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 Peter Lanterman PVT
Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina Balzar Leffel PS
John Bell PVT John Leffel PS
Louisiana William McCoy PVT
Amable Guion PVT Daniel McCready PVT
Joseph Alvarez Ortiz PS Hans George Mock PVT
Jean Baptiste Portais SOL Jacob Oberholtzer PS
Louis Robert PVT Daniel Riegel PS
Charles Valle PS Christian Seabaugh SOL
Francois Valle PS Jacob Warner PVT
Massachusetts Leonard Welker SOL
Jeremiah Howe LT Pennsylvania and Virginia
Job Sylvester PVT William Drennan PVT, PS
Massachusetts and New York James Spear CS, PS
William Butts SGT Rhode Island
Maryland Jesse Jenks PS
Gallant Lane SOL, PS
South Carolina
Joshua Naylor CORP Thomas Blassingame CAPT, CS
Thomas Swearingen PVT, PS Robert Gaston PS
Joseph Tucker PS William Gaston PVT
North Carolina William Hamilton PVT, CS
Benjamin Cobb CS PS Thomas McClurkin PVT
Jacob Cook PVT Turner Roundtree SOL, PS
John Killian PS John Smith CS
Randolph Lawson PVT Virginia
Henry Massengill, Sr. PS John Ball SOL
Solomon Massengill SOL George Breeding PS
Henry Rhodes LCOL, PS John B Carter PVT
Peter Seitz CAPT Matthew Cooney PVT
William Whitfield, Sr. PS Philip Crum PS
Henry Whitner, Jr. CAPT Ralph Crum CAPT
John Witherspoon, Sr. CS William Curry PS
Jacob Yount SOL William Dodd SOL
North Carolina and South Carolina
Peter Dozier PVT
John Purviance PVT Jeremiah Early, Sr. PS
New Jersey Joshua Early PS
Francis Blackwell PS James Elkins PVT, PS
Abner Doty PVT Augustine Leftwich, Jr. CAPT
Jacob Eoff PS Augustine Leftwich, Sr. PS
Ralph Hart CS Thomas Leftwich CAPT
John Lanterman PS Nicholas Lewis COL, CS, PS
New York George Pointer PVT
Jacob Elmendorf PS Little Page Proctor PVT, PS
Samuel Elmendorf SGT, PS Nicholas Proctor, Sr. SOL, PS
John Van Alen PVT 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
Adam Burkholder Jr PVT Josiah Stone SGT, PS
Adam Burkholder Sr PVT, PS John Tipton COL, CS, PS
Philip Cole COL, PS William Tipton PVT
Leonard Corl PVT Garrett Van Meter COL
Joseph Couch PVT Christian Vineyard PS
Nathaniel Couch PVT Ralph Withers PS
Hugh Coulter PS John Wright PS
Robert Craig CAPT William Wright SGT
Alexander Eddy CS Vermont
John Goodwin PVT Joseph Benson SOL
Bartholomew Harrington PVT Stephen Delano CS
John Hartley PVT