel Pass, SOL, PS
  • Edward Richardson, PS
  • Edward Rippey, PVT
  • Thomas Robertson, CS
  • John Rooker, PVT
  • Frederick Shaffer, SOL
  • Joseph Shearin CS
  • Henry Shofner, PVT
  • John Sloan, PS
  • William Wilkens Taylor, CS
  • Francis Timberlake, PVT
  • Richard Timberlake, CPL
  • 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
  • Peter Stryker, PVT

Pennsylvania

  • Jacob Artz, PS
  • Richard Bard, PVT
  • Christopher Beeler, SOL
  • John Bryan, CAPT
  • 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
  • Joseph Geer, CAPT
  • John Hall, PVT
  • Robert Hughey, PS
  • George Michael Immel, PVT
  • Nicholas Keefer, PS
  • Robert Levers CTYLT, PS
  • William McCoy, PVT, PS
  • Andrew McKee, PVT
  • Henry Miser, PVT
  • Robert Moore, SOL, PS
  • John Oblinger, LT
  • Henry Rhodes, PS
  • George Seldonridge, PS
  • Christian Stutzman, PS
  • George Summers, PVT

South Carolina

  • Andrew Baskin, PVT, 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 Hunt, SOL
  • Alexander Ingraham, PS
  • Martin Martin, PVT. PS
  • William Massey, LCOL, CS, PS
  • Joel McLemore, CAPT, PS
  • Hugh McManus, LT
  • Evan Shelby, PVT
  • Edward Shipman, PVT
  • George T Sloan, SGT
  • Adam Walker, SOL
  • Samuel Wharton, CAPT

Virginia

  • Henry Bonner, PS
  • Daniel Boone, COL, CS, PS
  • Ratliff Boone, PS
  • Thomas Bragg, LT
  • David Branham, SOL
  • Samuel Brawford, PS
  • James Callaway, COL, PS
  • Richard Callaway, COL, CS, PS
  • John Cary, SOL
  • Martin Dawson, PS
  • Edward Dyehouse, PVT
  • Thomas Elliott, PS
  • Richard Eubank, SGT
  • Lodwick Farmer, Jr., CAPT, PS
  • James Fulkerson, CAPT
  • Charles Gwatkin, CAPT, CS
  • William Hancock, SGT
  • William Harding, PVT
  • John Harding, Sr., PS
  • Michael Harlow, PVT
  • Patrick Henry, COL, PS
  • Edward Herndon, SOL, PS
  • James Hill, PS
  • George McDaniel, PS
  • Jeremiah Monday, PVT
  • John Morton, CAPT, PS
  • Thomas Owsley, Sr., PS
  • Benjamin Plunkett, ENS
  • William Price, Sr., CAPT
  • William Quarles, PS
  • Henry Roush, PVT, PS
  • James Rousseau, SOL
  • Ambrose Rucker, LCOL CS, PS
  • Robert Smith, ENS
  • Solomon Stratton, SGT, PS
  • James Tasker, PVT
  • 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

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