Abbreviations for
Patriot Service Ranks

2LT—2nd Lieutenant
CAPT—Captain
COL—Colonel
CS—Civil Service
LT—Lieutenant
MAR—Marine
PS—Patriot Service
PVT—Private
SDI—Signer of the Declaration
  of Independence
SOL—Soldier
STAFFOF—Staff Officer
WGM—Wagon Master

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Chapter Patriots

Listed by the state of service are the names and ranks of the American Revolutionary War ancestors of the Fort Dobbs Chapter, NSDAR, members. This list includes Patriots of the American Revolutionary War and ancestors who contributed to the American independence through civil or patriotic service.

Connecticut

  • Daniel Rockwell, MAR

Continental Line

  • John Mosher, PVT

Georgia

  • Charles Burch, PVT, PS
  • James Pitman, LT

Maryland

  • Benjamin Buckingham, PS
  • Samuel Claggett, STAFFOF
  • Samuel Ferguson, PVT, PS
  • Thomas Lazenby, SOL, PS

Massachusetts

  • Lemuel Barnes, PVT
  • Leonard Parker, PVT
  • Daniel Sherwin, Jr., PVT
  • Israel Woodbury, PVT, CS

New Jersey

  • Moses Shepard, CAPT

New York

  • Samuel Allen, 2LT
  • Daniel Gerow, SGT
  • Job Prince, SGT
  • Jacob Shaffer, PVT, PS

North Carolina

  • William Alston, CS
  • Robert Barkley, PVT
  • John Dixon, PVT
  • William Feamster, PVT
  • James Few, PS
  • James Fielder, PVT, PS
  • Jacob Forney, Sr., PS
  • Maria Bergner Forney, PS
  • Peter Forney, CAPT
  • Benjamin Gaither, PS
  • Benjamin Harrison, CAPT
  • Johan Adam Hedrick, LT, PS
  • William Lackey, SOL
  • William Terrell Lewis, Sr., PS
  • John Libhart, CS, PS
  • William Mckee, PVT, WGM
  • William Miller, PS
  • William Newberry, PS
  • Samuel Patten, LT
  • David Reese, Sr., CS, PS
  • John Sharp, SOL
  • Jacob Slaughter, PS
  • Lazarus Solomon, PVT
  • William Stevenson, Sr., CS, PS
  • James Thompson, PS
  • Moses Todd, PS
  • Joseph Winstead, CS

Pennsylvania

  • Joseph Balliet, PS
  • Leonard Balliet, PVT
  • George Beaver, PVT
  • Joseph Bomberger, SOL, PS
  • Christian Brechbiel, PVT, PS
  • Joshua Brown, SOL
  • Frederick Emmert, PS
  • Frederick Gearhart, PS
  • John Gearhart, PVT
  • George Holstein, PVT
  • Christian Lower, Sr., PS
  • John Moore, Jr., CAPT
  • John Moore, Sr., PS
  • Christopher Myers, PS
  • Henry Myers, PS, CS
  • John Myers, PS
  • Peter Reedy, PS
  • Jonas Rudisill, PVT, PS
  • Henry Schweitzer, PS
  • Alexander Shaffer, PS
  • Henry Shaffer, CAPT, CS
  • Philip Shive, PVT, PS
  • John Shirk, SOL
  • James Worrell, PVT

South Carolina

  • Thomas Benson, PVT
  • John Jeffery, PVT
  • Nathaniel Jeffery, CAPT, PS
  • Levi Lowrey, PVT
  • John Rushing, LT

Virginia

  • Benjamin Ball, PS
  • William Ball, LT
  • Henry Bonner, PS
  • Richard Bonner, SGT
  • Nathaniel Brock, PVT
  • David Callaham, PVT
  • William Dulin, PS
  • John Fry, PVT
  • William Gill, PVT, PS
  • Leroy Hill, PS
  • Henry Holdaway, PVT
  • Adam Hope, Sr., CS, PS
  • Thomas Jefferson, PS, SDI
  • Francis Paine, ENS
  • Patrick Sinnett, PVT
  • John Strode, PS
  • Ezekiel Young, LT, CS, PS

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