Glass. Book- ONS °f THE /American EVOLUTION QlSTRICT OF QOLUMBIA Year Book for 1891 GEUR(;E WASllIXGTOX [kkom iue i;rsr by hoidon] ~^ Y^AR BOOK OF THE District of Columbia Society Sons OF THE American Revolution 1891 Eibertas et ^atcia Printed for THE SOCIETY by Gedney & Roberts, in the one hundred AND fourteenth YEAR OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF the united states of AMERICA. OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY 1891. Gen. a. W. GREELY, U.S.A. Igonororg Admiral J. L. WORDEN, U.S.N. Gen. M. C. MEIGS, U.S.A. Hon. JOHN SHERMAN. Gen. O. B. WILLCOX, U.S.A. AdmiralJAMES E.JOUETT, U.S.N. Hon. JOHN W. DOUGLASS. Gen. E. D. TOWNSEND, U.S.A. Gen. JAMES J. DANA, U.S.A. Gen. MARCUS J. WRIGHT, Gen. H. V. BOYNTON, Col. MARSHALL McDONALD. ^ectefariee A. HOWARD CLARK, ARNOLD BURGES JOHNSON, National Museum. Light House Board. ^rcaeuret WILLIAM VAN ZANDT COX, National Museum. (Regtefrar G. BROWN GOODE, Smithsonian Institution. ^iBtotian FRANCIS O. ST. CLAIR, M.D. Department of State. 23oarb of ITTanagcmcnt 1891 Gen. a. W, Greely, U.S.A., President. Gen. H. V. Boynton, of Ohio. Col. John Bell Brownlow, of Tennessee. Gen. J. C. Breckinridge, U.S.A., of Kentucky. Gen. Franklin G. Butterfield, of Vermont. Prof. W. D. Cabell, of Virginia. A. Howard Clark, of Massachusetts, William A. DeCaindry, of Georgia. Capt. R. C. DuBois, U.S.A., of Pennsylvania. Henry Wise Garnett, of Virginia. George Brown Goode, of Connecticut. Arnold Burges Johnson, of Massachusetts. Col, Marshall McDonald, of Virginia. Capt. William Morris Meredith, of Illinois. Col. M. M. Parker, of Vermont. Col. Felix A. Reeve, of Tennessee. Francis O. St. Clair, M.D., of Maryland. Richard H. Spencer, of Maryland. Prof. Robert E. C. Stearns, of California. Gen. Marcus J. Wright, of Tennessee. William C. Winlock, of Massachusetts. ADMIRAL D. D. PORTER, U. S. N. First President of the Society. [from a i'hotograph by c. m. hkli,.] OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY. 1890. Admiral DAVID DIXON PORTER, U.S.N. (Ptce (J)re6i^ent0 Gen. a. W. GREELY, U.S.A. Gen. MARCUS J. WRIGHT. FRANCIS O. ST. CLAIR, M.D. WILLIAM C. WINLOCK, Smithsonian Institution. CoL. MARSHALL McDONALD, U. S. Fish Commission. (Rcgt0ftar0 GEORGE BROWN GOODE, A. HOWARD CLARK. Smithsonian Institution. (Bxcaxim Committee Gen. J. C. BRECKINRIDGE, Capt. R. C. DuBOIS, W. D. CABELL, WILLIAM C. WINLOCK, Gen. MARCUS J. WRIGHT. Boarb of IHanacjement 1890 Admiral David D. Porter, U.S.N., President. Gen. H. V. Boynton, of Ohio. Gen. Joseph C. Breckinridge, U.S.A., of Kentucky. Prof. W. D. Cabell, of Virginia. A. Howard Clark, of Massachusetts. Gen. James J. Dana, U.S.A., of New York. Capt. Richard C. DuBois, U.S.A., of Pennsylvania. Hon. William P. Frye, of Maine. George Brown Goode, of Connecticut. Gen. a. W. Greely, U.S.A., of Louisiana. Arnold Burges Johnson, of Massachusetts. Col. Marshall McDonald, of Virginia. Gen. M. C. Meigs, U.S.A., of Pennsylvania. Hon. Levi P. Morton, of New York. Col. M. M. Parker, of Vermont. Col. Felix A. Reeve, of Tennessee. Francis O. St. Clair, M.D., of Maryland. Hon. John Sherman, of Ohio. Richard H. Spencer, of Maryland. Joseph M. Toner, M.D., of the District of Columbia. Gen. E. D. Townsend, U.S.A., of Massachusetts. Gen. Duncan S. Walker, of the District of Columbia. Gen. Marcus J. Wright, of Tennessee. Rear- Admiral John L. Worden, U.S.N., of New York. William Crawford Winlock, of Massachusetts. Sons of the American Revolution. The Citizens of the United States are responsible for the greatest trust ever confideii to a polit- ical society. If justice, good faith, honor, gratitude and all the other qualities which ennoble the character of a nation and fulfil the ends of government be the fruits of our establishments, the cause of Liberty will acquire a dignity and lustre which it has never yet enjoyed ; and an example will be set which cannot but have the most favorable influence on the rights of Mankind. James Madison, 1783. The Society op Sons of the American Revolution enables the man of the North and the man of the South to stand on the same platform. We shall have an electric current of fraternal interest reaching from the St. Lawrence to the Rio Grande. Admiral Porter, 1890. HE Society of the Sons of the American Revolution is purely patriotic in its pur- poses. Through its agency representative men of all parties and from every section, the descendants of the patriots who achieved independence for our Nation, are brought together in sympathetic and friendly association for the promotion of objects specifically named in its Constitution, as follows : — (i) To perpetuate the memory and the spirit of the vien who achieved American Independence, by the encotiragement of histor- ical research i?i relation to the Revolution and the ptiblication of its residts, the pj^escrvatio^i of docuvients and relics and of the records of the individual services of Revolutionary soldiers and patriots, and the promotion of celebrations of all patriotic a^ini- versaries. (2) To carry out the injunction of Washington in his farewell address to the American people : — " To promote, as an object of VIII SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. primary importance, instihUions for the (general diffusion of knowledge,''' — thus developing an enlightened public opinion and affordi)ig to young and, old such advantages as shall develop in them the largest capacity for performing the duties of A^ncrican citizens. (3) To cherish, mai)itain, and extend the i?istitntio7is of Amer- ican freedom, to foster true patriotism and love of country, and to aid in securing for mankind all the blessings of liberty. The Society is National in its scope and is governed in mat- ters of general importance by a board of officers elected at its annual convention. It is made up of the following State Societies, in every respect co-equal in rank : — LIST OF SOCIETIES. January, 1891. Name. National Society, California, New Jersey, Connecticut, . Vermont, South Carolina Massachusetts, Maryland, Ohio, . . Kentucky, . Missouri, . Tennessee, . Minnesota, Arkansas, . Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, . Delaware, . West Virginia, Rhode Island, Illinois, New York, District of Colu Nebraska, . Alabama, Louisiana, . Virginia, . . President. Dr. William Seward Webb, of Ver- mont, President General. Col. A. S. Hubbard. Hon. John Whitehead. Jonathan Trumbull. Hon. Redfield Proctor. Hon.'J. P. Richardson. Hon. Charles H. Saunders. Gen. Bradley T. Johnson. H. V. Axline. Hon. H. W. Bruce. Josiah Fogg. Rev. D. C. Kelley, D.D. Hon. Albert Edgerton. Col. Samuel W. Williams. Don J. Whittemore. Hon. William E. Niblack. Hon. H. B. Ledyard. Hon. Thomas F. Bayard. Hon. John J. Jacob. John Nicholas Brown. Judge Henry M. Shepard. Hon. Chauncey M. Depew. Admiral David D. Porter. Champion S. Chase. Capt. Joseph Forney Johnston. Hon. William H. Jack. Hon. William Wirt Henry. The California Society, which stands at the head of the list, is (with the exception of the Society of the Cincinnati, HISTORY AND OBJECTS. IX founded May 13, 1783, and the American Revolution . Society, or Seventy-six Association, composed of officers and soldiers, founded in the South in 1784, which existed for many years, but long ago became extinct) the first patriotic organization ever founded in America, with membership based upon service in the cause of American Independence. It came into exist- ence on the Fourth of July, 1876, when citizens of San Fran- cisco, about forty in number, descendants of the patriots of the Revolution, having marched together in the great procession which was the most striking feature of California's celebration of the Centennial Anniversary of Independence, met to organize the Society of Sons of Revolutionary Sires.* The objects of the society then founded were defined in a circular letter, sent out in August, in the following terms: "To unite the descendants of Revolutionary patriots and perpetuate the memory of those who took part in the American Revolution, and maintained the independence of the United States of America; to organize auxiliaries, co-equal branches and representative bodies, at such time and place as the directors may determine." The desire of the founders of the new society to extend its work beyond the boundaries of California met with much encouragement. Honorary membership was accepted by Ex- Presidents Grant and Hayes and other public men throughout the country, and before the close of 1876, Vice Presidents had been appointed in Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, Iowa and the District of Columbia,! with authority to found branch societies, and these efforts were continuous up to 1883. It is not certain that any such branches were ever formed, but *On June 29th (1876) the following request was published in the news columns of the " Alta " : " The descendants of the Revolutionary patriots are requested to meet at the headquar- ters of the Grand Marshal, at No. 212 Kearney street, at 8 o'clock this evening, for the purpose of making arrangements to participate in the celebration." In response to the call between forty and fifty citizens assembled. General N. M. Winn presided, and Dr. E. L. Willard was chosen secre- tary. All present signed the roll. After the parade the organization marched to the Palace Hotel and partook of refreshments. It was at this meeting that they formally organized under the title of "Sons of Revolutionary Sires" (July 4th, 1876). Ten days latfr the new organization adopted a constitution and by-laws, and has since been a permanent society in this city. From the "Alta California," May 5th, 1889. fMr. N. T. E. Chandler, of the U. S. Patent Oflfice, Vice President for the District of Colum- bia, died in 1889, and the papers relating to the history of his work cannot be found. X SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. the California Society maintained a continuous existence until 1889, when it changed its name in order to participate in the organization of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and is still one of the strong organiza- tions in the federation. In 1876 Mr. John Austin Stevens, of New York, proposed the organization of a society, to be called "Sons of the Revo- lution," and to be composed of descendants of officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary Army. No meetings appear to have been held under this plan. The New York society of the Sons of the Revolution was formally established December 31, 1883. In 1888 some of its members founded a similar society in Philadelphia, and in March and April, 1889, similar organiza- tions were formed in thirteen other States. Through some un- fortunate misunderstanding the society in New York f^iiled to participate in the movement now begun for the establishment of a National organization, although it was the desire of the other States that New York should take the lead. The tech- nical difficulty seems to have been the unwillingness of the other States to recognize the supposed claim of the New York society to be the central and sole source of authority. On the Anniversary day, April 30, 1889, upon the invitation of the New Jersey Society, delegates from fourteen States met in the historic "Long Room" of Fraunces's Tavern, in New York, the apartment in which Washington took leave of his Generals at the close of the Revolution, and formed an organi- zation of National scope under the name of The Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and under the Consti- tution then adopted the several State societies already men- tioned have become federated. The District of Columbia Society, Sons of the American Revolution, was organized April 11, 1890, by Mr. William O. McDowell, of New Jersey, at that time Vice President General of the National Society. Its career, though short, has been prosperous, and it is already one of the largest and strongest of the associations of descendants of the patriots of the Revolution. In 1890 the New York Society abandoned its plan of aux- iliary branches, and joined with that in Pennsylvania to form a general or National Society, under the name of Sons of the WASHINGTON AND HIS G E N H R A I. S Fkauncis' Tam kn, Ui:cemiii:k 4. 17N'. HISTORY AND OBJECTS. XI Revolution, This action removed all tangible obstacles to the union of all the State societies in one National organization. The question of priority of organization is not one of the highest importance, for all will concede that the present widespread interest is largely the outgrowth of the part which the Sons of THE Revolution in New York have taken in the movement which began in 1876 in both San Francisco and New York, which took tangible form in San Francisco in 1876 and in New York in 1883, and which culminated in 1889 in a general or- ganization of State societies throughout the whole Union. Prior to the organization of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution in Washington City, a society of the Sons of the Revolution was in existence. This was organized April 3, 1890, under the Presidency of the Hon. John Lee Carroll, and with a very distinguished membership. On April 3, 1890, this society subscribed to the Constitution of the Sons OF THE Revolution, prepared by the Representatives of the New York and Pennsylvania Societies. The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution was organized in Washington City, October 11, 1890, and has already a large membership, which is extending over the entire country. Its objects are identical with those of the two other societies already referred to, though its organi- zation and eligibility requirements are somewhat different. Serious work has already been begun by all the societies. Members of the old New York Society did noble service in providing for the completion of the pedestal of the Bar- tholdi Statue of Liberty, in New York Harbor; and it was to its members that the Centennial Celebration of 1889 owed its origin, and largely its success. It also aided materially in the erection of a monument to Nathan Hale. The State societies are planning for the systematic celebration of local events of historic interest; Massachusetts has cele- brated the anniversary of " Lexington," and New Jersey those of "Red Bank," "Trenton" and "Springfield," and Tennessee that of "King's Mountain." Our National Society has asked the interest of the Congress to prevent the desecration of the National flag by its use for advertising purposes, and is en- deavoring to encourage the playing of National airs by all XII SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. bands on National anniversaries. All the societies are urging the more general display of the National flag. The California Society and our own set the example of a patriotic gathering on July 4, 1890 ; an example afterwards strengthened by the issue of an official circular from the National Society. Much still remains to be done in the way of patriotic en- deavor. The localities of historic events and the birthplaces and graves of Revolutionary heroes are to be identified and marked by suitable monuments. Revolutionary documents and records, especially the unpublished rolls of the soldiers, and the stories of individual service are to be brought to light, indexed and printed. The Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution, has begun serious work in the preservation of his- torical documents. The Michigan Society, S. A. R., passed a resolution April 24, 1890, urging the publication of the records of the Army of the Revolution, and Col. Hubbard, the President of the California Society, wrote to the President of the National Society, February 18, 1890, as follows: — ' ' / hope that some method will be formtdated zvhereby the U^iited States Government will undertake to gather, compile and publish, from its archives, and the archives of the thirteen origiyial States, the record of every officer, soldier aiid sailor who partici- pated iyi the war of 1776, and that the zvork thus published zvill be recog7iized as the American Domesday Book. The National Society of Sons of the American Revolution should be more than an auxiliary in the production of such a zvork. ' ' A wholesome and intelligent interest in the principles and acts of the Revolution may well be encouraged throughout the country. It is believed that whenever any question of real importance is to be considered, unanimity of sentiment and harmony of action will always be found among the various organizations of the descendants of the patriots of 1776. Bn Mtmoviam. MDMUND FI^AGG. Died in Fairfax County, Virginia, November i, i8go. ADMIRAI, DAVID DIXON PORTl^R U.S.N. Died in Washington, February 12, i8gi. GENMRAI, J0S:B)PH £)GGI,]EST0N JOHNSTON. Died in Washington, March 21, 1891. JOSHUA OTIS STANTON, M.D. Died in Washington, April g, i8gi. JUDGE SAMUMI MII,I,ER BRECKINRIDGE. Died in Detroit, May 28, i8gx. GENERAI, GEORGE THOM, U.S.A. Died in Washington, June 2g, i8gi. CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS There are three stages in the history of the North American Revolution — the first of which may be considered as beginning zvith the order of the British Council for enforc- ing the acts of trade in 1760, and as having reached its crisis at the meeting of the first Congress fourteen years after, at Philadelphia. It was a struggle for the preservation and recovery of the rights and liberties of the British Colonies. It terminated in a civil zuar, the character and object of ivhich zvere changed by the Declaration of Independence. The seco?id stage is that of the War of Independence, usually so-called — but it began fiftee7i months before the Declaration, and was itself the immediate cause and not the effect of that event. It closed by the prelimittary Treaty of Peace concluded at Paris, on the joth of November, 1782. The third is the formation of the Anglo-American People and Nation of North America. This evetit was cotnpleted by the meeting of the first Congress of the United States, under their presetit Constitution, on the Fotirth of March, 17S9. John Quincy Adams, 1S36. 7 here is nothing more common than to confound the terms of American Revolution with those of the late American War. The America?i War is over, but this is far from being the case zvith the American Revolution. On the contrary, nothing bid the first act of the great drama is closed. It retnains yet to establish and perfect our new forms of govertiment, and to prepare the prin- ciples, morals and manners of our citizens for these forms of government, after they are established and brought to perfection. Benjamin Rush, 1787. 1 1 i 1 s w. ir^tif^ i ^^ ^ 1 i i ^^ 3^ ^ ^^^ ^^^^ iWJBiiSfl^iS ^ g }^ -s^ CONSTITUTION. 1 ARTICLE I. NAME. HE name of this Society shall be The District OF Columbia Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. ARTICLE II. objects. The objects of the Society shall be : To perpetuate the memory and the spirit of the men who Historical achieved American Independence, by the encouragement of "^a'iid historical research in relation to the Revolution and the publi- cation of its results, the preservation of documents and relics and of the records of the individual services of Revolutionary soldiers and patriots, and the promotion of celebrations of all patriotic anniversaries. To carry out the injunction of Washington in his farewell Promotion IT I A • y , , -r- , 1 • °f National address to the American people: — lo promote, as an object institutions of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge," — thus developing an enlightened public opinion and affording to young and old such advantages as shall develop in them the largest capacity for performing the duties of American citizens. XVI CONSTITUTION. Promotion of Patriotism. To cherish, maintain, and extend the institutions of Ameri- can freedom, to foster true patriotism and love of country, and to aid in securing for mankind all the blessings of liberty. Eligibility. Ancestry Records of Women. Honorary Members. Members of the National Society. Officers and Managers. ARTICLE III. MEMBERSHIP. I. Any man is eligible for membership who is of the age of twenty-one years, and who is descended from an ancestor who, with unfailing loyalty, rendered material aid to the cause of American Independence as a soldier or a seaman, or a civil officer in one of the several Colonies or States or of the United Colonies or States, or as a recognized patriot, pro- vided that the applicant shall be acceptable to the Society. II. For the purpose of perfecting the records of Revolu- tionary patriots and their descendants, any woman of Revolu- tionary ancestry may file with the Registrar a record, in dupli- cate, of her ancestors' services and of her line of descent, one copy of whfich shall be deposited among the archives of the National Society. III. Any person may be eligible for honorary membership, subject to the limitations as to age and descent established in the case of active members. IV. All members of the National Society are our comrades and brothers, and when within the borders of our jurisdiction will be welcome to our meetings and to assist in our celebra- tions and work. ARTICLE IV. OFFICERS AND MANAGERS. I. The officers of the Society shall be a President, one or more Vice Presidents, two Secretaries, a Treasurer, a Registrar, an Assistant Registrar, an Historian, and such others as may be deemed necessary, who shall be elected by a vote of the majority of the members present at the annual meeting of the Society, and who shall hold office for one year, or until their successors shall be elected, and who, with thirteen other members, shall constitute the Board of Management. CONSTITUTION. XVII II. Delegates to the Congress of the Society shall be elected Delegates to the at each annual meeting, in accordance with the requirements of ""s^ess. the Constitution of the General Society. III. An Executive Committee of five, of which the President Executive of the Society shall be the chairman, which may be elected by the Board of Management from their number, shall, in the interim between the meetings of the Board, transact such business as shall be delegated to it by the Board of Manage- ment. ARTICLE V. FEES AND DUES. I. The initiation fee, including dues for the first year, shall be five ($5) dollars; the annual dues three ($3) dollars; or the payment at one time of fifty ($50) dollars shall constitute a life member, with exemption from payment of dues thereafter. II. The annual dues shall be payable on the first day of April in each year. III. A member who shall remain in arrears for dues for three months after notice of his indebtedness has been sent him, may be dropped from the rolls by the Board of Management. IV. The initiation fees and all payments for dues and life memberships shall be used by the Board of Management for the purpose of paying the dues of twenty-five cents for each active member, to the National Society, of publishing such documents as they may deem advisable, of paying the running expenses, and for such special purposes as may be ordered by a vote of two-thirds of the Board of Management. Amount. Time of Payment. Arrearages. Application of Funds. ARTICLE VI. MEETINGS AND ELECTIONS. I. The Annual Meeting for election of officers and transaction of business shall be held at noon on the twenty-second day of February, the anniversary of the birth of George W^ashington, in every year, except when that date shall fall on Sunday, in which case the meeting shall be held on the following day. Annual iVIeeting, XVIII CONSTITUTION. Special Meetings. Election of OfQcers. II. Special meetings may be called by the President or Board of Management at any time for business purposes or for the purpose of celebrating events of the Revolution or other patriotic events, or devising means for the prosecution of patriotic work. The President shall call a special meeting whenever requested in writing so to do by five or more members. III. General business may be transacted at any special meet- ing. IV. Thirteen members shall constitute a quorum at all meet- ings, except that three members shall be a quorum of the Executive Committee. V. All nominations for officers shall be made from the floor and not by committee, and all elections to office shall be by ballot. The persons receiving the majority of all the votes cast shall be declared elected, and shall hold office for the ensuing term and until their successors shall be elected. ARTICLE VII. Proposal of Amendments. Action on Amendments. AMENDMENTS. Amendments to this Constitution may be offered at any meeting of the Society, but shall not be acted on until the next meeting. A copy of every proposed amendment shall be sent to each member, with a notice of the meeting at which the same is to be acted on, at least one week prior to said meet- ing. A vote of two-thirds of those present shall be necessary to the adoption of any amendment. BY-LAWS. SECTION I. ELECTION OF MEMBERS. Members shall be elected as follows : Candidates may send their applications together with documents and other proofs of qualification for membership,* to the Secretary; and, upon a Aivorable report from .the Board of Management, and upon payment of the initiation fee, shall become members of the Society. Election to Membership. SECTION II. THE PRESIDENT. The President, or in his absence the Vice President, or in his absence a Chairman, pro te7?ipore, shall preside at all meetings of the Society and Board of Management, and have a casting vote. He shall exercise the usual functions of a presiding officer, and shall enforce a strict observance of the Constitution and By-Laws and of the regulations and rules of the Society. *It is required that all applications shall be made upon the standard form of Application for Membership issued by authority of the Executive Committee, N. S., S. A. R., which provides for: 1 . A statement of the services of the ancestor of the applicant in aid of the establishment of American Independence. 2. A detailed statement of the intermediate generations of his pedigree, with full names of maternal and paternal ancestors in each generation, and, if possible, dates and places of birth and death, and places of residence. 3. A recommendation of the candidate by a member of the Society. 4. An affidavit by the applicant in support of the statements contained in his application. The affidavit has not as yet been required by this Society. Presiding Officer. XX BY-LAWS. General Duties. Notices of Elections and Meetings. SECTION III. THE SECRETARY. The Secretary shall conduct the general correspondence of the Society and such other matters as may be directed by the Society. He shall have charge of the seal, certificate of in- corporation, by-laws and records of the Society, and, together with the presiding officer, shall certify all acts of the Society. He shall keep fair and accurate records of all the proceedings and orders of the Society; and shall give notice to the several officers of all votes, orders, resolves, and proceedings of the Society affecting them or appertaining to their respective duties. He shall notify all members of their election, and shall, under the direction of the President or Vice President, give due notice of the time and place of all meetings of the Society, and attend the same. SECTION IV. Disposition of Funds. Accounts and Audits. Balances. THE TREASURER. The Treasurer shall collect and keep the funds and securities of the Society; they shall be deposited in some bank or saving institute in this District, to the credit of The District of Columbia Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and shall be drawn thence on the check of the Treasurer, for the purposes of the Society only. Out of these funds he shall pay such sums only as may be ordered by the Society, or by the Board of Management. He shall keep a true account of his receipts and payments, and, at each annual meeting, render the same to the Society, when a committee shall be appointed to audit his accounts. If, from the annual report of the Treasurer, there shall appear to be a balance against the Treasurer, no appropriation of money shall be made for any object but the necessary current expenses of the Society until such balance shall be paid. BY-LAWS. XXI SECTION V. THE REGISTRAR. The Registrar shall keep a roll of members, and in his hands shall be lodged all the proofs of membership-qualification, and all the historical and genealogical papers, manuscript or other, of which the Society may become possessed ; and, under the direction of the Board of Management, shall keep copies of such similar documents as the owners thereof may not be willing to leave permanently in the keeping of the Society. He shall verify all statements of the revolutionary services of ancestors that may be made in the applications for member- ship, and make report to the Board of Managers. The Registrar shall, if practicable, be some person con- nected with the Smithsonian Institution. Membership RoU. Historical Documents. SECTION VI. THE HISTORIAN. The historian shall keep the records of the historical and commemorative meetings of the Society, and shall supervise the preparation and printing of all its historical publications, other than those of the membership rolls. He shall submit at each annual meeting a list of the mem- bers who may have died during the year, accompanied by biographical memoirs. Historical Records. Necrology. SECTION VII. THE BOARD OF MANAGEMENT. The Board of Management shall consist of at least twenty- one members, namely, the President, Vice Presidents, Secre- taries, Treasurer, Registrar, and Historian, ex-officio, and thirteen others, elected as provided by the Constitution. They shall judge of the qualifications of the candidates for admission to the Society, and elect the same . They shall have Constitution Duties. XXII BY-LAWS. Annual Report. Quorum. Ayes and Nays. charge of all special meetings of the Society, and shall, through the Secretary, call special meetings at any time, upon the written request of five members of the Society, and at such other times as they see fit. They shall recommend plans for promoting the objects of the Society, shall digest and prepare business, and shall authorize the disbursement and expendi- ture of unappropriated money in the treasury for the payment of current expenses of the Society. They shall generally superintend the interests of the Society, and execute all such duties as may be committed to them by the Society. At each annual meeting of the Society the Board shall make a general report. At all meetings of the Board of Management, five or more shall be sufficient for the transaction of business. Ayes and nays shall be called at any meeting of the Society upon the demand of five members. SECTION VIII. AMENDMENTS. Proposal Of Amendments. Action. No alteration of the by-laws of the Society shall be made unless such alteration shall have been openly proposed at a previous meeting and entered in the minutes with the name of the member proposing the same, and shall be adopted by a majority of the members present at a meeting of the Society. THE INSIGNIA. The Cross of The Sons of the American Revolution is of silver, with four arms and eight points, similar in size and appearance to the Chevalier's cross of the Legion of Honor of France. The arms are of white enamel, the center a gold medallion with a bust of Washington, in profile, within a ribbon of blue enamel on which in gold letters is the legend: — LiBERTAS ET PaTRIA, the motto of the order. A laurel wreath in green enamel encircles the medallion, midway between it and the points of the cross. The reverse is like the obverse, except that the medallion bears the figure of the Continental soldier, and is surrounded by a ribbon of blue enamel upon which are inscribed in letters of gold the words : — Sons of the American Revolution. The cross is surmounted by an eagle in gold and silver. The rosette is of silk ribbon, blue and white, and is to be worn in the upper left button-hole of the coat, on all occasions and at will, except when the cross is in use. Major Goldsmith Bernard West, of Alabama, by whom the insignia were designed, explains their significance as follows: — "The