Patriots

Membership in DAR is established by tracing lineal descent from a Patriot who served or provided assistance in achieving America’s independence in the American Revolutionary War. These are the recognized Patriots from which members of the Molly Chittenden Chapter descend.

• Adams, John, Sr. – Massachusetts, PVT
• Adams, Thomas – Pennsylvania, CAPT
• Albertson, Garret – New Jersey, MAJ
• Alexander, Medad – Massachusetts, SOL
• Alexander, Thomas – Massachusetts, CAPT
• Allen, Ebenezer, Sr. – Massachusetts, PVT
• Back, Harman – Virginia, PS
• Bird, George – Pennsylvania, PVT
• Bogart, Cornelius – Virginia, PVT
• Bonnett, Lewis – Virginia, PVT
• Bonnett, Samuel – Virginia, PS
• Burbach, Phillip – Pennsylvania, SOL
• Bushnell, Alexander – Connecticut, CAPT
• Call, Alexander – Pennsylvania, PVT
• Carpenter, Joshua – New York, SOL
• Cary, Ebenezer P., Sr. – Vermont, PVT
• Castner, Johann Anton – North Carolina, PVT
• Cook, Lemuel – Massachusetts, PVT
• Cornett, William – Virginia, PVT
• Cunningham, Adam, Jr. – Virginia, PS
• Currence, William, Sr. – Virginia, PS
• Curtis, Azor – Massachusetts, PVT
• Doolittle, Joseph – New York, LT
• Dormeyer, Jacob – Pennsylvania, PVT
• Duckworth, John – North Carolina, PVT
• Dunbar, Miles – Connecticut, NONCOM
• Eggers, Landrine – New York & North Carolina, PS, PVT
• Ely, Lewis – Massachusetts, PVT
• Ensley, James – Pennsylvania, PVT
• Espy, George – Pennsylvania, PVT
• Evans, Henry – Vermont, MAJ
• Fairchild, John – New York, PVT
• Ferguson, William – North Carolina, PS
• Fletcher, Samuel – Vermont, BGEN
• Fritts, Christian Wilhelm – Pennsylvania, PVT
• Ganson, Nathan – Massachusetts, SGT
• Gates, Oldham – Massachusetts, CPL
• Gentzler, Conrad – Pennsylvania, ENS
• Gilmore, Elizabeth – Pennsylvania, PVT
• Glascock, George – North Carolina, PS
• Gleason, Phineas, Sr. – Massachusetts, CS, PS
• Glines, William – New Hampshire, PVT
• Goodale, Abner – Massachusetts, PVT
• Griswold, Nathaniel – Connecticut, SGT, PS
• Hallam, Thomas – Pennsylvania, SOL
• Hampton, Andrew – North Carolina, COL, CS, PS
• Hart, Ephraim – Pennsylvania, PVT, PS
• Hendricks, Isaac – Pennsylvania, PVT
• Hinkle, Abraham – Virginia, PS
• Hoadley, James – Connecticut, CS
• Hobbs, Thomas – Maryland, PVT, PS
• Hotchkiss, Caleb – Connecticut, PVT
• Houtz, Jacob – Pennsylvania, PVT
• Hunter, George – Pennsylvania, PVT
• Ilgenfritz, George – Pennsylvania, PVT, PS
• Johnson, William – Virginia, CS
• Junkin, Joseph – Pennsylvania, LT, PS
• Kettell, Abraham – Pennsylvania, LT
• Kilgore, David – Pennsylvania, CAPT, CS
• Kirk, John – Virginia, PVT
• Knapp, Joel – New York, PVT
• Knight, Richard – Pennsylvania
• Koger, Peter – Virginia, PVT
• Kornman, George – Pennsylvania, PVT, PS
• Ladue, John – New York, PVT
• Landon, James – New Jersey, PVT
• Latimer, Jonathan, Sr. – Connecticut, COL
• Leith, Ebenezer – Virginia, CAPT, PS
• Lemley, George – Pennsylvania, PVT
• Lewis, William – Connecticut, PVT
• Matthews, Obadiah – Connecticut, CPL
• McCartney, John – Pennsylvania, PVT
• McClelland, John – Pennsylvania, LCOL
• McConnell, John – South Carolina, PVT
• McCreary, Robert – Virginia, CAPT
• Mead, Darius, Sr. – Pennsylvania, PS
• Mead, Caleb – Connecticut, CAPT
• Mead, Stephen – Massachusetts, PVT
• Mead, William Bingham – North Carolina, PVT
• Moore, John – New York, PVT
• Morgan, Reuben – Virginia, PS
• Nichols, Joseph – Virginia, PVT
• Ogden, Daniel, Jr. – New York, LT
• Park, Nathan – Massachusetts, PVT
• Parker, Ebenezer – Massachusetts, 2LT
• Parmelee, Nehemiah – Connecticut, CPL
• Pendelton, William, Sr. – Rhode Island, PS
• Phelps, Edward – Connecticut, PS
• Phillips, Thomas – Virginia, PS
• Phinney, David – Delaware, CS
• Pigman, Nathaniel – Maryland, LCOL, PS
• Pitman, Joseph – Virginia, PVT
• Powell, John – Massachusetts, LT
• Proctor, Joseph – Massachusetts, PS
• Ruffner, Simon, Sr. – Pennsylvania, PS
• Ruffner, Simon, Jr. – Pennsylvania, SGT
• Sanborn, Theophilus – New Hampshire, SGT
• Sessions, Nathaniel – Connecticut, PVT
• Settle, Thomas – Virginia, PVT
• Shearer, Jacob – Pennsylvania, PVT
• Shields, John – Pennsylvania, CPL
• Showalter, Daniel – Pennsylvania, PS
• Slaughter, John – Pennsylvania, PVT
• Stalnacker, Jacob – Virginia, PS
• Stanborugh, John – Rhode Island, CPL
• Standish, Israel – Connecticut, PS
• Twitchell, Ezra – Massachusetts, SGT
• Underhill, Israel – New York, ENS, PS
• Upson, Joseph – Connecticut, PVT
• Wait, John – Pennsylvania, PS
• White, Joseph – Massachusetts, PVT
• White, Nathaniel, Jr. – Massachusetts, CPL
• Whitenaught, Andreas – New Jersey, PVT
• Whitley, Randolph – Virginia, PVT
• Woosley, William – Virginia, PVT
• Zollinger, Nicholas – Pennsylvania, LT

Military Service is noted by listing the military rank of the Patriot:

• CAPT – Captain
• COL – Colonel
• CPL – Corporal
• CS – Civil Service
• ENS – Ensign
• LT – Lieutenant
• MAJ – Major
• NCO – Noncommissioned Officer
• PVT – Private
• SGT – Sergeant
• SOL – Soldier

PS is Patriotic Service, which covers a variety of types of services such as an Associator, Collector of Provisions, Defender of Fort or Frontier, Delegate to a Continental Congress or a Provincial Congress, Express Rider, Fence Viewer, Furnishing a substitute, Gunsmith who gave his services, Inspector of Provisions, Legislator, Member of the Boston Tea Party, the Cherokee Expedition, the Galvez Expedition, or the Kaskaskia Campaign, Member of a Committee made necessary by the War, Minister who made patriotic sermons, Munitions maker, Nurse, Taking an Oath of Allegiance, Patroller, Prisoner of War or of the Indians, Refugee Rendering aid to the wounded, Rendering material aid, Signer of a petition made necessary by the war, Surgeon, Wheelwright.