Abbreviations for
patriot service ranks

CAPT—Captain
COL—Colonel
CPL—Corporal
CS—Civil Service
ENS—Ensign
LT—Lieutenant
LCOL—Lieutenant Colonel
MAJ—Major
NONCOM—Non-commissioned Officer
PS—Patriotic Service
PVT—Private
SGT—Sergeant
SOL—Soldier

Chapter Patriots

Listed below are names, ranks, and spouses for ancestors of the Yadkin River Patriots Chapter, NSDAR, members. These names are shown under the state for which they served. This list includes patriots of the American Revolution and ancestors who contributed to the independence cause through civil or patriotic service. Please contact us for more information. (Please note that the information below does not constitute proof of lineage and cannot be used in place of record copy.)

North Carolina

  • Adderton, Jeremiah, PS
    m. Rebecca
  • Allman, Edmond, PVT
    m. Jennie Dutton
  • Angell, John, SGT
    m. Mary Polly Griner
  • Auld, James, MAJ, PS
    m. Rosannah Piper Goldsborough
  • Austin, Bryant, PS
  • Austin, John, PS
    m. Rebecca Gurley
  • Barrier, John, PS
  • Barringer, John CAPT, PS
    m. Christiana Catrina Killian
  • Beck, Philip, CS
    m. Catherine
  • Belk, John PS
  • Bell, Benjamin, PVT
    m. Elizabeth Ledbetter
  • Biles, Thomas, PVT
    m. Tabitha Marbury
  • Bill, Daniel, PS
  • Blackwelder, Caleb, PS
  • Boshart, John, CS, PS
    m1. unknown m2. Ann
  • Bost, Elias, PVT
    m. Katherine
  • Bost, George, PVT
    m. Hannah Gregory
  • Bray, David, ENS
  • Brooks, William, PS
  • Brown, Michael, CS, PS
  • Burcham, John, PS
    m. Roseanna Swearingen
  • Burleson, David, PS
    m. Ursula Weatherford
  • Burleson, Isaac, PVT
    m. Martha Clay
  • Burt, John, PS
    m.Priscilla Senter
  • Cagle, George, PS
    m. Rebecca
  • Calloway, Isaac, PS
  • Carpenter, Isaac, PVT
  • Carter, Samuel, PS
    m. Lettia
  • Castle, Thomas, PVT
    m. Elizabeth
  • Chapman, Nicholas, PVT
    m. Sarah Scaly
  • Chenault, William, PS
    m. Susannah Walker
  • Clayton, Daniel, PS
  • Clayton, George, PS
    m. Sarah Dodson
  • Coble, David, PS
    m. Martha
  • Coffield, William, CS
  • Coggins, John, PS
    m. Alice Elizabeth Benson
  • Cotton, Thomas, PS
    m. Ann Boleyn
  • Crouse, John, CAPT
    m1. Anna Maria Volch
    m2. Dorothy Petree
  • Crump, James, CAPT
    m. Isabella Monroe
  • Cuthbertson, John, SOL
  • Daniel, James, PS
    m. Rebecca Travers Adderton
  • Davis, John, PS
  • Dennis, Andrew, PS
    m. Martha
  • Dickey, David, PS, CS, SGT
    m. Mary Heslip McFadden
  • Dry, Charles, PS
    m. Christina Muss
  • Duke, James, SOL
  • Edwards, John, Jr., PVT
    m. Sarah O’Neal
  • Eudy, Conrad, PS
  • Eudy, David Gottfried, PS
    m. Anna Dorothea Flegler
  • Fleming, Abraham, PS
    m. Frances Martin
  • Forrest, Abram, PS
    m1. Tabitha, m2. Barbara
  • Furr, John, PS
  • Furr, Paul, PS
    m. Mary Stutts
  • Gantt, James, PS
    m. Elizabeth
  • Garman, Michael, PS
    m. Sarah Pinion/Banion
  • Gillespie, Elijah, PS
  • Goodman, Christopher, SGT
    m1. Unknown
    m2. Catherina Barbara Reginer
    m3. Maria Margrethe
  • Greenlee, James, SOL
    m1. Mary Mitchell
    m2. Ruth Howard
  • Gurley, Jacob, PS
    m. Susan Wise
  • Gurley, William, CAPT
    m. Millinder
  • Harkey, Martin, PS
    m. Catherine Barringer
  • Harwood, Absalom, PS
  • Harwood, James, NONCOM
    m. Rosannah Rosey Barbee
  • Harris, Etheldred, CAPT
    m. Elizabeth Warren
  • Harris, Sherwood, PS
    m1. Hannah Page
    m2. Elizabeth Jones
  • Hatley, John, PS
    m. Martha
  • Helms, George, PS
    m. Mary Fortenberry
  • Horlacher, Christopher, PS
    m. Anna Maria
  • Holt, Nicholas, PS
    m. Sarah
  • House, Mark, CS
    m. Mary
  • Howell, Joseph, CS, PS
    m. Margaret Eleanor Garmon
  • Kennedy, Sherwood, NONCOM
    m1. Sarah Coggin
    m2. Ann Mayfield Hilton,
    m3. Mary Nugent
  • Kettner, Francis, PVT
    m. Elizabeth Miller
  • Keyser, Peter, PS
    m1. unknown
    m2. Fanny Garmon
  • Kirk, John, PVT
    m. Sarah Steele
  • Laws, Jr., George, PS
    m. Susanna Stagg
  • Laws, Sr., George, PS
    m. Mary Mulkey
  • Leonard, Sr., Valentine, CS, PS
    m. Elizabeth Wallacher
  • Lynn, Robert, PVT
    m. Margaret Leonard
  • Little, Peter, PS
    m. Christena Agner
  • Love, James, PS
    m1. Mary Elizabeth Ingram
    m2. Esther Belle Carricker
  • Lyerly, Christopher, PVT
    m1-2. unknown, m3. Barbara
  • Maness, William, PVT
  • Melchoir, Jr., John, PVT
    m2. Elizabeth Horlacher
  • Mercer, John, SOL
    m. Rachel
  • Miller, Jacob, PVT
    m. Marie Agnes Sower
  • Miller, Wendell, LT
  • Misenheimer, Abraham, SOL
  • Misenheimer, Sr., George, SOL
    m. Sarah Krider
  • Montgomery, Hugh, LT
    m. Katherine Sloan Moore
  • Morgan, Nathan, PVT
  • Morrison, James, CS, PS
    m. Jennett Morrison
  • Morrison, Robert, SGT
    m. Sarah Morrison
  • Oldham, John, CS, PS
    m. Amy
  • O’Neal, Benjamin, CS
    m. Elizabeth Ross
  • Parker, Howell, SOL
    m. Elizabeth Loftin
  • Parker, Richard, PS
    m1. Mary Harris
    m2. Miss Lentz
  • Parker, Nicholas, PS
    m. Mary
  • Peck, Frederick, PVT
    m1. Elizabeth Bushart
    m2. Anna Barnhardt
  • Pegram, Edward, PS
    m. Patty Jean
  • Pickler, John Blanket, CS
    m. Jean
  • Polk, Thomas, PS
    m. Mary Shelby,
    m. Keziah Tarlton
  • Poindexter, Thomas, CAPT, CS
    m. Elizabeth Pledge
  • Poplin, William, PS
    m. Lucy
  • Probst, Henry, PS
    m. Catherine Overshine
  • Quilman, Peter, PS
  • Randall, Peter, SOL
    m. Frances Barrett
  • Randleman, John Frederick, PS
    m. Mary Wright
  • Randleman, John, SGT
    m. Margaret Snap
  • Richardson, Edward, PS
  • Riggs, John, PS
  • Ritchie, Jacob, CS
    m. Maria Catherine Mayer
  • Robertson, Charles, MAJ, PS
    m. Susannah
  • Rogers, Hugh, SOL
    m. Nancy Thornton
  • Rose, Sterling, CPL
    m. Nancy
  • Ross, Williamson, PVT
    m. Elizabeth Odom
  • Rummage, George, PVT
    m. Margaret Simpson