cross of four arms and eight points, enameled in white, is drawn from the cross of the ancient chivalric order of St. Louis of France; but the monarchical lilies which were placed between the arms have been left out. In their place we surround them with the laurel wreath of Republican victory. There are two good reasons for selecting the form of the Cross of St. Louis as the ground-work of our decoration. It was the Grand Master of that Order, Louis XVI., who had lent to America that aid she so badly needed to win the fight for National Independence; and nearly all of the gallant French XXIV THE INSIGNIA. officers who personally fought with and for the Colonies were Chevaliers of the Order. It is intended as a recognition of them and their services, and as a compliment to their country and their descendants that we propose, in some part, the adoption of the form of the historic Cross of St. Louis. "The medallion in gold, which forms the center of the cross on its obverse side, and bears the bust in profile of Washing- ton, appears too appropriate to demand explanation or argu- ment. The legend surrounding it in letters of gold on a ribbon of blue enamel, 'Libertas ct Patria,' appears at once in keep- ing with the general design and in harmony with the principles and purposes of the order. "The reverse side of the cross is like the obverse, except that the reverse bears on the gold medallion the figure of a 'Minute-Man,' a type of those old Continental Soldiers who Left their ploughshares in the mould, Their flocks and herds without a fold, and rushed to the defense of liberty and country at the first sound of the gun, the echo of which was heard around the world, — one of the heroes and martyrs of Valley Forge. "The decoration is to be suspended from the left breast or collar by a blue ribbon with white edges. Blue and white were the colors of the uniform of Washington's staff." THE OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY. [From the address by Rev. John McDowell Leavitt, D.D., LL.D.] "The Society of the Sons of the American Revolution rests on a wider basis than military rank and service. Pen and voice may be as useful to liberty as the sword. By essay and oration Henry, Adams and Jefferson accomplished as much for their country as Gates or Green or Putnam by the most bril- liant exploits of battle. Washington as commander was no more a patriot and benefactor than Washington as president. Nor must the heroes of the ranks be overlooked. Descendants of the sailor, soldier and civilian are recognized by our society; membership is based on true patriotic service, however and wherever rendered, during the war of the Revolution. " Two paths open to our society: "It may live in and for the past, it may collect and treasure relics, trace ancestors and extol the heroic era of our nation. Many naturally look behind rather than before for the golden age of our humanity ; and let us not discourage those inclined to venerable fashions. " But we have a nobler mission than devotion to the antique and aesthetic. As our society grows out of the past of our country, so it may become a potent element in the future. "Our country has been exempt from the peculiar trials of other lands. Humanity began with us anew. The Atlantic is the barrier between us and the past; hence on our soil liberty had an unimpeded growth. New obstacles gave new strength. Colonial struggles made our American manhood. The Revo- lution was our evolution. Nor has growth stopped; we are a century in advance of our ancestors. Our prisons are better; XXVI THE OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY. our schools are better; our colleges are better. Steam and electricity have enlarged our views even more than our means of intercommunication. " Where then was the glory of our fathers.? Rich patriots imperiled wealth and life for liberty. Poor citizens, through rags and blood and hunger and defeat, stood by the cause until victory was won. States quarreled and delayed their quotas. Congress was sometimes divided and uncertain ; cabals and ambitions and dishonesties were not wanting; but always there were men faithful to their leaders and their country. Valor and virtue triumphed. Hard experience made successful both revolution and constitution. Greece, Rome and England instructed our fathers; but American needs and trials were their best teachers. Measured by truest tests their patriotic wisdom has never been excelled. Out of bitter and paltry contests emerged a structure of liberty to endure forever. Amid cramping and belittling influences our constitution was shaped into a comprehensive instrument adapted to social needs, political requirements and territorial magnitudes of which its framers could have had no conception. For all time and all the world it stands their immortal monument. "Let our society study the work of our fathers as it is — it wants no glamour of a golden mist. When fancy converts our Revolutionary sires into ideals we lose interest. Men, not statues, stir living thoughts. History to be profitable must be honest. Whatever the frailties of others in peace and war, Washington without stain or cloud stands forth in solitary glory. "Nor should the Sons of the American Revolution forget that from the beginning they had a mingled blood. New England was moulded by the British Puritans. The Dutch controlled New York. Quakers and Germans settled Penn- sylvania. English Catholics largely shaped Maryland. Swedes prevailed in Delaware. Virginia boasted cavalier and church- man. The Scotch and Scotch-Irish immigrated extensively into New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia and the Carolinas. Florida was long the home of the Spaniard. In Louisiana, French and Creoles were numerous. Huguenots leavened our whole republic. Our manhood grew from mixed national- THE OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY. XXVII ities. Side by side their representatives fought in the Revolu- tion, and side by side evolved the constitution. To hide these facts is to be ashamed of ourselves. Origin creates our sym- pathy for humanity, hence in Americans these promises of universal liberty. We do not fear that immigrant nations will cloud or exhaust our sun. Rather we believe that they will diffuse the light until it circles the world. As statesmen we may wisely provide against an overwhelming flood of paupers, criminals and adventurers ; but as citizens and christians, we will welcome opportunities of moulding to republicanism and religion those who will be heralds of truth and apostles of the millennium. "And this leads to the noblest work of our society. We might specify much to be accomplished by gathering materials for history and souvenirs of the Revolution, by studying men, manners and measures, and by devising the best methods of perpetuating the memories of our ancestors and celebrating their achievements. These, however, will naturally be consid- ered in their time. But one noble field of usefulness should be extended to our view. " But why confine ourselves to a single country.? On our own continent we have fifty republics. Let us form with them leagues of fellowship. Our hearts should embrace self- government throughout the world. The American instinct for freedom is irrepressible; it cannot be restricted by bonds of nationalities. Humanity is its object. We only express and exercise a national impulse when we cultivate fraternity with men everywhere, who, by justice and intelligence, strive to elevate the people from sovereignty and help forward for earth a day of light and love and liberty." AMERICAN PATRIOTISM. [From the Address of the Honorable Chauncey M. Depew, President of the New York Society, at the Hartford Convention of the Sons of the American Revolution, 1891.] " No people have ever founded a State which has become a great nation, have ever preserved and enlarged their liberty, unless they had largely developed the qualities of imagination and of sentiment. They must deify the heroes to whose valor and statesmanship they owe their origin. They must picture in the eye ot the mind the battlefields upon which their forefathers fought and con- quered. They must see the clash of contending armies, hear the roar of the mighty hosts and the din of battle, and be enthused on patriotic occasions with the fire and the spirit which animated the men who created them as a power in the earth. " This republic has advanced or stood still just in proportion as its people have revered the men of the revolution and practiced the principles of the Declara- tion of Independence and of Washington's farewell address. ******** " Every society like this of the Sons of the American Revolution is a seminary of patriotism. To belong to it is a liberal education for liberty. Four- teen millions of people have landed in this country and become absorbed in our population since 1820. Of our 63,000,000 of population nearly one-half have no ancestry or traditions which go back to the Revolutionary War. it is our duty for the good government of to-day and the greatness and growth of the republic in the future that the unification of our people shall be not only in loyalty to the flag and devotion to the Constitution, but in pride in the traditions and the history of our past. ******** " We have need to cultivate stalwart and robust Americanism. We do not want an Americanism which is boastful and puffed up, but one of the objects of this association is to cultivate that knowledge of a glorious origin, an unequaled century, a land developed in one huncired years beyond any example in recorded time and yet in its infancy, a nation to-day one of the most powerful upon earth, an educational system which disseminates at the public expense universal education, a patriotism which is equal to all the requirements of troublous periods and peaceful times, which, when thoroughly appreciated and understood, will enable us to contemplate the past, knowing the present and defining the future, and say to our children, ' The proudest title on earth is to be an American citizen.' " BENJAMIN FRANKLIN [from a painting BV DUPLESSIS, in the CORCORAN GALLERY OF ARt] Znembcrsl?tp KoII 1890 The list now printed is a preliminary one and incliides only the names of those concerned in the organization of the Society who had completed their records before the date of publishing. It is intended to issue a new list early iu the year 1891. The Membership Roll is the first tribute of the Society to the memory of the Patriots of the Revolution. Since its manifest object is to keep in the minds of the members of the Society the natnes and services of the men of Revolution- ary times in whom they have the most intimate and personal interest, it has been deemed appropriate to enumerate under the name of each member, not only the name of the ancestors from whom he derives his own strongest claim to member- ship in this patriotic society, but th^se of collateral con- nections, whose services he tnay desire to commemorate. In certain instances incidental mention is made of pion- eers of freedom, who began to hew out a path for American institutions in the prim,itive forest, years and generations before the final struggle. Allusion is also made to many patriots of the period iminediately folloiuing the Revolu- tion, who fought in defense of American freedom and for the perpetuation of the Constittition which was the great result of the Revolutio7i* Incidental allusions, statements of collateral relationship, and others in relation to deduc- tions believed to be trustworthy, but not as yet fully au- thenticated, are enclosed in brackets. *The great work of the American Revolution was not in the maintenance of the rights of the British Colonies by argument, nor in the conflict of force by war, but in the formation of the Constitution — The war [of 1812] was the ordeal through which the Constitution of the United States as the Government of a great nation was to pass. John Quincy Adams, 1836, Membership Roll TF we have rescued one name from oblivion, and restored it to the remembrance of the American people, we shall be happy. Time has waged a fearful war on the memorials of Revolutionary days, and they lie scattered everywhere, at the feet of the desolator, and he who will not, if possible, gather, preserve, and record the precious fragments is guilty of in- direct war on the history of a blood-purchased nation. W. T. R. Saffell, 1858. Charles Abert. 34 Lawyer. Born in Mount Holly, N.J., Sept. 19, 1822. Col Silvanus Thayer Abert. 35 U. S. Agent. Bom in Philadelphia, July 22, 1828. Sons of Col. John J. and £l/en M. Stretch Abert: grandsons of John and Sybil Matlack Stretch: great- grandsons of Timothy and Elizabeth Claypole Matlack. Timothy Matlack (1736- 1829), of Pennsylvania, "the fighting Quaker," was Member of the Committee of Safety; Colonel of Militia; Deputy in the State Confer- ence of 1776; Delegate to the Continental Congress, i78o-'87; Secretary of the Council of State, and Master of the Rolls, 1 78 1. Maj. George Augustus Armes. 71 Captain and Brevet Major U. S. Army (Retired). Born in Fairfax Co., Vir- ginia, May 29, 1844. Son of Josiah O. and Olive Orcutt Armes: grandson of James and Clarissa Armes Orcutt. James Orcutt ( 1 763-1847), of Goshen, Mass., was an officer in the Massachusetts Militia in the Hudson River campaign.* ♦James Orcutt served at West Point and was on duty in command of a Company detailed to guard the great chain, the night after Arnold's treachery. The American column sent forward for the safety of the Forts, and for the arrest of Arnold, passed his guard in their ardor, without replying to his challenge. — Sylvanus : History of the Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts, I, p. 491. 4 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Amory Austin. 51 Born in Boston, July 24, 1849. Son of Ivers James and Elizabeth lurner Austin : grandson of James Trecothic and Catharine Gerry Austin : great-grandson of Jonatiian Loring and Hatmah Ivers Austin. Jonathan Loring Austin (1748- 1826), patriot and soldier, was Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of War, 1777; Government Agent in Europe, i778-'8o; Major in Langdon's Regiment; Aide to Gen. Sullivan, and Secretary to Benjamin Franklin, Minister to France. Great-grandson of Elbridge and Ajtn Thompson Gerry. Elbridge Gerry (1744- 18 13), statesman and patriot, was member of the Massachusetts Committee of Correspon- dence, 1773, of the First Provincial Congress, i774-'5, and the Continental Congress; and Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Dudley Baldwin. (Cleveland, o.) loi Born in Ballston, N. Y., Aug. 23, 1809. Son of Seth and Abigail Kellogg Baldwin. Seth Bald- win (1760- 1 828), of Norwich, Vt, served as Private in Hossington's Rangers and in Herrick's Green Mountain Rangers, i776-'77; was present at Burgoyne's surrender, and in frontier militia service, 1 777-'8o ; and was Sergeant- Major, 2d Reg't Connecticut Continental Line, 1 781 -'83. Ebenezer Burges Ball. h Born in Loudon County, Virginia, Mar. 17, 1817. Son of Dr. Charles Burges and Lucy T. Potter Ball: grandson of Col. Burges and Frances Washington Ball. Burges Ball (1749- 1800), of Lancaster Co., Va., was Volunteer Aide to Washington, and Captain and Lieu- tenant-Colonel commandant in the Continental Line. [Great-grandnephew of General Washington.] Capt. George Washington Ball. 102 Born in Loudon County, Virginia, Feb., 19, 1828. Principal of Springwood Seminary, i866-'73. [Son of Fayette and Majy Thomson Mason Ball. Fay- ette Ball (1791-1835), godson of George and Martha Washington, to the first of whom he was grandnephew, and otherwise variously related, was a subaltern in the COL. TIMOTHY MATLACK At the ao^e of forty-five [Ki;().M I'AIXI INC i;V I'KALK I\ 1 78 1 MEMBERSHIP ROLL. war of 1812, under his brother Capt. G. W. Ball (1789- 1812), who died in service.] Grandson of Surges and Frances Thornton Washingtoti BaH. Col. Burges Ball (1749- 1800), for a time Vol- unteer Aide to Washington, subsequently equipped, largely at his own cost, the Regiment which he com- manded through several campaigns and was captured with at Charleston, 1780.* Grandson of Thomson and Sarah Chichester Mason. Gen. Thomson Mason (1759-1800), of " Hollin Hall," as a subaltern of Virginia Troops, "commanded a platoon in a pretty action at Williamsburg," May, 1781, and his brothers, George Mason and William Mason, were Captains in the Virginia Line, the latter in command of a Company of Volunteers from Fairfax County in the South Carolina campaign of 1781. Great-grandson of George and Anne Eilbeck Mason. George Mason (i725-'92), of " Gunston Hall," Fair- fax Co., Va., patriot. Member of the Committee of Safety and the Constitutional Convention, was author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights — "the American Magna Charta." His brother, Thomson Mason (i727-'8s), patriot, was a signer of the Westmoreland Association. Great-grandson of Charles and Mildred Thornton Washington. Col. Charles Washington (1738- 1799), patriot, was a signer of the Westmoreland Association. [Great-grandnephew of General Washington.] Joseph Josiah Gilbert Ball. 95 Doorkeeper, U. S. Senate. Born in Orange, Mass., June 19, 1828. Son of Josiah and Hannah Albee Ball: grandson of Asa and Alice Haywood Albee. Asa Albee (i 753-1843), of Mendon, Mass., was Corporal in Capt. Jennison's Company of Minutemen, 1775. Hon. George T. Beck. (Beckton, Wyoming.) 157 Speaker of the Wyoming Senate. Born in Lexington, Ky.,June 28, 1855. Son of Senator James Burney 2CCidi Jane IV. A. Thorn- ton Beck : grandson of George Washington and Margaret * CoL. Ball was impoverished by his expenditures in the cause of Liberty, amount- ing to at least sixty thousand dollars. See House Report 443, 26th Congress. SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Buckner Thornton: great-grandson of John and Jane Washhigton Thornton.* John Thornton was Cap- tain, 3d Regiment, Virginia Continental Line, 1776. Major and Lieutenant-Colonel 1777, and in 1781, as a Continental officer under Lafayette, commanded a Regi- ment of Militia in the Cornwallis campaign. Great-grandson of Ariss and Lucy Hooe Buckner: great-great-grandson of Richard and Eliza Ariss Buck- ner. Richard Buckner, of "Albany," Westmoreland Co., Va., was Member of the Westmoreland Committee of Safety, 1 775-'6, and signer of the Westmoreland Asso- ciation, 1766. [Great-great-grandson of Augustine and Anne Aylett Washington, and great-great-grandnephew of General Washington.] *AUL BECKWITH. 43 Born in St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 22, 1848. Son of Frederick Williams and Tullia Chouteau Paul Beckwith : grandson of John Williams and Mary Floyd Smith Beckwith : great-grandson of John and Martha Williams Beckwith. John Beckwith (1752-1835), of Prince George Co., Md., was Sergeant in Hazen's Reg- iment, Maryland State Troops; his brother, George Beckwith (1745- ), was Captain, Bailey's Regiment, Maryland State Troops, and was killed in service. . Of his * On the day before his death Senator Beck wrote to the Secretary of the Sons of the American Revolution, expressing his regret that he was not personally eligible. but saying that he was much pleased to know that his son could become a mem- ber. An editorial in the Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette commented as follows upon the incident: "The case of Senator Beck, in his relation to the order of the Sons of the Ameri- can Revolution, is that of many foreign born citizens. Friends of Senator Beck represent his satisfaction as intense over the discovery that his son was eligible to membership in such a society. All who enjoyed his acquaintance know that he was a devoted American. He loved Scotland, but his allegiance and his heart were here. It is not strange. The fla^' had deep meaning for him. It repre- sented a land where a poor boy without means, and with only a brave heart and strong hands to work with, could rise to a seat in its Senate. But he was proud that through his boy he could connect his name with the patriots who achieved the independence that the flag represents. And he had the satisfaction of knowing not only that his boy was eligible because he could trace lineage back not only to a Revolutionary soldier, but to the nearest relatives of the commander-in-chief of the American army." MEMBERSHIP ROLL. own cousins, William Beckwith, was Major, i6th Mary- land Regiment, and William, George, and Benjamin Beckwith were privates in Maryland Regiments. [Great-grandson of Auguste Chouteau, founder of St. Louis, whose son, Gabriel Chouteau, was Lieutenant of Missouri State Troops in the war of 1812 ; and grand- son of Col. Rene Paul, officer of Engineers under Na- poleon I.] ^ Great-grandson of T. t-. Smith, private in the Militia of Kentucky Co., Va., killed in 1786, and his wife, Mary, sister of Col. John Floyd (killed in Indian war, 1786), Colonel of the Militia of Kentucky Co., Va., 1781. [Great-grandnephew of Gen. Otho Holland Wil- liams (1749-1800), of Prince George Co., Md., Adjutant General of the Southern Army.] Hon. Charles Addison Boutelle, M. C. 158 (Bangor, Me.) Representative in Congress. Born in Damariscotta, Me., Feb. 9, 1839. Son of Charles and Lucy A. Curtis Boutelle: grandson of John and Lucy Priest Boutelle: great-grandson of William and Rachel Wood Boutell. William Boutell (1755-1835), of Leominster, Mass., marched to Cam- bridge with the Worcester County Minutemen, on the alarm of April 19, 1775, and in 1777 served in Colonel Cushing's Regiment of Militia, and fought at Ben- nington, and in Colonel Stearns' Regiment at Sara- toga.* Great-grandson of Levi and Mary Brooks Priest. Levi Priest (1761-1828), of Lancaster, Mass., enlisted at the age of fourteen, and served through the war. He was a private in the loth Massachusetts Bay Regiment (Continental Line), i777-'8o, and in Hallet's Regiment, Massachusetts Militia, in the Rhode Island campaign of 1780, and served, as Corporal, in Drury's Regiment Massachusetts Militia, at West Point, 1781. •a copy of his diary, with the history of his experiences at Bennington, has been placed by Mr. C. A. Boutelle in the archives of the Society. 8 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. James THACHER BOUTELLE, M. D. (Hampton, Va.) 134 Physician. Born in Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 6, 1845. Son of Captain Charles O. and Susan L. Bartlett Boutelle: grandson of William and Susan Thacher Bartlett: great-grandson of James Thacher, M, D. (17S4-1844), of Barnstable, Mass., Surgeon in the Continental Army, in service from Bunker Hill to Yorktown, and author of "A Militai'y Journal dur- ing the American Revolutionary War," published in 1823. Col. John Bryan Bowman. . 52 Born in Mercer Co., Ky., Oct. i6, 1824. Son of John and Mary Mitchum Bowman: grandson of Abraham and Sarah Henry Bowman. Col. Abra- ham Bowman (1749-1837), of Fayette Co., Ky., a native of Shenandoah Co., Va., served six years and ten months as Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel of the 8th Regiment, Virginia Continental Line, and was at Ticon- deroga, Monmouth, Germantown, and Valley Forge, and later with his brother in Kentucky. His brother. Col. John Bowman (d; 1784), was County Lieutenant and Colonel Commandant of the Militia of Kentucky Co., Va., i776-'8i, and engaged in many bloody con- flicts with the Indians and their British allies in the Western country. Another brother, Major Isaac Bow- man (d. 1779), was one of the bravest and most trusted officers of Gen. George Rogers Clarke's Expedition for the conquest of the West, and was killed in battle at Fort Patrick Henry, Aug. 14, 1779.* Another brother, Capt. Isaac Bowman, was Quartermaster on the Staff of George Rogers Clarke, and while in command of an ex- pedition with boats and supplies for the Falls of the Ohio, was captured with all his men by Indians, and held in long, cruel captivity. He died in Virginia in 1826. *His Journal and Letters, printed in "Almon's Remembrancer," London, viii, give one of the fullest and best accounts of the Expedition. MEMBERSHIP ROLL. Charles Augustus Boynton. 125 Journalist. Born in West Stockbridge, Mass., Sept. 30, 1836. Gen. Henry Van Ness Boynton. Journalist. Born in West Stockbridge, Mass., July 22, 1835. Sons of Charles Brandon and Maria Van Buskirk Boynton: great-grandsons of Caleb Boynton, Jr. : great- great-grandsons of Caleb Boynton, Sr. Caleb Boyn- ton, Sr,, and his sons, Caleb Boynton, Jr., and Samuel Boynton, of Stockbridge, Mass., served as Privates in the Berkshire Minutemen (Col. Patterson's Regiment) in the alarm of April 19, 1775, and also in the Canada Campaign. Caleb Boynton, Sr., was Private in the 26th Regiment of Foot, Massachusetts Continental Line, 1775. Caleb Boynton, Jr., fought at Bunker Hill. Grandsons of Philip Van Ness and Wealthy Ann Day Van Buskirk : great-grandsons of Martin Van Buskirk (1755-1828), of Cambridge, N. Y., Private of New York Militia, in service under Montgomery in the Can- ada Campaign. Charles Hudson Boynton. 126 Journalist. Born in Cincinnati, May 19, 1868. Son of Charles Augustus and Maretta Hudson Boyn- ton, and great-great-great grandson of Caleb Boynton, Sr., already mentioned. John Ely Brackett, M. D. 76 Physician. Born in Rochester, Indiana, Dec. 31, 1846. Son of Lyman Stebbins and Eliza A. Rannells Brackett : grandson of James and Eliza Bennett Ely Brackett : great- grandson of Joseph and Mary Nye Brackett. Joseph Brackett (1740-1813), of Greenland, New Hampshire, was First Lieutenant in the 13th Company, New Hamp- shire Cavalry. George Lothrop Bradley. 53 Born in Providence, R. I., Oct. 4, 1846. Son of Charles Smith and Sarah Manton Bradley: grandson of Charles and Sarah Smith Bradley : great- lO SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. grandson of Jonathan K. and Jtidith ThurIo7v Smith : great-great-grandson of Hezekiah and Hephzibah Ki?7i- ball Smith. The Rev. Hezekiah Smith, D. D. (1737- 1805), of Haverhill, Massachusetts, was Chaplain in the Continental Army, 1776-80. "In encouraging the soldiers and ministering to the wounded, he repeatedly exposed his life in battle." Hon. Walter Lawrence Bragg. 54 Member of the Inter-State Commerce Commission. Born in Lowndes County, Alabama, Feb. 28, 183S. Son of Newport and Martha W. Crooke Bragg: grandson of Peter and Abigail Brewton Bragg. Peter Bragg, a native of Fauquier County, Virginia, fought as a private soldier of Virginia troops at the battles of Hobkirk's Hill and Guilford Court House, participated in the siege of Yorktown, and was present at the surrender of Cornwallis. Great-grandson of Capt. Andrew Barry, of Spartan- burg, S. C, who led his company of partisan troopers at The Cowpens, Kettle Creek, Eutaw Springs, and Musgrove's Mill, and of Mrs. Kate Barry, patriot, scout, and courier, present at the battle of The Cowpens.* Hon. Clifton Rhodes Breckinridge, M. C. 142 (Pine Bluff, Arkansas.) Representative in Congress from Arkansas, iSSs-'go. Born in Fayette Co., Ky., November 22, 1846. Son of Gen. John Cabell and Mary C. Biirch Breckin- ridge: grandson of Joseph Cabell and Mary Clay Smith Breckinridge: great-grandson of John and Mary Hop- kins Cabell Breckinridge. The Hon. John Breckin- ridge (1760-1806) was a subaltern in the Virginia Militia, and a Member of the House of Burgesses, 1780. Great-grandson of Rev. Samuel Stanhope and Ann Witherspoon Smith : great-great grandson of Rev. John * " Every man, woman, and child of the name of Barry who may ever live in our great country, from now until the last syllable of time, will only be following the light of the highest earthly virtues, in attempting to claim that they carry in their veins the blood of Kate Barry !" Speech of the Hon. William C. Preston. ^^zC^^ ^"^^^-t^^^^^^^in^^^ [krom a painting in possession of hon. clifton r. breckenridge, m. c] MEMBERSHIP ROLL. II WiTHERSPOON, D. D. (i722-'94), of New Jersey, patriot, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, etc. Great-great-grandson of Joseph and Mary Hopkins Cabell. Col. Joseph Cabell (i732-'98) commanded the Buckingham Militia at the siege of Yorktown. [Great-great-grandnephew of Col, Samuel Hopkins, of the loth Virginia Continental Line.] Gen. Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, U. S. A. 55 Inspector General, U. S. Army. Born in Baltimore, Md., January 14, 1842. Hon.Wm. Campbell Preston Breckinridge, M. C. (Lexington, Kentucky.) 7 Representative in Congress from Kentucky. Born in Baltimore, Md., Au- gust 28, 1837. Sons of Rev. Dr. Robert J. and Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge: grandsons of John and Mary Hopkins Cabell Breckinridge. The Hon. John Breckinridge (1760-1806) was a subaltern of Virginia Militia, and subsequently Senator from Kentucky and Attorney General of the United States; his brothers, Alexander and Robert Breckinridge, were Captains in the Virginia Line, and James Breckinridge served with Preston's Riflemen at Guilford. Grandsons of Francis and Sarah Buchanari Campbell Preston: great-grandsons of William and Stisan^ia Smith Preston. Col. William Preston (i729-'83), of Augusta Co., Va., Member of the Committee of Safety, Colonel of Virginia Troops, i775-'83, who received a fatal wound at Guilford C. H. Great-grandsons of Joseph and Mary Hopkins Cabell. Col. Joseph Cabell (i732-'98), of "Sion Hill," Mem- ber of the Virginia House of Burgesses, served as Sur- geon in the Continental Army, and commanded the Buckingham Militia at the siege of Yorktown. Great-grandson of William and Elizabeth Henry Campbell. Gen. William Campbell (i745-'8i), of Washington Co., Va., "the Hero of King's Moun- tain," was Captain, Colonel of Riflemen, and Brigadier General of Virginia Militia, who died in service in front 12 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. of Yorktown. His brother-in-law and cousin, Arthur Campbell (1742-1811), was Colonel-Commandant of the Washington County Militia, and led a detachment to King's Mountain, and had a son. Col. John B. Camp- bell, U. S. A., who fell in 1814, at Chippewa, where he commanded the right wing of Scott's army ; of his brothers, Lieut. John Campbell was second in command at Long Island Flats; Ensign Robert Campbell and Private Patrick Campbell fought at King's Mountain. [Great-grandnephew of Patrick Henry, patriot and soldier, and of Gen. Samuel Hopkins (1750-1819), Col- onel of the loth Reg't., Virginia Continental Line, who fought at Princeton, Germantown and Charleston.] Col. John Bell Brownlow. 103 Clerk, Post Office Department. Born in Carter Co., Tenn., October 19, 1839- Son of Hon. William Gannaway and Eliza O'Brien Brownlow: grandson of James and Susan Dabney Everett O'Brien: great-grandson of Joseph and Agnes Gaines Everett: great-great-grandson of James and Elizabeth Strotker Gaines. Capt. James Gaines (1742- 1830), of Chatham Co., N. C, a native of Culpeper Co., Va., commanded a company of North Carolina Militia at the battle of Guilford C. H., and was Mem- ber of the North Carolina Constitutional Convention.* [His son was Brig. Gen. Edmund Pendleton Gaines, U. S. A. (1777-1849), whose services in the defense of American Independence in 1812 were rewarded by the thanks of Congress.] Great-grandson of Brien O'Brien, of Lancaster Co., Pa., a soldier in the Revolution. [Great-great-great-grandnephew of Edmund Pendle- ton (1721-1803), patriot, Member of the First Conti- nental Congress; President of the Virginia Conventions of 1775 and 1776; Speaker of the House of Burgesses, 1777; and President of the Committee of Safety.] * Democratic Review, June, iS _3 ^ ^ MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 1 3 ROBERDEAU BUCHANAN. 