Abbreviations for
patriot service ranks

2MAJ — Second Major
BGEN — Brigadier Gen
CAPT — Captain
CS — Civil Service
COL — Colonel
CPL — Corporal
ENS — Ensign
LT — Lieutenant
LCOL — Lt. Colonel
MAJ — Major
PS — Patriot Service
PVT — Private
SDI — Signer of Declaration of Independence
SGT — Sergeant
SOL — Soldier
STAFFOF — Staff Officer

Chapter Patriots

Listed by their state of service are the names and ranks of the ancestors of the William Gaston 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.

Connecticut

  • EPHRAIM LADD, CS, PVT

Georgia

  • WILLIAM MILLER, PVT

Maryland

  • SAMUEL FURGASON, PS, PVT
  • ROBERT THOMPSON, PS

New Hampshire

  • SAMUEL CUNNINGHAM, PS, CAPT

New York

  • JACOB BLACKWELL, COL, PS

North Carolina

  • THOMAS BOLIN, PVT
  • CHRISTIAN ARNEY, PVT
  • PETER CARPENTER, PS
  • SAMUEL ESPEY, CAPT
  • JOHN FOARD (FORD), CS, PS
  • DAVID GATLIN, PS
  • WILLIAM GREGORY, PVT
  • FREDERICK HAMBRIGHT, CS, PS, LCOL
  • JOSEPH HOWELL, CS, PS
  • ARCHIBALD KELLY, SR., PS
  • JOHN LAY, PS
  • WILLIAM MCLEAN, STAFFOF
  • WILLIAM MILLER, PVT
  • WENDAL MILLER, LT
  • ALEXANDER MOORE, PVT
  • DAVID RAMSOUR, PS
  • WILLIAM RANKIN, PVT
  • TRAVIS REESE, PS
  • HUGH ROGERS, SOL
  • JOHN SHEFFIELD, PS, PVT
  • BARTHOLOMEW THOMPSON, PVT
  • MARTIN TRANTHAM, PVT
  • ELISHA WITHERS, PVT
  • JAMES WHITE, CAPT
  • JAMES WITHERS, PS

Pennsylvania

  • JOHN HELLER, PVT

Rhode Island

  • GEORGE STILLMAN, CAPT
  • RANDALL WELLS, CAPT

South Carolina

  • WILLIAM ADAMS, PVT
  • MARY BABB, PS
  • JOHN BLAKENEY, SR., CAPT
  • WILLIAM BRATTON, JR., COL
  • JOSEPH DUKE, SOL
  • DAVID JACKSON, SOL
  • JAMES MOSELEY, PVT
  • JAMES RITCHIE, JR., PS, PVT
  • GEORGE WILSON, PVT

Vermont

  • GERSHOM PALMER, CS, ENS

Virginia

  • JAMES COCHRAN, PVT
  • SPENCER M. COLEMAN, PVT
  • JAMES JOHNSTON, PS, PVT
  • JONATHAN LANGDON, CS, CAPT
  • JOHN MCCORKLE, ENS
  • PHILIP MAINE, PVT
  • ZACQUILL MORGAN, PS, COL
  • WILLIAM RYCKMAN, PS, COL
  • BENJAMIN STICKLEY, PS, LT
  • JAMES WITHERS, LT

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