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American Revolution (1775-1783) Ancestry

This page is dedicated to our ancestors that fought in the American Revolution.

(sources to be fully listed eventually!)

*blue asterik denotes the direct line of my children. (incomplete)

Colburn, Lt. Revel* (1764-1844) In 1780, when he was sixteen years old, he volunteered to go to the war, as a substitute for a man who had been drafted. He served in Captain Polk's company, and was promoted to the office of lieutenant. (Revel married Margaret Polk, Capt. Polk's daughter.) (Source: The Genealogy of the Current and Hobson Families, by Annie E. Current, 1906, pg 196-197 & 202-203]

Garman, Adam (researching) (1731/1732-1806)

Hinkle, Nathaniel* (1749-1848) He belonged to the Pennsylvania rifle regiment; enlisted in April of 1776, Capt. Christ Co. of Col. Miles regiment, in Lancaster County, PA. He was in most all the main battles of the war; was discharged at Red Lions. The Citizens of Hymera, Indiana erected a statue of a continental soldier to his memory. (Source: newspaper obituary of Margaret J. Hail/Hale)

Hobson, Capt. George (abt 1715 - abt 1795) Birth-right Quaker, believed to have been a Captain, Frederick County, VA Militia?

Jones, Gen. Allen (b. 1739) 1776, April 23. Appointed one of the five Brigadier- Generals from North Carolina. 1779-1780: Member of Continental Congress that met in Philadelphia. 1776, Apr 4: Represented Northampton County in the Legislature. 1779: Member of Congress. 1784-1787: State Senator. [Source: Electronic version of Memoirs of a Southern Woman "Within the Lines," and a Genealogical Record by Mary Jones (Polk) Branch, 1912]

Long, Col. Nicholas (?- 1798) In 1776, appointed by Provincial Congress Colonel of Minute Men. Afterwards, Commissary General for the province of North Carolina. Also, 1776: Deputy Quartermaster General, with rank of Colonel in the Continental Army. [Source: Electronic version of Memoirs of a Southern Woman "Within the Lines," and a Genealogical Record by Mary Jones (Polk) Branch, 1912]

Moler, Joseph . [Source: The Roush Family In America, Volume I, by L. L. Roush, 1928, pg 226]

Polk, Charles Soldier of the Revolution.

Polk, Ezekiel (Grandfather of President James Knox Polk) Was a signer of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence (1775), & commanded a company in the Revolution.

Polk, Col. Thomas (b. 1732) In 1775: Colonel of militia. Colonel of the 2nd Battalion of Minute Men. 1775, May 20: Called the meeting in Mecklenburg County, and was a signer of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence (1775). In 1776: Colonel of the 4^th regiment of North Carolina troops; was at the battle of Brandywine. (Another researcher shows that he also became a Brigadier-General of NC Militia in 1780.)

Polk, Capt. William* Served 7 years as a Captain in the Revolutionary War.

Polk, Col. William J. 1775, April 17: Second Lt. in a company commanded by Col. Ezekiel Polk (his uncle). Dec. 22, 1775: Severely wounded at Canebrake, when only 16 yrs. old. Nov. 26, 1776: Appointed major of the 9^th continental battalion. From absence of the lieutenant- colonel of this regiment, the command of it devolved upon the major, and he marched with it to Georgetown, and thence to Trenton, where he joined the Grand Army under Washington, and was in the battles of Germantown (where he was wounded), Brandywine and Valley Forge, where he was shot in the shoulder, and at Germantown in the mouth. Here he became known as the young officer "who caught British bullets in his teeth." He was appointed General in the United States Army in 1812, but declined on account of infirmities.

Sons of Johann Adam Rausch (9 of his 10 sons fought in the war): "On one of the five militia muster rolls, that of Captain Jacob Holman's company (the Mill Creek Section of the county) are the names of Henry, Philip, Jacob and John Roush Jr."

Roush, Daniel (1754-1832)

Roush, Sr., George (1761-1845) In the fall of 1779, he served 2 months as a private in Capt. John Roush's (his brother's) Virginia Company. In the summer of 1780, he served 2 months in Capt. Pugh's Virginia Company. In the summer of 1781, he served 3 months in Capt. All's Virginia Company. Possibly was in the Battle of Yorktown.

Roush, Sr., Henry (abt 1752 - abt 1831) Private in John Tipton's Company

Roush, Jacob (abt 1746 - 1830) Private, Barbour's Va. Reg.

Roush, Jr., Capt. John (abt 1742-1816) Captain of the Shenandoah County Company.

Roush, Jonas (1763-1850) He enlisted in July 1781 as a substitute for his brother Henry and served 3 months. He was at the siege of Yorktown, & on his way to Winchester, with prisoners, when he was taken sick near Fredericksburg & discharged.

Roush, Sr., Philip (1741-1820) He, along with his brothers, fought in the Revolutionary War. Philip Roush was the oldest of the nine brothers who saw service in the colonial army.

Sons of Hans Michael Strieby (these 3 sons are know to have served)

Strieby, Jacob (abt 1750 - ?)

Strieby, Paul (abt 1753/55 - 1829) He served as a private under Captains Lennox & Graydon in Col. Stee's Regiment from Northampton Co, PA.

Strieby, Michael (1759 - ?)

Sutton, William G. "Revolutionary soldier, and also served in the commissary department under General Wayne at the time he built Fort Wayne."

Sons of Elisha Walling, Sr. [Source: Historical Sketches of Southwest Virginia, Publication 16 - 1983, Historical Society of Southwest Virginia]

Walling, Jr., Elisha (abt 1734- ?) Was elected captain of a company of militia for Pittsylvania Co. in 1767.

Walling, James (? - 1786) He was also captain of an armed vessel known as the Rattletrap on an expedition to New Orleans in 1777.

Walling, John (1750-1836) Enlisted in Wythe Co, VA in a company commanded by Capt. John Cox & Lt. Alexander Cox & served 6 months. He enrolled a second time (in Wythe Co, VA), & served for 3 months in a company commanded by Capt. John Bryson, Lt. Alexander Bryson, & attached to Col. William Campbell's regiment.

Walling, Sr., Col. James* (1727-1811) Was a Revolutionary soldier under the command of Gen. George Washington & took part in the siege of Yorktown, which battle resulted in the surrender of Lord Cornwallis & the British Army. He was a wealthy landowner, & some of his lands lay near Hughes Furnaces, where the great guns were cast for the Revolutionary Army. (Source: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution documents)

Walling, Lt. Col. James (researching) (1753-1811)

Worley, Brice (1740-1809) He volunteered for the Revolutionary War in Washington County, PA. & served as a private in Capt. Scott's Company, 4^th Battalion.