26 Mathematician. Born in Philadelphia, Pa., November 22, 1839. Son of Pay Director McKean and Frances Selina Rober- deau Buchanan : grandson of Dr. George and Laetitia McKean Buchanan: great-grandson of Andrew and Susan Lawson Buchanan. Gen. Andrew Buchanan (i734-'86), of Maryland, patriot, was Member of the Baltimore Committee of Observation and Brigadier General of Maryland State Troops. Great-grandson of Thomas and Mary Borden McKean. The Hon. Thomas McKean, LL. D. (1734-1817), was Member of the Stamp Act Congress, 1765; Chairman of the Philadelphia Committee of Correspondence; Delegate to the Continental Congress from Delaware, i774-'83; Signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation; President of Dela- ware and Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, 1777; Colonel of the 4th Battalion, Pennsylvania Associators; President of Congress, 1781, etc., etc.; Vice President of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati. Grandson of Col. Isaac and Szisan Blair Roberdeau : great-grandson of Daniel and Mary Bostwick Rober- deau. Gen. Daniel Roberdeau (i727-'95), of Philadel- phia, was Member of the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety; Colonel 2d Battalion Pennsylvania Associators, and Brigadier General of Associators; Delegate to the Continental Congress, and Signer of the Articles of Confederation. Great-grandson of Samuel and Susan Shippen Blair. Rev. Samuel Blair, D. D. (1741-1818), was Chaplain in the Continental Army, and to the U. S. House of Rep- resentatives (ist and 2nd Congresses). Great-great-grandson of William and Susannah Harri- son Shippen. William Shippen, M. D. (1712-1801), of Philadelphia, patriot, was Delegate to the Continental Congress. Great-great-grandson of Joseph and Elizabeth Rogers Borden. Col. Joseph Borden, (i7i9-'9i), of New Jersey, 14 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. was Member of the Stamp Act Congress of 1765, and of the Burlington Committee of Safety, and Colonel of a Battalion of New Jersey Militia. [Great-grandnephew of Archibald Buchanan, Member of the Baltimore Committee; of William Buchanan, Member of the Baltimore Committee and of the Annap- olis Convention; and of William Shippen, M. D., Director General of Military Hospitals for the Armies of the United States; and great-great-grandnephew of Edward Shippen, Member of the Committee of Lancaster Co., Pa.] Gen. Franklin George Butterfield. 136 Chief of Special Examination Division, Bureau of Pensions. Brigadier Gen- eral National Guard of Vermont. Born in Rockingham, Vt., May ii, 1842. Son of David and Elmira W. Randall Butterfield: grandson of William and Esther Hale Butterfield. Wil- liam Butterfield (1757-1834), of Windham Co., Vt., was a private in Walker's Company, Barnes' Regiment, New Hampshire Militia, fought at Bunker Hill and Ticonderoga, and was pensioned in 1832. Great-grandson of William Butterfield, Sr. (born 1695), who, on the alarm of Lexington, though over eighty years old, seized his rifle and marched with the Minutemen to oppose the advance of the British. The next day he handed the weapon to his son William, then eighteen years old, saying: "The father is too old — the son must go! " Lieut. Charles Byrne, U. S. A. (Fort Thomas, Kentucky.) ist Lieutenant and Adjutant, 6th U. S. Infantry. Born in Fort Vancouver, Washington, March 2, 1855. Son of Major Bernard M. and Louisa Abert Byrne: grandson of Col. John J. and Elle7i M. Stretch Abert: great-grandson of John and Sybil Matlack Stretch : great- great-grandson of Timothy and Elizabeth Claypole Mat- lack. Timothy Matlack (1736-1829), of Pennsylvania, patriot and soldier, was Member of the Committee of Safety ; Deputy in the State Conference, and Colonel of MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 15 Militia, 1776; Delegate to the Continental Congress, i78o-'87; Secretary of the Council of State, 1781. Prof. William Daniel Cabell. i6 Principal of Norwood Institute. Born in Nelson Co., Va., January 13, 1834. Son of Mayo and Mary C. B. Daniel Cabell: grand- son of Col. William and Anne Carrington Cabell. Col. William Cabell, Jr. (1760-1822), was Major of Vir- ginia Militia, 1781. Of his brothers, Samuel Jordan Cabell was Captain, 6th Regiment, Virginia Provin- cials, 1776, Lieut. Colonel in the Continental Line, and a prisoner at Charleston, 1780 ; Joseph Cabell, patriot, was Member of the Convention of 1775, and Colonel of the Buckingham Militia at Yorktown; John Cabell was Member of the Conventions of 1775 and 1776 ; and Nicholas Cabell was an officer under Lafayette. Great-grandson of Dr. William and Margaret Jordan CabelL Dr. William Cabell, Sr. (i73o-'98), patriot, was a Signer of the Association of 1769, a Member of the Convention of 1775, and one of the Virginia Com- mittee of Safety. Great-grandson of Paul and Margaret Read Carring- ton. Judge Paul Carrington (1733-1818), patriot, was Member of the Virginia Convention of 1775, and one of the Virginia Committee of Safety. Col. Clement Carrington, wounded at Eutaw Springs, and Lieut. George Carrington, of Lee's Legion, were his sons. Great-great-grandson of Col. Clement Read, of Lunenburg Co., Va., patriot, and great-grandnephew of Col. Isaac Read (i746-'7S), of the 4th Regiment, Virginia Continental Line, Member of the Conventions of 1774 and 1775, and Signer of the Williamsburg Asso- ciation, who fought at White Plains, Trenton and Princeton, and died in the service; and of Col. Thomas Read (1745-1817), of Charlotte Co., Va., patriot, Member of the Conventions of 1775 and 1776, and of the Constitutional Convention, who commanded the Charlotte Militia on their march to the Dan, in 1781. i6 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Capt. Alfred Ball Carter. 109 (Woodbury, Georgia.) Born at " Mountain View," Fairfax Co., Va., November 25, 1823. Son of William Fitzhugh and Elizabeth L. ^a// Carter: grandson of Spencer Mottrom and Elizabeth Lando7i Carter Ball: great-grandson of Spencer Mottrom and Elizabeth Waring Ball. Spencer Mottrom Ball, of Westmoreland Co., Va., was a signer of the West- moreland Association, Feb. 27, 1766, and the Williams- burg Association, June 22, 1770; his grandfather, Joseph Ball, was uncle to Mary Ball, the mother of Washington. Great-great-grandson of Francis Waring, of West- moreland Co., Va., signer of the Association of 1766. Rev. John White Chickering. 56 Professor in the National Deaf Mute College. Born in Boston, Sept. 17, 1831. Son of Rev. John White and Frafices E. Knowlton Chickering: grandson of Joseph and Betsy White Chickering: great-grandson of John and Esther Kettell White. John White (1749-1830) was " one of the small patriotic band who resisted the British forces at the bridge at Concord, April 9, 1775." At the capture of Burgoyne he was present as a volunteer. Grandson of Joseph and Relief Stratton Knowlton. Joseph Knowlton, of Phillipston, was a private in the Massachusetts Militia. Alonzo Howard Clark. 46 Curator in the U. S. National Museum. Born in Boston, April 30, 1850. Son of Thatcher and Abby Carnes Clark : grandson of John and Abigail Eillie Carnes: great-grandson of Thomas Jenner 2iX\d Jemima Johnson Carnes; great-great- grandson of Edward -^w^ Joanna Jenner Carnes. Capt. Thomas Jenner Carnes (1753-1802), of Boston, was Cadet and Lieutenant in Thomas Wait Foster's Com- pany of Col. Richard Gridley's Regiment of Artillery, Mass. Line, May, 1775, to January, 1776; Captain of Marines of the ship "Commander," in the Penobscot expedition sent out by Massachusetts in 1779 : his brother MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 1 7 Edward Carnes, was Captain in the Boston Regiment of Militia, 1776. Major Edward Carnes (i730-'82), of Boston, was Member of the Sons of Liberty, Major of the Boston Regi- ment of Militia in 1776, and Head of Ward 6 under ap- pointment of Committee of Safety of Massachusetts. Of his brothers, the Rev. John Carnes was Chaplain in the Continental Army, and Joseph Carnes a Member of the Sons of Liberty. Appleton Prentiss Clark. 120 Lawyer. Born in Boston, Mass., April 19, 1826. Member also of the Massachusetts Society, S. A. R. Son of George and Charlotte Prentiss Clark: grand- son of Isaac and Martha Clark Clark. Isaac Clark (1760- 1 836), of Hubbardston, Mass., was Lieutenant in the Massachusetts Militia. Great-grandson of John and Elizabeth Norcross Clark. CaptainJohn Clark (1730-1816), of Hubbardston, Mass.. was Member of the Convention at Concord, Mass., in October, 1774, when "active preparations were made for the war which was seen to be inevitable," and Member of ist Provincial Congress of Massachusetts. Great-grandson of George Clark, of Rutland, Mass., private in Rutland Company of Massachusetts Militia. Grandson of Appleton and Silence Conant Prentiss: great-grandson of Colonel William Conant (1727- 181 1), of Charlestown, Mass., 2d Lieutenant-Colonel of I St Reg't Massachusetts Militia, 1774, afterwards Lieu- tenant-Colonel 4th Massachusetts Reg't. It was with CoL Wm. Conant and others that Paul Revere planned the hanging of Signal Lanterns in steeple of North Church, Boston, to give warning of the movement of the British troops toward Concord.* [Great-grandson of Joshua and Margaret Appleton Prentiss. Rev. Joshua Prentiss, of Holliston, Mass., was an ardent patriot: three of his sons were in the Revolu- 'See Letter of Paul Revere to Jeremy Belknap in the Proceedings of the Massa- chusetts Historical Society, 1878. 1 8 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. tionary Army, viz: — Rev. Thomas Prentiss, Chaplain of Massachusetts Troops at Roxbury Camp; Hon. Joshua Prentiss, of Marblehead, a pensioner. Lieutenant in Cap- tain Merritt's Company at Cambridge Camp; and Cap- tain Henry Prentiss (one of the Boston Tea Party), who was with the Massachusetts Troops for a time stationed at Trenton, N. J.] Great-great-grandson of Rev. Nathaniel Appleton, D. D. (1693- 1 784), of Cambridge, patriot, for sixty-two years a Director of Harvard College, who "exercised a powerful influence during the Revolutionary War in the Church, College and State." Allen Culling Clark. 122 Lawyer. Born at Philadelphia, Pa., February 23, 1858. Member of the Massachusetts Society, S. A. R. Appleton Prentiss Clark, Jr. 121 Architect. Born at Washington, D. C, November 13, 1865. Member of the Massachusetts Society, S. A. R. Sons of Appleton Prentiss and Elizabeth Woodman Clark, with lineage as shown above. Grandsons of Andrew and Hannah Pierce Bacon Woodinan : great-grandsons of Andrew and Mary Wood- man Woodman: great-great-grandsons of Joshua and Lois Woodinan Woodman. Joseph Woodman (1736- 1827), of Sanbornton, N. H., was Captain in the New Hampshire Militia. CjHorge Lafayette Clark. 57 Lawyer. Born in Chazy, N. Y., September 14, 1825. Son of Nathaniel and Mary Stiles Clark: grandson of Asa and Olive Rood Stiles. Asa Stiles (1768-1836). of Hebron, Conn., served as private in the ist Reg't Conn. Militia. 1780, at Middletown and New London, and in 1782 volunteered "for the war," in Gilbert's Reg't Conn. Militia. In the war of 1812 he served in the i ith U. S. Infantry, and fought at the invasion of Platts- burgh. in 1814, by the side of his son Asa Stiles, Jr. MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 19 His son, Ezra Stiles, fought at Lundy's Lane and Niagara. [Great-great-grandson of Nathaniel Clark, who fought under Wolfe at the capture of Quebec, in 1759. ji. Daniel B. Clarke, M. D. si President, National Banl< of the Republic, Washington. Born in Washing- ton City, March 3, 1825. Son of Walter and Rachel Boone Clarke: grandson of William and Mary A. Simjns Clarke. William Clarke was 2d Lieutenant in the yth Reg't, Maryland Conti- nental Line, 1777, and great-grandson of Hon. Robert Clarke (d. 1664), Member of the Maryland Assembly of 1649, which passed the first act for religious toleration. Grandson of John Boone, of Charles County, Md., Lieutenant, 3d Reg't, Maryland Continental Line. Prof. Frank Wigglesworth Clarke. 42 Chief Chemist, U. S. Geological Survey. Born in Boston, Mass., March 19, 1847. Son of Henry W. and Abby M. Fisher Clarke: grand- son of Samuel and Sarah Wigglesworth Clarke: great- grandson of Michael and Charlotte Goldsmith Wiggles- worth : great-great-grandson of Edward and Bridget Cogswell Wigglesworth. Col. Edward Wigglesworth (1742-1826), of Essex Co., Mass., commanded a Mass- achusetts Continental Regiment in the operations about Lake Champlain, and was at Monmouth and Valley Forge. [Great-great-grandson of Elizabeth Gray, who carried arms and ammunition for the American troops through the British lines about Boston.] CoL. Isaac Edwards Clarke. 172 Editor in U. S. Bureau of Education. Born in Deerfield, Mass.. July i, 1830. Son of Isaac and Harriet Avisden Clarke: grandson of John and Sarah Graves Amsden : great-grandson of Aaron and Mary Nicholson Graves. Aaron Graves (d. 1819), of Palmer, Mass., was Captain, 2d Militia 20 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Company of Palmer, and in 1782, Major, ist Reg't Hampshire Militia.* Lieut. Powhatan Henry Clarke, U. S. A. 176 (Fort Bowie, Arizona.) Second Lieutenant, loth Cavalry, U. S. A. Born in Rapides, La., October 9. 1862. Son of Prof. Powhatan and Lo7use F. Boyce Clarke, of Baltimore: grandson of Colin and Mary Goode Lyle Clarke, of " Warner Hall," Gloucester Co., Va. : great- grandson of Col. James Clarke, of "Keswick," Pow- hatan Co., Va., who commanded a Regiment at the battle of Craney Island, and who, as a youth, served in the Revolution. Great-grandson of James and Sally Bland Goode Lyle: great-great-grandson of Robert and Sally Bland 'Goode. Col. Robert Goode (1743-1809), of "Whitby," Chesterfield Co., Va., was Captain, Chesterfield Militia, i775-'6, and later Major and Colonel of Militia. His brother, Hon. Samuel Goode, M. C. (i 756-1822), of "Whitby," Mecklenburg Co., Va., was Lieutenant of Militia, 1775, and Member of the House of Burgesses, i779-'8i. Theirgreat-grandfather, John Goode (d. 1711), of "Whitby," was a soldier under Bacon in the Vir- ginia Rebellion of 1676. Great-great-great-grandson of Richard and Elizabeth Harrison Bland. Richard Bland (i7io-'76), of "Jor- dans," "the Cato of the Revolution," took part in all the early Virginia Conventions, and was Delegate to the Continental Congress of 1774: his nephews, Theod- KicK Bland and John Bannister, were Colonels in the Continental Army and members of the First Congress, and his grandnephew was "Light Horse" Harry Lee, of Lee's Legion. Horace Coleman, M. D. 59 Bureau of Pensions. Born in Troy, C, December 24, 1824. Son of Dr. Asa and Mary Keifer Coleman : grandson * Temple's History of Palmer, Mass., 1889. MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 21 of Dr. Asaph and Emiice Hol/is^er Coleman. Dr. Asaph Coleman (1747-1817) was Surgeon in the Connecticut State Line, Belden's Regiment, 1778, Woodbridge's Regiment, 1779. Great-grandson of Noah and Afary Wright Coleman. Dr. Noah Coleman, of Lebanon, Conn., was Surgeon's Mate in the 26. Reg't Connecticut Line, ly-jy-Si, and an original member of the Connecticut Society of the Cincinnati. Benjamin Azariah Colonna. 58 Assistant, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Born in Accomac Co., Va., October 17, 1843. Son of John Wilkins and Margaret Jones Colonna : grandson of Benjamin and Elizabeth Beach Colonna. Benjamin Colonna (1763-1857), of Accomac, Va., served in the Accomac Militia, first as a powder-boy, and later as a private. He also served in the War of 1812 as a private, in local defense, and received a pension. Great-grandson of Major and Joice Hutchiyison Co- lonna. Major Colonna (1736-1811), of Accomac Co., Va., was one of the irregular force employed in repelling the raids of foraging parties from the sea coast of the Eastern Shore of Virginia, and participated in many en- gagements. In 1 78 1 he was among the soldiers gathered about West Point to repel the advance of Cornwallis, and remained on duty until after the surrender at York- town. Charles William Coombs. ss Born in Knox Co., C, October 22, 1837. Son of William and Barbara E. McCray Coombs: grandson of John and Nancy Vennaiider Coombs. John Coombs (1754-1849), of Loudon Co., Va., was private in the Virginia State Regiment commanded by Col. John Alexander and Col. Dabney, and was present at the siege of Yorktown and the surrender of Corn- wallis. 22 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Lieut. Calvin Duvall Cowles, U. S. A. 153 Lieutenant, U. S. Army. Born in Elkville, N. C.,June 26, 1849. Son of Calvin Josiah and Martha Temperance Duvall Cowles: grandson of Simpson and Nancy Caroline Carson Duvall: great-grandson of Andrew and Ter7iper- ance Young Carson. Andrew Carson (1756- 1840), of Iredell Co., N. C, was Private and Captain of Partisan Rangers, i776-'8i, in service against the Carolina Tories and the Cherokee Indians, and in the engagements at Ninety-six, Shallow Ford and Briar Creek.* Pensioned by Act of Congress, March 4, 1831. William Van Zandt Cox. 15 Chief Clerk, U. S. National Museum. Born in Zanesville, C, June 12, 1852. Son of Col. Thomas Jefferson and Lucy Ann Van Zandt Cox: grandson of Ezekiel Taylor and Maria Matilda' Sullivan Cox: great-grandson of James and Ann Potts Cox. James Cox (1753-1810), of Monmouth Co., N. J., Brigadier General of Militia and commander of the Monmouth Brigade, entered the service as a pri- vate in 1770, and served at Monmouth and German- town : his brother, Asher Cox (1746-1812), of Monmouth Co., N. J., was private in Capt. Barnes Smock's Troop, Light Dragoons, New Jersey Militia. Capt. Robert Craig, U. S. A. 23 Captain, Signal Corps, U. S. Army. Born in Lehigh Gap, Pa., January 20, 1843. Son of Thomas and Katharine Hagenbicch Craig. Grandson of Thomas and Dorothy Briner Craig. Thomas Craig (1740-1832), of Craig's Settlement, Northampton Co., Pa., entered the service as Captain in 1776 ; was in the Canada Campaign; was appointed Lieutenant Colonel (1776), and was Colonel (i777-'83) of the 3d Pennsylvania Regiment, present at the battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth, and at Valley Forge; subsequently, 1783, Lieutenant of North- * a MS. narrative by Andrew Carson, in the archives of the Society, gives interest- ing details of partisan warfare in the South. MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 23 ampton Co., and in 1789 Major General, 7th Division, Pennsylvania Militia. Henry Lyon Crane. (Cincinnati, Ohio.) 96 Merchant. Born in New Albany, Ind., August 8, 1835. Son of Israel Cooper and Hannah Lyon Crane : grand- son of Israel and Polly Cooper Crane. Israel Crane (i755-'95). of Newark, N. J., was Cornet in the Essex Troop of Light Horse, which served at the battle of Long Island, and in the New Jersey and Pennsylvania campaigns; his brothers were also in the service, viz: — Abraham Crane, private, Essex Militia; Jonathan Crane, private, ist Reg't New Jersey Continental Line; Aaron Crane, private, 2d Reg't New Jersey Continental Line; and Capt. Nathaniel Camp, 2d Reg't Essex Militia, was his brother-in-law.* [Step-grandson of Obadiah Meeker (1738-1829), Cornet and Captain of the Essex Troop of Light Horse.] [Grandnephew of John Cooper, private, Morris County Militia; William Cooper, private, 2d New Jersey Establishment; and David Kirkpatrick, of Mine Brook, wounded in 1780; great-grandnephew of Capt. Benjamin Cooper, New Jersey Militia, and, by step- relationship, of Col. Cornelius Ludlow, Eastern Bat- talion, Morris Militia.] [Great-grandson of Henry Lyon, of " Lyon's Farms," private in the company of the 2d Reg't Essex Militia, f commanded by his own cousin, Capt. Abraham Lyon, also Captain 4th Battalion, 2d Establishment, New Jersey Continental Line.] Gen. James Jackson Dana, U. S. A. 60 Lieutenant Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General, U. S. A. Retired. Born in Waltham, Mass., April 9, 1821. Son of Samuel Luther and Ann Theodora Willard Dana; grandson of Luther and Lticy Giddings Dana. * Washington visited Captain Camp's home in Newark, while on the march in 1777, and gave him a six-pound howitzer, now in the Washington Museum at Morris- town. •JThis claim is a provisional one. 24 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Luther Dana (1763-1822), of Groton, Mass., who en- tered the U. S. Navy as Midshipman in 1780, and served until the close of the war. Mills Dean. 138 Lawyer. Born in Spartanburg, S. C, April 3, 1847. Son of Hosea Jefferson and Mary Owen Dean: grand- son of John and Mary Farrow Dean : great-grandson of Thomas and Rebecca Mountjoy Farrow. Thomas Far- row (1754-1843), of South Carolina, Captain of the "Spartan Band," a troop of partisan cavalry, engaged in constant struggles with the tories, as well as at the Cowpens, Musgrove's Mills, the sieges of Augusta and Ninety-six. He was wounded several times, and se- cured a pension. Three or four of his brothers were in the troop, from which the Spartanburg district received its name.* Great-grandson of Joel and Mary Brockman Dean. Joel Dean was private in the South Carolina Militia, and his son, John, married Mary Farrow — "the belle of Enoree." William Augustin De Caindry. 175 Chief Clerk, Office of the Commissary General of Subsistence, U. S. A. Born in Cobb Co., Ga., IVlarch 4, 1843. Son of Daniel Augustin and Mary Hudson McClain De Caindry : grandson of Daniel and Constance Denes De Caindry: great-grandson of Augustin and Mary Shields Rouxelin-Denos. Augustin Rouxelin-De;nos (1741-1806), a native of Caen in Calvados, France, en- listed in the Regiment d' Infanterie de Cambresis, March 5, 1760; attained the rank of Lieutenant, August 27, 1762, and returned to France, 1764, after four years' service in the Isle of France. Transferred to the Regijnent de Saintojige, 1775, he became Capitaine en Second, 1779, and in 1780 embarked for America with the army of Rochambeau. He was promoted to be *An interesting narrative in MS. is deposited in the archives of the Society. MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 25 Capitaine-Commandant, March 5, 1781, and having rendered distinguished service at the siege of Yorktown, was made a Chevalier de St. Louis* He was discharged at Baltimore, August 3, 1782, and settled in Yori^ Co., Va. He died in Baltimore, January 6, 1806. Hon. Josiah Dent. hs Lawyer, and ex-President Board of Commissioners, District of Columbia. Born in Charles Co., Md., August 26, 1817. Son of Dr. William Hatch and Catherine Bratiwer Dent: grandson of Hatch and Judith Poston Dent: great-grandson of John and Violetta Winnett Dent. Hatch Dent, of Charlotte Hall, Md., ist Lieutenant, I St Battalion of Light Infantry, Maryland Provincials, was captured at the battle of Long Island, and confined for two years in a British prison-ship. John Dent, of Charles Co., Md., patriot and soldier, was Member of the Maryland Convention of 1775, signer of the Articles of Association, and Brigadier General of Militia, Third District of Maryland. Hon. John W. Douglass. 124 President, Board of Commissioners, District of Columbia. Born in Philadel- phia, Pa., October 25, 1827. Son of Joseph M. and Martha A. Watkinson Douglass: grandson of John and Ha^inah Miller Douglass: great- grandson of John and Christina Holstein Douglass. John Douglass (died 1841), was Captain of a Company of Riflemen of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, i776.t James Taylor DuBois. 92 Editor of "The Inventive Age." Born in Great Bend, Pa., April 17, 1851. Capt. Richard Catlin DuBois. 62 First Lieutenant, U. S. Army, retired. Born in Great Bend, Pa., April i6, 1S42. *A photographic fac-simile of his diploma is in the possession of the Society. t Captain Douglass' commission, signed by Benjamin Franklin as President of the Pennsylvania Convention, is in the possession of his great-grandson. A later commission was signed by Washington. 26 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Sons of Joseph and B?nroy Taylor DuBois: grandsons of Abraham and Julia Bowles DuBois: great-grandsons of Minna and Marie Pittcnger DuBois. Minna DuBois, of Somerset Co., N. J., was Sergeant, id Battalion, New Jersey Militia, and his brother, Nicholas DuBois (1753-1824), a private in the same Battalion. Great-great-grandsons of Abraham DuBois (1726- 1793). of Somerset Co., N. J., was Captain, 2d Battalion, New Jersey Militia.* Grandsons of Benjamin and Foster Taylor : great-grandsons of James and Salome Partridge Taylor. James Taylor (1762-1832), of Franklin, Mass., en- listed in the Continental Army, and served at Valley Forge, and commanded a volunteer regiment at the battle of Plattsburg, 18 12. Great-great-grandsons of Benjamin Taylor, a soldier in the old French and Indian Wars, wounded and cap- tured at Fort Oswego in 1756, and in prison until 1759. James Francis Duhamel. 90 Born in Washington, D. C, August 5, 1858. Son of William J. C. and Elizabeth Hill Kennedy Duhamel : grandson of William and Heyirietta J. Hill Kennedy: great-grandson of Henry and Hester Brooke Hill. Henry Hill, Jr. (d. 1822), of Prince George Co., Md., was Captain in Colonel Marbury's Battalion, Maryland Continental Line, lyj-j-Si, attached to Small- wood's Flying Camp, in service at Trenton and Ger- mantown. Three of his sons served in the War of 1812. Grandson of James and Martha Seth Duhamel: great- grandson of William C. Seth (1757-1815), of Qiieen Anne Co., Md., who was Adjutant in Capt. Paul Ben- talon's Company, Pulaski's Legion, (i778-'8i), and was Captain of Maryland Militia in the East Maryland campaign of 1814, to repel British raids. = His son, Abraham DuBois, in 1783 made the first dies for the American coin- age in the U. S. Mint in Philadelphia. MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 27 [James Duhamel served in the 35th Regiment, Mary- land Militia, in the war of 1812.] Robert Edward Earll. 6i Curator, U. S. National Museum. Born in Waukegan, III., August 24, 1853. Son of Robert Cunningham and Sarah Montgomery Earll: grandson of Josiah and Electa Crissey Earle: great-grandson of Reuben and Mary Harrington Earle. Reuben Earle (1747-1823), of Leicester, Mass., a gun- smith, was a member of the Company of Militia which marched to Cambridge, under command of Captain Thomas Newhall, on the alarm of April 19, 1775. Oliver Earle, private, and James Earle, Captain, Massachusetts Militia, were his brothers. Prof. John Robie Eastman, U. S. N. 36 Professor of Mathematics, U. S. Navy. Born in Andover, N. H., July 29, 1836. Son of Royal F. and Sophronia Mayo Eastman : grand- son of John and Lydia Laha Mayo: great-grandson of Asa and Sarah Seabury Mayo: great-great-grandson of Thomas and Elizabeth Wing Mayo. Thomas Mayo (1725-1778), of Harwich, Mass., was member of a privateersman's crew; was captured by a British man- of-war, and confined for many months in a prison-ship in New York Harbor: he died in Newport, R. I., in 1778, on his way home after his discharge from the prison-ship, and as a result of his confinement. Otis Judd Eddy, M. D. 87 Physician and Medical Reviewer, U. S. Pension Bureau. Born in Ithaca, N. Y., June 30, 1846. Son of James and Maria Judd Eddy: grandson of Otis and Harriet Tracy Eddy : great-grandson of Wil- lard and Dorcas Matthewso7i Eddy. Willard Eddy (1760-1854), of Gloucester, R. 1., soldier and privateers- man, 1 776-' 80 ; was private of Rhode Island State Troops, in service at White Plains; sailor on the privateers "Boston" and "Providence," captured at the surrender of 28 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Charleston, May, 1780, and discharged at Philadelphia, June, 1780. A pensioner. Hon. Matthew Gault Emery. 45 President, Second National Bank of Washington. Born in Pembroke, N. H., September 28, 1818. Son of Jacob and Jane Gault Emery : grandson of Joseph and Hannah Stickney Emery. Joseph Emery (died 1821), was First Lieutenant, 2d Co., 9th Regiment (Sept. 5, 1775), Captain, 12th Co., 13th Regiment, New Hampshire Militia (March 4, 1779), on duty as recruit- ing officer.* Hon. Charles James Faulkner. 139 (Martinsburg, West Virginia.) U. S. Senator. Born in Martinsburg, Va., September 2i, 1847. Son of Hon. Charles J. and Boyd Faulkner: grandson of James and Sarah Mackey Faulkner. [Major James Faulkner (1776-1817] commanded the artillery at the battle of Craney Island, 1813.] [Grandson of Gen. Elisha Boyd (1769-1841), of Berkeley Co., Va., Colonel of 4th Virginia Militia, War of 1812.] Great-grandson of William Mackey (1738-1812), of Berkeley Co., Va., who was Captain in the Virginia Continental Line, and was wounded at the head of his company at Brandywine, and imprisoned. An original member of the Virginia Society of the Cincin- nati. [Grandnephew of Major Andrew Hunter Holmes, killed at the battle of Mackinac, i8i2-'i4.] Granville Fernald. no Journalist. Born in Otisfield, Me., January 23, 1828. Son of Otis and Sally Wight Fernald: grandson of Timothy and Betsy Ray Fernald: great-grandson of ■ His commissions, with the curious colonial seal of New Hampshire, are in the possession of his grandson, who has deposited photographs of them in the archives of the Society. MEMBERSKIP ROLL. 29 David and Eunice Whiting Ray. Great-grandson of David Ray (i 742-1822), of Wrentham, Mass., Sergeant of Minutemen at Lexington, and subsequently, as Ser- geant and Lieutenant, lyyG-'yg, in service at Ticon- deroga and in the Rhode Island expeditions: a prisoner in Canada, and exchanged June 28, 1777. Grand^n of Benjamin and Elizabeth Hancock Wight: great-grandson of Joseph Hancock, of Wrentham, Me., private in Capt. Lemuel Kollock's company of Col. John Smith's Regiment of Minutemen, who marched to Concord on the alarm of April 19, 1775. Edmund Flagg. 94 (West End, Fairfax County, Virginia.) Lawyer. Born in Wiscasset, Me., November 24, 1815. Son of Edmund and Harriet Pay son Flagg: grandson of Josiah and Anna Webster Flagg. Josiah Flagg (i748-'99), of Chester, N. H., was Private in Capt. Moses Baker's Company of Volunteers: he joined the Northern Continental Army at Saratoga, Sept., 1777, and was Lieutenant of Militia in service about Suffolk, 1781, in the Continental Line, i777-'8i, serving one year as Adjutant under Washington. Grandson of David and Naiicy Ingersoll Payson. CoL. David Payson, of Wiscasset, Me., was "private and corporal in the Revolutionary War," as shown in the Records of the Pension Office (Book H, Vol. I, p. 217). Great-grandson of John Webster, of Chester, N. H., "Captain of a company of New Hampshire Troops, 1747, for the protection of the inhabitants of Penny Cook;" and Colonel of the 5th Regiment, New Hamp- shire Militia. Surgeon James Milton Flint, U. S. N. 37 Surgeon, U. S. Navy. Born in Hillsborougii, N. H., Feb. 7, 1838. Son of Amos and Mary Stickney Flint: grandson of James and Mary Baldwin Stickney : great-grandson of 30 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Abraham Stickney. Lieut. Abraham Stickney (1733- ), of Dracut, Mass., served in CoL David Green's Regiment, Massachusetts Militia (Tewkesbury), 1776. and in 1778, in the Rhode Island Campaign, in Regi- ments commanded by Col. Drury and Col. Mcintosh. Great-grandson of Capt. Joshua Baldwin, Lieutenant of Tewkesbury Minutemen at the Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1776, and Captain of 8th Co., 7th Reg't, Mid- dlesex Militia, Col. Simeon Spalding. Hon. William Pierce Frye, LL. D. 32 (Lewiston, Maine.) United States Senator. Born in Lewiston, Me., September 2, 1830. Son of John M. and Alice M. Davis Frye: grandson of Dean and Joaiina March Frye: great-grandson of Joseph and Mary Robinson Frye. Capt. Joseph Frye resigned a Captaincy in the British Army to accept a commission in the Continental Service. His brother, Lieut. Nathaniel Frye, served through the war in the Continental Army. Great-great-great-grandson of Joseph and Mehitable Poor Frye. Gen. Joseph Frye (171 1-1794), of Andover, Mass., and Fryeburg, Me., was Ensign in Hale's Reg't at the Siege of Louisburg, 1745, Colonel under Montcalm in the French and Indian Wars, and Major General of Massachusetts Troops, 1775, and at the age of sixty- four, in 1776, Brigadier General in the Continental Army. His cousin. Gen. James Frye (1709-1776), of Andover, Mass., commanded the Essex Regiment at Bunker Hill, and a Brigade during the Siege of Boston. Edward Miner Gallaudet, LL. D. 47 President of the National Deaf Mute College, Kendall Green. Born in Hartford, Conn., February 5, 1837. Son of Thomas Hopkins and Sophia /^t'Z£V^r Gallaudet: grandson of Peter Wallace and Jarie Hopkins Gallaudet. Peter Wallace Gallaudet (1756-1843) was private secretary to General Washington during the New Jersey campaign. MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 31 Grandson of Miner and Rachel Hall Fowler: great- grandson of Noah and Deborah Pendleton Fowler. Col. Noah Fowler (1735-1825), of Guilford, Conn., was Captain of Minutemen, and marched to the relief of Boston, April 19, 1775, and Captain, 7th Conn. Militia, i777-'82, in service against Tryon in 1779; in 1782 he was Lieutenant Colonel commandant of the 28th Regiment, Conn. State Troops. Great-grandson of Thomas and Alice Howard Hop- kins: great-great-grandson of Samuel and Alice Hooker Howard: great-great-great-grandson of Nathaniel Hooker: great-great-great-great-grandson of Rev. Sam- uel Hooker: great-great-great -great-great-grandson of Rev. Thomas Hooker (1586-1647), first minister of the first church of Hartford, "where he was the first in America to advocate the setting up of free, constitu- tional democracy on this continent." Henry Wise Garnett. 