Revolutionary

My American Revolutionary War Ancestors

I've looked through the DAR site, http://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search/?Tab_ID=1&Tab_ID_Sub=1&Action=Search, to see what ancestors, if any, were involved in the American Revolution. I knew of some, but I had no idea how many were connected in some way or another in the efforts of the American Revolution. Total: 27. Some signed an Oath of Fidelity, some furnished supplies. Samuel Bacot was a Prisoner of War, Jonathan Currier and William Jones both died in service. I've divided the list into groupins according to my grandparents' surnames.

 

LEE

 

David “Long” Lee                   A068506

b 1745 and d 11.23.1812, Johnston Co., NC

Militia

 

Bartholomew Gainey              A043108

b 1740 and d ~ 5.4.1820 Sampson Co., NC

Wilmington District

 

David Lee                                A131714

b 1749 and d ~Aug 1833, Johnston Co., NC

Furnished Supplies

 

Jesse Lee                                 A205387

b 3.16.1767 and d 11.6.1831, Johnston Co., NC

Militia, Wilmington District 1783

 

Westbrook Lee                                    A068801

b 12.4.1759 and d 3.4.1840

Served under Capt Francis Hill, Col Rutledge

and Lt Joab Blackmore

 

George Smith                           A105410

b 1730 Hanover Co., d 1799 Duplin Co., NC

1) Signer of Oath of Allegiance

2) Abjuration of Duplin Co.

 

Jean “John” Adams                 A000564

b 1763             France             d 1823 NC

Served under Gen DeLaFayette, Cont Line

 

 

HIGDON

 

John Benjamin Parrott             A088093

b 1730 Bertie, NC, d 1 Mar 1971 Dobbs Co, NC

Militia, Capt Kennedy and Paid for Services Rendered

 

William Tull                             A116880

b 4.12.1756, Dobbs, NC and d before 1.7.1820 Lenoir Co., NC

Served under Capt Jesse Cobb

 

Charles Butler, Sr                     A017592

b 1747 Duplin Co, NC and d 1811 Sampson Co., NC

Served under Capt Inloe, 5^th Regiment

 

Henry Overstreet                     A085088

b ~1735           d before 5.1795, Halifax Co., NC

Served under Capt Wood, and Col deMalmady, Cont. Line

 

Martin DeWitt                          A032456

b 7.9.1765 Culpeper Co., VA and d 3.4.1843 Darlington District SC

Served Cheraws District   surname also listed as Douthitt (!!)

 

Samuel Bacot                          A004456

b 3.3.1745 Charleston, SC and d 1797, Cheraws District, SC

Served under Gen Marion’s Brigade, Militia, 1782

Was a Prisoner

 

Thomas Thornton                    A133515

b 1738 and d before 8.12.1806, Sampson Co., NC

Oath of Allegiance to make Land

2) Entry Duplin Co., 10 Jul 1779

 

 

NEWELL

 

Nicholas French                       A042516

b 11.28.1747, Salisbury, Essex Co., MA and d 1.7.1826, Montville, Hancock Co, ME

Signer of Association Test, Canada 1776

 

Joseph Grow, Jr                                   A048014

b 3.13.1748, Pomfret, Windham Co., CT and d 3.19.1813 Hartland, Windsor Co., VT

Private, under Capt Elias Weld, rose to Corporal

Served under Capt Daniel Spooner, militia, Vermont

 

Joseph Grow, Sr                      A048012

b 10.16.1717 Andover, Essex Co., MA           and d 5.3.1787 Newbury, Orange Co., VT

Signed Oath of Fidelity, Hartland VT 1781

 

Elisha Stowell                          A110966

b 2.9.1740, Pomfret Windham Co., CT and d 2.21.1814, Hartland, Windsor Co., VT

Served under Capt Zebediah Ingalls, 11st Regt and also the Lexington Alarm

 

Jonathan Currier                   A028732

b 11.27.1735, Gloucester, MA and d 3.1778, Valley Forge, PA

Served under Captain Emerson, and Col Cilley

 

 

MORGAN

 

Richard Stith                            A110279

b 12.29.1731 Brunswick Co., VA and d before 7.27.1801 Brunswick Co., VA

Commissioner, 1^st Prov Law and Furnished Supplies

 

Richard Gaines, Sr.                  A043077

b 1726 King William Co., VA and d before 2.1.1802, Charlotte Co., VA

Furnished Supplies

 

Joseph Kellogg                                    A064460

bap 9.21.1746, Hebron CT and d 3.23.1823 Newfield, Tompkins Co., NY

Served under Capt Salmon White and Col Ezra May

Marched to Saratoga, sworn to at Hatfield, engaged Sept 20, 1777 and discharged 14 Oct 1777

 

William R Jones                     A062797

b 1745 VA and d 15 Mar 1781 Guilford Co Court House

Bedford Co Militia, under Col Charles Lynch’s Regt.

