Our Patriot Ancestors
The following list of individuals served our country in the American Revolution and to whom the Canton Chapter, NSDAR, members can trace their lineage. If you share one of these ancestors or if you had a different ancestor who served in the Revolutionary War you are eligible to join the Daughters of the American Revolution!
Connecticut
Pvt. John Taylor
Lt. Judah Back
PS Eleakim Walker
Capt. John Satterlee (also served in RI)
Pvt. Joseph Stewart
Pvt. Joseph
Benjamin Tucker (also served in MA)
Delaware
2nd Lt. John Nivin
Georgia
QM PS Samuel Camp (also served in VA)
Maryland
PS Elijah Robinett
PS John Sluts
PS Nathaniel Nesbitt
Sol. PS Anthony Goszler
PS Charles Dorsey
PS Nicholas Dorsey
PS William Miles
PS Eleanor Pigeon Miles
Sol. PS Joseph Thompson
Sol. James Howard
Pvt. PS Michael Conaway
Massachusetts
Cpl. Benjamin Hodgman, Jr.
Lt. CS Ebenezer Marsh
Cpl. Solomon Cutter
Pvt. Reuben Ross
Cpl. James Cowing
Pvt. Joel Rich
Sgt. Israel H. Bowker
Pvt. Nathan Baxter
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New Hampshire
Pvt. Nathaniel Shattuck
Pvt. Lazarus Rowe
Pvt. Ebenezer McIntosh (also served in MA)
New Jersey
Pvt. William Carpenter
Pvt. David Sayre
Pvt. Johnathan Raynor
Pvt. Nicholas Boorum
Pvt. Joseph Robbins
Sgt. Joseph Fulkerson
Pvt. Thomas Thomas
Pvt. Freegift Taylor
Pvt. Amos Hutchinson
New York
Pvt. Peter Markell
North Carolina
PS Jesse Boone
Pvt. PS Edmond Spivey
Ens. Samuel Ferebee
PS Robert Lawrence
PS George Hughes, Jr.
PS George Hughes, Sr.
PS John Outlaw
Pvt. PS Joseph Whitley
Sgt. John Cake
PS Thomas Harden (Harding)
Pvt. Abiud Fairchild
CS PS Edward Boone (also served in VA)
Pvt. Achilles Crafts
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Pennsylvania
Pvt. Simon Essig
Pvt. Jacob Reed, Jr.
Lt. Conrad Haverstock
Ens. Adam Smith
Sol. James Dennis
Col. Timothy Green
Pvt. Philip Burbach
Sgt. James Stevenson
Pvt. Christian Flickinger
Pvt. Jacob Van Gilder
Pvt. Peter Sones
PS Peter Leininger
Sol. George Rowe, Sr.
Pvt. PS William Little
Drummer John Wagerman
Pvt. Johann Adams Miser
Pvt. Jacob Miliron
Pvt. Michael Cox, Sr.
PS Evan Watkins
Col. Richard Thomas
PS Mary McConnell Milliken
PS George Althouse
Pvt. PS William Frampton
Cpl. Charles Uhl
Cpl. John Clough
Pvt. John Frampton
Pvt. William Frampton
Pvt. Tobias Yerger
Pvt. PS James Clemson
Ranger Jacob Smithers
Pvt. Sebastian Reifschneider
Pvt. George Daubenspeck
Col. George Stewart
Pvt. Joseph Morse
Pvt. George Schultz
PS John Cotton
Sol. Peter Horlacher
Lt. Bernard Bauman
Pvt. George Weisel
Pvt. Nicholas Firestone
Pvt. George Bossart
Pvt. John Pryor
Sol. John Ross
Capt. PS Nicholas Bittinger
Pvt. Joseph Croninger
Pvt. Jonas Rudisill
Pvt. Leonard Corl
Pvt. John Baltzly
Pvt. PS William Little
PS John George Eyster
Pvt. PS Mathias Zahniser
Pvt. Philip Burbach
Pvt. PS Boaz Walton
Pvt. John Harrington
Lt. Cornelius Atkinson
Rhode Island
Pvt. Lemuel Durfee
Virgina
Pvt. Thomas Hawkins
Pvt. Daniel Shuster
Sgt. Christian Peters
Pvt. Samuel Paxton
PS Elizabeth Zane
Pvt. John Mitchell
Pvt. Phillip Hamman
Capt. PS Daniel Floweree
Pvt. John Wyatt
Capt. Edward Worthington
Maj. Michael Rader
Pvt. John Wagner
PS John Bradshaw
Pvt. James Kelly
Pvt. Gideon Faris
Pvt. Reuben Bonner
Pvt. Abraham Hornbeck
Lt. PS Robert Christian
PS William Powell
CS William Kleber, Sr.
PS Jacob Prickett, Sr.
PS William Bristow
Ens. Richard Omohundro
Pvt. Lot Fuller
Pvt. Thomas Hawkins
Sol. Edward Kelly
Pvt. Isaac Chapman
Capt. Robert Patterson
PS John Hurst
Pvt. PS Henry Yoho
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Legend
· ADC Aide-de-Campe
· BG Brigadier General
· CAPT Captain
· CHP Chaplain
· CL Continental Line
· COL Colonel
· CPL Corporal
· CS Civil Service
· ENS Ensign
· FIF Fifer
· 1LT First Lieutenant
· LTC Lieutenant Colonel
· MAJ Major
· MATR MATROOS
· MM Minute Man
· NONCOM Non-Commissioned Officer
· ORDL Orderly
· PNSR Pensioner
· PS Patriotic Service
· PVT Private
· PVTR Privateer
· S.D.I. Signer of the Declaration of Independence
· SGT Sergeant
· SGRMAJ Sergeant Major
· SOL Soldier
· STAFFOF Staff Officer
· WGM Wagon Master
· WPNSR Wife who received a pension