132 Lawyer. Born in Washington City, March 31, 1849. Son of Dr. Alexander Yelverton Peyton and Mary Elizabeth Wise Garnett: grandson of Muscoe and Maria Battaille Garnett: great-grandson of Muscoe and Grace Fenton Mercer Giirnett Muscoe Garnett (1736-1803), of Essex Co., Va., patriot, was Member of the Essex County Committee of Safety. Grandson of Governor Henry Alexander and Ann Eliza Jennings Wise: great-grandson of John and Sar-ah Corbin Cropper 'Wxsq '. great-great-grandson of John and Margaret Pettit Cropper. Gen. John Cropper (1756- 1821), of "Bowman's Folly," Accomac Co., Va., patriot and soldier, was Captain, 9th Regiment, Va. Regulars (Feb. 5, 1776), Major, 7th Regiment, Va. Con- tinental Line (Jan. 4, 1777), in service at Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth; and Lieutenant Colonel (Oct. 27, 1777) until August 16, 1779, when he resigned. He commanded the nth Va. Regiment at Valley Forge, and after his resignation was Colonel of the Militia o. 32 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Accomac County until 1782, and was wounded and imprisoned at "the Battle of the Barges," November 28, 1782.* He was an original member of the Virginia Society of the Cincinnati. John Rowzee Garrison. 64 Deputy First Controller, U. S. Treasury. Born in Stafford Co., Va., August 27, 1838. Son of John Rowzee and Frances Hudson Garrison : grandson of Moses and Nancy Atchison Garrison : great- grandson of John and Betsy Ennis Garrison. John Garrison (1740- ), of Overwharton Parish, Stafford Co., Va., a private soldier, was present at the siege of Yorktown. His son, Moses Garrison, was a soldier in the War of 1812. [Great-grandson of Privates Hugh Atchison and John Rogers, of the Virginia Line or Militia, and nephew of Fielding Hudson, a soldier in the War of 18 12.] Gen. Horatio Gates Gibson, U. S. A. 17 Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General, U. S. A. Born in Baltimore, Md., May 22, 1827. Son of John and Elizabeth Jameson Gibson : grand- son of Horatio Gates and Catharine ^'A^z'^// Jameson : great-grandson of David and Elizabeth Davis Jameson. David Jameson, M. D., of York, Pa., patriot and soldier, fought in the French and Indian War of i755-'7, and contributed money and supplies to the Continental Army and to the Continental Congress, while in session at York, i777-'78; he was Captain, Brigade Major, and Lieutenant Colonel of Provincial forces in the French and Indian War, and Colonel of the 3d Battalion, York Militia, a marching regiment, i776-'77.f *A most interesting account of this engagement is given in a letter by Col. Cropper printed in the Calendar of Virginia State Papers, III, p. 391. Here, also, may be found his entertaining letter of resignation, addressed to the President of Congress, and copies of all his commissions. fA biographical memoir, with copies of Col. Jameson's commission from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is deposited in the archives of the Society. MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 33 Wilson Lindsley Gill, LL.B. Lawyer. Born in Columbus, Ohio, September i2, 1851. Son of John Loriman and Mary Smith Waters Gill: grandson of Asa and Kezia Paddock Richmond Waters : great-grandson of Asa and Lydia Smith Waters. Cap- tain Asa Waters (1760-1845), of Stoughton, Mass., enlisted at the age of sixteen in Robinson's Regiment, Massachusetts Militia, and in 1779, served in the ist Mass. Bay Regiment, Continental Line, in the Hudson River Campaign. Col. William Bradford, and Private Deborah Sampson (Robert Shurtliff ), were his cousins. [See Record of Prof. Thompson, p. 71.] [Great-great-great-great-great-grandson of William and Allis Rayner Sonthivorth Bradford. William Brad- ford (1589- 1 657) to escape British intolerance, came to America in the Mayflower in 1620, and was thirty-one years elected Governor of the Massachusetts Colony.] Col. George Washington Gist. 189 Born in Frederick Co., Maryland, July 20. 1819. Son of Independent and Rachel Gist Gist : grandson of Mordecai and Mary Sterritt Gist. Mordecai Gist (1743- 92) was Captain of the " Baltimore Independent Com- pany," the first raised in Maryland; in 1776, as Major of Maryland Troops he fought in the battle of Brooklyn and later in the New Jersey Campaign. In 1779 he was ap- pointed Brigadier-General in the Continental Army, and took a prominent part in the Southern Campaigns. George Brown Goode. i6o Assistant Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. Born in New Albany, Floyd Co., Indiana, February 13, 1851. [Son of Francis Collier and Sarah Woodruff Crane Goode : grandson of Philip and Rebekah Hayes Goode : great-grandson of Samuel and Mary Collier Goode. Samuel Goode (1749-92), of Charlotte Co., Virginia, was a private in the Charlotte Militia.] Grandson of Israel Cooper and Ha^inah Lyon Crane : great-grandson of Israel and Mary Cooper Crane. Israel 34 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Crane, Jr. (1755-95), of Newark, N. J., was private and Cornet in the Essex Troop of Horse, in service under Gen. Stirling in New Jersey. Gen. Matthias Ogden, Col. Aaron Ogden, Col. David Condit, and Joseph Crane, killed at Fort Delancey, were his cousins. [Great-grandson of Richard Hayes, of Raleigh Parish, Amelia Co., Va., later of Early Co., Ga., patriot, con- tributed horses and supplies, and sent into ser- vice his three sons, William Hayes, private Va. Conti- nental Line, and Richard and Henry Hayes, officers of partisans, the latter wounded at The Cowpens.] [Great-great-grandson of John Collier, of York Co., Va., a soldier under Admiral Vernon in the Carthagena Expedition, whose sons were Lieut. Thomas Collier, of the Virginia Continental Line, and John Collier, a soldier under Braddock, and in the Revolution. His nephews were Capt. Charles Hicks, Capt. Isaac and John and James Hicks, the two latter captured at Briar Creek, Ga., and Joseph, James, William and Wyatt Collier, all soldiers, the latter killed at Briar Creek,] [Great-great-great-grandson of Rev. John Cross, a leader in the New Jersey "Land-right Rebellion " of 1747 — a movement distinctly foreshadowing the Revo- lution,* and descendant in the seventh and eighth gene- rations of Jasper Crane, Capt. Samuel Swaine, and Henry Lyon, Jonas Wood, Joseph Frazee, and Thomas PiERSON, founders of Newark and Elizabeth, and partici- pants in a similar anti-rent revolt in 1671.! [Greatnephew of Gaines Goode and Burwell GooDE, privates, and Henry Jones Goode, Lieutenant of Ohio Militia, in service in 1812, and of John Goode, ist Lieutenant, 19th U. S. Infantry, 181 2, and an officer * A loyalist journal of the day describes him as "the Rev. Mr. John Cross, late Minister of Baskingridge, Secretary, Scribe and Counsellor to the worthy Mr. Roberts, commander-in-chief to the rioters in their expedition to Perth Am- boy, June 17, 1747, for which he and many others stand indicted for high treason." t "This was a contest for liberties, for solemnly guaranteed rights. Some portions of the blood of 1776 was creeping quietly in the ancestral veins of these worthy men."— Stearns: Historical Discourse, ist Church, Newark, 1853. MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 35 under "Bolivar, the Liberator," in the struggle for South American Independence, i8i5-'3o.] [Great-great-great-great-grandson of John and Martha Mackern£ss Goode. John Goode (1620-1711), of "Whitby," Varina Parish, Va., was a soldier under Bacon in 1676, in "the first armed uprising of Americans against the oppressions of Royal au- thority."] Richard Urquhart Goode. is Geographer, U. S. Geological Survey. Born in Liberty, Va., December 8, 1858. Son of John and Sallie Urquhart Goode: grandson of John and Ann M. Leftwich Goode: great-grandson of Edmund and Sarah Branch Goode. Edmund Goode, of Bedford Co., Va., private in the Virginia Continental Line, fought at Camden, Guilford C. H., and Eutaw Springs. He was great-grandson of John Goode, of "Whitby," a soldier under Bacon in the Rebellion of 1676.* Col. Robert Goode, of "Whitby," Chester- field Co., and Col. Samuel Goode, of "Whitby," Mecklenburg Co., Va., officers of Virginia State Troops, and Bennett Goode, Member of the Convention of 1775, were his cousins. Great-grandson of Joel Breckenridge Leftwich (1759- 1846), of Bedford Co., Va., who, as a non-com- missioned officer, fought at Germantown and Camden, and was Captain, 1781, and subsequently Brigadier General of Virginia Troops in the War of 1812. " In some measure his (Bacon's) movement foreshadowed the American Revolu- tion, which it preceded by a hundred years. His contrivance of a quasi- voluntary engagement of the people, as a substitute for legal authority, resembles strangely the 'Articles of Association ' exacted by the Congress of 1774 ; it is possible that the patriots of the later rebellion took lessons from him. For in 1774 the Virginia Gazette printed an account of Bacon's movement from an old manuscript, now lost, as a means of animating the people to resistance. The signature, ' Nathaniell Bacon, Generall by the consent of the People,' strikes a note that has a strangely modern and republican sound." Edward Eccleston, " Nathaniel Bacon, the Patriot of 1676," in Century Magazine, xl, 435. 36 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Prof. Joseph Claybaugh Gordon. is Professor in the National Deaf Mute College. Born in Piqua, O., March 9, 1842. Son of Rev. John McDaniel and Elizabeth Anii Fisher Gordon: grandson of George and Agnes McDaniel Gordon : great-grandson of George and Mary McLean Gordon. George Gordon (1755-1826), of Cumberland Co., Pa., was Corporal in the 6th Battalion, Pennsyl- vania Continental Line (Jan. 20, 1776), served in the Canada Campaign, and was at Three Rivers, and prob- ably at Ticonderoga. Great-grandson of John and Lydia Sturgeon Mc- Daniel. Col. John McDaniel [McDonnel or McDonaldJ, of Cumberland Co., Pa. (1746-1831), was Lieutenant [perhaps in the State Militia], and served in the Hudson River Campaign. He was subsequently Lieu- tenant Colonel of the 6th Brigade, Pennsylvania Militia. Morton Gordon. (Fair Haven, Ohio.) 159 Farmer. Born in Fayette Co., Ky., February 20, 1798. Son of Corporal George Gordon, of the Cumberland Battalion (6th), Pennsylvania Continental Line. John Requa Graham. 50 Clerk, Navy Department. Born in Sing Sing, N. Y., February 28, 1818. Son of Henry and Sarah Requa Graham : grandson of Dr. Isaac Gilbert and Auley Banker Graham. Isaac Gilbert Graham, M. D. (1760-1848), of Westchester Co., N. Y., was Surgeon's Mate, 7th Regiment, Mass- achusetts Continental Line. Grandson of John REauA, of Tarrytown, N. Y., a private soldier, who was wounded in service and hon- orably discharged. Great-grandson of Andrew Graham, M. D. (d. 1785), of Woodbury, Conn., patriot, was a Member of the Committee of Safety of Connecticut. MEMBERSHIP ROLL, Z^ Gen. Adolphus Washington Greely, U.S.A. 114 Brigadier General and Chief Signal Officer, U. S. Army. Born in Newbury- port, Mass., March 27, 1844. Son of John Balch and Frances Dunn Cobb Greely : grandson of Stephen and Betsey Balch Greely : great- grandson of Joseph and Prudence Clements Greely. Joseph Greely, patriot and minuteman, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, was Sergeant in Captain Ebenezer Colby's Company of Colonel Johnson's Regiment, and though nearly sixty years of age marched to Lexington on the alarm of April 19, 1775, and later contributed supplies to the Continental troops. [Son of John Balch Greely, who served in the war of 1812, in a Massachusetts Company at the mouth of the Merrimac; and grandson of Samuel Cobb who fought at Niagara and in other engagements of the time.} Bernard Richardson Green. 24 Civil Engineer, and Superintendent of the Congressional Library Building. Born in Maiden, Mass., December 28, 1843. Son of Ezra and Elmina Minerva Richardson Green : grandson of Bernard and Lois Diman Green. Bernard Green (1752-1834), of Maiden, Mass., was Corporal of Minutemen at the Lexington alarm; later Corporal. Sergeant, and Lieutenant of Middlesex Militia, ijjG-'yS, in service at Point Shirley, White Plains, Trenton and Princeton. Francis E. Grice. i6i Naval Architect. Born in Portsmouth, Va., March 30, 1829. Son of Francis and Mary P. H. Elliott Grice : grand- son of Joseph and Mary Smith Grice. Joseph Grice (1759- )' of Philadelphia, was private in a Light Infantry Company, 1776, in service at Perthe Amboy; private in Captain Moulden's Artillery Company, 1777, in service at Trenton, Princeton, Monmouth, and Valley Forge: getting tired of "soldiering on shore," he 38 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. shipped on the Privateer "Mars" on a voyage to St. Eustatia, and later on the "Renown," of Norfolk.* Great-grandson of Francis and Mary Brocketibrough Grice. Major Francis Grice (b. 1726), of Philadelphia, Qiiartermaster under General Mifflin, was captured in 1777, and confined in British prisons in Philadelphia and New York until 1786. Hon. Charles Henry Grosvenor, M. C. 123 (Athens, Ohio.) Representative in Congress. Born in Pomfret, Conn., September 20, 1833. Son of Peter Grosvenor, and grandson of Thomas Grosvenor, of Pomfret, Conn., who, as Lieutenant in a Connecticut Regiment, fought and was wounded at Bunker Hill, who served through the war, and was present at the surrender of Cornwallis, as Lieutenant Colonel, 2d Regiment, Conn. Continental Line. Gen. Peter Valentine Hagner, U. S. A. 49 Colonel of Ordnance and Brevet Brigadier General, U. S. A., retired. Born in Washington, August 28, 1815. Son of Peter and Frattces Randall Hagner: grandson of John and Deborah Knapp Randall. John Randall (born in Westmoreland Co., Va., 1750), patriot and soldier, a resident of Annapolis, was Commissary of Stores in the Maryland Line, in service in New York, 1778, and Sub-Clothier in service in the Southern De- partment in 1779: he was also Member of the Annapolis Council of Safety. John Jacob Halsted. 20 Attorney at Law. Born in Newark, N. J., November 29, 1821. Son of John and Mary Pennington Halsted: grandson of William Sandford and Phebe Wheeler Pennington. Gov. William Sandford Pennington (1757-1826), Lieu- *A most interesting MS. narrative of Mr. Grice's adventures is in the possession of his grandson, who promises a copy to the Society. It was partly printed under the title " The Good Ship Renown and the Rest of the Fleet," in Max- well's Virginia Historical Register, vi, 1853, pp. 162-86. JOSEPH GRICE [from an old paintingi MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 39 tenant, Captain and Major, 2d New Jersey Artillery, in service lyjS-'Si, and wounded, possibly at the siege of Yorktown, at which he was present; subsequently Chancellor of New Jersey and Governor of the State, i8i3-'i5, and U. S. District Judge for the District of New Jersey. Great-grandson of James Wheeler (i74o-'77), Ensign and Captain, 2d Battalion Somerset Militia, New Jersey — " a soldier of the Revolution, good and true." [Greatnephew of Matthias Halsted, Quartermaster and Lieutenant Colonel, ist Battalion, ist Establish- ment, New Jersey Continental Line, and Aide to Gen. Dickenson, and of Dr. Robert Halsted, of Elizabeth, N. J., Surgeon in the Continental service.] Alexander Richmond Hart. 75 (New York City.) President of the New York Engraving and Printing Company. Born in Clay- ton, N. Y., April 18, 1854. Son of Alfred B. 2iX\di Elizabeth A7in Edmeston Hart: grandson of Benjamin and Maria Batcheller Hart : great- grandson of John Hart (i7o8-'8o), of Hopewell Township, New Jersey, patriot, member of the Colo- nial Congress, 1 774-' 75; Signer of the Declaration of Independence, and chairman of the New Jersey Council of Safety, 1 777-' 78. Frederick Loviad Harvey. 65 Examiner, U. S. General Land Office. Born in Washington, May 6, 1856. Son of Frederick L. and Helen M. Ford Harvey: grandson of Asa and Mary A. Nickles Ford: great- grandson of Augustus and Damris Rice Ford : gi^eat- great-grandson of Abijah and Anna Donniso7i Ford. Augustus Ford (1772-1855), at the age of nine a pow- der-boy on a Rhode Island Privateer, commanded by his uncle, Capt. Donnison, which was sent to the West Indies to bring supplies furnished by the French for the Continental Army; subsequently seaman on the brig 40 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. "Washington," when the new American Flag was for the first time carried around the southern capes, and later Master, U. S. Navy, serving in the War of 1812. Great-great-grandson of Abijah Ford (1744-1809), of Providence, R. I,, an officer under Gen. Nathaniel Greene, his brother-in-law. Great-great-grandson of Asa Rice, of Connecticut, private in Baldwin's Regiment of Artificers, Continental Army, who "enlisted for the war," March 7, 1778. Thomas Edwards Hatch, M. D. 66 Physician. Born in Keene, Vt., August li, 1822. Son of John and Sarah Edwards Hatch : grandson of Thomas and Matilda Cha^idler Edwards. Thomas Ed- wards (1757-1837), of Springfield, Vt, private in Lieu- tenant Colonel John Barrett's Company of Vermont Militia at the siege of Quebec, and in 1776 in Captain Powers' Company of a New York Regiment, com- manded by Colonel Van Dyke. Hon. John Steele Henderson, M. C. 152 (Salisbury, N. C.) Representative in Congress. Born in Rowan Co., N. C, January 6, 1846. Honorary Member. Son of Archibald and Mary Steele Ferrand Henderson : grandson of Archibald and Sarah Alexander Henderson : great-grandson of Richard and Elizabeth Keeling Hen- derson. Judge Richard Henderson (i734-'85), of Gran- ville Co., N. C, was president of the Colony of Tran- sylvania, organized in 1775, with a representative government and entire religious liberty; his brother, Maj. Pleasant Henderson (1736-1842), of Hanover Co., Va. , was in service, i775-'8i, and was Major in Mal- medy's Mounted Corps, North Carolina State Troops: his wife's uncle, Col. James Williams (i74o-'8o), com- manded at the victory of Musgrove's Mill, and fell at the head of a column at King's Mountain. Great-grandson of William Alexander, whose brother. PATRICK HENRY [from a painting bv sully after a miniature BY A FRENCH ARTIST] MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 41 Gov. Nathaniel Alexander (i 756-1 808), was a private, North Carolina State Troops. Grandson of Dr. Lee and Margaret Steele Ferrand : great-grandson of John and Mary Nesfield Steele. Gen. John Steele (1764-1812), of Salisbury, N. C., was Member of the Constitutional Convention, 1788, and of the First and Second Congress. Great-great-grandson of William and Elizabeth Max- well StetXt. Mrs. Elizabeth Steele, in February, 1781, gave opportune aid to General Greene by presenting to him two bags of silver, her savings of several years. "Never," writes Greene's biographer, "did relief come at a more needed moment." Hon. William Wirt Henry. 40 (Richmond, Virginia.) Born at " Red Hill," Charlotte Co., Va., February 14, 1831. Honorary Member. President of the Virginia Society. Son of John and Elvira McClelland W^my '. grandson of Patrick and Dorethea Dandridge Henry. Patrick Henry (i736-'99), patriot and soldier, who rendered service to the cause of American Independence as follows: — (i) He introduced and carried in the Virginia House of Burgesses, in 1765, the Stamp Act resolutions which gave the first impulse to the American Revolu- tion; (2) He thereafter led the Colony of Virginia in her Revolutionary measures; (3) He was a leading member of the Continental Congresses of 1774-75; (4) He was Colonel of the first Virginia regiment raised to defend the Colony in 1775, and Commissary of all the forces of the Colony until 1776; (5) He was first Governor of the State of Virginia, 1776-79; (6) He was member of the Constitutional Convention of 1788. John Syme, patriot, member of the Convention of 1775, was his half-brother, and Col. Samuel Meredith, Gen. William Christian, Gen. William Campbell and Gen. William Russell were his brothers-in-law. Grandson of Thomas Stanhope and Margaret Cabell McClelland: grandson of Col. William and Amie Car- 42 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. ri7igto7i Cabell. Col. William Cabell, Jr., was Major of Virginia Militia, 1781. Great-grandson of William and Margaret Jordan Cabell. Col. William Cabell, Sr. (i73o-'98), of "Union Hill," patriot, was member of the Virginia Convention of 1775, and of the Committee of Safety. Col. Edward Miles Heyl, U.S.A. 281 Inspector-General, U. S. Army. Born in Philadelphia, February 14, 1844. Son of David Seeger and Caroline Julia Heath Hevl: grandson of Charles Petit and Esther Keeley Heath : great-grandson of David and Mary Worthington Heath. David Heath (d. 1820) was private, Hunterdon County. New Jersey, Militia. [Grandson of Philip and Margaret Whann Heyl: great-grandson of John and Mary Strieker Heyl. John Heyl, patriot, in some capacity, not yet ascertained, was with Washington at Valley Forge. His brother was Ensign, ist Battalion, Philadelphia Associators.] ROMYN Hitchcock. (Pekln, China.) 39 Chinese Agent, World's Columbian Exposition. Born in St. Louis, Mo., December i, 1851. Son of Alonzo and Hannah Hallenbeck Hitchcock: grandson of David and Miriam Merriek Hitchcock: great-grandson of David and Tryphena Ketehnm Hitch- cock. David Hitchcock (1742- ), of Bromfield, Mass., was Corporal in the Bromfield Militia, in service at Saratoga. Walter James Hoffman, M.D. 105 Ethnologist, U. S. Bureau of Ethnology. Born at Weidasville, Lehigh Co., Pa., May 30, 1846. Son of William F. and Elizabeth Weida Hoffman: grandson of Michael i^nd. Katherine Gritnemeyer Hoffman : great-grandson of Paul and Elizabeth Hoffman. Paul Hoffman (1738-1791), of Northampton Co., Pa., a native of Rhenish-Prussia; private in the Northampton Militia, 1777, and later Quartermaster's Sergeant; his MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 43 brother, Martin Hoffman, of Northampton Co., courier, killed on duty in Western Pennsylvania by Indians and Tories, and his sons, Ludwig Hoffman served for four years in Captain Craig's Company, St. Clair's Pennsyl- vania Battalion, and Paul Hoffman, of Northampton Co., was killed by Tories in the Broad Mountains of Pennsylvania. Arnold Harris Hord. 85 Born in Midway, Ky., October 13, 1867. Son of Medical Director William Taliaferro and Eleanor Vaulx Harris Hord: grandson of Francis Triplett and Elizabeth Scott Moss Hord : great-grandson of Elias and Ann Triplett Hord: great-great-grandson of Jesse and Antoinette Hord Hord. Jesse Hord (1749- 18 14), of Caroline Co., Va., officer of Militia in active service. Grandson of Major Arnold and Susan Wells Arm- strong Hord: great-grandson of Gen. Robert and Margaret Dysart Nichol Armstrong: great-great- grandson of James and Susan Wells Armstrong. James Armstrong — "Trooper Armstrong" — (born in Ireland, 1745), was a resident of Abingdon, Va., a famous partisan soldier of the Virginia and the Carolina Campaigns. Walter Hough. 167 Etlinologist in the U. S. National Museum. Born in Morgantown, Va., April 23, 1859. Son of Lycurgus Stephen and Ann Fairchild Hough : grandson of Rev. Ashbel and Eliza MacDougal Fair- child: great-grandson of Lent Winchell and Jemima Ball Fairchild: great-great-grandson of Abner Fairchild. Abner Fairchild, of Morris Co., N. J., was Captain in the Eastern Battalion, Morris Co. Militia: six sons were with him in military service, one of whom died in the field and one of whom is believed to have been Lent Winchell Fairchild. 44 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. James Ross Howard. 130 Civil Engineer. Born in Dinwiddie Co., Va., September 22, 1822. Son of James Hunter Ross and Grace Lewis Howard: grandson of Hunter Blair and Mary Amelia Ross Howard: great-grandson of Hunter Blair and Margaret Campbell Wov^&vd. Hunter Blair Howard (1695-1777), a native of Kent, England, at the age of eighty served with Woodford's Battalion of Culpeper Riflemen. Hun- ter Blair Howard, Jr. (1756-1806), was Member of the Prince George Committee of Safety, and a private in Captain Cunningham's Company, Maryland State Troops. [Great-grandnephew of George Ross (i73o-'79), of Lancaster, Pa., Member of the Continental Congress, and Signer of the Declaration of Independence.] William Wheeler Hubbell. 84 Lawyer and Inventor. Born in Pliiladelphia, Pa., March 4, 1821. Son of Truman Mallory and Mary Ann Flower Hub- bell: grandson of Silas and Hannah Freyich Hubbell. Captain Silas Hubbell (1738-1805), patriot and soldier, was a participant in the "Boston Tea Party," and present at Lexington and Bunker Hill, and in the Long Island Campaign. Henry Morris Husband. 78 Born in Philadelphia, Pa., October 22, 1842. John L. Husband. 133 Born in Philadelphia, Pa., September 19, 1843. Son of Joshua L. 2iX\dt. Mary Morris Husband: grand- son of Henry and Eliza J. Smith Morris: great-grand- son of Robert and Mary White Morris. Robert Morris (1734-1806), of Pennsylvania, patriot and statesman, was Signer of the Non-Importation Agreement of 1765; Delegate to the Continental Congress, 1 775-' 78; Signer of the Declaration of Independence; Superintendent of Finance, i78i-'84; Member of the Constitutional Con- ventions — "the financier of the Revolution." [fkom a paintin(; iiv r. k. pine] MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 45 Great-grandson of William Pitt Smith, M. D., of. New York. Surgeon in the Continental Service. [Grandnephew of Rev. William White, D. D. (1748-1836), Bishop of Pennsylvania. "All the clergy of Philadelphia sided with the Colonies; none more zealously than Dr. White."] Jefferson Harry Jennings. (See page 48.) Arnold Burges Johnson. 97 Chief Clerk, Light-House Board. Born in Rochester, Mass., June 17, 1S34. Rev. James Gibson Johnson, D. D. 98 (New London, Connecticut.) Clergyman. Born in Providence, R. I., June 25, 1S39. Capt. John Burges Johnson, U. S. A. 99 (Fort Brown, Brownsville, Texas.) Captain, U. S. Army. Born in Rochester, iVlass., November 29, 1847. Joseph Taber Johnson, M. D., Ph. D. 196 Professor of Physiology, Georgetown University. Born in Lowell, Mass., June 30, 1845. Lorenzo M. Johnson 100 (Cindad Porfirio-Diaz, Mexico, General Manager, International Mexican Railroad. Born in Rochester, Mass. Sons of Rev. Lorenzo Dow and Afary Burges Johnson : grandsons of Jeremiah and Thoniazin B/a?ic/iard Johnson. Jeremiah Johnson (b. 1764), of Weathersfield, Vt., was private in the ist New Hampshire Regiment, two years in service, and later a soldier in the War of 1812. Grandsons of Abraham and Rhoda Caswell Taber Bur- ges: great-grandsons of John and Abigail Chase Burges. John Burges (1736-1791), of Rochester, Mass., soldier and patriot, aided the cause of Independence as Minute- man, Lieutenant of Militia, and Collector of Stores. Gen. Bradley Tyler Johnson. 170 (Baltimore, Maryland. Attorney at Law. Born in Frederick City, Md., September 29, 1829. Honorary Member. President of the Maryland Society, S. A. R. Son of Charles Worthington and Eleanor Murdock 46 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Zy/t-r Johnson: grandson of Baker and Catherine Worth- ington Johnson. Baker Johnson (1747-1811) was Colo- nel, 4th Battalion, Frederick County Militia, 1776, and a Delegate to the Maryland Convention of i775-'76. Six of his brothers were Revolutionary soldiers or patriots, viz: — Maj. Benjamin Johnson (b. 1727): Thomas John- son (1732-1819), Member of the Maryland Conventions of 1 775-' 76; Senior Brigadier General, Maryland Militia, Governor of Maryland, 1 777-' 79 ; Member of the Mary- land House of Delegates, and Delegate to the Con- tinental Congress: James Johnson (b. 1736), Colonel of the 2d Battalion of Frederick Militia, 1776: John Johnson (b. 1745), Army Surgeon: Roger. Johnson (b. 1749), Second Major of the 2d Battalion of Fred- erick Militia: Joshua Johnson (b. 1744), Agent for Maryland, at Nantes, France, during the Revolution. His daughter, Louisa Catherine, became the wife of John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States. Grandson of William Bradley and Miwdock Tyler: great-grandson of Robert Tyler. Jr. : great-great- grandson of Robert Tyler, Sr., Lieutenant Colonel of the Upper Battalion of Prince George County Militia, commanded by Col. Joshua Beale, 1776. Great-grandson of Nicholas and Catherine Griffith Worthington, his wife. Nicholas Worthington (1734- '93), of Anne Arundel Co., Md., was First Major of the Severn Battalion of Anne Arundel Militia, 1776, and Member of the Maryland House of Delegates. Great-grandson of George Murdock, of Prince George County, Md., a Delegate to the Convention of 1774- James Bowen Johnson. ios Secretary and Treasurer of Howard University. Born in Royal Oak, Mich., October 14, 1830. Son of James Gibson and Susan Bowen Johnson: grandson of Jeremiah and Thomazin Blancha) d ]o\\x\?>ov\. Jeremiah Johnson (1764-1847) was private in Captain Moody Dustin's Company, ist New Hampshire Regi- MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 47 ment, enlisting at Keene, March, 1781, for two years, subsequently a soldier in the War of 1812. Grandson of Daniel and Mehitable Packard Bowen. Daniel Bowen (1750-1829), of Woodstock, Conn., was a private, 2d Regiment Conn. Continental Line, lyyy-'So, in service in the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Campaign, and at Valley Forge : his brother, Henry Bowen, was a private in the 3d Regiment, Conn. Continental Line, 1775. Gen. Joseph Eggleston Johnston. Born at " Longwood," Prince Edward Co.,Va., February 3, 1807. Honorary Member. Vice President General of the National Society, Sons of thie American Revolution. Son of Peter and Mary Wood Johnston. Judge Peter Johnston (1763-1841), of Prince Edward Co., Va., ran away from Hampden-Sidney College when sixteen years old, and joined Lee's Legion, and at the close of the war was Staff Officer of the Continental "Light Corps," with the rank of Captain. He led the forlorn hope at the storming of Fort Watson, and was publicly thanked in the presence of the army. He was Member of the Virginia Society of the Cincinnati. His son bears the name of his gallant companion in arms, Major Joseph Eggleston (1754-1811), of Amelia Co., Va., who com- manded the cavalry of Lee's Legion. Grandson of Valentine Wood, of Goochland, Co., Va., and Lucy, his wife, sister of Patrick Henry, patriot and soldier.* Orange JUDD. (Chicago, Illinois.) 27 Editor. Born in Niagara Co., N. Y., July 26, 1822. Son of Ozias and Rheuama Wright Judd: grandson of Orange and Abigail Dike Judd. Orange Judd (i 763-1844), of Tyringham, Mass., was a private in the Berkshire Militia, in the Northern Campaigns, and was disabled by marches over frozen ground, so that for sixty years thereafter he walked with canes, bent almost double. • For collaterals, see record of William Wirt Henry. 