 

Johnannes Spanknable                        A107810

b 1747 Germany and d 12 Sep 1827, Palantine Montgomery Co, NY

Served under Col Klock, residence: Dillaborough, Fulton Co., NY

 

Job Judd                                  A068830

b 10.21. 1757, Farmington Hartford Co, CT and d 7.23.1846, Dearborn Co., Ind.

Served under Capt Smith and Major Shipman and 1) City Farmington, CT

 

Phineas Judd                            A063409

b 2.4.1715, Farmington, Hartford Co., CT and d 12.22.1790

Service Mullen CT, Town Meeting Recs Vol 11, pp 258-9

Oath of Fidelity, 1777

 

Daniel Andrews                                   A002593

b 1734 S Glastonbury, Hartford Co., CT and d 12.3.1818

Oath of Fidelity, 1777 and Selectman

                       

           

mtDNA Test Results

I just got back my mtDNA test results. Maternal DNA tests reveal the maternal line back to an ancestral area, not a surname (since surnames change each generation...).

Maternal DNA is consistent as it is passed down mother to daughter or son. My mtDNA results would be the same as my maternal grandmother's. Same as her siblings' would be, too. My mother, my siblings or my daughter would receive the same mtDNA test results.  This mtDNA would be pertinent for any descendants of Lola Blakesley Morgan who are interested in 'mapping' her maternal line as well. It would apply to anyone who has any of these women listed below in their genealogical lineage:

Their (and our) maternal history is this:

1. Lola Blakesley Morgan, daughter of
2. Mary Elizabeth Blakesley Blakesely, daughter of (yes she married a cousin)
3. Eliza Swan Blakesley, daughter of
4. Susanna Judd Swan, daughter of
5. Mary Andrews Judd, daughter of
6. Anna Eddy Andrews, daughter of
7. Mary Meakins Eddy, daughter of
8. Mary Goodwin Meakins, daughter of
9. Elizabeth Pratt Goodwin, daughter of
10. Elizabeth Young Pratt. 

Elizabeth married 2 July 1626 at Baldock in Hertfordshire, England, to John Pratt (later settled at Hartford, Connecticut). [See NEHGR 149(1995):377.]  The line stays in New England until Eliza marries and moves west with her husband.

The wonderfully concise list above was generously contributed by cousin William S Morgan.
Thank you Billy!

DNA Findings, 5/3/10,
Breaking down the mtDna results for Patricia

The W haplogroup ultimately descends from the N group, sister of R, I, X, and A.

The W group is not related to any of the "7 Daughters of Eve,” even though 95% of Europeans do descend from any one of those 7 groups. How large is the W haplogroup? At the present time, I'm wondering if it's a smaller group than the Daughters of Eve. The "W" group is found 'first' in the Middle East and traveled from there to northwest Europe, and also east to India and Asia. The "W" group subdivided from the "N" group (which Ashkenazi Jews descend from), and earlier from L3, L2, L1 going back to Africa.

W1c2 Subgroup

Only 12% of the Ws have 'lost' (don’t have) the 16292T marker .
This loss appears not to be "post N" subdividing. [What does that mean?]

Further, I have ‘added’ 143A-192C-194T-196C: this is unique within the W haplogroup.

The 194T change is cited as "clade" defining.

The www.thecid.com site discusses W haplogroup, naming it the "Wilma" group as no one else has given it a 'name' yet!

The list of W test results totaled 1212. There were only 20 in the group that matched my W1c2, [ the ‘lost’ 16292T, added 143A-192C-194T-196C sequence]. Those 20 descended from Finland, Ireland and Sweden. [Yet my ancestor Elizabeth Young married her husband John Pratt in England.]

There are some really neat maps at this site: http://www.capecoloureddnaproject.com/Maps.htm
which show the migratory pattern of W.

Giving credit where credit is due: The above map is Family Tree DNA's MtDNA Human Migration map. It beautifully illustrates MtDNA migration patterns.