Patriots Ancestors Lexington Massachusetts Daughters American Revolution

Our Patriots

Our Lexington Chapter NSDAR members are certified descendants of these patriots whose service helped establish American independence. If you recognize a name from your own ancestry and would like to explore the genealogy, please contact us. We may be able to help!

All chapter members can trace their direct ancestry to a person who served the cause of the American Revolution. These were people who served as soldiers, signed loyalty oaths, gave supplies, sewed clothing, hid armaments, helped organize the new government, kept towns running, beat the drums, rallied the people, fed the troops, and a myriad of other things that made the struggle for freedom a success.

The Lexington Chapter NSDAR members descend from patriots including twelve of the original thirteen colonies which engaged in the Revolutionary War. Only Delaware is missing. Can you fill in our gap?

Here is a list of our documented patriots showing their rank or type of service and the state where they served.

Captain John Parker in Lexington, MA

Name	State	Name	State	Name	State
Brittain Adams, PS	NC	Pvt. James Agens	NY, MD	Pvt. Richard Aldrich	RI
John Anthony, PS	VA	Pvt. Samuel Ayer	NH	Pvt. James Baker	NY
Sgt. Nehemiah Ball	NJ	Pvt. Stephen Barnum	CT	Lt. Col. Nathan Barrett	MA
Col. James Barrett, Sr.	MA	Peter Bent, CS, PS	MA	Pvt. Ezra Blaisdell	NH
Sgt. Jesse Bolling	NC	Col. Daniel Boone, CS, PS	VA	Pvt. John Bronsdon	MA
Cpl. Isaac Buck	MA	Pvt. George Buffington	PA	Pvt. John Carothers	NC, SC
Pvt. Ninian Chamberlain	PA	Pvt. Joseph Chaplin	MA	Pvt. James Chappelear	MD
Stephen Choate, CS, PS	MA	Capt. Joseph Churchill	CT	Sgt. Joseph Clark	CT
Sol. Mitchel Clay, PS	VA	Pvt. Elisha Clayton	NJ	Capt. Benjamin Coe	RI
Cpl. Amos Conant, PS	NH	Pvt. Nathaniel Cone	CT	Pvt. Asa Corbin	CT
Capt. Agreen Crabtree	MA	Andrew Creveling, PS	NJ	Sgt. Shubael Crowell	MA
SN Benjamin Curtis	MA	Pvt. Thomas Cutler	MA	John Cutter, PS	MA
Col. John Daggett, PS	MA	Pvt. David Dennison	MA	Capt. John Dickey, PS	NC
Pvt. Godfrey Diefendorfer	PA	Pvt. James Dobbins	SC	Cpl. John Dow	MA
Sgt. Clementius Dowden	MD	Sgt. Benjamin Duval, PS	MD	Sgt. James Eaton	NH
Pvt. Michael Eddy	RI	Pvt. George Ellsworth	NY	Salmon Emmons, CS, PS	CT
Ephraim Fairbanks, Sr., CS, PS	MA	Pvt. Nathaniel Fairbanks	MA	Pvt. Jonas Faulkner	MA
Pvt. Elijah Fisher	MA	Col. Reuben Fogg	MA	Pvt. Jonas French	MA
NCO Joseph Gary	MA	Pvt. Joseph Giddings	CT	Pvt. Eli Gould	MA
Lt. Henry Grier	PA	Pvt. Moses Griggs	MA	Lt. Col. Thomas H Grosvenor	CT
Pvt. Thomas Hadley	MA	Lt. Gideon Hall	NY	Sgt. Moses Hall	MA
Lt. Benjamin Harnden	MA	Lt. Moses Harriman	MA	Jonathan Harrington, Sr., CS, PS	MA
2nd Lt. Moses Harrington	MA	Sol. Hugh Harris	NC	John Hart, PS	NJ