48 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. His brothers were in service, Dr. Ozias Juod as private and Sergeant, at Bennington and on the alarm of Nov. 3, 1780; and Arunah Judd, private in the Massachusetts Line, 1 778-' 79 (Col. Brewer's Regiment), and were both pensioners. [Ozias Judd, father of Orange Judd, fought at Black Rock, in 1813, and his brother. Orange Judd, and three cousins named Storms, who fought by his side, were killed, scalped and burned by the Indian allies of the British troops.] Jefferson Harry Jennings. hi Clerk, U. S. Pension Office. Born in Oquauka, 111., January 30, 1843. Son of Harry and Sarah Anii Carman Jennings: grandson of Joseph and Mary K. Miller Carman: great- grandson of Samuel and Deborah Bicrrows Carman. Samuel Carman (1757-1836), of Middletown, N. J., was a private in the Monmouth Militia, ist Regiment, and Foreman's Detached Militia, and in the 4th Battalion, 2d Establishment, New Jersey Continental Line. He served as a scout, and was three times a prisoner, once in the "Jersey" prison-ship, and each time escaped. Lieut. Lyman W. V. Kennon, U. S. A. 82 First Lieutenant, U. S. A. Born in Providence, R. L, September 2, 1858. Son of Charles H. N. and Adelaide Hall Kennon: grandson of Asaph and Hannah C. Palmer Hall: great- grandson of Asaph and Esther McNair Hall. Asaph Hall (b. 1735), of Goshen, Conn., patriot and soldier, was First Lieutenant of the 4th Regiment Conn. Conti- nental Line at Ticondferoga, 1775; Captain in Sheldon's Regiment in service against Tryon's invasion, 1779, and in the 2d State Battalion, in service under Wooster, 1777; Member of the General Court of Connecticut, i773-'97 5 Member of the Constitutional Convention, 1788. GENERAL EPHRAIM DOUGLASS [from an old painting] MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 49 Ephraim Douglass King. 67 Journalist. Born in Uniontown, Pa., April 27, 1837. Son of Allen and Eliza Douglass King : grandson of Ephraim and Mary Lyon Douglass. Ephraim Douglass (1750- 1 833), of Fayette Co., Pa., was Quartermaster, 8th Regiment, Pennsylvania Continental Line, 1776; Quartermaster, Staff of Maj. Gen. Lord Stirling, taken prisoner at Bushwick, Aug. 27, 1776; Aide to Gen. Lincoln, 1777 ; taken prisoner March 13, and confined on British prison-ships at Long Island, i777-'8o; In- tendant of Prisoners, Philadelphia, i782-'83; impris- oned, 1783, while on special mission into Canada; and Brigadier General of Militia, Fayette Co., Pa., 1793. Harry King. 21 Cartographer, U. S. Geological Survey. Born in Washington, D. C, Octo- ber 8, 1848. Son of Z. M. P. and Henrietta Lajidon King: grand- son of Daniel and Catalina Van Ness Landon: great- grandson of Abram Van Ness, of Columbia Co., N. Y., private soldier, killed by Tories near Nassau, N. Y., in 1777. Prof. Frank Hall Knowlton, M. S. 104 Professor of Botany, Columbian University. Born in Brandon, Vt., Sep- tember 2, i860. Son of Julius A. and Mary Ellen Blackmer Knowlton: grandson of John and Betsy Wright Knowlton: great- grandson of Gardner and Jemima Sibley Wright : great- great-grandson of Simeon and Sophia Child Wright. Simeon Wright (b. 1754), of Springfield, Mass., was Lieu- tenant in the Massachusetts Militia: " he was among the first to take up arms in the Revolution, and the Sunday following the Lexington fight, he rallied the ' Liberty boys ' and marched the next morning for Cambridge; he was at the Bunker Hill fight and several others at the South, and continued in the army through the war." Great-grandson of Abraham Knowlton, private in the Massachusetts Militia. 50 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Rev. Samuel Kramer. ne Chaplain of the Washington Navy Yard. Born in Baltimore, Md., October 14, 1S08. Son of John and Clarissa Paul Bassctt Kramer. John Kramer (1758-1814), a private in Washington's Body Guard, lyys-'Si, and his brother, George Kramer, was a member of the same company. Samuel Pierpont Langley, LL. D. 4 Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and Director of the Allegheny Observatory. Born in Roxbury, Mass., August 22, 1834. Son of Samuel and Mary Sumner Williams Langley : grandson of Samuel and Emily Montague Pierpont Langley : great-grandson of Samuel and Esther Mayo Langley. Capt. Samuel Langley (1743- 1800), of War- wick, Mass., who commanded a company of veterans in the campaign to suppress Shay's Rebellion in 1787, was previously engaged in the Revolution. Grandson of John and Na^icy Dowse Williams: great- grandson of John and Mary Sumrier Williams: great- great-grandson of Joseph and Martha Howell Williams. Col. Joseph Williams (i7o8-'98), of Roxbury, an officer in the old French and Indian Wars, member of the "Sons of Liberty," and one of the "officers of the main guard" in camp at Cambridge, May i, 1775. Great-grandson of Samuel and Ayin Kettell Dowse. Samuel Dowse, of Charlestown, Mass., private in the Medford Militia, and in Mcintosh's Regiment ; was en- gaged at Dorchester Heights, 1776. William Lee, M. D. s Physician, and Professor of Physiology, Columbian University. Born in Boston, Mass., March 12, 1841. Son of William Barlow and Ami Whitman Lee: grandson of William and Susannah Palfrey Lee: great- grandson of William and Susan Cazneau Palfrey. Wil- liam Palfrey (1741-1780), of Boston, patriot and soldier, was Aide to Gen. Charles Lee, July 3, 1775 ; Aide to General Washington, March 6, 1776 ; Paymaster Gen- eral and Lieutenant Colonel in the Continental Army, July 9, 1776; Consul General to France, Nov. 4, 1780. GEN. HENRY LEE [after a MEZZOTIiNT BY NEILL] MEMBERSHIP ROLU 5 1 Hon. William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, M. C. 117 Representative in Congress from Virginia. Born at "Arlington," Alexandria Co., Va., May 31, 1837. Honorary Member. Vice President of the Virginia Society, S. A. R. Son of Gen. Robert Edward and Mary Randolph Custis Lee: grandson of Gen. Henry and Ann Hill Car- ter Lee. Gen, Henry Lee — "Light Horse Harry" — (1756-1818), of Westmoreland Co., Vii., was com- mander of "Lee's Legion," and author of "Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department;" Member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention, and of the Con- tinental Congress, and Commander of the Army against the Whisky Insurrection in 1795. Great-grandson of Henry .and Lucy Grymes Lee. Henry Lee (died 1787), patriot, of " Leesylvania," Staf- ford Co., was a Member of the House of Burgesses, and Signer of the Westmoreland Association. Great-great-grandson of Col. Henry Lee, of "Lee's Hall," and his wife, Mary Bland, whose brother was Col. RiCHARD Bland — "The Cato of the Revolution "— whose own cousin, Giles Bland, was hanged by a Royal Governor for taking part in the Rebellion of 1676, and whose nephews. Col. Theodrick Bland, and Col. John Banister, commanded regiments of the Virginia Line, and were Members of the Continental Congress. Grandson of G. W. P. and Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis. George Washington Parke Custis (1781-1857), was the adopted son of Washington. Great-grandson of John Parke and Eleanor Calvert Custis. Col. John Parke Custis (i753-'8i), of " White House," New Kent Co., Va., was Aide to Washing- ton at Princeton and Yorktown, and Member of the House of Burgesses, i78o-'8i. Great-great-grandson of Daniel Parke Custis and his wife, Martha Dandridge, afterwards Martha Wash- ington (1732-1802). " During the winter at Valley Forge she suffered every privation in common with the offi- cers, and was busy from morning to night, providing comforts for the sick soldiers." 52 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Great-grandson of Charles and Ann Butler Moore Carter. Charles Carter (1751-1806), of " Coroto- man," patriot, was a Signer of the Williamsburg Associ- ation of 1770, and was Member of the First Council of State of Virginia under the Constitution of 1788. Great-grandson of William and Ann Randolph Fitz- hugh. Col. William Fitzhugh, of "Chatham," was Member of the Stafford Committee of Safety, i774-'76. Charles B. Lockwood. 127 Journalist. Bom in Cincinnati, C, May i6, 1864. Son of Horace Hill and Ann Clarissa Boynton Lock- wood : grandson of Charles Brandon and Maria Van Buskirk Boynton : great-great-grandson of Caleb Boynton, Jr. : and great-great-great-grandson of Caleb Boynton, Sr. (See Records of Gen. H. V. Boynton, p. 9.) John Parker Lothrop. 77 Principal Examiner, U. S. Pension Bureau. Bom in Barnstable, Mass., April 12, 1843. Son of John and Hannah C. Bassett Lothrop: grand- son of Joseph and Zeviah Bearse Bassett. Joseph Bas- sett (1763-1855), of Barnstable, Mass., was private iri Capt. Russel's Company, Bradford's Regiment, Massa- chusetts State Line, i776-'8o. Great-grandson of Daniel Bassett (1736- ), of Massachusetts, Lieutenant in CaL Gamaliel Brad- ford's Regiment, State Line. Col. Marshall McDonald. n U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries. Bom in Ronjney, Va., October i8, 1836. Son of Lieut. Angus William and Leacy Ann Naylor McDonald: grandson of Capt. Angus and Mary McGiiire 'W\c\)ox\?\&: great-grandson of Col. Angus and A7ina Thompson McDonald. Col. Angus McDonald, of Frederick Co., Va., soldier and patriot, a native of Scotland, banished after "Culloden," and Colonel in the old French and Indian War, commanded the Virginia COLONEL ANGUS McDONALD IN VIRGINIA COLONIAL UNIFORM MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 53 troops in the Wappatomica Campaign, in June, 1774 — the initial movement in Dunmore's war* — who was Member of the Frederick County Committee to protest against the Boston Port Bill, and who, in organizing the Virginia forces, was appointed, by Washington, Lieuten- ant-Colonel, a position which his death prevented him from accepting. Grandson of William and Ann Sanford Naylor: great-grandson of William Sanford, of Hampshire County, Va., Second Lieutenant, 2d Battalion, Virginia Provincials, 1775, Captain Company F, 2d Regiment, Virginia Continental Line (Col. Spotswood). Great-grandson of William McGuire, of Frederick County, Va., Ensign, 3d Regiment, Virginia Continental Line, 1781, subsequently Lieutenant. [Grandson of Capt. Angus McDonald, 12th Infontry, U. S. A., who died in service in the War of 18 12, at Batavia, N. Y., where a monument to his memory was erected by his brother-officers.] Louis Mackall, M. D. m Physician. Born in Prince George County, Md., April lo, 1831. Son of Dr. Louis and Sarah Somervill Mackall Mackall : grandson of Benjamin and Christiana Beall Mackall: great-grandson of Benjamin and Rebecca Covi7igton Mackall. Col. Benjamin Mackall, 4th, was County Lieu- tenant and Colonel of the Calvert County, Md. Militia, 1776, and Member of the Conventions of 1774 and 1776. Grandson of John G. and Susayi Somervill }AacV.a\[\ great-grandson of John Mackall, Member of the Mary- land Convention of 1776. Great-grandson of Capt. James and Ann Trjtemari Somervill. James Somervill, of Calvert County, Md., was Captain Maryland Continental Line, in service i776-'83 and lost an arm at Camden, a Member of the Maryland Society of the Cincinnati. Great-great-grandson of Alexander and Rebecca Litch- * Dunmore's war was so closely connected with the events which led up to the Revolution that certain historians have maintained that at the battle of Point Pleasant "the first blood of the Revolution' was shed. 54 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. worth Trueman. Capt. Alexander Trueman served seven years in the Maryland Line, and was an original Member of the Maryland Society of the Cincinnati. Hon. Charles Harley Mansur. M. C. 63 (Chilicothe, Missouri.) Representative in Congress. Born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 6, 1835. Son of Charles and Rebecca Ann Wells Mansur: grandson of Stephen and Hannah Felt Mansur: great- grandson of William and Isabella Harvey Mansur. William Mansur (1743-1814), of Temple, N. H., one of the company of Minutemen who marched from Temple to Cambridge on the alarm of April 19, 1775, and pri- vate in the New Hampshire Continental Line, Col. Reed's Regiment, 1776, and Col. Thomas Heald's Reg- iment, 1777, in service at Bennington and Ticonderoga. Great-grandson of Peter Felt, of Temple, N. H., private in Col. Reed's Regiment, New Hampshire Con- tinental Line, 1776; Sergeant in Capt. Drury's Company of Militia, which marched, Sept. 29, 1777, and joined the Northern Continental Army at Saratoga. Prof. Otis Tufton Mason, Ph.D. i68 Curator in the National Museum. Born in Eastport, Me., April lo, 1S38. Son of John and Rachel Li7icobi Mason: grandson of Tufton and Sarah Gilman Mason : great-grandson of Col. Jeremiah Oilman, of Plaistow, N. H., Captain, Major, and Lieutenant Colonel, in the ist Regiment, New Hampshire Continental Line, who was disabled at Monmouth, where his company behaved with conspicu- ous gallantry. William Lyman Mason. so Born in Cincinnati, C. January 21, 1S47. Son of T. B. and Abigail Hall Mason : grandson of Samuel and Sarah Cheney Hall. Samuel Hall (b. 1757), of Newton, Mass., was private, Massachusetts Militia, in Capt. Wiswell's Company, 1776, in Hatch's Regi- ment, in Fuller's Company, on duty to guard the captured troops of Burgoyne. [Grandnephew of Silas Mason, private in the Medfield, Massachusetts Militia.] MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 55 [Great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Thomas Mason (i625-'76), of Roxbury, Mass., who, with three of his sons, was killed by Indians at the defense of Medfield, in King Philips' war.] Gen. Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, U. S. A. 3 Quartermaster General, U. S. Army, retired. Born in Augusta, Ga., May 3, 1816. [Son of Dr. Charles Delucena and Mary Montgomery Meigs : grandson of Josiah and Clara Be?ijamin Meigs. JosiAH Meigs (1757-1822), was private in the Yale Militia Company, which, in 1775, escorted Washington from New Haven to the Neck Bridge; his brother, Col. Return Jonathan Meigs, commanded the 6th Regiment, Connecticut Continental Line — " The Leather-Cap Regi- ment,"] Great-grandson of Col. John Benjamin (d. 1796), of Stratford, Conn., Sergeant, ijjj-'yS, Lieutenant, 1778- '80, in Colonel Lamb's Continental Artillery, who was in service at Stony Point, and at Ridgefield received a wound which ultimately caused his death; Captain, 4th Connecticut Militia, i78o-'82, Major, 1783, and subse- quently Colonel in the same service. Alexander Porter Morse. 107 Lawyer and author. Born in St. Martinsville, Parish St. Martin, La., Octo- ber 19, 1842. [Son of Isaac Edward and Margaretta Smith Weder- strandt Morse: grandson of Nathan 2iX\d Martha Nicholls Morse. Nathan Morse, of Elizabeth, N. J., later of Louisiana, was Lieutenant Colonel of Cavalry in the War of 1812, and Aide to Gen. Jackson at the battle of New Orleans.] Great-grandson of Isaac and Amy Conklin* Morse. Isaac Morse, M. D., of Elizabeth, was engaged in irregular service against the English, and acted as •Great-granddaughter of Mary Gardiner (daughter of Lion Gardiner), the first white child born in Connecticut, at Saybrook, 1638. 56 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Surgeon in Washington's campaign to quell the Whisky Insurrection in 1791. His wife was daughter of Elias Conklin, of East Hampton, N. Y., patriot, and niece of Elias Dayton (1737-1807), of Elizabeth, N. J., Colonel, 3d Regiment, N. J. Continental Line, and Brigadier General of New Jersey Troops, and first Pres- ident of the New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati, and own cousin of Hon. Jonathan Dayton (1760-1824), Captain-Lieutenant, and Paymaster, 3d Regiment, New Jersey Continental Line, Speaker of the New Jersey House of Representatives, 1 795-' 98. [Grandson of Philemon Charles and Helen Smith Wederstrandt. Philemon Charles Wederstrandt (1776-1854), of Maryland, Commodore, U. S. Navy, was appointed Midshipman in 1798, when the American Navy was organized, and was one of the officers of the "Constellation,"* thanked by Congress in 1799, for the victories over the frigates " L'insurgent " and "La Vengeance." He also served on the "Java" as a volunteer at the siege of Baltimore, September, 1814.J [Great-grandson of Theodore Conrad and Mary Blake Wederstrandt: great-great-grandson of John Sawyer and Sara Darnall Blake. John Sawyer Blake, of" Wye River," Queen Anne Co., Md., patriot, contrib- uted supplies and money to the support of the Conti- nental Army. Charles Carroll, Barrister (i723-'83), of "Mt. Clare," patriot, author of the Maryland Decla- ration of Rights, etc., was his nephew. John Carroll (1735-1817), Archbishop of Baltimore, patriot, was Mrs. Blake's nephew, and Charles Carroll of Carroll- ton (1737-1832), the last surviving signer of the Decla- ration of Independence, was a collateral relative.J [Great-great-great-grandson of Henry Darnall, Sr., of "The Woodyard," Prince George Co., Md., Judge and Register of the Land Office of Maryland.] •The frigate was put in commission before she was finished, and the olTicers were all on board when she was launched. MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 57 Maj. Howard Morton. 155 (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.) Merchant. Born in Stoystown, Pa., January 2, 1842. Son of Randall and Crissia A. Wilson Morton : grand- son of Dexter and Hamiah Mtinson Bunce Morton : great-grandson of Simeon and Sybel Graves Morton: great-great-grandson of Simeon and Miriam Dickinson Morton. Simeon Morton, Sr. (lyas-'gS), and Simeon Morton, Jr., of Whately, Mass., were privates in Capt. Isaac Chapin's Company, Col. John Fellows' Regiment, Mass. Militia. Simeon Morton, Jr., was in service for many months. Great-grandson of Noah Clark, private, Essex Troop of Light Horse (Capt. Meeker), New Jersey Militia, in service at the battle of Long Island, and in the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Campaigns.* Hon. Levi Parsons Morton. 84 Vice President of the United States. Born in Shoreham, Vt., May i6, 1824. Son of Daniel Oliver and Lucretia Parsons Morton: grandson of Livy and Hannah Dailey Morton. Livy Morton, of Middleboro, Mass., was private in the Sec- ond Foot Company, Colonel Sproutt's Regiment, Massa- chusetts Militia, in service December, 1776, in the sea- coast defense of Rhode Island, and in similar service, August, 1780, in Colonel White's Regiment, Militia; also in service, on two alarms, in May and September, 1778. Edward Augustus Moseley. 41 Secretary, Inter-State Commerce Commission. Born in Newburyport, Mass., March 23, 1846. Son of Edward Strong and Charlotte A. Chapman Moseley : grandson of Ebenezer and Mary Ann Oxnard Moseley: great-grandson of Ebenezer and Martha Strong Moseley. Ebenezer Moseley (i 741-1825), patriot and soldier, of Windham, Conn., as Lieutenant of Min- utemen marched to Lexington on the alarm of April, *See records of H. L. Crane and G. Brown Goode, above. 58 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 1775; as Captain of the gth Company, in the 3d Regi- ment, Conn. Continental Line (Col. Israel Putnam), fought at Bunker Hill; he was Captain in Ripley's Bat- talion, Connecticut State Line, in the Rhode Island campaigns, and in Col. Ely's State Regiment, 1777; Colonel of the 5th Regiment, Connecticut Militia, i789-'9i; Member of the Connecticut Legislature, i776-'78-'79-'83; and a member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati. His brother, Samuel Moseley, private, 3d Connecticut Reg't, was killed at Bunker Hill. Robert Brent Mosher. 119 Clerk, War Department. Born in Washington, D. C, December 6, 1836. Son of Theodore and Mary Breyit Mosher: grandson of James and Eliza Magruder Mosher: great-grandson of James and Ann Gray Mosher. James Mosher (1760- 1845), of Roxbury, Mass., marched with the Pepperrell Minutemen, April 19, 1775, and was drummer, i777-'8o, in the 8th Massachusetts Bay Regiment, in the New Jer- sey campaign, and at Valley Forge. [Grandson of Robert Young Brent, Paymaster Gen- eral, U. S. A., during the War of 1812. (i8o8-'i9).] Great-grandson of Ninian Magruder, of Montgomery Co., Md., private, Maryland State Troops. Samuel Eccleston Mullan. 154 Printer. Born in Baltimore, Md., April 14, 1841. Son of Jonathan and Sarah Pai7ie Mullan: grandson of Patrick and Sarah Askew Mullan. Patrick Mullan (1744-1816), a native of Ireland, was a private, i777-'8o, in the 6th Regiment, Maryland Continental Line, and in another regiment from Maryland, in LaFayette's corps, aided in storming the British works at Yorktown, Oct. 19, 1781. Jacob Jackson Noah. 68 Lawyer and journalist. Born in New York City, October 6, 1S30. Son of Mordecai and Rebecca Esther Jackso7i Noah. [Major Mordecai Manuel Noah (1785-1851) was cap- MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 59 tured and imprisoned on a British frigate, while pro- ceeding, in 1813, to his post as U. S. Consul General at Tunis, where he liberated many American prisoners.] Grandson of Manuel Mordecai and Zipporah Phillips Noah. Manuel Mordecai Noah (1747-1825), patriot and soldier, contributed ;,^2o,ooo to the support of the American Army, and served as a Volunteer Aide to Gen. Marion in the Carolina Campaign. Capt. Galen Griffin Norton. 137 Born in Norway, N. Y., June 12, 1S19. Son of Isaac and Sybil Wright Norton : grandson of Isaac and A^ina Griffi7i Norton : great-grandson of Jon- athan Norton (1742-1837), of Brookhaven, N. Y., a soldier under Gen. Bradstreet in the old French and Indian War, and Lieutenant in the 4th Regiment, New York Continental Line, i776-'8i, and fought at Mon- mouth, and who, in 1781, was secretly commissioned by Gov. Clinton to secure loans of money from the wealthy Whigs of Long Island, and to conceal his work was made Captain of a small vessel — the "Suffolk;" at his death, in 1837, he was the oldest member of the New York Society of the Cincinnati. Col. Myron Melvin Parker. 112 President of the Washington Board of Trade. Born in Fairfax, Vt., No- vember 7, 1843. [Son of Melvin V. and Emeline Story Parker: grand- son of Robert and Sophia Cross Parker: great-grand- son of Robert Parker, a private in the Revolutionary Army.] [Grandson of Elijah and Cressy Story: great- grandson of Elijah Story, of Fairfax, Vt., a soldier of the Revolution.] Great-grandson of Joseph and Persis Wheeler Cross. Joseph Cross, who died in 1850, at the age of 103, served at Lexington and Bunker Hill. Great-grandson of John Cressy, a native of Connecti- cut, who served with the Continental Army at Brooklyn, 6o SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. White Plains, Brandywine, Germantown, and York- town. Henry Hovey Parmenter. 69 Clerk, Quartermaster General's Office. Born in Sudbury, Mass., December 29, 1841. Son of Charles and Farmie Goodnow Parmenter: grandson of Ebenezer and Anji Wheeler Parmenter. Ebenezer Pakmenter ( 1 761- 1 85 i) was a private in the Mihtia of Sudbury, Mass. Francis H. Parsons. iss Chief of Library and Archives Division, U. S. Coast Survey. Born in Cleveland, C, January 23, 1855. Son of Charles Henry and Sarah Rice Parsons: grand- son of David and Elizabeth Williams Parsons: great- grandson of Rev. Dr. David and Harriet Williams Par- sons: great-great-grandson of Ezekiel Williams, Gov- ernment Commissioner of Prisoners for Connecticut in the Revolution. Great-great-grandson of Rev. Elifha- LET Williams, D. D. (1727-1803), patriot, of East Hart- ford, Conn. [Great-great-grandnephew of Col. William Wil- liams (1731-1811), of Lebanon, Conn., patriot, who was Signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Member of the Council of Safety, and whose wife was the daughter of Gov. Jonathan Trumbull, of Connecticut — Washington's " Brother Jonathan." Great-grandnephew of Rev. Eliphalet Scott Williams (1757-1845), who served as Adjutant in a Connecticut Regiment at Tren- ton and Princeton, and afterwards entering the Navy, fought in the engagement between the " Hancock" and the " Levant."] Grandson of Ezekiel and Bethia Merriam Rice. Ezekiel Rice (1739- 1808), of Wallingford, Conn., was Sergeant in Crouch's Company of Minutemen, who marched at the Lexington alarm. Great-grandson of Ephraim Merriam, of Wallingford, Conn., fifer in the "Leather-Cap Regiment" (6th Conn. Continental Line), i777-'8i. MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 6i Jesse David Bright Peters. • 13 Clerk, Census Office. Born in Washington, D. C, November 22, 1851. Son of Thomas and Hester A. Cohen Peters: grand- son of Thomas and Rebecca Johnson Peters. Thomas Peters (1752-1821), of Philadelphia, was Commissary- General of Prisoners at Yorktown, Pa. : he was one of the original members of the ist Troop, Philadelphia Cavalry, 1774, in service at Princeton and Trenton, and under General Mercer at Amboy, N. J., 1776. His brother, Richard Peters (1744-1828), of Philadelphia, was first Secretary of the Continental Board of War, later Commissioner of War, and the organizer of the War Department, and was the first to detect the treach- ery of Benedict Arnold. Rear Admiral Thomas Stowell Phelps, U. S. N. Born in Bucl?field, Me., November 2, 1822. 1 66 Honorary Member, and Member of the Massachusetts Society, Sons of the American Revolution. Son of Stephen and Elizabeth Stowell Phelps : grand- son of Henry Phelps, of Sutton, Mass., Corporal of Minutemen, 1775, and private, Massachusetts Militia, i776-'77, and his wife, Lucy Putnam, whose cousins were Gen. Israel Putnam (i7i8-'9o) and Gen. Rufus Putnam (1738- 1824): great-grandson of Lieut. Abra- ham Phelps.* Grandson of William and Catharine Nixon Stowell : great-grandson of Benjamin and Elizabeth Parker Stowell. Benjamin Stowell, of Worcester, Mass., was a soldier of the Revolution, and received land grants in the Province of Maine. Great-grandson of Thomas and Berthia Stearns \ Nixon. Col. Thomas Nixon (1736-1800), of Framing- ham, Mass., soldier, was an Ensign in the war of 1756; was commissioned a Lieutenant in the Crown Point *A lineal descendant of George Phelps, of Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England, who came to America in 1630. t Berthia Stearns was fifth in descent from Isaac Stern, or Stearns, who came to America in 1630, with Gov. Winthrop. 62 SONS OF THE AMHRICAN REVOLUTION. expedition; a Lieutenant Colonel of a regiment of Min- utemen at Concord, April 19, 1775; also Lieutenant Colonel of Nixon's Regiment at Bunker Hill. His brother, Gen. John Nixon (1725-1815), was Captain of Minutemen at Lexington ; commanded a regiment at Bunker Hill, where he was wounded ; was commissioned Brigadier General, 1776, and was again wounded at Stillwater. Admiral David Dixon Porter, U. S. N. i Admiral, U. S. Navy. Born in Chester, Pa., June 8, 1813. President of the Society. Original member, and Honorary Vice Presi- dent General of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Great-grandson of Captain Alexander Porter (born 1727), patriot, who, though too old to bear arms, "was present at the 'Boston Tea-party,' moulded bullets for the battle of 'Bunker Hill,' and set an example of re- sistance to the British crown."* Grandson of David Porter (1754-1808), Captain in the Continental Privateer Service, who commanded several armed vessels, among them the sloop "De- light," of six guns, fitted out in Maryland, and the ship "Aurora," of ten guns, belonging to the State of Mass- achusetts; escaping from the prison-ship "Jersey," he was actively engaged as a privateersman until the end of the war, when he v/as commissioned by Washington a Sailing Master in the new Navy. [Son of David Porter (1780- 1843), as a youth, in the merchant service, twice impressed by British ships- of-war. Midshipman, U. S. N., 1798, and Captain, * When the war broke out there was a leaden statue of King George the Third in the city of New York. This the citizens threw down and dragged through the streets. Part of the lead was sent to Boston, and old Alexander Porter obtained a portion of one arm of the statue, and, with the assistance of his patriotic wife, converted it into bullets which were used by the soldiers at Bunker Hill. "Margaret," said the old man to his wife, " this king's right arm, which has so long been held in respect, will shortly deal such a blow against his own troops as neither he nor they ever anticipated." Alexander Porter survived the Revolution, and lived to see the American flag float- ing from all the spires in Boston. Reminiscences of Admiral Porter. ROBERT TREAT PAINE |l-H()\l A I'AI.NI l.\(; I.\ IM)KI'KM)F.M:E hall, I'HILADKLI'Ha] MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 63 1812, who, as commander of the "Essex," did so much for the perpetuation of American Independence.] Grandson of William Anderson (1763-1829), of Ches- ter, Pa., patriot and soldier, Aide to Laf^iyette at Bran- dywine, where he was wounded, and in service, as Colonel, at Valley Forge, Germantown and Yorktown. [Greatnephew of Samuel Porter, of Massachusetts, Captain in the privateer service, who died in the British prison-ship "Jersey,'" in 1778.] Charles Debrille Poston. us (Phoenix, Arizona.) First Delegate in Congress from Arizona. Born in Hardin Co., Ky., April 20, 1825. Son of Temple Debrill, and grandson of Charles Debrill (1757-1840), of Rockingham Co., Va., private of Militia, 1775, and Minuteman in service in the Lewis and Christie, North Carolina, campaign of 1776, Ensign of Militia and Convention Guards, 1777, and under Lafayette in 1781, and present at the surrender of York- town; later Captain of Kentucky Troops in Harmar's Expedition, 1790. Daniel Webster Prentiss, M. D. 173 Physician and Professor of Materia Medica in Columbian University. Born in Washington City, May 21, 1843. Son of William Henry and Sarah Anji Cooper Pren- tiss : grandson of William and Eunice Payne Greenleaf Prentiss : great-grandson of Joseph and Abigail Paine Greenleaf. Joseph Greenleaf (1720-1810), of Boston, was Member of the Committee of Correspondence, Safety and Inspection, i776-'77, and of the Port Bill "Com- mittee of Sixty." He was the author of the Abington Declaration of Rights, adopted in 1770.* [Great-grandnephew of Hon. Robert Treat Paine, LL. D. (1731-1814), of Boston, patriot. Signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Member of the Con- * He was great-grandson of Lieut. Enoch Greenleaf, of York, an officer under Gen. Monk, in the army of Cromwell. 64 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. tinental Congress and the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention.] Hon. Redfield Proctor. 192 Secretary of War. Honorary Member. President of the Vermont Society, S. A. R. Grandson of Leonard Proctor, Lieutenant of a Company of Massachusetts Minutemen, April 19, 1775, and later Captain of Massachusetts Troops, in service at Trenton and Monmouth. Col. Felix Alexander Reeve. 9 Assistant Solicitor of the Treasury. Born in Cocke Co., Tenn., September 4, 1836. Son of Thomas Jefferson and Rebecca Ann Ea?'nest Reeve: grandson of Felix and Sarah Oliphant Earnest. Felix Earnest (1762-1842), of Greene Co., Tenn., a na- tive of Newtown, Va., served under Col. John Sevier at King's Mountain, and was successively private. Ensign and Lieutenant of North Carolina Volunteers. Philip Key Reily. 129 Stenographer. Born in Washington City, April i, 1829. Son of Thomas B. and Rebecca Key Reily : grandson of William Hodgkin Reily (d. 1824), of Baltimore Co., Md., Lieutenant of Baltimore County Militia, and in Hall's Battalion of the Maryland Flying Camp; Captain and Brevet Major, 4th Regiment, Maryland Continental Line; a member of the Maryland Society of the Cincinnati. William Jones Rhees. 14 Chief Clerk of the Smithsonian Institution. Born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 13, 1830. Son of Dr. Benjamin Rush and Margaret Grace Evans Rhees: grandson of Rev. Morgan John and An7i Loxley Rhees: great-grandson of Benjamin and Catharine Cox Loxley. Benjamin Loxley (1720-1801), of Philadelphia, Pa., Captain of the First Artillery Company of Pennsyl- REV. FELIX EARNEST [KRU.M a SKKTCil KV HOKACK KKKVe] MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 65 vania, 1776, in service at Valley Forge, etc. ; Member of the Philadelphia Committee of Safety, 1776. He made cannon, travelling shops and fireworks for the Con- tinental army, and for two years gave instructions to the Militia in the State House yard in the use of cannon and small arms. p^ .» ^•V-Nixi' ^ Great-grandson of Sffli&t and ' ^f^tf^fS ^- Lazi'n ^vnns. ^ ,,,.* ^|^i>ipvANS (il^^iSir was4toi2^ ■m^m^/3^^^^^ Pennsylvania and was at Brandywine and Germantown. Owen Riley. 