My Revolutionary War Patriots - for now anyway.

I know this blog is mainly about the Mayflower ancestors I've found, but I have also been finding a lot of ancestors who served in the Revolutionary War.  At one time I had 18 of them listed, but I could only locate 14 of them today.....  below is the DAR records for each.

My application to DAR was through my paternal line - Japheth Washburn 

WASHBURN, JAPHETH (my 4th great-grandfather)
Ancestor #: A121887
Service: MASSACHUSETTS    Rank: PRIVATE
Birth: 9-11-1746    CARVER PLYMOUTH CO MASSACHUSETTS
Death: 9-6-1828     CHINA KENNEBEC CO MAINE
Service Source: MA SOLS & SAILS, VOL 16, P 666; HIST OF PLYMOUTH CO, MA, PGS 331, 336
Service Description: 1) CAPTS COTTLE,DOTY,WASHBURN
2) COLS SPROUT,WHITE

Here are other ancestors on my paternal line:

Livinius WINNE  (my 4th great-grandfather)
Service: NEW YORK    Rank: LIEUTENANT
Birth: 7-5-1745    ALBANY CO NEW YORK
Death: 3-29-1824     WATERVLIET NEW YORK
Service Description: 1) COL SCHUYLER



Amos BENNETT (my 3rd great-grandfather)
Ancestor #: A009170
Service: NEW YORK    Rank: PRIVATE
Birth: 26 Mar 1739    FIFESHIRE SCOTLAND
Death: 1 Nov 1828    LOCKE CAYUGA CO NEW YORK
Service Source: ROBERTS, NY IN THE REV, P 125
Service Description: 1) CAPT JOHN ABBOTT; COL JOHN KNICKERBACKER, 14TH REGT ALBANY CO MIL

Cyprian KEYES (my 4th great-grandfather)
Ancestor #: A065372
Service: MASSACHUSETTS    Rank: PRIVATE
Birth: 1-9-1735    SHREWSBURY WORCESTER CO MASSACHUSETTS
Death: (CIRCA) 1805     PITTSFIELD BERKSHIRE CO MASSACHUSETTS
Service Source: MA SOLS & SAILS, VOL 9, P 150
Service Description: 1) CAPT WILLIAM GATES, COL TIMOTHY BIGELOW

Nathaniel BRAGG (my 4th great-grandfather)
Ancestor #: A013636
Service: MASSACHUSETTS    Rank: SERGEANT
Birth: 2-19-1743    ATTLEBORO MASSACHUSETTS
Death:      MAINE
Service Description: 1) CAPT. OLIVER,COL. SPARHAWK

My maternal line includes many patriots also:

Samuel WEAVER (my 3rd great-grandfather)
Service: NORTH CAROLINA - VIRGINIA    Rank: PRIVATE    Ancestor #: A123419
Birth: 26 Nov 1755    CUMBERLAND CO VIRGINIA
Death: 14 Nov 1842    LAUREL CO KENTUCKY
Service Source: S*W8998
Service Description:
1) CAPTS JACOB CAMPLIN,WM BOSTIC, NC
2) CAPT GEORGE HASTEN, VA

Prue (or William Prue) BENSON  (my 4th great-grandfather)
Ancestor #: A009390
Service: VIRGINIA    Rank: PATRIOTIC SERVICE
Birth: (CIRCA) 1720     VIRGINIA
Death: (ANTE) 9 Feb 1792    GREENVILLE CO NINETY SIX DIST SOUTH CAROLINA
Service Source:ABERCROMBIE & SLATTEN, VA REV PUB CLAIMS, VOL I, P 346
Service Description: 1) FURNISHED SUPPLIES

William Miller BLEDSOE  (my 4th great-grandfather)
Ancestor #: A011230
Service: VIRGINIA    Rank: PRIVATE
Birth: 4-13-1761    SPOTSYLVANIA CO VIRGINIA
Death  5-18-1811     GARRARD CO KENTUCKY
Service Source:  HARDING, GEORGE ROGERS CLARK AND HIS MEN, P 176
Service Description:  1) CAPT ANDREW KINKEAD
2) GEN GEO ROGERS CLARK

