Abbreviations for
Patriot Service Ranks

CAPT — Captain
CS — Civil Service
COL — Colonel
LT — Lieutenant
NCOM — Non-Commissioned Officer
PS — Patriot Service
PVT — Private
SGT — Sergeant
SOL — Soldier

Chapter Patriots

We are proud to honor our Patriots who rendered civil, patriotic, and/or military service in the American War for Independence. Listed below are states of service followed by names and ranks.

Continental Line

  • John Bunnell, PVT

Connecticut

  • Samuel Buell, Sr., PVT CS
  • Christopher Crouch, Sr., SGT
  • Jonathan Ransford Miner, PVT
  • Ambrose Strong, CS

Maryland

  • Zadock Ford, PVT
  • James Traill, Sr., PS

Massachusetts

  • William Burridge, PVT
  • William Gooding, Sr., PVT
  • William Kilbourn, CS
  • Jedediah Monroe, PVT
  • Elnathan Walker, Sr., PVT
  • William Walker, PVT

New Hampshire

  • John Closson, PVT

New York

  • Jonathan Ford, LT
  • William Lane, PVT

North Carolina

  • Abraham Barrows, Jr., SOL
  • Abraham Barrows, Sr., PS
  • Matthew Brinson, SOL
  • William Bryson, PS
  • George Cathey, CAPT
  • William Cathey, PS
  • James Daniels, PS
  • Reuben Daniels, PS
  • Samuel Denton, PS
  • Brittain Fuller, PS
  • William Gillam, CAPT PS
  • Alexander Grant, SOL
  • William Grant, SGT CS
  • John Greider, PVT PS
  • Raleigh Hammond, PS PVT
  • Isham Harris, CAPT

North Carolina
— continued

  • West Harris, Sr., PS
  • Henry Hollingsworth, PVT
  • Joseph Howell, CS PS
  • Abednego Inman, PS
  • Samuel King, CS
  • William King, PS CS
  • John Massey, PVT
  • Philip McConnell, PVT
  • Archibald McCurdy, CAPT
  • Christian Sargent Messer, PS
  • Samuel Monteith, PVT
  • James Morgan, PS
  • Perminter Morgan, PS
  • James Morrison, CS PS
  • James Ownbey, PVT
  • John Ownbey, CS PS
  • Jesse Palmer, PVT
  • Seth Pettipool, PS
  • William Pettipool, SOL PS
  • Thomas Poindexter, CAPT CS
  • William Raper, PS
  • Hugh Rogers, SOL
  • Jacob Schuck, PVT
  • David Smith, COL PS
  • William Smithers, PS
  • Andrew Strain, PS
  • John Alexander Willey, PS
  • Jesse Wood, PS

North Carolina & South Carolina

  • William Garrett, PVT

Pennsylvania

  • John Harper, PVT
  • Thomas Harper, PVT
  • William Kelly, PVT
  • Conrad Knappenberger, PVT
  • Frederick Leonard, PVT
  • Thomas McCollum, PVT

Rhode Island

  • Boomer Jenks, PVT

South Carolina

  • John Abbott, SOL
  • Isaac Barrineau, PS
  • James Holmes Bryson, PS
  • James Butler, CAPT PS
  • George Crawford, PVT CS
  • George Cunningham, PVT PS
  • Christian Gates, PVT
  • Thomas Gladney, PS
  • David Golightly, PVT PS
  • David Goodlett, PVT
  • Benjamin Griffith, CS PS PVT
  • Andrew Holman, SOL
  • Robert Martin, PVT CS
  • William Murchey, PVT
  • Claudius Pegues, Sr., CS PS
  • James Porter, SOL
  • Patrick Riley, PS
  • John Sartor, PS
  • Henry Sweetser, PVT
  • George Turner, PS
  • Ann Lenoir Westmoreland, PS
  • Hugh Young, PVT CS PS

Virginia

  • James Ballinger, SOL
  • John Bryan, Jr., PVT
  • John Capp, PS
  • Thomas Carleton, Sr., PS
  • Valentine Crawford, CS
  • Jacob Fisher, PVT
  • Larkin Gatewood, SGT PS
  • Richard Gatewood, PVT CS PS
  • Peter Hoover, PS
  • Jonathan Langdon, CAPT CS
  • William Simms, CAPT
  • John Upshaw, PVT
  • John Wood, SOL

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