146 Clerk, Post Office Department. Born in Pultney, N. Y., July 19, 1824. Son of Owen and Rhoda Stewart Riley : grandson of Joseph and Lydia Stewart. Joseph Stewart (b. 1759), of Middlesex Co., Conn., was private in the 4th Battalion, Wadsworth's Brigade, State Troops, and in other militia service in the sea coast defense of Con- necticut and Rhode Island, i777-'79, and in the ist and 5th Regiments, Conn. Continental Line, 1780, in service at West Point. Henry Alfred Robbins, M. D. 89 Physician. Born in St. Louis, Mo., February 9, 1839. Son of Zenas Coleman and Mary J. Tilde^i Robbins : grandson of Richard Swift and Evalina Ellen Byrd Tilden: great-grandson of John Bell 2.ndijane Chambers Tilden. Lieut. John Bell Tilden, M. D. (1761-1835), of Philadelphia, was Ensign (May 28, 1779) and Lieu- tenant (July 25, 1780) in the 2d Regiment, Pennsyl- vania Continental Line, i779-'8i, in service at the siege of Yorktown; a Member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati. Samuel Augustine Robinson. io6 Superintendent of Drainage and Plumbing, District of Columbia. Born in Washington City, August ii, 1849. Son of William and Francis H. P. Turner Robinson : grandson of William and Margaret Williamson Robin- 66 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. son: great-grandson of William Robinson, and great- great-grandson of Maximilian Robinson. William and Maximilian Robinson, of Westmoreland Co., Va., were Signers of the Westmoreland Association; the former a Member of the House of Burgesses which passed the Stamp Act Resolution in 1765. Great-grandson of Dr. Walter and Mildred Wash- ington Williamson: great-great-grandson of John Washington, Captain of Cavalry, Virginia State Line, i782-'83. Capt. Clinton Brooks Sears, U. S. A. 29 (Whitestone, New York.) Captain, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A. Born in Penn Yan, N. Y., June 2, 1844. Son of Rev. Clinton William and Angeline Brooks Sears : grandson of Moses and Lydia Ransom Brooks : great-grandson of Samuel and Mary Nesbiti Ransom : great-great-grandson of Capt. Samuel and Esther Lawrence Ransom. Samuel Ransom (i 737-1 778), of Norfolk, Conn., and Plymouth, Pa., October, 1775, Captain of 3d Company, 21st Regiment, Connecticut Militia; August 26, 1776, Captain of 2d (Connecticut and Pennsylvania) Wyoming Valley Company, serving at Brandy wine, Germantown, and elsewhere; killed at Wyoming, July 3, 1778.* Col. Franklin Austin Seely. 162 Principal Examiner, U. S. Patent Office. Born in Wayne Co., Pa., April 4, 1834. Son of Richard Lewis and Maria Terrey Seely : grand- son of John Williamson and Elizabeth Williams Seely: great-grandson of Sylvanus and Jane Willia?nso?i Seely. Col. Sylvanus Seely (1743-1821), of Chatham, N. J., was Captain, 1776, Major, 1777, and Colonel, 1777, ^^ *A biographical s!xooks. Deacon SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 91 Samuel Brooks (1729-1807), of Exeter, N. H., was Del- egate to the Provincial Congress of 1775, Member of the Committee of Supplies, and Paymaster of Militia under the New Hampshire Committee of Safety. Alexander Brown. 246 (Norwood, Nelson County, Va.) Historian. Born in Nelson County, Va., Sept. 5, 1843. Son of Robert Lawrence, and Sarah Cabell Callaway Brown: grandson of Dr. George and Mary Elisabeth Ca(5^// Callaway : great-grandson of James and Elizabeth ^«r^ Callaway. Col. James Callaway, (1736-1809), of old Bedford County, Va., patriot and soldier, served in the French and Indian Wars, and was County Lieuten- ant, and Commandant of the Militia of Bedford County, and during the Revolution constantly engaged in all that pertained to that very important office in the border counties, where there were constant troubles with the tories and the Indians. He owned and operated iron works and lead mines, the first in Southwest Virginia, and supplied the patriot army. Col. John Callaway, distinguished at Guilford C. H.,was his brother, and Col. Richard Callaway, of Kentucky, patriot, his uncle. Great-great-grandson of Jeremiah and Mary Buford Early. Col. Jeremiah Early (1710-1779). of old Bedford County, Va., patriot, served in the French and Indian Wars, and was Colonel of Militia and Chairman of the Bedford County Committee in the early years of the Revolution. Grandson of Gen. Alexander Brown, of Perth, Scot- land, and Lucy Shands Rives, his wife. Great-grandson of Robert and Margaret Jordan Cabell Rives. Robert Rives (i 764-1 845), of Sussex County, Va., served at the sur- render of Yorktown as a private soldier. Great-grandson ofWilliam and Ann Carrington Cabell. Col. William Cabell, Jr. (1759-1822) was Major in Lieut. -Col. Pope's Battalion, serving under Lafayette in 1781. (For collaterals see record of W. D. Cabell, No. 16). 92 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Great-great-grandson of William and Margaret Jordan Cabell. Col. William Cabell, Sr. (lyso-'gS) was a member of all the Virginia Conventions, and of the Virginia Committee of Safety. Great-great-grandson of Paul and Margaret Read Car- ri7igton. Judge Paul Carrington (1733-18 1 8), of " Mul- berry Hill," Charlotte County, Va., patriot, a Member of all of the Virginia Revolutionary Conventions, and of the Virginia Committee of Safety, etc. (For collaterals see the records of Gen. E. C. Carrington, No. 208, and Peyton Rodes Carrington, No. 186). Great-great-great-grandson of George and Anne Mayo Carrington. Col. George Carrington (i7ii-'85), of '• Boston Hill," was Colonel for Cumberland County, and in 1775 Chairman of "a committee for encouraging the making of gunpowder," and was an influential patriot. Great-great-great-grandson of Samuel and Ruth Mer- edith Jordan. Col. Samuel Jordan (1707 .^-'89), of "Union Hill," Nelson County, Va., patriot, although a very old man, served as Colonel of Militia, as State Commissioner of the State's Foundry for Casting of Cannon. Col. John Jordan, patriot, was his son. Great-great-great-grandson of Clement and Mary Hill Read. Col. Clement Read (1707-1763), of Charlotte County, Va., patriot, though he died before the begin- ning of hostilities, took part in some of the preliminary movements, and several of his grandsons were soldiers of the Revolution. Col. Thomas Read, Col. Isaac Read and Major Edmund Read, patriots and soldiers, were his sons. Lieut. Bernard Abert Byrne, U.S.A. 285 (Fort Thomas, Newport, Ky.) Lieutenant 6th Infantry, U. S. A. Born in Newport, Ky., Oct, 19, 1S52. Son of Major Bernard M. and Louisa Abert Byrne, and great-grandson of Col. Timothy Matlack, patriot and soldier. See records of Charles Abert, No. 34, and Sylvamis Thayer Abert, No. 35, p. 3. Lieut. Charles Byrne, No. 171, p. 14./. L. Watkins, No. 31, p. 78. SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 93 Albert Carhart. 255 Merchant. Born in Bound Brook, N. J., Sept. lo, 1841. Son of John and Keziah Larison Carhart: grandson of Cornelius and Sarah Dunham Carhart : great-grandson of Cornelius and Willhnpia Colevian Carhart. Cornelius Carhart (1729-1810), of New Jersey, was Captain, 2d Regiment, Hunterdon Militia, and Major, 3d Regiment, Hunterdon Militia, April 20, 1778, and later. Gen. Edward Clement Carrington. 208 Lawyer. Born in Halifax, Co., Va., May 22, 1825. Son of General Edward C. and Eliza Henry Preston Carrington. [Gen. Edward C. Carrington (1790-1855), of Virginia, served in the War of 1812.] Grandson of Paul and Mildred Howell Coles Carrington. Judge Paul Carrington, Jr. (1764-1816), as a youth, fought with the Virginia Militia at Guilford C. H. Great-grandson of Paul and Margaret Read Carring- ton. Judge Paul Carrington, Sr. (i 733-1818), of Charlotte County, Va., patriot, was Member of the Virginia Committee of Safety, and of all the Revolu- tionary Conventions. Three of his sons — George, Clement and Paul Carrington — were soldiers. Grandson of Gen. Francis and Sarah B2ichanan Camp- bell Preston : great-grandson of William and S^tsanna Smith Preston. Col. William Preston (i729-'83) was Member of the Committee of Safety, and Colonel of Vir- ginia Troops, wounded mortally at Guilford C. H. Great-grandson of William and Elizabeth He7iry Campbell. Gen. William Campbell (1745-81), Colonel and Brigadier-General of Virginia Riflemen, died in service in front of Yorktown.* [Great-grandnephew of Patrick Henry, patriot.] Peyton Rodes Carrington. i86 (Richmond, Virginia.) Examiner of Titles. Born in Virginia, Jan. 9, 1834. Son of Col. Joseph Littleberry and Adaliiie Sidney Car- rington: grandson of William 'Andi Martha PovallOc\xx\x\g- * See page 12. 94 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. ton: great-grandson of Joseph and Theodosia Mosby Carrington. Capt. Joseph Carrington organized, by his father's aid, and commanded a company of Minutemen from Cumberland County, in service in North Carolina and in Lower Virginia in 1775, and was Member of the Cumberland Committee of Safety. Great-great-grandson of Col. George Carrington, of " Boston Hill," Cumberland County, Va. ; Member of the House of Burgesses, and Chairman of the Cumberland Committee of Safety. Four of his eight sons were offi- cers in the Revolution, viz: — Capt. Joseph Carrington, Judge Paul Carrington (1733-1818) of "Mulberry Hill," Charlotte County, Va., Member of the Virginia Convention, and the State Committee of Safety, whose three sons were distinguished officers of the Continental Line; Col. Edward Carrington (1749-1810) and Major Mayo Carrington, the two last original members of the Society of the Cincinnati; and Col. William Cabell and Col. Nicholas Cabell were his sons-in-law. Great-grandson of Charles and Martha Goode Povall; great-great-grandson of Bennett and Martha Jefferson Goode, of " Fine Creek," Powhatan County, whose nephew was Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declara- tion of Independence. [Great-great-great-grandson of John Goode, of "Falls Plantation," killed in the early Indian Wars, son of John Goode, of "Whitby," a soldier under Bacon in the Rebellion of 1676.] HiRAM Guernsey Chandler. 224 (Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, N. Y.) Real Estate Broker. Born in Brasher Falls, N. Y. Dec. 3, 1856. Son of David C. and Lydia Cha^npney Chandler: grandson of Samuel R. and Sally Guernsey Chandler: great-grandson of Stephen and Meribah Nye Chandler. Stephen Chandler (1753-1842), private, 2d Regiment Connecticut Continental Line, served at Bunker Hill, and in the siege of Boston — a pensioner, who died at Pots- dam, N. Y., 1842, aged eighty-eight. THOMAS JEFFERSON [from a bust, probably by CERRACHl, IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM.] SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 95 John Pascal Charlton. 235 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Manufacturing Stationer. Born in Philadelphia, Feb, 2. 1S33. Son of Frederick and Mary Pascal Charlton : grandson of John and Anii Polhenms Pascal: great-grandson of John and Susan Hart Polhemus. John Polhemus was Captain and Major ist Battalion, 2d Establishment, New Jersey Continental Line, in service i775-'8o. Great-great-grandson of John Hart (1708-80), of Hopewell, N. J.. P^itriot, Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Chairman of the New Jersey Council of Safety. CoM'R Colby Mitchel Chester, U.S.N. 218 Commander, U. S. Navy. Born in New London, Conn., Feb. 29, 1844. Son of Melville and Frances Elizabeth Harris Chester: grandson of Elisha and Mary Walworth Chester : great- grandson of Thomas and Sarah Eldridge Chester. Thomas Chester (1721-1801) patriot, of Groton, Conn., was a Paymaster in the Continental Army. His son, Captain Thomas Chester, commanded the privateer sloop " Hancock," (10 guns, 80 men), of Connecticut, and the privateer " Two Brothers," of Massachusetts. Three of Thomas Chester's sons were armed by him for the defense of Fort Griswold against Arnold, 1781: of these, Daniel Chester was killed. Sergeant Eldridge Chester was mortally wounded, and Charles Chester made prisoner. Their names are inscribed on the monu- ment which marks the scene of this desperate fight. Grandson of Thomas and Lucy Rogers Harris : great- grandson of Thomas and Elizabeth Harris. Thomas Harris (1750.^-1804), of New London, Conn., was private, 3d Reg't, Connecticut Continental Line (Col. Israel Putnam), 1775; private, Beebe's Regiment, Connecticut Militia, 1776 ; Sergeant, 4th Regiment, Connecticut Line, 1777; Sergeant in Washington's Body-Guard, 1778-80. 96 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Rev. John Chester, D.D. 231 Pastor of the Metropolitan Presbyterian Church. Born in Hudson. N. Y.. April 23, 1S22. Son of Rev. William and Frances Afary White Chester: grandson of John and Elizabeth Huntington Chester. John Chester (1749-1809), of Wethersfield, Conn., was Member of the Wethersfield Committee of Correspond- ence, 1774; Captain of Minutemen who marched at the alarm of Lexington, and of the 9th Company, Spencer's Regiment, which he commanded at Bunker Hill; Major in Wolcott's State Regiment, at the siege of Boston, and Colonel, 6th Battalion, Wadsworth's Brigade, in the New York and New Jersey campaigns and Member of the Connecticut Society of the Cincinnati. Rev. Thomas Spencer Childs, D.D. 219 Clergyman. Born in Springfield, IMass. Son of Joshua and Sttsan King Childs: grandson of Reuben Childs (1755-1840), of Deerfield, Mass., private in Captain Lock's Company of Minutemen, marched from DeeiTield to Cambridge at the Lexington alarm ; he then enlisted in Brewer's Regiment, and fought at Bunker Hill, where he was wounded. He also served at Ticon- deroga and Crown Point in Robinson's Regiment. Grandson of Lieut. Asaph King (1747-1832), of Enfield, Conn., who enlisted for the war in June, 1778, and was appointed Assistant-Paymaster, with rank of Lieutenant, and stationed at Wilbraham, and elsewhere. He served with Sullivan in the Rhode island Campaign of 1778, and in 1787 helped to suppress Shay's Rebellion. Rev. Samuel Davis Clayton. 254 (Dayton, Ohio.) Minister of the Gospel. Born in Berkley County, Va., Sept. 26, 1823. Son of Henry and Elizabeth Fulton Clayton : grandson of Henry and Anna Skeer Clayton. Henry Clayton (1750-180^), a native of Ireland, served as private in 1776 in Treat's Company, Bailey's Regiment, Pennsyl- vania Flying Camp, and later as ist Lieutenant, Swope's Flying Camp, Pennsylvania State Line at the Battle of SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 97 Long Island; he was captured and kept in prison till December 8, 1780, when he was exchanged at Elizabeth- town, N. J. His widow received a pension up to 1857. William McKendree Clayton. 280 Contractor. Born in Rushville, O., September 20, 1835. Son of Joseph and Louisa Showman Clayton : grand- son of Henry and Anna Skeer Clayton. Henry Clayton served as Lieutenant in the Pennsylvania Flying Camp, as shown in the record of Rev. S. D. Clayton, above. Rev. John Newton Culbertson. 211 Clergyman. Born in Franklin County, Pa., August 22, 1842. Son of John and Hannah McKitty Culbertson: grand- son of Robert 2X\di. Agnes Breckinridge Culbertson : great- grandson of Robert and Annie Dnncan Culbertson. Robert Culbertson (1755-1801), of Culbertson's Row, Pa., was Captain, 5th Battalion, Cumberland County Associated Volunteers, 1776, Lieutenant-Colonel, ist Battalion, Cumberland Associators, 1877-8; Wagon- master, and Commissary of Supplies for Cumberland Valley, 1778-81. Richard Dana. 274 Expert Fish-Culturist, U. S. Fish Commission. Born at Camp Floyd, Utah, December 4, i860. Son of Gen. James Jackson and Thesta Dana Dana: grandson of Samuel Luther and Theodora Willard Dana : great-grandson of Luther and Liicy Giddings Dana. Luther Dana (1763-1832), of Groton, Mass., was Midshipman, U. S. N., from 1780 to 1783, serving in the "Hague" frigate under Capt. John Manley, U. S. N., and elsewhere, and received a pension, which was continued to his widow until her death in 1843,* His brother William Dana was Captain in Knox's Artillery. Hon. John Warwick Daniel, LL.D. 230 (Lynchburg, Virginia.) U. S. Senator. Born in Lynchburg, Va., September 5, 1842. Son of Judge William and Sarah A. Warwick Daniel: grandson of Judge William and Mary Baldwin Daniel: * See Record of Gen. J. J. Dana, No. 60, p. 23. 98 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. great-grandson of Cornelius and Mary Briscoe Daniel. Dr. Cornelius Baldwin, (b. 1751), of Elizabethtown, N. J., was commissioned Surgeon, 2nd Regiment Sussex, New Jersey, Militia, and Surgeon, Hunt's Battalion, Heard's Brigade, New Jersey Militia, July 8, 1776. Grandson of John M. and Caroline NorvellV\lAX^\c'W\ great-grandson of William and Ami Wyatt Norvell: great-great-grandson of Col. John and Willielmina Jordan Wyatt. John Wyatt served with the Virginia Militia and was present at Guilford C. H. [Great-grandnephew (step-relationship) of Col. William Cabell, of "Union Hill," and of Archibald Stuart (b. 1757), Aide to Gen. Greene at Guilford C. H.] Theodore Davenport. 206 Disbursing Clerk and Superintendent, Post Office Department. Born in New York City, February 25, 1834. Son of Theodore and Harriet Grant Chesebrongh Davenport: grandson of John 'ax\^ Mary S. Wells Daven- port. Hon. John Davenport, M. C. (1752-1830), of Stamford, Conn., Major of Militia, was one of the Commission appointed by the Connecticut Assembly to rouse the people of the State to arms. Great-grandson of Abraham and Elizabeth Huntington Davenport. Col. Abraham Davenport* (1715-1789), of Stamford, Conn., as Member of the Legislature and Executive Committee of the State, and of the Com- mittee of Safety, was actively engaged in organizing the State Continental Line; his great-grandfather. Rev. John Davenport (1597-1670), one of the founders of New Haven, 1639, was one of the earliest advocates of religious liberty and representative government, and in * " In the old days (a custom laid aside With breeches and cocked hats) the people sent Their wisest men to make the public laws So, from an old brown homestead, where the sound Drinks the small tribute of the Mianas Waved over by the woods of Rippowams, And hallowed by pure lives and tranquil deaths, Stamford sent up to the councils of the State Wisdom and grace in Abraham Davenport" — Whittier: The Tent on the Beach. SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 99 1660, sheltered the Regicides for several weeks in his house. Theodore Davenport, Jr. 209 Born in Stamford, Conn., May 7, 1S65. Son of Theodore and Georgia Elizabeth Williams Dav- enport, and great-great-grandson of Col, Abraham Dav- enport, as shown in the record of Theodore Davenport, Sr., preceding. Commander Francis William Dickins, U.S.N. 273 Commander U. S. Navy. Born in Beekman, N. Y., Nov. 2, 1S44. Son of George and Eunice Pearce Dickins: grandson of William and Elizabeth Tanner Pearce : great-grandson of John and Eimice Briggs Pearce. John Pearce (1749- 1829) of North Kingston, R. I., served as Ensign, ist Regiment, Rhode Island State Brigade under Continen- tal pay, and as ist Lieutenant, Stanton's Regiment, Rhode Island Militia. George Doolittle. 212 Clerk, Third Auditor's Office, Treasury Department. Born in Utica, N. Y., December 26, 1830. Son of Jesse W. and Jerusha Clark Doolittle: grand- son of George and Grace Wetmore Doolittle. George Doolittle, of Middletown, Conn., was private, corporal and sergeant, 6th Regiment, Connecticut Line, from 1778, to the close of the war and received a pension. Grandson of Jabez and Amy Elderkin Clark. Jabez Clark, of Lebanon, Conn., Ensign in Col. Ely's State Regiment, 1777, who served through the war and re- ceived a pension. Rev. James Owen Dorsey. 290 Clergyman; and Ethnologist, Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution. Born in Baltimore, Md., October 31, 1848. Son of Thomas Anderson and Maria Swectser Hance Dorsey: grandson of Nicholas Slade and Mary Anderson Dorsey: great-grandson of Elisha and Mary Slade Dor- sey. Elisha Dorsey (i752-'98) of Baltimore, patriot, lOO SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. was member of the Baltimore Committee of 1774, and of the Committee "to carry the Maryland Association to the people for signing," 1775 and 1776. Grandson of James and Ajui Swectser H-Ance.: great-grandson of Samuel and Sarah Allnut Hance. Samuel Hance (1730- 1800), of Calvert County (near Prince Frederick) Mary- land, patriot, was member of the Calvert County Com- mittee of Observation, 1774 and 1775, and also of the Committee to License Suits, 1775. [Grandson of Nicholas Slade Dorsey (1782-1S67) a soldier of 1812, and of James Hance (1788-1865) private, Levering's Company, "Old Defenders" of Baltimore, who was in service in 18 12 and captured a British flag at North Point] [Great-great-great-grandnephew of Capt. Charles RiDGELY (1733-90), Chairman of the Baltimore County Committee of Observation, and great-grandnephew of Gov. Charles Ridgely (1760-1829) of Maryland, mem- ber of the Cominittee of Observation.] DeVIN FlNCKEL. 249 Bank Clerk. Born in Washington City, October i8, 1S69. Son of Frank Hermann and Charlotte Brady Finckel: grandson of Jasper Erving and Margaret Morton Brady: great-grandson of John and Jane McCall Brady. John Brady (b. 1763), a boy of fifteen, fought by the side of his father and his brother Lieutenant Samuel Brady* at Brandywine, and was wounded. Great-great-grandson of John and Mary Quigley Brady. Captain John Brady (1733-79), of the 12th Regiment, Pennsylvania Continental Line, was wounded at Brandywine, at the head of his company, and was later engaged in frontier duty and v^as killed by the Indians, at Wolf Run, April 11, 1779. Charles Willis Fisher. 264 TeacVier. Born in Hoboken, N. J., August 7, 1853. Son of Charles Willis and Margaretta Sargent Graham Fisher: grandson of Willis and Caroline Fab^banks 'Samuel Brady was Lieutenant in Doyle's Independent Company, and was later Captain, 8th Pennsylvania Continental Line. In April, 1879, a monument to his memory was erected by the people of the West Branch Valley, at Muncy, Pa. SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. lOi Fisher: great-grandson of Asa and Julitta Metcalf^-MK- banks. Asa Fairbanks, Jr. (1730-1809), of Franklin, Mass., was Captain of a company of Norfolk County Militia which marched on the alarm of Lexington, and constituted a part of Washington's first command at the siege of Boston, and later served in Rhode Island. Great-great-grandson of Hon. Jabez Fisher, Member of the Provincial Congress and of the Committee of Safety of Massachusetts, five of whose sons served in the army, three in the company of Capt. Fairbanks, above mentioned, and two in other companies, one of them having fought at Bunker Hill. Great-great-grandson of James Metcalf, Lieutenant- Colonel of Norfolk Militia, in service in the Rhode Island Campaign. Abial Abbott Forbush. 276 Carpenter. Born in Hillsborough, N. H., November 13, 1839. Son of Ira and Hannah Brown Forbush : grandson of Simeon and Catherine Hosrner Forbush : great-grandson of David and Sarah Hayward Forbush. David Forbush, Jr. (b. 1739), of Acton, Mass., was Orderly Sergeant of the company of Minutemen which first opposed the British troops at the North Bridge in Concord. He was standing beside Captain Davis when the first shot was fired by the enemy, and was covered with Davis's blood when he fell. [Great-grandnephew of Abner Forbush, of Acton, Minuteman, who fought at the Bridge in Concord.] Great-grandson of Stephen and Sarah Davis Hosmer. Stephen Hosmer, of Acton, was one of the Minutemen at Concord Bridge. [Great-grandnephew of Abner Hosmer, of Acton, Minuteman, who fell at Concord Bridge, killed by the same volley which killed Captain Davis.] Great-grandson of Hzekiel and Mary Davis. Ezekiel Davis, of Acton, private of Minutemen, fought at Concord. I02 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. [Great-grnndnephew of Captain Isaac Davis, of the Acton Minutemen, killed by the first volley fired by the British at Concord Bridge.] Great-great-grandson of Josiah and Mary Hayward. Josiah Hayward, of Acton, patriot, was Delegate to the Provincial Congress, 1774 and 1775. [Great-great-grandnephew (?) of Capt. John Hayward (1740-1S25), of the Acton Minutemen, Vv'ho, after the death of Capt. Davis, led the company across Concord Bridge, in the pursuit toward Boston, and who a little later led his Acton men up the slope of Bunker Hill.] Grandson of Isaac and Sarah Aiken Brown. Isaac Brown, of Andover, N. H., was a private in Stickney's Regiment, Stark's Brigade, New Hampshire Militia. John Allen Graves. 198 Teacher. Born in New York City, October 31, 1S27. Son of Capt. John Clark and Mary McLacJiland Graves: grandson of Durius and Zeruah Graves. DuRius (Darius) Graves, of Concord, N. H. (born 1762), was private in Bellows' New Hampshire Regiment, in service with the Northern Continental Army in 1777. Andrew Jordan Green. 272 Examiner of Claims, Pension Bureau. Barn in the District of Acquia, Stafford County, Va., JVlarch i6, 1S63. Son of John and Mary Anne Jordan Green: grandson of William and Betsy Sidlivan Green : great-grandson of Jesse and Elizabeth G?.r Green. Jesse Green (1755- 1S30), of Stafford County, Va., was a private in the Virginia State Cavalry. [William Green (1794-1S14), his son, of Stafford County, Va., was a private in the 45th Virginia Infantry in the War of 1812.] Maj. Chas. Ravenscroft Greenleaf, U.S.A. 214 Major and Surgeon, U. S. Army. Born in Carlisle. Pa., January i, 1S3S. Son of Rev. Patrick Henry and Margaret Laughto^i JoJinson Greenleaf: grandson of the Hon. Simon and Hannah Kingman Greenleaf: great-grandson of Moses and Lydia Parsoyis Greenleaf. Moses Greenleaf, SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 103 of Newbury, Mass., "entered the American Army at the age of nineteen as a Lieutenant, and served until nearly the close of the war." Great-great-grandson of the Hon. Jonathan Green- leaf (1723-1807), patriot, of Newbury, Mass., Member of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts, and of the Committee of Safety and Correspondence for the Town of Newburyport. Charles Parke Grice. 244 (Philadelphia, Pa.) Manufacturer. Born in Philadelphia, July 25, 1858. Francis Grice. 245 (Philadelphia, Pa.) Manufacturer. Born in Camden, N. J., October i, 1855. Grandsons of Francis and Mary P. H. Elliott Grice : great-grandsons of Joseph and Mary Smith Grice. Joseph Grice, of Philadelphia, a boy of seventeen, in July, 1776, was private in a Light Infantry Company from Philadelphia, in service at Perth Amboy. August 16, 1776, he joined the First Company of Artillery of Philadelphia as gunner, at the same time working as ship-carpenter on the frigate "Effmgham." In 1777, he served with Moulden's Artillery throughout the Jersey Campaign, and later as a privateersman, as narrated in the record of Francis Elliott Grice, No. 161, p. 37. Great-great-grandsons of Francis and Mary Brocke^i- brough Grice. Francis Grice was in 1776 ist Lieutenant, ist Artillery Company of Philadelphia (Capt. Benjamin Loxley), and later (^artermaster with the rank of Major. He was confined in British prisons in New York, and Philadelphia, ijjj- 80. Eminel Potter Halstead. 225 Lawyer. Born in Trenton, Oneida County, N. Y., August 13, 1833. Son of Thomas Jefferson and Mary Potter Halstead : grandson of Joseph and Miriam Preston Halstead. Joseph Halstead (1760-1845), private in the Connecticut Continental Line, i777-'8o, was in service at Trenton, Monmouth, Valley Forge and West Point, and a pensioner in 18 18, residing in New York. I04 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Russell Benjamin Harrison. 220 (Helena, Montana.) Journalist. Born in Oxford, Ohio, August 12, 1854. Son of President Benjamin and Caroline Scott Harrison : grandson of Hon. John Scott and Elizabeth Irwin Harrison : great-grandson of President William Henry and Anna Synnncs Harrison : * great-great-grandson of Benjamin and Elizabeth Bassett Harrison. Hon. Benja- min Harrison (i726-'9i), of "Berkeley," Charles City County, Va., patriot, was Member and Speaker, Virginia House of Burgesses; Signer of the Williamsburg Resolutions of 1774; Member of the Virginia Conven- tions; Member of the Continental Congress and Chairman of the Continental Board of War, which directed and controlled the War of the Revolution; Signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Governor of Virginia, 1782. Gen. Charles Harrison, of the Virginia Line (d. 1796), Nathaniel Harrison, patriot, of Prince George County, Speaker of the Virginia Senate; Carter Henry Harrison, of " Clifton," patriot. Member of the Cumberland Committee of Safety, 1774-5, were his brothers and Elizabeth Randolph wife of Hon. Peyton Randolph (i72i-'75), first President of the Continental Congress was his sister. Deputy-Pay- master-General Benjamin Harrison (d. 1799), was his son, and Capt. Anthony Singleton (i75o-'95), of the Continental Artillery his son-in-law. Great-great-grandson of John Cleves and Anna Tiithill Symmes. Hon. John Cleves Symmes (1742-1814), was Colonel, 3rd Battalion, Sussex (N. J.) Militia, in service at Saratoga, and Member of the Continental Congress from Delaware; his son John Cleves Symmes (1780-1829) was Captain, ist Inflintry, U.S.A., in the War of 1812. Great-great-great-grandson of Governor William Livingston, LL. D. (i723-'9o), of Elizabethtown, Deputy in the ist-3d Continental Congresses, Brigadier-General *Gen. William Henry Harrison commanded the Army of the Northwest Frontier in the War of 1812. SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 105 and Commander-in-Chief of the New Jersey Militia, and Governor 1776-90. Grandson of Rev. Dr. John Witherspoon and Mary Neal Scott: great-grandson of John and Agnes Mc- Elroy Scott. Major John Scott was Commissary of Pennsylvania Troops, and his brothers Dr. Moses, William and John Scott were also officers of the Revolution. John Beers Hawes. 217 (Reichenberg, Bohemia.) U. S. Consul at Reichenberg. Born in Danby, N. Y., May 31, 1856. Son of John Hart and Adelaide Beers W-Assifi'. grand- son of Eli and Electa Bush Beers: great-grandson of Richard and Ruah Piatt Bush : great-great-grandson of John and Sarah P. Richards Bush. John Bush (1736- 1819), was Ensign, June 24, 1776, 6th Battalion, Penn- sylvania Continental Line; Lieutenant, 7th Regiment, Pennsylvania Line; Captain-Lieutenant, April 17, 1780; Captain, December 11, 1781, 3d Pennsylvania Line. "He fought seven years for his country in the Revo- lution, having already served through the French and Indian Wars." Very Rev. Augustine Francis Hewit, D.D. 257 Superior-General of the Congregation of Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle. (College of St. Thomas of Aquin, Catholic University of America). Born in Fairfield, Conn., November 27, 1S20. Son of Nathaniel and Rebecca Woolsey Hillhouse Hewit : grandson of James and Rebecca Woolsey Hillhouse. James Hillhouse (1754-1832), of New Haven, was Captain, Governor's Foot-Guards, and Adjutant to the Governor, in service in the defense of New Haven, and Member of Assembly, i78o-'83. Great-grandson of William Hillhouse, of New London, Member of Assembly, Major, 2d Regiment, Connecticut Cavalry, and Member of the Continental Congress, i783-'86. Io6 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Gen. Charles William Field. 279 War Records Office. Born in Woodford County, Ky., April 6, 1S2S. Son of Willis and Isabella M. Duck Field : grandson of Ezekiel Henry and Elizabeth Field Field. Ezekiel Henry Field, of Culpeper County, Va. (when a youth four years a captive among the Indians), a member of the garrison at Lexington station, was killed at the battle of Blue Licks, Ky., August 19, 1782. Great-grandson of John and Clark Field. Col. John Field, an officer of Virginia Provincials, fought at Braddock's Defeat, 1755, and later fell at the head of his Regiment at the battle of Point Pleasant, October 10, 1774.* [Great-grandnephew of Gen. George Rogers Clark (1752-1818) "the Hannibal of the West."] William Edward Horton. 216 Assistant Topograplier, U. S. Geological Survey. Born in Washington City, June 28, 1S6S. Son of Major William Edward Mid Josephine J. Clarke Horton: grandson of Joseph and Julia A jni Eddy Clarke: great-grandson of William and Sally Hamilton Clarke: great-great-grandson of Thomas and Sarah Case C\-AxVt. Thomas Clarke (1743-1813), of North Kingston. R. I., served as Captain, ist Company, North Kingston Militia, 1775; Major, 2d Regiment, Kingston County (R. I.) Militia, 1777, in service under Gen. Spencer, and also in 1778 in Sullivan's Expedition, in battle at Quaker Hill. Col. Addison Augustus Hosmer. 