Profiles of Patriots: A Biographical Reference of American Revolutionary War Patriots and their Descendants: El Palo Alto Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution

ISBN 10: 1491812834 / ISBN 13: 9781491812839

Verlag: AuthorHouse, 2013

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Profiles of Patriots: A Biographical Reference of American Revolutionary War Patriots and their Descendants is a compilation of 39 biographies of American Revolutionary War patriots and includes an introduction and brief history of the El Palo Alto Chapter of the DAR and its founders. This book is a commemorative work celebrating the Chapter's 100th Anniversary of its founding. Each patriot biography summarizes the patriot's service record in the War of Independence as well as key biographical information. In addition, each author of these biographies is a direct descendant of the patriot and provides a summary of their lineage. This book provides a unique look into the history of these rank and file soldiers, officers and other patriots who contributed to the formation of our country as well as insights into their descendants' migrations over many generations.

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Profiles of Patriots: A Biographical Reference of American Revolutionary War Patriots and their Descendants

El Palo Alto Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution

By Moira Ann Jacobs

AuthorHouse

Copyright © 2013 Moira Ann Jacobs
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-4918-1283-9

Contents

Introduction...............................................................
ix
El Palo Alto Chapter History...............................................
xi
Patriot Biographies........................................................
1
Sias Billingsley by Robin Alice LaCroix Kamradt and Jennifer Robin Kamradt 
Allen......................................................................
3
Ezekiel Billington by Yvonne Russell.......................................
8
Richard Brandon by Lynn Eisberg............................................
10
Ichabod Brewster II by Caroline Landes.....................................
14
James Brown by Erin Bentham................................................
15
John Butler, Jr. by Moira Ann Jacobs.......................................
19
Johan Simon Claar by Gayle Quadt, Wendy Goeking and Kelly Waggoner.........
24
Daniel Conant by Nancy Ingraham Greenland..................................
26
Abner Cory by Catherine Baumann and Cynthia Johnson........................
28
George Ball Custer by Mary Murphy Shuttinger...............................
30
Manasseh Cutler by Donna Menche............................................
32
William Duvall by Shirley Ann Duvall Reseck................................
36
Stephen Fuller by Barbara Elizabeth Matson Schwartz........................
39
Benjamin Gist by Gloria McPherson Clark....................................
42
Carter Henry Harrison by Christine Roberts Czarnecki.......................
45
Benjamin Howard by Vickie Watson Tregner...................................
52
James Howe by Cynthia Brinkmann............................................
55
John Kennedy by Catha Hall.................................................
56
Henry Lake by Mary March Robell............................................
59
William Ledford by Sarah Elizabeth Evans Bryant............................
61
Henry Levens by Jane Trowbridge............................................
64
Henry Lusk by Jonnie Rivas.................................................
66
James McQuiston by Beverley Jones Zimmerman................................
68
William Moffett by Diana Moffett Powell....................................
75
Kendall Parker by Diana Meister Shull......................................
77
Eliezer Parsons by Karen Jackson...........................................
79
John Pierson by Virginia Stephenson........................................
82
Benjamin Randall by Karen Johnsen..........................................
85
Abraham Ream, the Miller by Valerie Vivian Shaeffer Hamilton...............
92
Robert Ricketts by Carol Driesen...........................................
95
William Ritchie (Ritchey) by Claire Sims Ravi..............................
99
Appendix...................................................................
119
Uriah Roundy by Shirley Stokes.............................................
101
William Speer by Kathleen Much.............................................
103
Samuel Stanford by Martha Nell (Thomas) Lundquist..........................
105
Reuben Thayer by Judith Sisk...............................................
106
Silas Wheeler by Kathy Oleary..............................................
108
Job Wilcox by Marsha Davis.................................................
111
Isaac Wiseman by Becky Edwards.............................................
113
Johann Martin Zettelmoyer by Geneva Riggle Knell...........................
115

CHAPTER 1

Patriot Biographies

Presentation of the Declaration ofIndependence, Philadelphia, PA, July 4, 1776Artist: John Trumbull, Oil on canvas, 12' x 18'Commissioned 1817, purchased 1819, placed in theCapitol Rotunda 1826, Washington, D.C.

Many members in the DAR can trace their family heritage back toancestors which included signers of the Declaration of Independence.Yet most members' ancestors include the many thousands of rankand file soldiers, the privates, the officers, supply and logisticssupporters, who together made the founding of our country possible.Moreover, this wide variety of individual histories, when taken in fullcontext with the biographies of their wives, children and other familymembers, reveals a rich tapestry of lives and personal struggleswhich collectively made such a great history and birth of our nationpossible.

This book is a collection of the individual patriot biographies fromour current active members, compiled into this one document. Wehope seeing the wide ranging stories of all these patriots and theirdescendants can also help reveal how important it is to preserve ourhistory and pass it on to the next generation. At the same time, wewish to illuminate how even a small collection of biographies fromour one chapter provides a useful snapshot of the types of characterand dedication that were needed at the founding of our country.Ours is a rich and diverse history, and as with all history we are stilllearning about our past so as to inform ourselves more completely increating a better future. Perhaps current and future generations canreflect on these stories to find the unique essence of the Americancharacter that can continue to inspire us to strive in making ours agreat country for current and future generations.

Sias Billingsley

By Robin Alice LaCroix Kamradt andJennifer Robin Kamradt Allen

Sias Billingsley, Private, War Committee 1775 & Association ofFreemen 1776, Harford County, MD

b. 1737/38, St. Mary's County, MD, d. Dec. 1818, Monongalia Co., VA(now WV)

Summary of Sias Billingsley Biography

Sias Billingsley, Harford County, Maryland, (PS):

—Elected to War Committee, Deer Creek Upper Hundred,Harford County, Feb 10, 1775, at about age 37;

—Signer, Association of Freemen, Deer Creek Upper Hundred,Harford County, 1776, at about age 38;

—Petit Juror, Harford County, 1783, at about age 45;

—1783 Harford County, Maryland, Tax List: Assessment to raisemoney for the war effort against Great Britain; Deer CreekMiddle Hundred, Harford County, MD, Sias's Range, 166acres, at about age 45.

Sias Billingsley was born about 1737/38 in St. Mary's County,Maryland, the fourth son and the eighth child of...

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Titel: Profiles of Patriots: A Biographical ...
Verlag: AuthorHouse
Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
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