Our Patriot Ancestors
Listed below are the Patriot ancestors of our chapter members, the state they served, and their service. American Revolutionary War Patriots include signers of the Declaration of Independence, members of local and state militias, members of the Continental Army or Continental Navy, men and women who were providers of supplies, jurors, or civil servants toward the cause of American independence, including those taking oaths of loyalty.
Each member of the Rancho Simi Chapter, NSDAR, has proven direct, bloodline lineage to one or more of the proven Patriots shown below.
Why do we list our Patriot ancestors? Our Patriots are our connections to the past! Some were never memorialized with a gravestone, marker, or monument, and the final resting places of many are not known. It is one small way to ensure that their legacy will continue.
With a few exceptions, military service began with the Battle of Lexington (19 April 1775) and ended when the British evacuated New York (26 November 1783). Patriots may have also provided civil service, conducting public business in the newly formed American states.
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Glossary of United States, Country, and Patriot Service Abbreviations:
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UNITED STATES: CT — Connecticut DE — Delaware GA — Georgia MD — Maryland MA — Massachusetts NH — New Hampshire NJ — New Jersey NY — New York |
NC — North Carolina PA — Pennsylvania RI — Rhode Island SC — South Carolina VT — Vermont VA — Virginia |
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PATRIOT SERVICE: CAPT - Captain CPL - Corporal CS - Civil Service LT - Lieutenant MAJ - Major OF - Officer (rank unknown) PS - Patriotic Service |
PVT - Private SDI - Signer Declaration of Independence SGT - Sergeant SOL - Soldier STAFFOF – Staff Officer SLR -Sailor |
Our Patriots by State of Service
| Connecticut | ||
| James Buck | Joseph Byington | Clement Fairchild |
| Isaac Judd, Sr. | Stephen Loomis | Joseph Rockwell |
| Albert Sherwood | ||
| Georgia | ||
| Anderson Redding | ||
| Massachusetts | ||
| Noah Alden | Caleb Barstow | Ebenezer Brewster Gould |
| Isaac Kidder | William Hanks | Zachariah Hildreth, Jr. |
| Zachariah Hildreth, Sr. | Ezekiel Noble | Robert Parker, Sr. |
| Abraham Stickney, Sr. | Randall Wild | James Wood |
| Maryland | ||
| Joseph Boyer | Samuel Phillips | James Sargent, Sr. |
| North Carolina | ||
| Thomas Blair | Robert Cleveland | John Duke |
| Stephen Franklin | Edmund Matthews | James Maynard |
| James Moffatt | Nathaniel Overall | John Pritchett |
| Moses Pendry Reed | Warner Spainhour | Benjamin Tyner |
| Joel Wooten | ||
| New Hampshire | ||
| William Brooks, Sr. | William Brooks, Jr. | Abner Fowler |
| Francis Kittredge, Sr. | ||
| New Jersey | ||
| William Cutter | Jesse Hart | John Hart |
| Jacob Matteson, Sr. | Jacob Van Winkle | |
| New York | ||
| Samuel Knapp | John Meeks | Daniel Ogden, Sr. |
| Isaac Collier | Dirck Richard Collier | Dirck Teunisen Van Vechten |
| Pennsylvania | ||
| Robert Barber, Sr. | Nicholas Boring | Robert Bunting |
| Daniel Bush | James Cross | Thomas Fee |
| John Green | Robert Hughey | Benjamin Ishmael |
| Isaac Lewis | Hans Martin Trester | John Mason |
| John Means | Frederick Mehl, Sr. | Frederick Mehl, Jr. |
| Alice Kollock Green | John George Overmyer, Sr. | Daniel Parkinson |
| Thomas Ramsay | Jacob Stucky | Isaac Taylor |
| William Trester | ||
| Rhode Island | ||
| Daniel Thornton | ||
| South Carolina | ||
| Robert Archer | Andrew Lee | |
| Virginia | ||
| Peter Bedinger | Andrew Bourne | Andrew Bunting |
| Edmund Butler | Samuel Callender | Mary X. Collins |
| Stephen Franklin | James Hawkins | Jesse Hodges |
| William McGarrah | Samuel Murphy | Jehu Peebles |
| Rodham Petty | Anderson Redding | Thomas Spann |
| Michael Thorne | Isham Trotter | James Trotter |
| Jonathan Weir | Benjamin Whitehead | |
| Vermont | ||
| Otis Chaffee | ||