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Abbreviations for
Patriot Service Ranks
BGEN—Brigadier Gen
CAPT—Captain
CS—Civil Service
ENS—Ensign
LT—Lieutenant
LT COL—Lieutenant Colonel
MINMAN—Minute Man
NCO—Non-Commissioned
Officer
PS—Patriot Service
PVT—Private
SGT—Sergeant
SOL—Soldier
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Our Patriot Ancestors
We honour our Patriot ancestors who were instrumental in fighting for our country. The ancestors of the Piedmont Patriots Chapter, NSDAR, are proudly listed below by state of service and rank.
Direct lineage must be proven to join DAR.
Please note that patriot names listed below do not serve as proof of lineage.
Connecticut
- John Barnard, CAPT
- Samuel Harmon, Jr., MINMAN
- Josiah Lyons, PVT
- Asaph Trumball, CAPT
Georgia
- George Prall, SOL
- Robert Quarterman, SOL
Maryland
- Samuel Magruder, PS
Massachusetts
- Wells Chase, Sr., LT
- Bartlett Hinds, CAPT
- Joseph Talmage, SGT
- Cornelius White, CS, PS, CAPT
North Carolina
- Sterling Bowen, SOL
- John Cockrill, PS
- Archibald Davis, NCO
- Ebenezer Fain, PVT
- John Griffith, PVT
- Johann Philip Gruss, SOL
- Frederick Hambright, LT COL, PS, CS
- Charles Crawford Lewis, SGT
- William Ledford, PS
- William Moore, Jr., PVT
- Abraham Newkirk, SOL
- Amos Nunnery, PVT
- Robert Patton, CAPT
- William White, PS
New Jersey
- George Prall, PVT
- Samuel Smith, SGT, PS
New York
- Absalam Carey, PS, SOL
- Asa Hall, PVT
Pennsylvania
- John Brenneman, PVT
- Mathis Bupp, ENS
- John Burns, PVT
- Christian Eby, PVT, PS
- Conrad Eisenhard, PS
- George Eisenhard, PVT
- Daniel Forrey, PVT, PS
- Christian Hamme, PVT
- Johannes Hildebrand, PS
- Frederick Hovis, PVT
- Abraham Longenecker, PVT
- Andrew Miller, PVT, PS
- Christian Rohrbach, PVT
- Jacob Seitz, PVT
- Bernhardt Ziegler, PVT, CS
- Kilian Ziegler, PVT
South Carolina
- James Bigger, SOL
- Sterling Bowen, SOL
- Rebecca Parks Caldwell, PS
- John Carruth, PVT
- Henry Felder, Sr., CAPT, CS, PS
- Jonathan Holcomb, PVT
- Daniel Osborn, CS
- Henry Pitts, SGT
Virginia
- Spencer Clack, LT, PS
- Charles Kemper, ENS
- Martin Key, LT, PS
- William Morris, PS
- Edward Tatum, LT, PS