Our Patriots

Any woman 18 years or older, regardless of race, religion, or ethnic background, who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of the American Revolution can apply for membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution. Women must document their lineage back to an ancestor who aided the cause of American independence. These efforts may come through military, civil, or patriotic service and must occur during the period between 19 April 1775 (Battle of Lexington) and 26 November 1783 (withdrawal of British Troops from New York).

Patriots of the Louisiana Purchase Chapter, NSDAR

Members of the Louisiana Purchase Chapter, NSDAR, are descendants of the following Revolutionary War Patriots. Patriots with an asterisk (*) behind their name are the ancestor of two or more chapter Daughters. We would love to add your Patriot ancestor to our list.

Last updated: 28 April 2024

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	Balzar Leffel	PS
Georgia, North Carolina & South Carolina		John Leffel	PS
John Bell *	PVT	Samuel Marshall	PVT
Louisiana		William McCoy	PVT
Amable Guion *	PS	Daniel McCready	PVT
Joseph Alvarez Ortiz	PS	Hans George Mock	PVT
Charles Valle	PS	Daniel Riegel	PS
Francois Valle *	PS	Christian Seabaugh *	SOL
Massachusetts		Jacob Warner	PVT
Lot Bassett	SGT	Leonard Welker	SOL
Jeremiah Howe *	LT	Pennsylvania & Virginia
Massachusetts & New York		William Drennan	PVT, PS
William Butts	SGT	Rhode Island
Maryland		Jesse Jenks	PS
Gallant Lane	SOL, PS	South Carolina
Thomas Swearingen	PVT, PS	Thomas Blassingame	CAPT, CS
North Carolina		William Gaston *	PVT
Benjamin Cobb	CS PS	William Hamilton *	PVT, CS
Jacob Cook *	PVT	Thomas McClurkin *	PVT
Henry Massengill, Sr	PS	Turner Roundtree	PS, SOL
Solomon Massengill	SOL	John Smith *	CS
Henry Rhodes	LCOL, PS	Virginia
William Whitfield, Sr.	PS	John Ball	SOL
John Witherspoon, Sr. *	CS	George Breeding	PS
Jacob Yount	SOL	William Brown	PVT
North Carolina & South Carolina		John B Carter	PVT
John Purviance *	PVT	Matthew Cooney *	PVT
North Carolina & Virginia		William Curry *	PS
Joseph Moutray	PVT	William Dodd	SOL
New Jersey		Jeremiah Early, Sr.	PS
Abner Doty	PVT	Joshua Early	PS
Jacob Eoff	PS	James Elkins	PVT, PS
New York		Maxcey Ewell *	PS
Lewis Barhydt	PVT	Augustine Leftwich, Jr.	CAPT
Cornelius Christiance *	PVT	Augustine Leftwich, Sr.	PS
John Baptist Clute	PVT	Thomas Leftwich	CAPT
Peter Clute	PVT, PS	Nicholas Lewis	COL, CS, PS
John Van Alen *	PVT	John Marshall	CAPT
Abram Van Epps	CAPT	George Pointer	PVT
Jellis Van Vorst	SOL, PS	Little Page Proctor	PVT PS
Pennsylvania		Zephaniah Ratcliff	PS
Anna Wilson Abendschon	PS	Henry Ringo *	PS
Reinholt Abendschon	PS	Henry Rule, Sr.	PS
Sebastian A Allgaier *	PVT	John Sappington	SGT
John Boyer	PS	James Scarborough	PVT
Nicholas Buck *	PVT, PS	William Simpson *	PVT
Philip Cole	COL, PS	Mary Bowman Stevens	PS
Joseph Couch	PVT	Josiah Stone	SGT, PS
Nathaniel Couch	PVT	Garrett Van Meter	COL
Hugh Coulter	PS	Christian Vineyard	PS
Robert Craig	CAPT	Benjamin Wright *	PS
Alexander Eddy	CS	Vermont
John Goodwin *	PVT	Joseph Benson	SOL
Bartholomew Harrington	PVT	Stephen Delano	CS
John Hartley	PVT