Zaccheus Hatch	MA	Joseph Hayes, PS	PA	Benjamin Heiskell, PS	MD
Cpl. Jonas Hobart	NH	Pvt. Philo Hodge	CT	Sol. William Hodge	CT
Pvt. Jacob Houser	PA	Pvt. Thaddeus Howe	MA	Pvt. Asa Howe, Jr.	MA
Pvt. Ebenezer Hoyt	MA	Pvt. Amos Humphrey	MA	Pvt. Jonathan Ingalls	MA
Pvt. John Ingraham, Jr.	RI	Pvt. David Jewett	MA	Sol. Uriah Jillson	RI
Pvt. George Keck, PS	PA	Abel Kimball, PS	CT	Amasa Kingsbury, CS, PS	MA
Pvt. John Knox	MA	Pvt. Peter Krake, PS	PA	Pvt. James Lane	MA
Benedict Arnold Law, PS	CT	Cpl. Jonas Learned	MA	Capt. Thomas Lee	NY
Capt. John Lillard, Sr.	VA	Abigail Hagar Livermore, PS	MA	Ralph Logsdon, PS	MD
Pvt. Joseph Lord, Sr.	CT	Pvt. Isaac Marion	MA	Pvt. Alexander McClure	VA
John Jacob Mickley	PA	Pvt. John Benjamin Mitchell	CT	George Adam Mohler, PS	VA
Pvt. Jonathan Moore	NY, NJ	Capt. Samuel Moore	NH	Col. Zacquill Morgan, PS	VA
Pvt. Amos Morse	MA	James Muse, Sr., CS	NC	Lt. Daniel Newcomb, PS	MA
Cpl. Bethuel Norton	CT	Pvt. Leonard Parkhurst	MA	Pvt. John Phillips	VT, CT, NY
Pvt. Jonathan Phillips	PA	Isaac Phinney, CS, PS	MA	Joseph Powell	NC
Moses Putnam, CS	NH	Pvt. Edmund Quincy, PS	MA	Jacob Ramey, Sr., PS	VA
Joseph Reese, PS	SC	Pvt. Asa Rogers	MD	Maj. John Rolle	MD
Sol. Jacob Rudy	VA	Cpl. Christian Ruffner	PA	Sgt. George Adam Ruffner	PA
Pvt. Abel Sage	MA	Pvt. Thomas Saltmarsh	NH	Pvt. Nathan Savory	MA
Eliphaz Shelton, PS	VA	Pvt. Elisha Smith	NY	Benjamin Smith, PS	NH
Pvt. James Spencer	CT	Pvt. William Sperling	VA	David Stearns, Sr., PS	MA
Pvt. Cutting Stevens, PS	NH	Sgt. John Story, CS	MA	Pvt. Abraham Stryker, Jr.	NJ
James Tarbell, PS	MA	Capt. Benajah Thompson	NJ	Pvt. Asa Tracy	MA
Benjamin Tufts, Sr., PS	MA	Pvt. Job Turner	MA	John Turner, Sr., CS, PS	MA
Pvt. Watts Turner, PS	MA	Lt. Col. Samuel Tuthill	NJ	Pvt. Jonathan Warner	MA
Capt. Wilhelmus Westfall	NY	Capt. Benjamin Whaley	VA	James Whaley, PS	VA
Sgt. Asa Wheelock	MA	Lt. Ebenezer White	MA	2nd Lt. Thomas Whitman	MA
Pvt. Zachariah Whitman	MA	NCO Jacob Whitney	MA	Jeremiah Whittemore, PS	MA
Pvt. James Wills	RI, MA	Enos Woodward, PS	CT	Richard Woolworth, CS, PS	MA
Pvt. Isaac Wright	MD	NCO Charles Young	PA	Col. Francis Ottomar Ziegler	PA

LEGEND:
Adc.—Aide-de-Camp
Brig. Gen.—Brigadier General
Capt.—Captain
Chp.—Chaplain
Cl.—Continental Line
Col.—Colonel
Cpl.—Corporal
CS—Civil Service
Ens.—Ensign
Fif.—Fifer
1st Lt.—First Lieutenant
2nd Lt.—Second Lieutenant
Lt.—Lieutenant
Lt. Col.—Lieutenant Colonel

Maj.—Major
MM—Minute Man
Mus.—Musician
NCO—Non-Commissioned Officer
Ordl.—Orderly
Pnsr.—Pensioner
PS—Patriotic Service
Pvt.—Private
S.D.I.—Signer of The Declaration of Independence
Sgt.—Sergeant
Sgt. Maj.—Sergeant Major
Sol.—Soldier
Staff Ofc.—Staff Officer
Wpnsr.—Wife who received pension

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