Patriot ancestry

[shanniereb]

Just a fun question. How many of you have Patriot ancestry? I have at least three, William Irby Lt. of a VA regiment and Walter McCain, Private in SC militia during the Revolution, and the Gastons from Chester Co., SC (so many of them serve I will not go into it.)

 

[JWheeler331]

I have one known relative. William Wheeler. I dont know much about him or his service though.

 

[DixieRifles]

I have an ancestor who owned a lot of land in ole Virginia. He was a Colonel of a local militia prior to the Revolutionary War and during the French & Indian War. I don't know exactly what that meant but assume it was some type of home guard----i.e., he wanted to guard his home and property.

He was William Cole (1692-1727) and was colonel of the Warwick County Militia. He was also a sheriff of Warwick County and a member of House of Burgess in 1718.

 

[shanniereb]

Militia's back then were different than today's, all states had militias to protect the state and were organized by the state for such.

 

[RobertP]

D.A.R.'s (little old ladies in tennis shoes) on both sides of family.

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

None on Mom's side (they were all still in Germany) but a lot on Dad's side, including the only officer (other than my wife) in the family, Major Francis Headley.

When my wife got promoted to Lt. Col., I informed her that she was the new record-holder in the family... she said a Marine Major outranked an Army Major, but I maintained that, especially as her family was British at the time (her dad was the immigrant, so it's that recent), a Patriot Major was nothing to sneeze at...

 

[shanniereb]

None on Mom's side (they were all still in Germany) but a lot on Dad's side, including the only officer (other than my wife) in the family, Major Francis Headley.

When my wife got promoted to Lt. Col., I informed her that she was the new record-holder in the family... she said a Marine Major outranked an Army Major, but I maintained that, especially as her family was British at the time (her dad was the immigrant, so it's that recent), a Patriot Major was nothing to sneeze at...

That is funny, thanks for serving!

 

[DanF]

Two, father and son, Loyd Ford Sr. and Loyd Ford Jr. Both served in the revolutionary war in Maryland

 

[dvrmte]

I've got Tories, Patriots and supposedly a connection with Patrick Ferguson. Before the attack on Kings Mountain the Over the Mountain men met on an ancestor's,(John Dover) property. I don't know if John fought there or not but his son Francis Dover did apply for a pension and had fought at Cowpens and Guilford Courthouse. Ancestors in NC were split between Tories and Patriots.

 

[PartywithArty]

6th great grandfather.Edward McDaniel. spent 303 days with the South Carolina militia.wounded at the battle of rocky mountain, was present at Briar ceek and was wounded again at the battle of hanging rock.

 

[Copperhead-mi]

I am the 8th great-grandson of Revolutionary War veteran David Philips, a captain with the 2nd Company, 7th Battalion, Chester County, Pa. miltia.

 

[rpkennedy]

There were two Flunos that fought in a New York regiment and I had another family member that fought with a Rhode Island regiment for a year. The rest of my family who resided in the New World at the time were all French-Canadians (and had fought against England and the Americans in all of the wars of the early-mid 18th century).

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[shanniereb]

6th great grandfather.Edward McDaniel. spent 303 days with the South Carolina militia.wounded at the battle of rocky mountain, was present at Briar ceek and was wounded again at the battle of hanging rock.

Some of my ancestors was at Hanging Rock also! Wow, small world.

 

[rhp6033]

I haven't been able to nail down specifics, but most of my mother's side of the family was in Virginia, So. Carolina, and a few in N. Carolina at the time of the Revolution. So the odds are, after some additional research, I should be able to track down one or more as having served somewhere in the war, either as militia or regular.

Right now I'm trying to track down an interesting notation in Ancestory.com which says that my Civil War ancestor's father "fought in the Cherokee wars" in the 1830's in Georgia. If he said Creek, I wouldn't have questioned it, but Cherokee Wars? Is he referring to the eastern branch of the Cherokee tribe which refused the "removal" to Oklahoma and fled into the Appalachian mountains? No other details available. After that, I'll probably start working on my Revolutionary ancestory.

I do know that at least one of my ancestors was, along with her younger brother, the sole survivors of a village which was attacked by the local natives sometime in the late 1600's, and was raised by her uncle. She had taken her younger brother and hid in the forest during the attack. Makes you realize how lucky you are - my very existence was that close to being extinguished several generations before it even began.

 

[PartywithArty]

Some of my ancestors was at Hanging Rock also! Wow, small world.

Thats really cool. Hey our ancestors mighta knew each other.

 

[shanniereb]

Just might have!

 

[Red Harvest]

I haven't researched heavily that far back, but I know of one in the Continental Army at Valley Forge. At least one other was in the Virginia militia during Lord Dunmore's war (1774.)

 

[ExNavyPilot]

Some of my patriot ancestors:

--Peter Massuere from Maine was a Quartermaster in the Continental Navy. Served on the USS Raleigh (32-gun frigate) under Capt Thompson and on USS Ranger (11-gun sloop of war) under Simpson.

--Capt John Felch, Bullard's Massachusetts Regmt, killed at the Battle of White Plains 28 Oct 1776. His brother, Oliver, had marched off to fight at Breed's Hill in 1775 and never returned; presumed killed.

--Lt John Bacon, Kingsbury's Company, Mass. Militia, killed at Menotomy during British retreat from Concord and Lexington, 19 Apr 1775.

--Lt Jonathan Corliss, from Salem NH, died in 1776 in Canada of small pox.

--Pvt Bernhardt Minnick, a recent German immigrant, served in Third Regmt of Foot, NY Line, and was at the Battles of Oriskany, German Flatts, Klock's Field, and Johnstown in upper NY.

--Sgt Alexander Prindle served in Col. Henry Van Renssalaer's Eighth Regiment of Albany (NY) County Militia.

 

[East Tennessee Roots]

While not my direct ancestor, General Thomas " Gamecock " Sumter of South Carolina was a brother to my 5 x great-grandmother, Anna Sumter Land.

 

[diane]

My gggggrandfather, Britain George and his brother Pine Tree were at Morris Island, Sullivan's Island, Germantown and Brandywine. They were Catawba auxiliaries with Washington. I got 'em good and documented, too, because I had to kick down the doors to join the DAR!

Capt Peter Parker lost his ship at Sullivan's Island and wrote in his report that 'the American rebels and their savages' boarded his ship. Hey! One of them savages was my grandpappy!