North Carolina (continued)

  • Savitz, George, CS, PS
    m. Rosina
  • Secrist, Jacob, PS
    m. Janet Barbara Sims
  • Seitz, Christian, PS
  • Sells, Philip, PVT
    m. Dorothea Carecht
  • Shaffer, John, SOL, PS
    m. Anna Marie “Mary” Miller
  • Shankle, George, PVT
    m. Naomi P. Raiford
  • Siefert, George Ludwig, CS, PS
    m. Elizabeth
  • Simpson, William, PVT
    m. Martha Orr
  • Sink, Philip, SOL
    m. Elizabeth Spraker
  • Snuggs, Richard, PS
  • Sowell, Isaac, PVT
    m. Mary Quimby
  • Sowers, George, PVT
    m. Mary Appelone X Smith
  • Sparks, John, PVT
    m. Sarah Shores
  • Springer, Uriah, PS
    m. Margaret
  • Staton, Jesse, SOL
  • Stewart, Henry, PVT
    m. Lucy
  • Stow, Andrew, PVT
    m. Mary
  • Swearingen, John, PS
  • Team, Jacob, PS
    m. Susanna Rose
  • Thomas, Benjamin, PVT
    m. Melinda Gurley
  • Tucker, George, PS, CS
    m. Maria Dorothea
  • Tyson, John, PS
    m. Bethany
  • Underwood, Samuel, PS
    m. Misniah
  • Vannoy, John, PS
    m. Jemima
  • Walter, Paul, PVT
    m. Catharine
  • West, John, PVT
    m. Margaret May
  • Whitley, George, PS
  • Wiley, Oliver, CAPT
    m. Mary Shelby
  • Winchester, Douglas, PS
    m. Sarah Matthews,
    m. Elizabeth x
  • Wolfe, Philip, SOL
  • Yates, Sr., William, PVT
    m. Mary

North Carolina and
South Carolina

  • Burroughs, Solomon, PVT
    m. Judith Taylor
  • Mendenhall, Nathan, PVT
    m. Rebecca Duckworth