Robert POWELL  (my 4th great-grandfather)
Ancestor #: A092118
Service: VIRGINIA    Rank: MAJOR
Birth: 1753    CULPEPER CO VIRGINIA
Death: 5-14-1815     ADAIR CO KENTUCKY
Service Description: 1) MAJ VA MILITIA 1781;CAPT - LT - 3RD REGT

Drury SMITH  (my 4th great-grandfather)
Ancestor #: A105117
Service:  NORTH CAROLINA    Rank: PATRIOTIC SERVICE
Birth: (CIRCA) 1746     VIRGINIA
Death:   (ANTE) 8- -1822     ROCKINGHAM CO NORTH CAROLINA
Service Source:  REV WAR PAY VOUCHERS #4848 ROLL 68.62
Service Description:   1) PROVIDED AID, SALISBURY DIST

Daniel SCOTT  (my 4th great-grandfather)

Ancestor #: A101440

Service: VIRGINIA    Rank: PRIVATE

Birth: 1759    VIRGINIA

Death: 7-3-1824     SURRY CO NORTH CAROLINA

Pension Number: *S

Service Description: 1) CAPT BAYTOP, COL WILLIAM HEATH 

 

James CHEEK 'CHICK'  (my 5th great-grandfather)

Ancestor #: A021493
Service: VIRGINIA    Rank: CORPORAL
Birth: 5-14-1760    KING & QUEEN CO VIRGINIA
Death: 11- -1845     KNOX CO. KENTUCKY
Pension Number: *S10440
Service Description:
1) PVT CAPTS.DREW,WARE,CAMPBELL,HILL,HOSKIN
2) COATNEY,EDDINS,QUARLES, COL.NELSON

 

Thomas POINDEXTER  (my 5th great-grandfather)

Ancestor #: A090070
Service: NORTH CAROLINA    Rank(s): CAPTAIN, CIVIL SERVICE
Birth: 1733     HANOVER CO VIRGINIA
Death: 1 Jan 1807    SURRY CO NORTH CAROLINA
Service Source: HAUN, NC REV ARMY ACCTS, VOL VIII, PART 6, P 800; CLARK, STATE RECS OF NC, VOL 22, PP 502,505
Service Description: 1) CAPT, PAID FOR SERVICES
2) SHERIFF, JUROR, 1777

 Elizabeth PLEDGE Poindexter (my 5th great-grandmother)

Ancestor #: A089942

Notice: FUTURE APPLICANTS MUST PROVE CORRECT SERVICE  (WHY?)

Birth: (ANTE) 1750   

Death: 2-29-1816     NORTH CAROLINA

The Supplemental DAR application of Martha Eileen Duffy Douglas, National #617278 who is a descendant of William Arche Poindexter & Rebecca Flynn has Elizabeth Pledge Poindexter as a Patriot in the Revolution. Here is her summary of her ancestor's service taken from the DAR Patriot Service Index:
"Elizabeth Pledge Poindexter performed Patriotic Service in NC during the Revolutionary War. Elizabeth is listed as a Patriot as a result of sewing letters to her daughter's petticoats and the daughter went through the lines delivering letters to proper parties. "
Then she cites the DAR Patriot Service Index, p.539 as her authority.
However, the person checking the applications usually adds notes/corrections and the following had been written in:  "In Data File:
Notarized Statement by Great Granddaughter [of Elizabeth Pledge Poindexter] given in 1916. She was the Granddaughter of Mary Poindexter Ridings - who was the little girl who delivered the letters. She was told the story by her grandmother."
So apparently this notarized statement is in the DAR files and has been accepted as proof. Someone visiting the DAR library could get copies of the statement if it exists.
No one is allowed to join DAR on this line any longer.

So there we have it - at present I've found 14 patriots.