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SARA DE SOTO MILLENNIUM FOREST PATRIOTS The following list of patriots who supported the American Revolution have been remembered by the Sara De Soto Chapter by the planting of a Millennium Forest tree in the Hillsborough River State Park in Thonotosassa, Florida: |
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PATRIOT
ANTHONY, Michael BAGEANT, John BALDWIN, James BRADLEY, John CAMPBELL, Robert (Sr.) CLARK, John DENISON, John GIBBONS, Thomas HUTCHISON, Joseph JENKINS, Edward JONES, William MC WAIN, Andrew MEAD, Oliver NOYES, Josiah PACKER, Eli SHALLUS, Sebastian STILES, Asahel TOMPKINS, James WALKER, Isaac WALKER, Jonathan Thomas WEAVER, Jacob WELLS, Stephen WHITE, Abel WILLIAMSON, Samuel WILLIAMSON, Samuel (Continued) WYMAN, Jr., John ZIMMERMAN, Michael |
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PA VA MD VA PA PA NH NC & VA VA MA VA VT MA MA PA PA NH RI MD MD PA NH VT SC SC MA PA |
SERVICE
Served in Capt. Bergman's Company under Col. Knox. Participated in the Battle of Germantown. His three sons served with him. Born in Germany in 1728, died in Philadelphia in 1818. Born August 10, 1761, in Winchester, VA. Volunteered at 16 to fight in the Revolution. Saw service in Virginia, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. Captured and held prisoner a year until exchanged in 1781. Died in 1824. Took the Patriots Oath before Nicholas Darsey, Justice of the Peace for Arundel County on January 21, 1778. A soldier in the 2nd Regiment of the Maryland Line, Continental Army. Pvt. John Bradley born 1748, was 45th on a list of Captain Evan Shelby's Company, Virginia Troops, October 7, 1774. Was with Shelby at the Battle of Point Pleasant. Died in 1779 in Abington, VA. Served as a Private and Fifer, 1778 � 1781, in Captain William Wilson's Company, commanded by Col. Chambers' First Pennsylvania Regiment. Was at the Battle of Monmouth and revolt of Morristown, NJ; honorably discharged at Philadelphia. A Third Lieutenant in Col. William Thompson's Battalion of Riflemen. Afterward a Major in Col. Richard McAllister's Battalion and aide to General Greene. In 1778 Auditor of Accounts. Lived at Walpole, NH and served under Col. Benjamin Bellow at the Battle of Ticonderoga on June 28, 1777. Service in NC as shown on Revolutionary Accounts (Vol. XII, P. 103). A soldier in the VA line. Payment on September 11, 1784, was made to William Reynolds for Thomas Gibbons (Vol. L75 p. 45). Drafted in 1777, served three months, then drafted again. He recruited five men to serve. Furnished beef, wheat and cloth. Marched between Germantown, Brandywine and Valley Forge after the battles. Fought in Germantown and Valley Forge. Born 1741 in Scituate, MA. Worked as a cordwainer. Served as a Private April 19, 1775; Minuteman, May 1775 and July 1780 for various lengths of time. Died 1825 in Boston. Born c. 1756, served as a private from Albemarle County. Died 1839 in Boone Co., MO. Married to Lucy Harris. From Putney, VT; received a pension. His daughter, Hizadiah, married Samuel Bemis. Their sons were Henry (War of 1812) and the well-known Dr. Samuel of Crawford Notch, White Mountains, NH. Deacon Oliver Mead was a minute man in Capt. Jonathan Davis's muster roll in Col. Whitcom's regiment of men who marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, from Harvard thirty miles to Cambridge. Born 1758 in Cumberland County. Served under James Merrill and Regimental Commander Jonathan Mitchell. Died in 1819. A farmer when the troops came looking for a good horse because the General's horse had an accident. Eli gave them his best steed. A civilian, he loaned money to furnish public supplies. Sebastian is the uncle of Jacob Shallus, Calligrapher of the United States Constitution. Company raised for service in Canada. Col. Daniel Moore's Regiment and mustered in by Esq. Moses Kelley on 22 July 1776. Capt. William Barron's Co. in NH Militia and with Col. Joshua Wingate's Regiment. Gone to Canada 22 August 1776. Also served time for his family members. Born January 22, 1757, Little Compton, RI. Private, Corporal and Sergeant in Rhode Island Continental Line. Received 2 badges. Was in Battle of Red Bank, Springfield, and surrender of Cornwallis. Died in Little Compton on March 20, 1832. Born in Scotland in 1721 and died in Maryland in 1807. Was in the Militia of Maryland under Capt. Thomas Richardson's Company. Commissioned a 2nd Lt., May 2, 1775, and as a 1st Lt. May 24, 1778. A patriot of Charles County who abjured the government of England and took the oath of allegiance to the state of Maryland in 1778. Born 1732 in Lancaster, PA. Sheriff of Berks County for two terms. Commission signed by John Hancock. As an Ensign he was attached to Col. Shea's Company, Third PA Battalion. Taken prisoner 1776, exchanged in 1780. Served on the frontiers of Northumberland and in Col. Baldwin's Regiment from September to December 1776. The Regiment was engaged in the Battle of White Plains, NY on October 28, 1776. Served in Capt. Ebenezer Allen's Co., Capt. John Stafford's Co., Capt. John Burte's Co., and Capt. William Simmond's Co. At Battle of Bennington. Died in 1823 in KY. Born in 1759 in York County, SC. Served as a Private. Participated in the Battle of Huck's Defeat in 1780 � the battle was fought on the Williamson Plantation. He married Annie Starr. Died in 1815 in SC. The movie 'The Patriot' was shot on location in the area of Williamson's Plantation. The main character was a composite character of real American patriots. Reenactments of the battle are staged yearly. The DAR has placed three granite markers at this location. Enlisted at 16, Capt. Alton and Col. Rand's Co. at Worchester. At West Point company detached to guard Col. Jamieson's Light Horse. Re-enlisted in Col. Jamieson's Co. Militia. At White Plains during Gen. Arnold's time and employed to convey paper found on Major. Served in the York County Militia throughout the War. |
DAUGHTER
Phebe Morgan Anne LoCicero Jane A. Listwan Julia Rebecca Williams Ursula (Su) Clark Madelon Halverson Katherine Bristol Kangas Carolyn Jones Van Helden Yvonne D. Zoll Allis Ferguson Edelman Carolyn Jones Van Helden Lisa and Nesta Joyce Russo Pru-Ann Miller LaVonne DeValinger Evelynn Holland Ruth Ritenour Barbara Hodalski Jean Catsakis Jane A. Listwan Jane A. Listwan Mary Frances Gall Gail Brown Barbara Hodalski Ann Porter Kavanaugh Patricia Porter Warren Barbara Hodalski Ruth Ritenour |
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