Connecticut

  • Hale, Enoch, CS
    m. Octavia Throope
  • Stanley, Thomas, CPL
    m1. Anna Ford
    m2. Miranda Nott

Connecticut and
New York

  • Scofield, Elisha, CPL
    m. Abigail Ingerson

Maryland

  • Starner, Michael, PVT
    m. Katharine Durst
  • Trautman, Peter, CAPT
    m. Elizabeth
  • Wymer, Martin, PS
    m. Catherine Barbara Trautman

Massachusetts

  • Burt, Joel, PVT
    m. Martha Lyman

New Jersey

  • Campbell, Robert, PVT
    m. Mary Reynolds
  • Ely, George, COL
    m. Susanna Farley
  • Lake, Thomas, PVT
  • Logan, William, CAPT
    m. Margaret Lewis
  • Osborn, Joseph, PVT
    m. Rosina Dorch
  • Post, John H., PVT
  • West, John, PVT

New York

  • DePue, Benjamin, Sr., CS, PS
    m. Lizabeth Swartwout
  • Sherman, Anthony, PVT
  • Walrath, Nicholas, ENS
    m. Anne Barbara Schultz

Pennsylvania

  • Bell, John, PVT
    m. Martha Gilchrist
  • Foulks, Christopher, CAPT
    m. Joanna Elizabeth Sowash
  • Gilchrist, John, MAJ
  • Hachenberg, Johann Peter, ENS, PS
    m. Annie Elizabeth Siphers
  • Kershner, Frederick, PVT
    m. Barbara Fetterman
  • Klotz, Johann Leonhard, PS
    m. Margratha Schall
  • Lentz, Dewalt, PS
    m. Elizabeth Bechtel
    m. Mary x
  • Lipe, John Geofrey, PVT
    m. Barbara House
  • Lowder, Thomas, PVT, PS
    m. Elizabeth Langley
  • Lowder, William, PVT
    m. Elizabeth Eudy
  • Matthews, Philip, SOL
    m. Anna Catherine Kinzel
  • Mechlin, Dewalt, ENS
    m. Sabilla Kohler
  • Mechlin, Jacob CAPT
    m. Catherine
  • Melchoir, John, Sr., PVT
    m. Mary X
  • Otterman, Ludwic, PS
    m. Francenia
  • Pomeroy, John, LCOL
    m1. Isabella Barr
    m2. Hannah Graham
  • Sowash, Henry, PVT, PS
    m. Anna Esther Schneider

Pennsylvania and Maryland

  • Millhouse, John, PS, PVT
    m. Margaret Tefern

Rhode Island

  • Bushee, Consider, CPL
    m. Patience Carter

South Carolina

  • Drayton, William Henry, PS, SC
    m. Dorothy Golightly
  • McManus, Hugh, LT
    m1. XX
    m2. Elizabeth Betsy
  • Sanders, John, LT
    m. Elizabeth Palmer
  • Stone, Austin, CS, PS
    m. Elizabeth x
  • Stribling, Thomas, SOL
    m. Nancy Kincheloe
  • Stroud, Thomas, SOL
    m. Sarah
  • Tindall, Robert, PS
    m. Mary

Virginia

  • Allen, Drury, PS
    m. Eleanor
  • Bell, Thomas, PVT
    m. Mary Edwards
  • Cheeley, Joseph, PVT
    m. Winifred Lenoir
  • Clay, Mitchel, SOL, PS
    m. Phoebe Belcher
  • Compton, John, PVT
  • Easley, Daniel PVT
    m. Betsy Stevens
  • Floyd, Josiah PVT
    m. Mary Tillman
  • French, John, PVT
    m. Obedience Clay
  • French, Matthew, PVT, PS
    m. Sarah Payne
  • Gragg, William, PVT
    m1. Elizabeth Pulliam
    m2. Nancy Dunkle
    m3. Nancy Coffey
  • Green, Joseph, PS
  • Herndon, Joseph, PS
  • Hughes, Archelaus, COL, CS, PS
    m. Mary Dalton
  • Ingraham, John PS
    m. Patience Berry
  • Kendall, Moses, PS
    m. Amy
  • Lewis, Griffin, LT
    m1. Sarah Cox
    m2. Lucy Luggitt
  • Massie, Thomas, MAJ
    m. Sarah Cooke
  • Nantz, Robert, PS
  • Roper, David, PS
    m. Elizabeth
  • Rorebaugh, John, PS
    m1. Barbara Reger
    m2. Elizabeth Harness
  • Scott, Joseph, PVT
    m. Mary Talbot
  • Shockley, Richard, PS
    m. Elizabeth
  • Walker, Samuel, PS
  • Witt, Richard, PVT, PS
    m1. Susannah Skaggs
    m2. Betsy Baxter

Virginia and North Carolina

  • Freeman, Allen, PVT, PS
    m1. Tabitha
    m2. Barbara

 

Priscilla Clark at Stowes Grave Photo

Chapter member works to maintain Patriot Andrew Stow’s grave.

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