302 Born in West Boylston, Mass., February 28, 1S33. Son of Ebenezer and Mary Cheney Hosmer: grandson of Daniel ixxdSai^ah Mason Hosmer: great-grandson of Daniel and Hannah Baker Hosmer. Daniel Hosmer, of Concord, Mass., served as Ensign in a Concord Company of Militia, organized April 9, 1776, and was in active service about Hull. Lieut. Joseph Hosmer, Adjutant of ■ See footnote, page 53. SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 107 Minutemen in service in the Concord Fight, and Abner HosMER, l^illed in the Concord Fight, were his brothers, and the Hon. Titus Hosmer, Member of the Continental Congress, his cousin in the third degree. Capt. Alfred Epher Hunt. 185 (Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.) Metallurgical and Civil Engineer. Born in Douglass, Mass., March 31, 1855. Son of Leander B. and Mary Hanchett Hunt : grandson of Oliver and Phebe Balcom Hunt: great-grandson of David B. and Ann Hayes Hunt. Major David B. Hunt (1735-91) served as private, 2d Company, 2d Regiment, New York Line, May 5, 1778, to February 17, 1779, and as (^lartermaster, 3d Regiment, New York Line, July I, 1780, to the end of the war. Stephen Alonzo Jackson. 195 (Abingdon, Virginia.) Born in Glenville, Va., September 22, 1851. Son of the Hon. Winter and Mary K. Fell Jackson: grandson of Stephen Pomeroy and Hannah Bailey Jackson: great-grandson of Stephen and Mary Pomeroy Jackson. Stephen Jackson ([764-1846), private, Virginia Line, was wounded at Yorktown at the age of seventeen ; he was often employed as a scout and spy. Great-great-grandson of Edward and Martha Miller Jackson. Edward Jackson, (born in England, 1729), was a private in the Virginia Line, and crossed the Delaware with Washington : his sons Samuel Jackson and William Jackson were also in the service. Jerome Fletcher Johnson. 253 Insurance Agent. Born in Royal Oak, Mich., Decembers, 1840. Son of James Gibson and Susan Boiven Johnson: grandson of Jeremiah and Tho7nazin Blanchard]o\\x\^ox\\ Jeremiah Johnson (1764-1847) was private, ist Regiment, New Hampshire Line, i78i-'83, and fought in the War of 1812 at Lundv's Lane. Io8 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Grandson of Daniel and Mehitable Packard Bowen. Daniel Bowen, private, 2d Regiment, Connecticut Continental Line, with two brothers, was at Bunker Hill, (See also records of Ar?iold B urges Johnson, No. 97, p. 45, -Axxd. J a77ies Bowen Johnson, No. 108, p. 46). WiLLARD Drake Johnson. 268 Topographer, U. S. Geological Survey. Born May 3, 1S59. Son of Arnold Burges and Harriet Melvina Barrows Johnson : grandson of Lorenzo Dow and Mary Bnrges Johnson : great-grandson of Jeremiah Johnson, private, ist New Hampshire Regiment. (See records of A. B. Johnson and his brothers. No. 97-100, p. 45, also of James Bowen Joh7ison, No. 108, and Jerome Fletcher Johnson, No. 253). Grandson of Ebenezer and Mary Freeman Barrows: great-grandson of Thomas Barrows (b. 1760), of Ware- ham, Mass., private in Jacob's and Nelson's Regiments, Massachusetts Militia, in 17S0 and 1781. Hon. Thomas Goode Jones. 193 (Montgomery, Alabama,) Governor of Alabama. Born November 26, 1S46. Son of Col. Samuel Goode and Martha W. Goode Jones: grandson of Dr. Thomas W. and Alary Arjnistead Goode Jones: great-grandson of Samuel and Mary Armistead Burwell Goode. Hon. Samuel Goode, M. C. (1756-1822), of "Whitby." Mecklenburg County, Va., was Lieutenant of the Chesterfield Troop of Horse, 1776 (his brother Robert Goode, of "Whitby," Chesterfield County, was Captain), and Member of the House of Burgesses, i779-'83. He was subsequently County- Lieutenant and Colonel of Militia for Mecklenburg, [Great-great-great-grandson of Governor Alexander Spotswood (1676-1740), who brought the right oi habeas corpus to Virginia, and who organized popular education, and iron-manuf^icture in the South. His grandsons Alexander and John Spotswood were officers in the Continental Line.] COL. SAMUEL GOODE, M.C, OF VIRGINIA. FroiT\ Miqiature by Peale. SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 1 09 Rear-Admiral James Edward Jouett, U.S.N. 191 Rear-Admiral, U. S. Navy. Born in Lafayette County, Ky., Feb. 28, 1828. Son of Matthew Harris and Margaret H. Allen Jouett. [Capt. Matthew Harris Jouett (1788-1827), served with the 28th Infantry in the Northwestern Campaign in the War of 1812.] Grandson of John and Sally Robards Jouett. Capt. John Jouett (1754-1822) was a scout and partisan in the Virginia service. When twenty-three years of age. he followed Tarleton and his Legion in their raid into Piedmont Virginia, and learning of their intention to surprise the Governor and Assembly at Charlottesville, he rode alone in front of the column, and after a des- perate encounter with the troops, escaped and reached the temporary Capitol two hours in advance of his pur- suers, and in time to enable Jefferson and the Legisla- ture to escape with the archives and public stores. He was rewarded by the thanks of Congress and the State.* Captain Matthew Jouett, his brother, fell at Brandywine. He was Clerk, May 23, 1775, of the first legislative assembly which met west of the Alleghanies, the " Boonesborough Parliament," in the Colony of Transylvania, f Samuel Prescott Keller. 201 Clerk, U. S. Pension Office. Born in Baltimore, November 12, 1840. Son of Samuel Lafayette and Harriet Keller Keller: grandson of Jacob and Barbara Ehrhart Keller: Jacob Keller (1760-1845), of Lancaster County, Pa., was private, Pennsylvania Line, under Capt. Martin Earhart and Major Hare, and fought at Brandywine, and also *The following resolution was passed June 12, 1781, by the Virginia House of Delegates : Resolved, That the Executive be desired to present to Capt. John Jouett an elegant sword and pair of pistols, as a memorial of the high sense which this General Assembly entertain of his activity and enterprise in watching the motions of the enemy's cavalry in their late incursion to Charlottesville, and conveying to the Assembly timely information of their approach whereby the designs of the enemy were frustrated and many valuable stores preserved. t See Shaler's " Kentucky," pp. 68-70. no SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. under Lafayette: as a boy he served under Montgomery in Canada. Grandson (maternal-lines) of Jacob Keller (1760- 1840), of Lancaster County, Pa., private, Pennsylvania Line, in Riegart's Regiment, and others, who fought at Trenton, Princeton, and under Wayne at Stony Point. David Kimball. 187 Messenger, U. S. Senate. Born in Windham, Vt., July 22, 1827. Son of Col. Levi and Margaret Jones Kimball: grand- son of Moses and Mary Jo7ies Kimball. Moses Kim- ball, Jr. (1752-1829), of Amherst, N. H., signed the Amherst "Petition against the King" in 1776, as did also his father Moses Kimball, Sr. Moses Kimball, Jr., as a private of Militia, fought at Bunker Hill. His brother, Eli Kimball (1759-83), fought at Bennington in Brad- ford's Company of Col. Nichols' Regiment, which commenced the attack on the British troops. Rear-Admiral Lewis Ashfield Kimberly. 288 Rear-Admiral U. S. Navy, retired. Born in Troy, N. Y., April 2, 1830. Son of Edmund Stoughton and Maria Theresa Ellis Kimberly: grandson of John French and Maria Willcocks Ellis: great-grandson of William and Catharine Ashfield Willcocks. Major William Willcocks (born 1750) was Aide to General Stirling at Long Island, Brandywine, Monmouth and Princeton. George William Knox. 277 Proprietor of Knox's Express. Born in Belgrade, Me., July 4, 1829. Son of Jesse and Sarah M. Sherburne Knox: grandson of Eleazer and Tamson Tibbetts Knox. [Eleazer Knox was a soldier in the War of 1812, in the Lake Cham- plain Campaign.] Great-grandson of Joseph Nock, private in the New Hampshire Militia in service at Kittery Point, 1775. Grandson of John and Rebecca Sheppard Sherburne: great-grandson of Job and Hannah Elliot Sherburne. Job Sherburne, of Epping, N. H., served out four enlist- SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. ill merits, in the regiments commanded respectively by Colonels Stark, Oilman, Wyman and Peabody. He was grandson of Lieut. John Sherburne, killed in 1691, commanding a company in the Indian War. William Salsbury Knox. 278 Secretary. Born in Tinmouth, Vt., November i6, 1S62. Son of George W. Knox, No. 277, and great-great- grandson of Job Sherburne, private, ist Regiment, New Hampshire Continental Line. Hon. Edward Samuel Lacey. 263 Comptroller of the Currency. Born in Clnili, N. Y., Nov. 26, 1835. Son of Edward DeWitt, and Cornelia Pixley Lacey : grandson of Samuel and Ruth Sigoumey Lacey. Great-grandson of Ebenezer and Mary Hurd Lacey. Ebenezer Lacey, of Woodbury, Conn,, served as a pri- vate in a company enlisted in Woodbury, in the New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia Campaigns. Great-grandson of Anthony and Rtdh Chase Sigour- ney. Anthony Sigourney (1757-1825), of Oxford, Mass., served as a private in a company of Oxford Militia, com- manded by his brother, Capt. Andrew Sigourney, and was wounded in the battle of New York, Sept. 16, 1776. Daniel Smith Lamb, M.D. 177 Physician. Born in Philadelphia, May 20, 1843. Son of Jacob Matlock and Delilah Meek Rose Lamb: grandson of William and Priscilla Ellis Matlock Lamb : great-grandson of Jacob and Sibylla Ellis Matlock. Jacob Matlock (i 762-1 857), of Waterford, N. J., at the age of fifteen enlisted as private in the Gloucester Militia, 2d Battalion, later in the ist Battalion, Gloucester Militia, and in the New Jersey State Troops.* Philip Fillmore Larner. 262 Lawyer. Born in Washington City, August 28, 1852. Son of Noble D. and Ann Margaret Keller Larner: grandson of Michael and Christiana Gideon Larner: *A full account in MS. of his service is in the archives of the Society. 112 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. great-grandson of Jacob and Mary Coons Gideon : great- great-grandson of Jacob and Rebecca Sales Gideon. Jacob Gideon (b. 1756) enlisted at Valley Forge, Pa., in 1777, in Rudolph's Troop of Lee's Legion, in which he served until 1781, and from 1781-1783 as trumpeter in Van Hare's Company of Washington Guards, in service at Guilford, Eutaw Springs, the Cowpens and Yorktown. Augustus Perry Leidy. 222 Merchant. Born in Philadelphia, March 5, 1S48. Son of George Craig and Mary Jenkins Leidy: grand- son of George and Hester Hebron Leidy: great-grandson of Jacob and Catharme Comfort Leidy. Jacob Leidy (1755-1811), was Ensign, ijjj-S, and First Lieutenant, 5th Battalion, Pennsylvania Line, (Col. Hiester), in serv- ice in the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Campaigns. Col. Charles McKnight Leoser. 190 (34 Beaver St., New York City.) Born in Reading, Pa., August 4, 1839. Son of Thomas Smith and Mary H. Rheeyn Leoser: grandson of Dr. Jacob and Sarah Bull Smith Leoser: great-grandson of John ^Vid Elizabeth Bull Smlih: great- great-grandson of Thomas and Aim Hunter Bull. Thomas Bull (1744-1837), of Chester County, Pa., was in 1776 appointed one of the field officers of the Chester Flying Camp, and later Lieutenant-Colonel, ist Battalion, Chester Militia. He was captured at New York, and confined in the "Jersey" prison-ship for twenty-one months. Francis Ellington Leupp. 178 Journalist. Born in New York City, January 2, 1S49. Son of John P. and Emeline M. Davishoo^: grandson of Henry and Loise Bushnell Loop: great-grandson of Peter and Ann Bailey Loop. Peter Loop (or Liipp) ( 1 723-1 824), a native of Germany, was Lieutenant, Col. Willett's Regiment, New York State Levies, 1782, and was in active service earlier in the war. SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. II3 Hon. George Bailey Loring. 303 Agriculturist. Born in North Andover, Mass., November S, 1817. Son of Bailey and Sally Pickman Osgood Loring : grand- son of Isaac and Rebecca Pickmaii Osgood. Isaac Osgood, patriot, was, with his brother Samuel Osgood, a mem- ber of the Committee of Circumspection, chosen by the town of Andover, Mass., to carry out the recommenda- tion of the Continental Congress and other Revo- lutionary Committees and in 1783 clerk of the courts in Salem. [Grandnephew of Samuel Osgood, patriot. Captain of Minutemen, Major and Colonel of Massachusetts Militia, and Member of the Provincial and of the Continental Congress.] Captain Thomas Mower McDougall, U.S.A. 269 Captain U. S. Army, retired. Born in Prairie du Chien, Wis., May 21, 1S45. Son of Charles and Maria Hanson McDougall: grand- son of John and Margaret Stockton McDougall: great- grandson of David Stockton: great-great-grandson of Thomas Stockton : great-great-great-grandson of Robert and Mary McKemie Stockton. Robert Stockton (1737-1821), of Somerset County, New Jersey, served as Major and Quartermaster, Continental Army, in service at Princeton and Monmouth. His brother Richard Stockton (1730-1781), patriot, of Princeton, N. J., was Member of the Continental Congress, and Signer of the Declaration of Independence. William Osborne McDowell. 213 (Newark, New Jersey.) Born in Somerset County, N. J., April lo, 1848. Member of the New Jersey Society. Son of Col. Augustus William and Anna M. Osborne McDowell: grandson of Rev. Dr. William Anderson and Jane Hayes Kollock McDowell: great-grandson of Matthew and Martha A7iderson McDowell. Matthew McDowell served as private in a company of Minute- men in Somerset County, N. J. 114 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Grandson of Rev. Enos Ayers and Abigail Davis Osborne: great-grandson of Henry Osborne, and great- great-grandson of Elias Osborne, both privates in the Essex County, New Jersey Militia. Great-grandson of Deacon Joseph and Anna Crane Davis. Joseph Davis (1754-1827), of Bloomfield, N. J., was private in the Essex Militia, and a prisoner in the Old Sugar House in New York City. Great-grandson of Shepard and Stisayi ArnettY^o\[ozV.. Shepard Kollock (1750-1839), patriot and soldier, was Lieutenant and Brevet-Captain, 2d Regiment Artillery, Continental Line, lyjG-'S, and editor of the "New Jersey Journal, " a patriotic organ established at the seat of war, Chatham, N. J., in 1779, at the request of Washington, and a reward was offered for his capture or death. He was one of the founders of the Society of the Cincinnati. Great-great-grandson of Isaac and Hannah White Arnett. Hannah Arnett, patriot, of Elizabethtown, in- fluenced materially the attitude of New Jersey during the Revolution. Her father Captain White is believed to have commanded a New Jersey privateer. Hon. John V. McDuffie, M.C. 270 (Hayneville, Ala.) Planter. Born in Addison, N. Y., May i6, 1841. Son of Isaac and Cintha Baker McDuffie: grandson of Samuel and Ester Fields Baker. Samuel Baker (1761 -1854), private in the Dutchess County, New York Militia (i78i-'83), served at Stony Point* and was a sergeant of New York Militia in the War of 18 12. Ester Fields, his wife, was the daughter of a Revolutionary soldier, killed at the battle of White Plains. [Grandnephew of Thomas McDuffie, captured, killed and quartered by the Tories and their Indian allies. J * His son Isaac McDuffie is living, 1S91, at Point Pleasant, Iowa, aged eighty- eight years. SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 115 Henry Benjamin McKean. 236 Clerk, U. S. Pension Bureau. Born in Columbia, Pa., Sept. 13, 1831. Son of Benjamin and Elizabeth Matthewson McKean : grandson of Elisha and Elizabeth Satterlee Matthewson. Elisha Matthewson (1757-1805), of Wyoming, six and one-iialf years in the Army as private in Captain Ran- som's Company, fought at Monmouth and Mud Fort, and Later as Corporal, ist Regiment, Connecticut Con- tinental Line and was one of the volunteers who carried the British redoubt at Yorktown, October 14, 1781. His brother Constant Matthewson, private in Ransom's Company, was killed by a cannon ball at Fort Mifflin, November 11, 1777. Cyrus Culbertson Maclay. * 194 (Tipton, Missouri.) Banker. Born in Westmoreland County, Pa., September 7, 1842. • Son of John and Anna Maria Gleiin Maclay: grand- son of Judge William and Margaret Ciclbertson Maclay: great-grandson of John 2ind Jane Dickson }Aa.c\Ay . Hon. John Maclay (1734-1804), of Cumberland County, Pa., was a Delegate to the Provincial Congress in Carpenter's Hall, June, 1776, and voted for Independence. [Great-grandnephew of Hon. William Maclay (1737- 1804), of Northumberland County, Pa., U. S. Senator 1789-91; Lieutenant in the Old French War; Assistant Commissary of Purchases in the Revolution, who took part with the Pennsylvania Militia in the battles of Tren- ton and Princeton — also of Hon. Samuel Maclay (1741- 181 1), of Northumberland County, Pa., Lieutenant- Colonel of Militia and later U. S. Senator. Aaron Buzzell Magoun. 223 Schoolmaster. Born in Strafford, N. H., September 15, 1808. Son of Josiah and Anna Sleeper Magoun. Josiah Magoun, of East Kingston, N. H., enlisted Decem- ber 7, 1776, and was mustered out July 2, 1779. He was private in the ist Regiment, New Hampshire Line, Il6 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. and also for six months in a Rhode Island Regiment. A pension was voted him in 1784, by the New Hamp- shire Legislature. Robert Hartley Marcellus. 286 Book-finisher. Born in New York City, March 26, 1S27. Son of Rev. Aaron A. and Sarah Marcellus Marcellus: grandson of John N. and Catharine Vrooman Marcellus: great-grandson of Isaac and Anna Dorothea Van Bos- kerckV room^^n. Isaac Vrooman (17 12-1807) of Schenec- tady, N. Y., was Member of the State Assembly, 1779. During the war he raised two regiments for the Conti- nental Service, and was rewarded by two large land grants from the State in the patents for which his service is expressly recited. Charles Wells Marsh, Ph.D. 238 (Johnson City, Tennessee.) Chemist. Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., July 12, 185S. Son of Edward H. and Harriet Wells Marsh: grand- son of Moses and Elizabeth Merrill Marsh: great-grand- son of Dr. Job and Elizabeth Smith Marsh: great-great- sfrandson of Moses and Hannah Cook Marsh. Captain Moses Marsh (1718-96), of Hadley, Mass., who com- manded a company in the Indian War, 1757, and was on the war-service list of the Hadley Militia, i775-'79- He was a member of the Hadley Committee of January 3, 1774, and of the Standing Committee of Correspond- ence. His brother, Daniel Marsh (1725-1810), served with the Hadley Militia in 1775, and his son Joseph Marsh (i754-'83), private in Hubbard's Company of Minutemen, marched from Hadley on the Lexington alarm. James Maynard. 229 Chief of Division, Post Office Department. Born in Knoxville, Tenn., July 15, 1853. Son of Hon. Horace and Laura Ann Washburn Maynard: grandson of Ephraim and Diana Cogswell SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 1 17 Maynard: great-grandson of James Cogswell (1755- 1837), of Ipswich, Mass., private in Capt. Weston's Company, Weston, Massachusetts Militia, in service at Dorchester Heights, Crown Point and Ticonderoga. Captain William Morton Meredith. 203 Printer: Chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Treasury Depart- ment. Born in Centrevilie, Indiana, April ii, 1835. Son of Samuel Caldwell and Margaret Ballard Mere- dith: grandson of John Wheeler and Elizabeth Brisbcy Meredith. John Wheeler Meredith (1761-1844), of Dover, Del, private Delaware Continental Line, in service for three years, in battle at Saratoga and The Cowpens, and in quarters at Valley Forge. [Nephew of John Luff Meredith, a soldier in the War of i8i2and of NorvalD. Meredith, a scout in the Black Hawk War.J Zebina Moses. 259 Assistant Superintendent Railway Mail Service. Born in Marcellus, N. Y., April 8, 1838. Son of Guy and Lucina Scott Bingha?n Moses : grand- son of Zebina and Ja7ie Grimes Moses : great-grandson of Zebina and Theodosia Curtis Moses : great-great-grand- son of Daniel and Mary Wilcox Moses. Daniel Moses (1729-1776), of North Canton, Conn., a private soldier, died in 1776 in the Army in New York, pro"bably at Har- lem Heights, during the retreat after the battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776. His nephew, Lieut. Abel MDses (i733-'85), was taken prisoner on the same occasion, and another nephew, Seba Moses, was a private in Mose- ley's Regiment. Grandson of Calvin and Betsy Scott Bingham : great- grandson of Phineas Scott (1745-1819), of Bennington, Vt, Robinson's Regiment, Vermont Militia, at Ticon- deroga, Saratoga and Bennington. His wife and children prepared ammunition and food for the army at Benning- ton. Great-grandson of Moses Grimes (b. 1765), of Sims- bury, Conn., was a private in the 3d Military Company, 1 8th Connecticut Regiment. Il8 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Great-great-grandson of Eliphalet and Margaret Dyer Curtis. Eliphalet Curtis (1734-1806), of Simsbury, Conn., was Sergeant, Simsbury Militia, in service at the Lexing-ton alarm, and later Lieutenant and Captain, 18th Connecticut Regiment and Member of the Connecticut Assembly, 1780. Herbert Gouverneur Ogden. 221 Assistant, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Born in New York City, April 4, 1S46. Son of Morgan Lewis and Eliza G. McLaiighlin Ogden : grandson of Samuel Gouverneur and Eliza Leivis Ogden: great-grandson of Francis and Elizabeth Ludloiv Lewis: great-great-grandson of Hon. Francis Lewis (1713-1803), patriot, of New York, one of the earliest members of the Sons of Liberty, Member of the First Colonial Congress, 1765, and the First Continental Congress, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, and U. S. Commissioner of Admiralty, 1779: his wife was imprisoned by the British in New York, and by order of Washington, exchanged for a British officer: his son Gen. Morgan Lewis (1754-1844), commanded the Continental Army at Stony Point, and in 181 2 was Quartermaster-General, U. S. A. [Great-great-grandson of Uzal Ogden, of Elizabeth, N. J., whose great-grandfather, Capt. Samuel Swaine, was one of the founders of representative govern- ment in the Newark Colony, 1667, and whose cousins Mrs. Hannah Ogden Caldwell, Gen. Matthias Ogden (1754-91) and Col. Aaron Ogden (i756-'i839), were prominent in the Revolution in New Jersey.] Albert Charles Peale, M. D. 184 Geologist, U. S. Geological Survey. Born at Heckshersville, Schuylkill County, Pa., April ist, 1849. Son of Charles Willson and Harriet Friel Peale: grand- son of Rubens and Eliza Patterson Peale: great-grandson of Charles Willson and Rachel Brewer Peale. Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) was Lieutenant and CAPTAIN CHARLES WILLSON PEALE SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. II9 Captain, 4th Battalion, Philadelphia Militia, 1776-8, in service from Trenton to Valley Forge; and also member of many Revolutionary committes, ijjj-'8i. Of his brothers, James Peale (1749-1831) was Ensign inSmall- w^ood's Battalion, Lieutenant and Captain, ist Regiment, Maryland Continental Line, and Member of the Mary- land Cincinnati: St. George Peale (1745-79), was Register of the Maryland Land Office, i777-'9, one of the Convention committee to sign bills of Credit, 1776, and died from exposure in the service as an officer in the Commissary Department. His sister, Margaret Jane Peale Ramsey, w.as with her husband Col. Nathaniel Ramsey in camp at Valley Forge and in the prison at New York and Long Island, 1778-80. Grandson of Rubens and Eh'za Patterson Peale : great- grandson of George and Jane Burd Patterson: great- great-grandson of James and Sarah Shippen Burd. Col. James Burd (1725-1793), previously Colonel in the provincial service of Pennsylvania, 1755-1764: was Colonel, 4th Battalion, of the Associated Battalions of Lancaster County, Pa. (1775-6). His son Edward Burd went to Boston in 1775 with Thompson's Battalion of Riflemen: was Major of Flying Camp, and taken prisoner at Long Island. Judge Jasper Yates, of Lan- caster County, Chairman Committee of Correspondence of Lancaster County, 1776, and Col. Peter Grubb were sons-in-law of Col. James Burd. Great-great-great-grandson of Edward and Sarah Plumley Shippen. Edward Shippen (1703-1781) was Chairman of Committee of Correspondence of Lancaster County Pa., and of other Revolutionary committees. [His brother. Dr. Wm. Shippen (1712- 1801), was Member of the Continental Congress, 1778-9, and whose son, Prof. Wm. Shippen, M. D. (1736-1808), was Chief Surgeon of the Flying Camp, 1776, and Director-General of all military hospitals, i777-'8i.J Great-grandson of George and Jane Burd Patterson: great-great-grandson of Captain James and Mary Stezvart I20 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Patterson: great-great-great-grandson of James and Susannah Hoivard Patterson (died 1755), whose second husband was Thomas Ewing, and whose sons were General James EwiNG (1736-1806), of the Pennsylvania Militia, and Captain John Ewing of the Flying Camp in i776-'77. [Great-great-grandnephew of Col. George Stewart (brother of Mary Stezvart Patterson), Lieutenant- Colonel, ist Battalion of Lancaster County, Pennsyl- vania, and (by step-relationship) of Gen. James Potter, of the Pennsylvania Militia.] Grandson of Patrick and Elizabeth Shay Friel: great- grandson of John and Anna Barbara HoUinger Shay: great-great-grandson of Jacob and Anna Barbara Stack- house Hollinger. [Great-great-grandnephew of Chris- tian Hollinger, Captain in the Flying Camp, in the New Jersey Campaign.] Peter Francisco Pescud. 292 (New Orleans, Louisiana.) Fire and Marine Insurance Agent. Born in Raleigh, N. C, Sept. 21, 1850. Son of Peter Francisco and Mary Is7'-acl Wilson Pescud: grandson of Col. Edward and Susan Brooke Francisco Pescud: great-grandson of Peter and Catherine Faunt- leroy Brooke Francisco. Peter Francisco (1760-1831), of Virginia, a famous trooper and partisan, was buried at Richmond in 1831, with military honors, with the Governor and Senate and House of Representatives in attendance. Col. John Lewis Peyton. 248 (Staunton, Virginia.) Autiior. Born in Staunton, Va., September 15, 1S24. Son of Hon. John Howe and Ayui Montgomeiy Lewis Peyton: grandson of John Rowze and Anne Howe Pey- ton. John Rowze Peyton (1752-97) was seven years a private in the Virginia Continental Line. Grandson of John and Mary Preston Lewis. Major John Lewis (1758-1823), of Sweet Springs, Va., served in the New Jersey Campaign and at Valley Forge; his SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. I2I brother Thomas Lewis (1761-1804) was Lieutenant, nth Reg't, Virginia Line, 1777, and Liter Captain and Major. Great-grandson of William and Aim Montgomery Lewis (1724-1811), woundedatBraddock's Defeat, 1754, who was appointed Colonel of the ist Virginia Regi- ment, 1776. Gen. Andrew Lewis (i72o-'8i), " the hero of the Point," Col. Charles Lewis (1736-74) killed at Point Pleasant, and Thomas Lewis (1718-90), patriot, and Member of the Virginia Conventions were his brothers. Great-grandson of William and Susanna Smith Preston. CoL. William Preston (i729-'83), of Montgomery County, Va., patriot and soldier, led his regiment at Guilford, and there received the wounds which caused his death. Calvin Tilden Phillips. 275 (South Hanover, Mass.) Manufacturer. Born in Hanson, Mass., March 3, 1836. Son of Ezra and Cathariiie Hitchcock Tilde^i Phillips: grandson of Ezra and Mehitabel Allen Phillips: great- grandson of Lot and Diana Howland Phillips. Lot Phil- lips, of Pembroke, Mass., was a private in Capt. James Hatch's Company of Minutemen, April 19, 1775, and took part in the fortification of Dorchester Heights. Great-great-grandson of Blany and Christian Wads- worth Phillips. Blany Phillips (1712-1800), of Pem- broke, patriot, was Member of the Pembroke Committee of Correspondence and Safety, 1775-76. Grandson of Dr. Calvin and Catherhie Hitchcock Tilden : great-grandson of Samuel and Mercy Hatch Tilden. Deacon Samuel Tilden (i 739-1 834), patriot, served as a Member of the Committee of Correspondence and Inspection of the Town of Marshfield, Mass. Great-grandson of Gad and Sagy Bailey Hitchcock. Gad Hitchcock, M. D. (1749-1835), of Pembroke, Mass., Surgeon's Mate, 1775, in Thomas's Regiment, Massa- chusetts Militia, and Surgeon i776-'77, in Carey's Regi- ment, Massachusetts Line, in service in the New York and Jersey Campaigns. 122 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Great-great-grandson of Rev. Gad Hitchcock, D. D., patriot, whose election sermon before Governor Gage, May 25, 1774, was "like a trumpet-call to battle." [Great-great-grandnephew of Daniel Hitchcock (1739 -'77), of Providence, R. I., Colonel 2d Regiment, Rhode Island Continental Line, who died from exposure in the New Jersey Campaign.] Great-great-grandson of John and Ruth Randall '^-^xXty . John Bailey (1730-1810), of Hanover, Mass., was Colonel 2d Regiment, Massachusetts Bay Line, i775-'8o, in service from Dorchester Heights to Monmouth, and an original member of the Massachusetts Cincinnati. Henry Blackman Plumb. 243 (Peely, Luzerne County, Pa.) Lawyer (retired). Born in Hanover Township, Pa., November 13, 1S29. Son of Charles and Julia Anna Blackman Plumb: grandson of Elisha and Ajuia Htirlbut Blackman. Elisha Blackman (1760-1845), of Hanover, Pa., a native of Lebanon, Conn., was a volunteer in Captain Bidlack's company at the battle of Wyoming, July 3, 1778,* and on October 22, 1778, was one of the party which gathered up the remains of the dead on the field at Wyoming. From 1778 to 1780 he served with the militia about the head of the Susquehanna, and in 1781 enlisted in the 5th Regiment, Connecticut Continental Line, and was discharged June 26, 1781, after one year's service, for which he received a pension. Grandson of Jacob and Rhoda Plumb Plumb: great- grandson of Jacob and Prudence Ponders Plumb. Jacob Plumb (1751-1822), of Middletown, Conn., commanded a Connecticut privateer. Charles Porterfield. 282 (Charlestown, West Virginia.) Lawyer. Born in Jefferson County, Va., January 3, 1861. Son of George A. and E7nily Terrill Porterfield: grandson of George and Mary Tabb Porterfield: great- * His name is inscribed on the Wyoming Tablet, among those of the survivors of the massacre. SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 123 grandson of William Porterfield (1745-18 15), of Fred- erick County, Va., private, Virginia Line, in service at White PLains. Col. Charles Porterfield and Capt. Robert Porterfield of the Virginia Continental Line, the former killed at Camden, were his cousins. * Great-grandson of George Tabb, of Gloucester County, Va., a soldier of the Revolution. [Grandson of George Porterfield, a soldier of 1812, and grandnephew of Alexander Porterfield who died in service at Norfolk, 1813.] Hon. Philip Sidney Post, M.C. 233 (Galesburg, Illinois.) Representative in Congress. Born in Florida, Orange County, N. Y., March 19, 1S33. Son of Gen. Peter Schuyler and Mary D. Coe Post: grandson of Col. Garret Post (d. 1825), private, Florida and Warwick Regiment, Orange County, New York Militia. Grandson of John D. and Sarah Coe Coe. John D. Coe (1755-1824), of Orange County, N. Y., was private and 2d Lieutenant, New York Continental Line, in service in the North under Schuyler and Montgomery. Great-grandson of Daniel Coe (b. 1730), private in the Haverstraw Regiment, Orange County Militia. Great-grandson (maternal line) of John Coe (i7i9-'82), Deputy-Chairman, Orange County Com- mittee, and President, New York Council of Safety. Philip Sidney Post, Jr. 234 (Galesburg, Illinois.) Law Student. Born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, November lo, 1869. Son of Philip Sidney and Cornelia A. Post Post: grand- son of Gen. Peter Schuyler and Mary D. Coe Post : great- grandson of Lieut. John D. Coe and of Col. Garret Post named above. Grandson of William T. and Harriette G. Luce Post : great-grandson of James B. and Catherine C. Hathorn Post. Great-great-grandson of Gen. John Hathorn, of 124 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. New York, Colonel of the Florida and Warwick Regi- ment, Orange County Militia, in service at the battle of Minisink, July 22, 1779, Representative from New York in the First and Fourth Congress. Hon. Estes George Rathbone. io Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General. Born in Hebron, Pa., June 30, 1848. Son of Horace Main and Sarah Ja?ie Estes Rathbone: grandson of Arnon and Martha Ballard Rathbone: great-grandson of Rev. David and Nancy Wales Rath- bone: great-great-grandson of Rev. John and Coyitent Brown Rathbone. Rev. John Rathbone (i 726-1 826), of Stonington, Conn., patriot, was a Member of the Ston- ington Committee of Correspondence and Inspection, and Signer of the Stonington Memorial to the Connecticut Assembly, presented after the assault on Long Point in 1775, praying for cannon to protect the town against other attacks by the British. Col. J. Sumner Rogers. 