{"id":212,"date":"2022-05-29T04:35:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T04:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utahdar.org\/spirit-of-america\/?page_id=212"},"modified":"2026-05-16T20:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T20:43:14","slug":"our-patriots","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/utahdar.org\/spirit-of-america\/our-patriots\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Patriots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Each member of the Spirit of America Chapter, NSDAR, is proud of the direct lineage connecting her to a Patriot who aided the cause of the American Revolutionary War through military, civil, or patriotic service. Our Patriot ancestors sacrificed their lives and fortunes to fight for the freedoms that we enjoy today. We honor their legacy through our membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Rank\/Service <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CAPT &#8211; Captain; COL &#8211; Colonel; CPL &#8211; Corporal; CS &#8211; Civil Service; ENS &#8211; Ensign; LCOL &#8211; Lieutenant Colonel; LT &#8211; Lieutenant; MJR &#8211; Major; NONCOM &#8211; Non-Commissioned Officer; PVT &#8211; Private; PS &#8211; Public Service; SGT &#8211; Sergeant; SGM &#8211; Sergeant Major; SOL &#8211; Soldier<\/p>\n<p><strong>Connecticut<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn Prentice Babcock &#8211; SOL<br \/>\nJohn Clark &#8211; PVT<br \/>\nSamuel Coy &#8211; PVT<br \/>\nEzra Dowd &#8211; PS<br \/>\nReuben Miner &#8211; SOL<br \/>\nElijah Parks &#8211; CS<br \/>\nTimothy Starr &#8211; CPL<br \/>\nEphraim Terry &#8211; CS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Delaware<\/strong><br \/>\nJacob Broome &#8211; SOL, PS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Massachusetts<\/strong><br \/>\nAsa Adams &#8211; PVT<br \/>\nMartin Barney &#8211; NONCOM<br \/>\nDaniel Burbank &#8211; LT<br \/>\nNathaniel Corbett &#8211; SGT<br \/>\nMoses Curtis &#8211; CPL<br \/>\nTitus Deming &#8211; PVT<br \/>\nNoah Hayden &#8211; PVT<br \/>\nJoseph Hulett &#8211; PVT<br \/>\nTimothy Kearl Parcher &#8211; SOL<br \/>\nAmos Perry &#8211; CAPT, PS<br \/>\nJosiah Sabin &#8211; PVT<br \/>\nJohn Sargent &#8211; PVT<br \/>\nAaron Sperry &#8211; CS<br \/>\nWilliam Stacy, Sr &#8211; LCOL, PS<br \/>\nHannah Watts Weston &#8211; PS<br \/>\nDavid Wood &#8211; PVT<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maryland<\/strong><br \/>\nCharles Claggett &#8211; PS<br \/>\nPhilip Creal &#8211; PVT<br \/>\nJohn Poffenberger &#8211; PS<\/p>\n<p><strong>North Carolina<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn Clinkenbeard &#8211; PVT, PS<br \/>\nJohn Covington &#8211; PS<br \/>\nRobert High &#8211; CAPT, CS, PS<br \/>\nJohn Randleman &#8211; SGT<br \/>\nJohn Sevier &#8211; COL, PS<br \/>\nWilliam Thomas &#8211; PVT,\u00a0 PS<br \/>\nJohn Ware &#8211; PVT<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Hampshire<\/strong><br \/>\nJabez Alexander &#8211; PVT<br \/>\nRobert High &#8211; CAPT, CS, PS<br \/>\nAbraham Josselyn &#8211; PVT<br \/>\nPeter Keyes &#8211; PVT<br \/>\nBenjamin Knight &#8211; SGT, PS<br \/>\nWilliam Markham &#8211; SGT, PS<br \/>\nDavid Pulsipher &#8211; CPL<br \/>\nJonathan Searle &#8211; PVT, PS<br \/>\nDavid Shepard &#8211; PVT<br \/>\nChase Witcher &#8211; PVT<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Jersey<\/strong><br \/>\nFrances Carleton &#8211; PVT<br \/>\nJohn Ireson &#8211; PVT<br \/>\nNicholas Perrin &#8211; PVT<\/p>\n<p><strong>New York<\/strong><br \/>\nNathaniel Wilcox &#8211; PVT<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pennsylvania<\/strong><br \/>\nGeorge Atkinson &#8211; PVT, PS<br \/>\nThomas Atkinson &#8211; PS<br \/>\nJoseph Gilbert &#8211; PVT, PS<br \/>\nGeorge Baltzer Hess &#8211; PS<br \/>\nPeter DeHaven &#8211; PVT<br \/>\nMathias Wenrich, Jr &#8211; ENS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rhode Island<\/strong><br \/>\nJoshua Tanner &#8211; ENS<\/p>\n<p><strong>South Carolina<\/strong><br \/>\nHenry Anderson, Sr &#8211; CAPT<br \/>\nJosiah Downing &#8211; SOL, PS<br \/>\nThomas Hooten &#8211; SGM<br \/>\nThomas Petty &#8211; PVT<br \/>\nJoseph William Pickens &#8211; CAPT<br \/>\nBenjamin Thurman &#8211; PS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Virginia<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn Bybee &#8211; PVT<br \/>\nJohn Clark, Jr. &#8211; PVT<br \/>\nThomas Edwards &#8211; PS<br \/>\nRobert Elliot &#8211; 2LT<br \/>\nDavid Ellington &#8211; PS<br \/>\nMaxcey Ewell &#8211; PS<br \/>\nHenry Fletcher &#8211; PS<br \/>\nMatthew French &#8211; PVT, PS<br \/>\nJob Garvey &#8211; PVT<br \/>\nWilliam Gill &#8211; PVT<br \/>\nWait Hopkins &#8211; CAPT, MAJ<br \/>\nWilliam Morris, Sr. &#8211; PS<br \/>\nJohn Riley Parker &#8211; CAPT<br \/>\nEbenezer Petty &#8211; PS<br \/>\nJohn Sykes &#8211; PVT<br \/>\nBernard Reynolds &#8211; PVT<br \/>\nNathaniel Sanders &#8211; PVT, PS<br \/>\nHenry Thomas &#8211; PVT<br \/>\nJohn Tipton &#8211; COL, CS, PS<br \/>\nAbel Triplett &#8211; PS<br \/>\nElizabeth Triplett &#8211; PS<br \/>\nJohn Wilhoit &#8211; PVT<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vermont<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn Barney, Sr. &#8211; PS, CS<br \/>\nJedediah Dewey &#8211; PS<br \/>\nThomas Dutton &#8211; PS<br \/>\nWait Hopkins &#8211; MAJ<br \/>\nElisha Litchfield &#8211; PS, CS<br \/>\nJohn Pulsipher &#8211; PVT<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of Eug\u00e8ne Lami, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Each member of the Spirit of America Chapter, NSDAR, is proud of the direct lineage connecting her to a Patriot who aided the cause of the American Revolutionary War through military, civil, or patriotic service. 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