{"id":33,"date":"2018-07-23T13:07:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T13:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/louisianapurchase.mssdar.org\/wordpress\/wordpress\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2025-04-30T11:39:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T16:39:30","slug":"our-patriots","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/louisianapurchase.mssdar.org\/?page_id=33","title":{"rendered":"Our Patriots"},"content":{"rendered":"

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).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Members of the Louisiana Purchase Chapter, NSDAR, are descendants of the following American Revolutionary War Patriots<\/a>. We would love to add your Patriot ancestor to our list.<\/p>\n\n\n

Service Legend: (non-military)<\/em> CS - Civil Service, PS - Patriotic Service; (military)<\/em> CAPT - Captain, CORP - Corporal, LCOL - Lieutenant Colonel, LT - Lieutenant, PVT - Private, SLR - Sailor, SGT - Sergeant, SOL - Soldier (rank not specified)<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Patriot's Name<\/th>Service<\/th>Patriot's Name<\/th>Service<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
France<\/u><\/b><\/td>Pennsylvania (cont.) <\/u><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Jacques Missier<\/td>SLR<\/td><\/td>Peter Lanterman<\/td>PVT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina<\/u><\/b><\/td><\/td>Balzar Leffel<\/td>PS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>John Bell<\/td>PVT<\/td><\/td>John Leffel<\/td>PS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Louisiana<\/u><\/b><\/td><\/td>William McCoy<\/td>PVT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Amable Guion<\/td>PVT<\/td><\/td>Daniel McCready<\/td>PVT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Joseph Alvarez Ortiz<\/td>PS<\/td><\/td>Hans George Mock<\/td>PVT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Jean Baptiste Portais<\/td>SOL<\/td><\/td>Jacob Oberholtzer<\/td>PS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Louis Robert<\/td>PVT<\/td><\/td>Daniel Riegel<\/td>PS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Charles Valle<\/td>PS<\/td><\/td>Christian Seabaugh<\/td>SOL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Francois Valle<\/td>PS<\/td><\/td>Jacob Warner<\/td>PVT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Massachusetts<\/u><\/b><\/td><\/td>Leonard Welker<\/td>SOL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Jeremiah Howe<\/td>LT<\/td>Pennsylvania and Virginia<\/u><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Job Sylvester<\/td>PVT<\/td><\/td>William Drennan<\/td>PVT, PS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Massachusetts and New York<\/u><\/b><\/td><\/td>James Spear<\/td>CS, PS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>William Butts<\/td>SGT<\/td>Rhode Island<\/u><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Maryland<\/u><\/b><\/td><\/td><\/td>Jesse Jenks<\/td>PS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Gallant Lane<\/td>SOL, PS
\r\n<\/td>		South Carolina<\/u><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Joshua Naylor<\/td>CORP<\/td><\/td>Thomas Blassingame<\/td>CAPT, CS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Thomas Swearingen<\/td>PVT, PS<\/td><\/td>Robert Gaston<\/td>PS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Joseph Tucker<\/td>PS<\/td><\/td>William Gaston<\/td>PVT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
North Carolina<\/u><\/b><\/td><\/td>William Hamilton<\/td>PVT, CS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Benjamin Cobb<\/td>CS PS<\/td><\/td>Thomas McClurkin<\/td>PVT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Jacob Cook<\/td>PVT<\/td><\/td>Turner Roundtree<\/td>SOL, PS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>John Killian<\/td>PS<\/td><\/td>John Smith<\/td>CS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Randolph Lawson<\/td>PVT<\/td>Virginia<\/u><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Henry Massengill, Sr.<\/td>PS<\/td><\/td>John Ball<\/td>SOL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Solomon Massengill<\/td>SOL<\/td><\/td>George Breeding<\/td>PS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Henry Rhodes<\/td>LCOL, PS<\/td><\/td>John B Carter<\/td>PVT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Peter Seitz<\/td>CAPT<\/td><\/td>Matthew Cooney<\/td>PVT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>William Whitfield, Sr.<\/td>PS<\/td><\/td>Philip Crum<\/td>PS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Henry Whitner, Jr.<\/td>CAPT<\/td><\/td>Ralph Crum<\/td>CAPT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>John Witherspoon, Sr.<\/td>CS<\/td><\/td>William Curry<\/td>PS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Jacob Yount<\/td>SOL<\/td><\/td>William Dodd<\/td>SOL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
North Carolina and South Carolina
\r\n<\/u><\/b><\/td>		<\/td>Peter Dozier<\/td>PVT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>John Purviance<\/td>PVT<\/td><\/td>Jeremiah Early, Sr.<\/td>PS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
New Jersey<\/u><\/b><\/td><\/td>Joshua Early<\/td>PS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Francis Blackwell<\/td>PS<\/td><\/td>James Elkins<\/td>PVT, PS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Abner Doty<\/td>PVT<\/td><\/td>Augustine Leftwich, Jr.<\/td>CAPT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Jacob Eoff<\/td>PS<\/td><\/td>Augustine Leftwich, Sr.<\/td>PS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Ralph Hart<\/td>CS<\/td><\/td>Thomas Leftwich<\/td>CAPT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>John Lanterman<\/td>PS<\/td><\/td>Nicholas Lewis<\/td>COL, CS, PS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
New York<\/u><\/b><\/td><\/td>George Pointer<\/td>PVT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Jacob Elmendorf<\/td>PS<\/td><\/td>Little Page Proctor<\/td>PVT, PS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Samuel Elmendorf<\/td>SGT, PS<\/td><\/td>Nicholas Proctor, Sr.<\/td>SOL, PS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>John Van Alen<\/td>PVT<\/td><\/td>Zephaniah Ratcliff<\/td>PS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pennsylvania<\/u><\/b><\/td><\/td>Henry Ringo<\/td>PS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Anna Wilson Abendschon<\/td>PS<\/td><\/td>Henry Rule, Sr.<\/td>PS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Reinholt Abendschon<\/td>PS<\/td><\/td>John Sappington<\/td>SGT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Sebastian A Allgaier<\/td>PVT<\/td><\/td>James Scarborough<\/td>PVT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Richard Applegate<\/td>PVT<\/td><\/td>William Simpson<\/td>PVT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>John Boyer<\/td>PS<\/td><\/td>Mary Bowman Stevens<\/td>PS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Adam Burkholder Jr<\/td>PVT<\/td><\/td>Josiah Stone<\/td>SGT, PS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Adam Burkholder Sr<\/td>PVT, PS<\/td><\/td>John Tipton<\/td>COL, CS, PS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Philip Cole<\/td>COL, PS<\/td><\/td>William Tipton<\/td>PVT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Leonard Corl<\/td>PVT<\/td><\/td>Garrett Van Meter<\/td>COL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Joseph Couch<\/td>PVT<\/td><\/td>Christian Vineyard<\/td>PS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Nathaniel Couch<\/td>PVT<\/td><\/td>Ralph Withers<\/td>PS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Hugh Coulter<\/td>PS<\/td><\/td>John Wright<\/td>PS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Robert Craig<\/td>CAPT<\/td><\/td>William Wright<\/td>SGT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Alexander Eddy<\/td>CS<\/td>Vermont<\/u><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>John Goodwin<\/td>PVT<\/td><\/td>Joseph Benson<\/td>SOL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Bartholomew Harrington<\/td>PVT<\/td><\/td>Stephen Delano<\/td>CS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>John Hartley<\/td>PVT<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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