Abbreviations for
patriot service ranks

BGEN — Brigadier Gen
CAPT — Captain
CAV — Cavalry
CL — Continental Line
COL — Colonel
CPL — Corporal
CS — Civil Service
ENS — Ensign
GEN — General
LT — Lieutenant
LCOL — Lt. Colonel
MAJ — Major
MIL — Militia
NO — Naval Officer
PS — Patriotic Service
PVT — Private
QM — Quartermaster
SLR — Sailor
SGT — Sergeant
SOL — Soldier

Chapter Patriots

We are proud to honor the Moseley-Bright Chapter ancestors who rendered civil, patriotic, and/or military service in the American War for Independence. Listed below are states of service followed by names and ranks.

North Carolina

  • Thomas Aldridge, PVT, PS
  • Abner Aycock, PVT
  • Michael Becton, CS
  • William Berryhill, LT
  • John Beverly, PS
  • Alexander Blackshear, PS
  • Ezekiel Creech, PVT, PS
  • Major Croom, Sr., CS, PS
  • John Daly, CAPT
  • James Davis, SOL
  • Benjamin Fordham, PS
  • David Fuller, PS
  • Isaac Gregory, BGEN, CS, PS
  • Benjamin Hardy, PS
  • Lemuel Hardy, PS
  • Richard Hill, PVT
  • Elizabeth Koonce, PS
  • Michael Koonce, PS, CAPT
  • Jeremiah Loftin, PS
  • Robert McKnight, Sr., PS
  • Nathan Minshew, PS
  • William Morrill, PS
  • George Moye, CS, PS
  • David Peele, PS
  • Robert Peele, PS
  • Jesse Pipkin, PS
  • Enoch Sawyer, PS
  • Lemuel Sawyer, PS
  • Lutson Stroud, SOL
  • Adam Todd, SOL
  • Levi West, PVT
  • William Whitfield, Jr., CS, PS
  • Thomas Wright, PVT

 

 

Connecticut

  • Daniel Beers, SOL
  • John Hickok, PVT
  • John Hoyt, PVT

Maryland

  • Richard Hurtt, PVT

Pennsylvania

  • Philip Henry Pentz, PVT, PS
  • Philip Rothrock, CS

South Carolina

  • Thomas Heyward, CAPT, PS

Virginia

  • James Bradley, CAPT
  • Lewis Carlton, PVT
  • Thomas Matthews, LCOL
  • Jeremiah Munday, PVT
  • John Pattie, CAPT
  • Walter Rand, SGT

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