Any woman 18 years or older who can prove descent from a Patriot of the American Revolutionary War can apply for membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution. Support for the Revolutionary War can be military, civil, or patriotic service and must occur during the period between April 19, 1775 (Battle of Lexington) and November 26, 1783 (withdrawal of British Troops from New York).
Members of the Louisiana Purchase Chapter, NSDAR, are descendants of the following American Revolutionary War Patriots. We would love to add your Patriot ancestor to our list.
Service Legend: (non-military) CS - Civil Service, PS - Patriotic Service; (military) CAPT - Captain, CORP - Corporal, LCOL - Lieutenant Colonel, LT - Lieutenant, PVT - Private, SLR - Sailor, SGT - Sergeant, SOL - Soldier (rank not specified)
Patriot's Name Service Patriot's Name Service
France Pennsylvania (cont.)
Jacques Missier SLR Alexander Eddy CS
Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina John Goodwin PVT
John Bell PVT Bartholomew Harrington PVT
Louisiana John Hartley PVT
Amable Guion PS Peter Lanterman PVT
Joseph Alvarez Ortiz PS Balzar Leffel PS
Jean Baptiste Portais PS John Leffel PS
Charles Valle PS Samuel Marshall PVT
Francois Valle PS William McCoy PVT
Massachusetts Daniel McCready PVT
Lot Bassett SGT Hans George Mock PVT
Jeremiah Howe LT Jacob Oberholtzer PS
Massachusetts and New York Daniel Riegel PS
William Butts SGT Christian Seabaugh SOL
Maryland Jacob Warner PVT
Gallant Lane SOL, PS
Leonard Welker SOL
Joshua Naylor CORP Pennsylvania and Virginia
Thomas Swearingen PVT, PS William Drennan PVT, PS
North Carolina Rhode Island
Benjamin Cobb CS PS Jesse Jenks PS
Jacob Cook PVT South Carolina
Randolph Lawson PVT Thomas Blassingame CAPT, CS
Henry Massengill, Sr. PS William Gaston PVT
Solomon Massengill SOL William Hamilton PVT, CS
Henry Rhodes LCOL, PS Thomas McClurkin PVT
Peter Seitz CAPT Turner Roundtree PS, SOL
William Whitfield, Sr. PS John Smith CS
John Witherspoon, Sr. CS Virginia
Jacob Yount SOL John Ball SOL
North Carolina and South Carolina
George Breeding PS
John Purviance PVT John B Carter PVT
North Carolina and Virginia Matthew Cooney PVT
Joseph Moutray PVT William Curry PS
New Jersey William Dodd SOL
Abner Doty PVT Jeremiah Early, Sr. PS
Jacob Eoff PS Joshua Early PS
John Lanterman PS James Elkins PVT, PS
New York Augustine Leftwich, Jr. CAPT
Lewis Barhydt PVT Augustine Leftwich, Sr. PS
Cornelius Christiance PVT Thomas Leftwich CAPT
John Baptist Clute PVT Nicholas Lewis COL, CS, PS
Peter Clute PVT, PS John Marshall CAPT
John Van Alen PVT George Pointer PVT
Abram Van Epps CAPT Little Page Proctor PVT, PS
Jellis Van Vorst SOL, PS Zephaniah Ratcliff PS
Pennsylvania Henry Ringo PS
Anna Wilson Abendschon PS Henry Rule, Sr. PS
Reinholt Abendschon PS John Sappington SGT
Sebastian A Allgaier PVT James Scarborough PVT
Richard Applegate PVT William Simpson PVT
John Boyer PS Mary Bowman Stevens PS
Nicholas Buck PVT, PS Josiah Stone SGT, PS
Adam Burkholder Jr PVT Garrett Van Meter COL
Adam Burkholder Sr PVT, PS Christian Vineyard PS
Philip Cole COL, PS John Wright PS
Leonard Corl PVT William Wright SGT
Joseph Couch PVT Vermont
Nathaniel Couch PVT Joseph Benson SOL
Hugh Coulter PS Stephen Delano CS
Robert Craig CAPT