265 (Orchard Lake, Michigan.) Superintendent Michigan Military Academy. Born in Orrington, Maine, July 5, 1844. Son of Joseph andjohan Harriman Rogers: grandson of James Harriman and great-grandson of Peter Harri- man, private, Gordon's Company, 7th New Hampshire Militia, December 16, 1776, to March, 1777, and in service at Burgoyne's Surrender, October, 1877. William Edgar Rogers. 299 Lawyer. Born in Huntington, N. Y., November 6, 1S40. Son of William and Charlotte Velsor Rogers: grandson of William and Esther Hawley Rogers. William Rogers, of New Rochelle, N. Y., served as private and Sergeant in Col. Malcom's Regiment, Continental Line, and probably later as Captain. George Carr Round. 293 (Manassas, Virginia.) Lawyer. Born in Kingston, Pa., September 14, 1839. Son of William and Sarah Ann Carr Round: grand- son of George and Sally Hopkms Round: great-grand- SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 125 son of Bartram and Alee Wz/kmson Round. Bartram Round (1741-1833), private and Sergeant in the "Scit- uate Hunters," Rhode Island Militia, April 20, 1775, to October, 1776, and later 2d Lieutenant in the same, and engaged in coast-guard duty. In i78o-'8i, he was private in a local company of coast-guard militia. He was a pensioner. Addison Gross Sargent. 247 Student of Medicine, Georgetown University. Born in Hancock County, Maine, March 17, 1869. Son of Wyer Groves and Maria Szisan Dix Sargent: grandson of Benjamin Choate and Susanna Cole Sargent : great-grandson of Thomas Herrick and Susajnia Cleaves Cole. Thomas Herrick Cole (d. 1819), of Sedgwick, Me., was a private in Hutchinson's Regiment, Massa- chusetts Line, and also in Dodge's Company of Gerrish's Regiment, taking part in the siege of Boston. [Great-grandnephew of Col. William Prescott (1726 "'95)' of Pepperell, Mass., who commanded a Regiment of Minutemen at the Lexington alarm, and the Massa- chusetts Provincials at Bunker Hill; also of Gen. Oliver Prescott (1731-1804), Member of the Board of War, and of the Supreme Executive Council of Massachusetts, and, i778-'8i, Major-General of Militia.] William George Sargent. 287 (Castine, Maine.) Merchant. Born in Sedgwick, Me., March 8, 1848. Son of William Haskell and Mary Redman Sargent: grandson of Benjamin Choate and Susannah Cole Sargent: great-grandson of Thomas Sargent, M. D., Surgeon attached to Saltonstall's Expedition against Castine in 1779. Great-grandson of Thomas Herrick and Susanna Cleaves Cole. Thomas Herrick Cole was a private in Hutchinson's Massachusetts Regiment, in service at the siege of Boston, and later in Gerrish's Regiment. 126 sons of the american revolution. Henry Clay Sayles. 215 Clerk, War Department. Born in Woonsocket, R. I., December 27, 1S38. Son of Charles and Eliza Hicks Sc\y\Qs: grandson of Elisha and Sarah Walliyig Sayles: great-grandson of Richard and Rhody Alby Sayles. Richard Sayles (died 1822 in Norwich, N. Y.), was Lieutenant, Rhode Island Militia, in active service, lyyy-'Si. Hon. George Howell Shields. 237 Assistant Attorney-General of the United States. Born in Bardstown, Ky., June 19, 1S42. Son of George Washington and Martha Anri Hotvell Shields: grandson of Major Daniel S. and Sarah Garnett Shipp Howell : great-grandson of Caleb and Rebecca Styles Howell. Caleb Howell was express messenger and courier, New Jersey Continental Line. Great-great-grandson of Ebenezer Howell, Major, 2d Regiment, New Jersey Continental Line, 1776, whose sons were Major Richard Howell and Capt. John Howell, New Jersey Line. [Grandnephew of Lieut. Edmund Shipp, of Virginia, who was voted by Congress a sword for distinguished bravery in the defense of Fort Stephenson, in the War of 1812. His father Edmund Shipp was a soldier in the Revolution.] Howard Sill. 228 Born in Bethlehem, Albany County, N. Y., October 17, 1867. Son of James Mather and Mary Arm Udell S\\\\ grand- son of William Nickoll and Margaret Mather Sill: great- grandson of Richard and Elizabeth Nicoll Sill. Richard Sill (1755-90), of Lyme, Conn., enlisted in 1776, was Lieutenant and Quartermaster, loth Regiment, Connecti- cut Line; Paymaster and Regimental Clothier in the 8th Regiment, Connecticut Line, 1777-81; Captain, 5th Regiment, 1781, and in 1783, in the ist Regiment, Continental Line, served i78i-'83, as Aide-de-Camp to Gen. Lord Stirling, with rank of Major. His brother, David Fithen Sill (1733-1813), of Lyme, Conn., was SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 127 Lieutenant-Colonel, ist Regiment, Connecticut Line, and a Member of the Connecticut Cincinnati. His great- grandfather, Joseph Sill, of Massachusetts, commanded a company in King Philip's War, in 1676. William Reynolds Singleton. 300 Grand Secretary, Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia, Free and Accepted Masons. Born in Norfolk, Va., October 24, 1818. Son of Henry and Mary Ann {Reynolds) Waldron Sin- gleton: grandson of John and Sarah Dyso7i Singleton. John Singleton served as private in Col. Daniel Morgan's Regiment (Co. No. 12), and in other Regiments of the Virginia Line, until discharged at Philadelphia at the close of the war. [Grandson of Benjamin and Mary Waldron Reynolds. Benjamin Reynolds, of Bristol, R. 1., served in the Con- tinental Army at the siege of Boston — in which Regi- ment has not yet been ascertained.] Henry Martyn Skillman, Jr. 204 (Lexington, Kentucky.) Banker. Born in Lexington. Ky., February 4, 1863. Thomas T. Skillman. 205 (Lexington, Kentucky.) Merchant. Born in Lexington, Ky., April lo, i860. Sons of Dr. Henry Martyn and Margaret Scott Skill- man : grandson of Matthew Thompson and Winny Webb Scott: great-grandsons of Matthew and Elizabeth Thompso7i Scott. Matthew Scott (d. lySo-'Si), of Shippensburg, Pa., Lieutenant Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment, and Captain, State Regiment of Foot, who was a captive in the Jersey prison-ship, 1776. Of his brothers, Moses Scott was a Surgeon, and John Scott a Commissary. Great-grandson of Isaac and Lucy Ware Webb. Capt. Isaac Webb (1758-1833), of Virginia, was 2d Lieu- tenant, 7th Virginia Continental Line, 1777; ist Lieu- tenant, 5th Regiment of the Line, 1779, and served as Captain under Greene in the Southern Campaign. 128 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Frank Birge Smith. 252 Real Estate Broker. Born in Washington City, March 6, 1859. Son of Francis Hickox and Anna E. Birge Smith: grandson of Samuel Mansfield and Eliza Wheeler Smith : great-grandson of Samuel and Lucy //a// Smith: great- great-grandson of John and Mary Ford Smith: great- great-great-grandson of Ephraim and Sarah Newton Smith, Ephraim Smith (1715-1805), of Milford, Conn., was private in Douglas's Battalion, Connecticut Militia, 1776, in battle at Long Island and White Plains, and in 1779, as a volunteer, marched to the relief of New Haven. Robert Atwater Smith. 266 Organist. Born in New Haven, Conn., July 2, 1849. Son of Elmore and Lucy Bassett Smith : grandson ot Amos and Ejinice Clark Smith: great-grandson of John and Mary Ford Smith : great-great-grandson of Ephraim and Sarah Newton Smith. Ephraim Smith (1715-1805), of Milford, Conn., was private in Douglas's Battalion, in service at Long Island and White Plains, and also a volunteer to repel the attack on New Haven, 1779. Grandson of Hezekiah and Loly Atwater Bassett: great-grandson of Hezekiah and Sarah Ives Bassett. Hezekiah Bassett (1743-1823) was a private 17th Com- pany, Connecticut Militia, from Hamden, at the invasion of New Haven in 1779. Great-grandson of Medad and Rhoda Dickerman At- water: great-great-grandson of David and Elizabeth Bassett Atwater. David Atwater (1723-1806) and his son Medad Atwater (1751-1832) took part in the defense of New Haven in 1779, the latter as a private in the 17th Company, Connecticut Militia. ARMAT STODDART. 250 Patent Attorney. Born in Philadelphia, November 12, 1842. Son of Isaac and Lydia Butler Slodd-AXi: grandson of Capt. Zebulon and Jemima Fish Butler: great-grandson of Zebulon and Lydia JoJmsoyi Butler. Col. Zebulon Butler (i73i-'95), who served as Ensign in the Old COLONEL ZEBULON BUTLER [from an old paintinc;] SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 129 French War and in 1761 as Captain in the Connecticut Provincials: was Lieutenant-Colonel, 3d Regiment, Con- necticut Line, in the New Jersey Campaign, and sub- sequently Colonel of the 2d, 4th and ist Regiments. He commanded the garrison at Wyoming in 1778, and served in Sullivan's Indian Expedition in 1779, and was a Member of the Society of the Cincinnati. MiLO CoLBURN Summers. 295 Clerk, Surgeon-General's Office. Born in Millersburgh, 111., August 6, 1S62. Son of Ewing and Joanna Colburn Summers : grand- son of Adna and Clarissa Cutter Colburn : great-grand- son of John and Miriam Butler Cutter: great-great- grandson of Richard and Kezia Pierce Cutter. Richard Cutter (1724-95), of Hudson, N. H., served one month in the Boston Campaign, in the New Hampshire Militia: his son, Seth Cutter, served in the same Regiment at Bennington, Princeton, and Trenton. Washington Nelson Toler. 227 Real Estate Agent. Born at "Mount Chene," King George County, Va., January i, 1840. Son of Hopeful and Ann Nicholas Grymes Toler: grandson of Henry and Anna Blackwell Toler. [Hope- ful Toler, as a private in Henry St. George Tucker's Mounted Rifles, took part in the defense of Baltimore in 1812.] Grandson of George Nicholas and Ann Eilbeck Mason Grymes: great-grandson of Benjamin and Ann Nicholas Grymes. Benjamin Grymes (d. 1803.?), of "Eagle's Nest," King George County, Va., was Captain, Wash- ington's Life Guard. His sister Mary was the wife of Col. Richard Kidder Meade, of Washington's Staff. Col. Henry Lee and his four patriot brothers were his cousins. Great-grandson of George and Elizabeth Barnes Hooe Mason. George Mason, of "Lexington," Fairfax County, Va., was Captain in the Virginia Line. Great-great-grandson of George and Ann Eilbeck Mason. George Mason (i725-'92), of " Gunston Hall," 130 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. patriot, was Member of the Virginia Committee of Safety, author of the Virginia Bill of Rights, and one of the framers of the Federal Constitution.* Richard Shubrick Trapier. 271 Examiner, U. S. Pension Bureau. Born in Charleston, S. C, April 14, 1S56. Son of Rev. Dr. Paul and Sarah R. Dehon Trapier: grandson of Paul and Sarah Alicia Sh7ibrick Trapier: great-grandson of Thomas and Mary Brayiford Shubrick. Col. Thomas Shubrick (1755-1810), of " Belvidere," near Charleston, was Captain, 5th Regiment, South Carolina Continental Line (Jan. 15, 1778), and was Aide to Gen. Greene, in service at Savannah and at Eutaw Springs, where his gallantry won him a medal and the thanks of Congress. After the capitulation of Charleston he was appointed Commissary of Prisoners. His sister Mary Shubrick Rutledge (1754-1837) was the wife of Gov. Edward Rutledge, patriot, and Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Rowan Boone Tuley. 295 Clerk, Inter-State Commerce Commission. Born in New Albany, Ind., August 2, 1867. Son of Seth Woodruff and Nathalia Peters Tuley: grandson of Preston Floyd and Mary Crane Woodruff Tuley: great-grandson of Seth and Sally Crane Wood- ruff: great-great-grandson of Israel and Mary Cooper Crane. Israel Crane (i755-'95), of Newark, N. J., was Cornet, Essex Troop of Horse, New Jersey Militia. Grandson of Nathaniel and Eliza Lane Peters: great- grandson of John and Nancy Rotisseau Peters. John Peters (1762-1833) was a private in the Virginia Militia, in service at Williamsburg and Little York. Medical Inspector William Knickerbocker VanReypen, U.S.N. 242 Assistant Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department. Born in Bergen, N. J., November 14, 1840. Son of Cornelius C. and Christina Van Alen Van- Reypen: grandson of Cornelius and Aeltje VanHorn *See pages. SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 131 VanReypen: great-grandson of Daniel and Elizabeth Terhune VanReypen. Daniel VanReypen (1736-1818), of Bergen, N. J., patriot, was Lieutenant of the irregu- lar militia of Hudson County,* and served as a scout: he was for a time imprisoned in the Old Sugar House in New York City. Hon. Joseph Henry Walker, M.C. 197 Representative in Congress from Massachusetts. Born in Boston Decem- ber 21, 1829. Son of Joseph and Hannah Thayer Chapm Walker: grandson of Joseph and Mehitabel Gibbs Walker. Joseph Walker ist (1760-1852), of Sherborn, Mass., private, Massachusetts Militia, 1776-80, in service in Howe's Regiment, and in other branches of the service, chiefly in Rhode Island. Major William Holcomb Webster. 284 Chief Examiner, Civil Service Commission. Born in Burlington, Conn., January 24, 1S39. Son of William Burnham and Sarah Adelia Hall Web- ster: grandson of Charles and Ha7inah Phelps Webster. Charles Webster (d. 1801), of Harwinton, Conn., was a private in Belden's Regiment, Connecticut Militia, at Peekskill, 1777, and in the 3d Regiment, Connecticut Continental Line, 1780. Grandson of Elisaph and Rhoda Clark Hall: great- grandson of Diamond and Sybil Ticttlc Clark. Diamond (or Dimon) Clark (1750-1835), of Burlington, Conn., was private, 6th Regiment, Connecticut Continental Line, 1778-1779, in service at West Point, White Plains and Redding, and previously, in 1777, in Belden's Regi- ment, Connecticut Militia, stationed at Peekskill. Otis Caleb Wight. 260 Teacher. Born in Westford, Mass., August 12, 1817. Son of Caleb and Mary Osgood Wight : grandson of Nahum and Abigail Bullard Wight. Nahum Wight * His sword is still in the possession of his descendants. 13-2 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. ( 1 745-1 854), of Medtleld, Mass., was sergeant in Bul- lard's Company, of Brewer's Regiment, Massachusetts Militia, and was wounded at Bunker Hill while fighting behind "the rail fence." As Ensign under Gates, he was present at the surrender of Burgoyne, and later served in the garrison at Fort Ticonderoga, as Lieutenant in the Massachusetts Line.* Lloyd Buchanan Wight. 261 Patent Lawyer. Born in Washington City, November 29, 1S59. Son of Otis Caleb and Mary Isabella Buchanan Wight: great-grandson of Lieut. Nahum Wight, of the Massa- chusetts Militia, and Gen. Andrew Buchanan, of Mary- land. (See Records oi JohnB. Wight, No. 144, p. 80, and Otis Caleb Wight, No. 260, p. 131). Dr. Ahab George Wilkinson. 296 Principal Examiner, U. S. Patent Office. Born in Willimantic, Conn., February 22, 1S34. Son of Ahab and Eliza Ann Jillsoii Wilkinson : grand- son of Joseph and Martha Jencks Wilkinson: great- grandson of Ahab and Abigail Scott ^\\V\x\s,qx\. Ahab Wilkinson was private, Rhode Island Militia, in the company in which his father was Lieutenant. Stephen Hopkins, Signer of the Declaration, was his cousin. Great-great-grandson of John and Rebecca Scott Wilkinson. John Wilkinson (1719-1804), of Smith- field, R, 1., was Lieutenant, Rhode Island Militia, and was son of John Wilkinson, Captain in King Philip's War. Great-grandson of Henry Jencks, Captain, Rhode Island Militia. George L. Wilkinson. 297 Assistant Examiner, U. S. Patent Office. Born in Washington, Sept. 9, 1868. Son of Dr. A. G. ■ax\& Lue Wilson Wilkinson: great- great-great-grandson of Lieut. John Wilkinson, of Rhode Island. (See record next preceding). * His commission, signed by John Hancock, is in the possession of Mr. O. C. Wight. SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 1 33 Grandson of Major Nathaniel Warfield ^ndMaryBur- nam Wilson : great-grandson of Dr. Nathaniel Augustus and Caroline Randolph Woodson Wilson: great-great- grandson of Josiah and Elizabeth Woodson Woodson. JosiAH Woodson was Major in the Virginia Militia. Great-great-grandson of Nathaniel and Margaret Par- ker Wilson. Nathaniel Wilson was Captain, Maryland (Hagerstown) Militia, 1776. Charles McAllister Willcox. 240 (Denver, Colorado.) Real Estate Broker. Born at Angel Island, California, March lo, 1S70. Orlando Blodgett Willcox. 291 (Denver, Colorado.) Attorney at Law. Born August 19, 1867. Sons of Gen. Orlando Bolivar and Marie Louise Farns- worth Willcox : great-grandsons of Capt. John Willcox, of the Connecticut Line, whose record in full is given under the name of Geyi. O. B. Willcox, No. i8i, page 8i. Rev. Clarence Eugene Woodman, Ph.D. 251 Clergyman. Born in Saco, Me., November i, 1852. Son of Andrew Jackson and Abigail Ay er Haley V^ ood- man: grandson of Stephen and Mehitabel Fenderson Woodman: great-grandson of Ephraim and Olive Bryant Woodman. Ephraim Woodman (b. 1765), of Pleasant Point, Me., served three years and five months as private in the 3d and 8th Reg'ts, Massachusetts Continental Line. Grandson of Benjamin and Betsey Sargent Haley: great-grandson of Joseph and Dorcas Westcotf^-AKgtXiV. great-great-grandson of Chase and Martha BiLzzell Sar- gent. Chase Sargent (i 744-1840), of Haverhill, private in the Massachusetts Militia, fought at Concord and Lex- ington, and received a pension. Hon. John Vines Wright. 83 Lavv-Officer, General Land Office. Born in Purdy, Tenn., June 29, 1S28. Son of Benjamin and Martha Ami Hicks Wright: grandson of John Wright (b. 1759), of Savannah, Ga., Captain of Georgia Troops. [Benjamin Wright (1784- 1860) was ist Lieutenant, 39th Infantry, in the War of 1812, promoted to Captain for gallantry at "The Horse- shoe."] 134 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. MEMBERS ADMITTED SINCE APRIL 19, iSpi. William Weaver Danenhower. 305 Attorney at Law (retired). Born in Philadelphia, February 22, 1820. Son of Charles and Rachel Weaver Danenhower: grandson of John and Eve Riter Danenhower. John Danenhower (died about 1800), of Germantown, Pa., served as Wagonmaster, and was present with the Continental Army at Valley Forge, Germantown and Brandywine. Med. Director Richard Grain Dean, U.S.N. 307 Medical Director, U. S. Navy. Born in Harrisburg, Pa., May 27, 1833. Son of Dr. Alexander Tracey and Adeline Grain Dean : grandson of Richard Morgan and Elizabeth Whitehill Grain : great-grandson of Ambrose and Agiies Mojga7i Grain. Ambrose Grain (b. 1750), of Lancaster County, Pa., as Lieutenant in the Pennsylvania State Regiment of Foot (13th Regiment, Pa. Continental Line), fought at Brandywine and Germantown, and in the 2d Regi- ment, Pennsylvania Continental Line, served through the Southern Campaign until the surrender at Yorktown. Great-grandson of Hon. Robert Whitehill (1738- 1813), of Cumberland County, Pa., patriot, Member of the Philadelphia Convention of 1776, and of the Con- stitutional Convention. Lew^is Sydenham Hayden. 310 Bookseller. Born in Baltimore, Md., September ii, 1833. Son of Edwin Parsons and Elizabeth Hanse Hayden : grandson of Horace Handel and Marie Antoinette Robin- son Hayden : great-grandson of Thomas and Abigail Parsons WcVj^txx. Thomas Hayden, of Windsor, Conn., was Sergeant in Hayden's Company of Minutemen, Sergeant-Major in the 8th Connecticut Regiment, 1775, and ist Lieutenant, 3d Regiment, Connecticut Conti- nental Line. SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 135 Samuel Kellogg Hall. 312 Journalist. Born in Trenton, N. Y., August 27, 1822. Son of James and Sally Chapin Hall: grandson of John and Sarah Reynolds Hall. John Hall (1756-1832) served as private in Burrall's Regiment, Connecticut Line, served in the Northern Campaign of 1776, and was made prisoner at The Cedars, and in the 2d Regiment, New York Line, at Valley Forge and Monmouth. Grandson of David and Ricih Seymour Chapin. David Chapin (1762-1858), of New Hartford. Conn., served 1778-81, as private in Webb's Regiment, Con- necticut Line, and was pensioned in 1818. Henry Peter Renouf Holt. 304 Born in New London, Conn., June 12, 1840. Son of Robert and Nancy Renouf Holt: grandson of Robert and Nancy Hempstead Holt: great-grandson of John and Martha Coit Holt. John Holt (i746-'8i), of New London, Conn., served as a volunteer to repel Benedict Arnold's attack upon New London, Septern- ber 6, 1781, and was killed in battle at Fort Griswold. His name is inscribed upon the monument on Groton Heights. William Luff Meredith. 308 (Seattle, Washington.) Real Estate Broker. Born in Indianapolis, Ind., October 12, 1868. Son of William Martin and Teresa A. Rickey Meredith : grandson of Samuel Caldwell and Margaret Ballard Meredith : great-grandson of John Wheeler Meredith, of the Delaware Continental Line, whose record is given under the name of Capt. W. M. Meredith, No. 203, p. 117. Henry Benson Munn. 306 Lawyer. Born in Newark. N. J., August I, 1826. Son of Silas and Lydia Campbell Munn: grandson of Amos 2iX\6. Jane Dodd Munn. Amos Munn (1763-1805), of Newark, N. J., was private, Essex County, N. J. Militia, as were also his cousins, Samuel Munn and John 136 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. MuNN, later Lieutenant, Continental Line, and confined in the "Jersey" prison-ship. Grandson of Phineas Campbell, private, 2d Regiment, Essex County Militia. Lieut. Col. Wm. M. Postlethwaite, U.S.A. 311 (West Point, New York.) Professor, U. S. Military Academy. Born in Lexington, Ky.,July 19, 1839. Son of Captain G. Lewis and Sarah Mortoji Postleth- waite: grandson of John and Mary Scott Postlethwaite: great-grandson of Charles and Mary Sweney Scott. Gen. Charles Scott (1733-1813), of Cumberland County, Va., served with Braddock, and was Captain of the first company enlisted south of the James River for the Revolutionary War. He was Colonel, 3d Vir- ginia Battalion (August 12, 1776), and Brigadier-General (April 2, 1777). He served in New Jersey, at Stony Point, and Charleston, was a prisoner of war, i78o-'8i, and breveted Major-General. His brother, Major Joseph Scott of the Virginia Line, was wounded at German- town. William Anderson Raborg. 309 Assistant Geologist, U. S. Geological Survey. Born in Chester, Pa. March 22, 1852. Son of Charles William and Ami Cornelia Crosby Raborg: grandson of William and Mary Hubley (Eislen) Raborg: great-grandson of Adam Hubley (i74o-'93), soldier and patriot. Member of the Philadelphia Port Bill Committee, 1774; Lieutenant, ist Pennsylvania Battalion. 1775; Major, loth Regiment, 1776, and Lieutenant- Colonel Commandant, nth Regiment, i779-'8i. Grandson of John and Catherine Beale Crosby: great- grandson of Peirce and Christia^ia Richards Crosby: great-great-grandson of John Crosby (1748-1822), Cap- tain in Morgan's Regiment, Pennsylvania Flying Camp, and in the 3d Battalion, Associated Battalions, Chester, 1776; he was a prisoner of war in the New York prison- ships for six months. John Morton (1724-77), patriot, of Chester County, Pa., signer of the Declaration of In- dependence, was his brother-in-law. SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 137 William Pratt Wetherell. 313 Clerk, U. S. Pension Office. Born in Taunton, Mass., August 19, 1837. Son of Hiram Barney and Jane Lawton Pratt Weth- erell: grandson of Elisha Lawton and Hamiah Chase Pratt: great-grandson of William and Mary Lawton Pratt. Lieut. William Pratt (1759-1845), of Olney's Regiment, Rhode Island Continental Line, served from May, 1775, to December 25, 1783, and was an original member of the Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati. He was in the New Jersey and Rhode Island Campaigns, at Valley Forge and at Yorktown, and at the close of the war was in command of the garrison at Saratoga. List of Members. Charles Abert, ....... 3 Col. Silvanus Thayer Abert, . . - . 3 Rev. DanieIv Dulany Addison, .... 84 Rev. Thomas Grafton Addison, D.D., . . . 84 William Edwards Annin, ----- 85 Major George Augustus Armes, - - . - 3 Amory Austin, .-.----4 Frank Lloyd Averill, - . . . . 86 Dr. Elroy McKendree Avery, . . - - 86 Elbert Hall Baker, ----- 86 Dr. Frank Baker, ------ 87 Dudley Baldwin, -....- 4 William Dickson Baldwin, ----- 87 Ebenezer Burgess Ball, ----- 4 Capt. George Washington Ball, - - . . 4 Joseph Josiah Gilbert Ball, . . . . 5 Commander Albert Smith Barker, U.S.N. - - 88 William Hamilton Bayly, ----- 88 Hon. George T. Beck, ------ 5 Paul Beckwith, ..-.-. 6 Dr. Marcus Benjamin, ------ 88 Pay-Inspector Luther Guiteau Billings, U.S.N. , - 87 Frederick Ripley Blount, ----- 89 Henry Fitch Blount, ----- 89 Hon. Charles Addison Boutelle, M.C, - - . 7 Dr. James Thacher Boutelle, - . . 8 Col. John Bryan Bowman, - - - S 140 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. PAGE Charges Augustus Boynton, . . . . g Charles Hudson Boynton, . . . . . g Gen. Henry Van Ness Boynton, - - . . g Dr. John Ei,y Brackett, . - . . . g George Lothrop Bradley, ----- g Hon. Walter Lawrence Bragg, - - - - io Hon. Clifton Rhodes Breckinridge, M.C, - - lo Gen. Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, U.S.A., - - n Judge Samuel Miller Breckinridge,* - - . 89 Hon. William Campbell Preston Breckinridge, M.C, - 11 Hon. Alexander Thompson Britton, - - . go Newton May Brooks, - - - - - . - 90 Alexander Brown, --.-.. gj Col. John Bell Brownlow, ----- 12 RoBERDEAU Buchanan, . _ - . . j^ Gen. Franklin George Butterfield, - - - 14 Lieut. Bernard Abert Byrne, U.S.A., - . - ga Lieut. Charles Byrne, U.S.A., - - . . 14 Prof. William Daniel Cabell, - - - - 15 Albert Carhart, ------- g3 Gen. Edward Clement Carrington, - . . g^ Peyton Rodes Carrington, ----- 93 Capt. Alfred Ball Carter, - - . . 16 Hiram Guernsey Ch.\ndler, ----- 94 John Pascal Charlton, . . . . . 55 Commander Colby Mitchel Chester, U.S.N., - - 95 Rev. John Chester, D.D., - - - - - 96 Prof. John White Chickering, - - - - 16 Rev. Thomas Sprncer Childs, D.D., - - - 96 Allen Culling Clark, ------ 18 Alonzo Howard Clark, ..-■-- 16 Appleton Prentiss Clark, ----- 17 Appleton Prentiss Clark, Jr., - - - - 18 ♦ Deceased. LIST OF MEMBERS. 141 PAGE George L,afayette Clark, . . . . . ig Dr. Daniei. B. Ci^arke, - . . . . 19 Frank Wigglesworth Ci^arke, - - - - 19 Lieut. Powhatan Henry Clarke, U.S.A., - - 20 Col. Isaac Edwards Clarke, ----- 19 Rev. Samuel Davis Clayton, - . - . 96 William McKendree Clayton, . - - . 97 Dr. Horace Coleman, - . . . . 20 Benjamin Azariah Colonna, - - - - - 21 Charles William Coombs, ----- 21 Capt. Calvin Duvall Cowles, U.S.A., - - - 22 William Van Zandt Cox, ----- 22 Capt. Robert Craig, U.S.A., - - - - - 22 Henry Lyon Crane, ------ 23 Rev. John Newton Culbertson, - - - - 97 Gen. James Jackson Dana, U.S.A., - . . 23 Richard Dana, ----- . - 97 William Weaver Danenhower, - - - - 134 Senator John Warwick Daniel, - - - - 97 Theodore Davenport, - - - . . gg Theodore Davenport, Jr., ----- 99 Mills Dean, ------- 24 Medical Director Richard Crain Dean, U.S.N., - 134 William Augustin DeCaindry, - - - - 24 Hon. Josiah Dent, ------ 25 Commander Francis William Dickens, U.S.N., - - 99 George Doolittle, ------ 99 Rev. James Owen Dorsey, ----- 99 Hon. John Watkinson Douglass, - - - - 25 James Taylor DuBois, ------ 25 Capt. Richard Catlin DuBois, U.S.A., - - - 25 James Francis Duhamel, ----- 26 Robert Edward Earll, ----- 27 142 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. PAGE Prof. John Robie Eastman, U.S.N., . . . 27 Dr. Otis Judd Eddy, ------ 27 Hon. Matthew Gault Emery, . . - . 28 Hon. Charles James Faulkner (U. S. Senate), - - 28 Granville Fernald, ------ 28 Gen. Charles William Field, - - - - 106 DeVin Finckel, ------ 100 Charles Willis Fisher, ----- 100 Edmund Flagg,* ..---- 29 Surgeon James Milton Flint, U.S.N., - - - 29 Abial Abbott Forbush, ----- loi Hon. William Pierce Frye (U. S. Senate), - - 30 Dr. Edward Miner Gallaudet, - - - - 30 Henry Wise Garnett, - - - - - - 31 Hon. John Rowzee Garrison, . . - - 32 Col. Horatio Gates Gibson, U.S.A., - - - - 32 Wilson Lindsley Gill, ----- 33 Col. George Washington Gist, - - - - 33 Dr. George Brown Goode, ----- 33 Richard Urouhart Goode, ----- 35 Prof. Joseph Claybaugh Gordon, - - - 36 Morton Gordon, ------- 36 John Requa Graham, ----- 36 John Allen Graves, ------ 102 Gen. Adolphus Washington Greely, U.S.A., - - 37 Andrew Jordan Green, ----- 102 Bernard Richardson Green, . - . - 37 Maj. Charles Ravenscroft Greenleaf, U.S.A., - - 102 Charles Parke Grice, - - - - - 103 Francis Grice, ----- - 103 Francis Elliott Grice, ----- 37 Hon. Charles Henry Grosvenor, M.C, - - - 38 Gen. Peter Valentine Hagner, U.S.A., - - 38 * Deceased. LIST OF MEMBERS. 143 PAGE Samuel Kellogg Hall, ... - - 135 Eminel Potter Halsted, ----- 103 John Jacob Halstead, ----- 38 Russell Benjamin Harrison, ----- 104 Alexander Richmond Hart, - - - - 39 Frederick Loviad Harvey, ----- 39 Dr. Thomas Edwards Hatch, . - - - 40 John Beers Hawes, ------ 105 Lewis Sydenham Hayden, - - " - - - i34 Hon. John Steele Henderson, M.C, - - - 40 Hon. William Wirt Henry, . . - - 41 Very Rev. Augustine Francis Hewit, D.D., - - 105 Col. Edward Miles Heyl, U.S.A., - - - 42 RoMYN Hitchcock, ------ 42 Dr. Walter James Hoffman, - . . - 42 Henry Peter Renouf Holt, - - - - - i35 Rev. Arnold Harris Hord, - . . - 43 William Edward Horton, ----- 106 Col. Addison Augustus Hosmer, - - - - 106 Walter Hough, - - - - - . - - 43 James Ross Howard, ------ 44 William Wheeler Hubbell, ----- 44 Capt. Alfred Epher Hunt, - - - - 107 Henry Morris Husband, ----- 44 John L. Husband, ------ 44 Stephen Alonzo Jackson, - - - - - i97 Jefferson Henry Jennings, . - - - 45 Arnold Burges Johnson, ----- 45 Gen. Bradley Tyler Johnson - - - - 45 James Bowen Johnson, ------ 46 Capt. John Burges Johnson, U.S.A., . - - 45 Jerome Fletcher Johnson, ----- 107 Gen. Joseph Eggleston Johnston,* - - - 47 ♦Deceased. 144 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. PAOE Rev. James Gibson Johnson, D.D., - - - - 45 Dr. Joseph Taber Johnson, " . - - - 45 Lorenzo M Johnson, ------ 45 WiLLARD Drake Johnson, ----- loS Hon. Thomas Goode Jones, - - - - 108 Rear-Admirai, James Edward Jouett, U.S.N., - - 109 Orange Judd, ------- 47 Samueiv Prescott Keller, ----- 109 Lieut. Lyman Walter Vere Kennon, U.S.A.,- - - 48 David Kimball, - - - - - no Rear- Admiral Lewis Asheield Kimberly, U.S.N., - no Ephraim Douglass King, ----- 49 Harry King, . - - . . - 4^ Frank Hall Knowlton, ----- 45 George William Knox, - - - - - - no William Salsbury Knox, - - - - - in Rev. Samuel Kramer, ------ 50 Hon. Edward Samuel Lacey, - - - in Dr. Daniel Smith Lamb, - - - - - in Prof. Samuel Pierpont Langley. .. . . 50 Philip Fillmore Larner, - - - - - in Dr. William Lee, ------ 50 Hon. William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, M.C, - - 51 Augustus Perry Leidy, - - - - - 112 Col. Charles McKnight Leoser, - - - - 112 Francis Ellington Leupp, - - - - - 112 Charles Boynton Lockwood, ----- 52 Hon. George Bailey Loring, - - - - 113 John Parker Lothrop, ------ 52 Col. Marshall McDonald, ----- 52 Capt. Thomas Mower McDougall, U.S.A., - - 113 William Osborn McDowell, - - - - 113 Hon. John V. McDuffie, M.C, - - - - 114 LIST OF MEMBERS. 145 PAGE Henry Benjamin McKean, - - - - - 115 Dr. Louis Mackali., . . . . . 53 Cyrus Cui^bertson Maclay, - - - - 115 Andrew Buzzell Magoun, - - - - - 115 Hon. Charles Harley Mansur, M.C, - - - 59 Robert Harti^ey Marceli^us, - - - - - 116 Charles Weli^s Marsh, . - . . . 116 Prof. Otis Tufton Mason, ----- 54 William L,yman Mason, - - - - - 54 James Maynard. - - - - - - - 116 Gen. Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, U.S.A.. - 55 William Luff Meredith, ----- 135 Capt. William Morton Meredith, - - - 117 Alexander Porter Morse, - - - - - 55 Maj. Howard Morton, ----- 57 Hon. Levi Parsons Morton, ----- 57 Edward Augustus Moseley, - - - - 57 Zebina Moses, . . - - . . . jij Robert Brent Mosher, ----- 58 Samuel Eccleston Mullan, ----- 58 Henry Benson Munn, - - - . . 135 Jacob Jackson Noah, ------ 58 Galen Griffin Norton, ----- 59 Herbert Gouverneur Ogden, - - - 118 Col. Myron Melvin Parker,, - - - - 59 Henry Hovey Parmenter, ----- 60 Francis Henry Parsons, ----- 60 Dr. Albert Charles Peale, - - - - - 118 Peter Francisco Pescud, ----- 120 Jesse David Bright Peters, ----- 61 Col. John Lewis Peyton, - - - - - 120 Rear-Admiral Thomas Stowell Phelps, U.S.N., - - 61 Calvin Tilden Phillips, ----- 121 146 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. PAGE Henry Blackman Plumb, - - - - - 122 Admiral David Dixon Porter,* - - - - 62 Charles Porterfield, - - ----- 122 Hon. Philip Sidney Post, M.C, - - - - 123 Philip Sidney Post, Jr., ----- 123 LiEUT.-CoL. Wm. M. Postlethwaite, U.S.A., - - 136 Hon. Charles Debrille Poston, . . . . 63 Dr. Daniel Webster Prentiss, . . . - 63 Hon. Redfield Proctor, - - - - - ,69 William Anderson Raborg, - . - - 136 Hon. Estes George Rathbone, - - - - 124 Col. Felix Alexander Reeve, . . . . 64 Philip Key Reily, ...... 64 William Jones Rhees, ------ 64 Owen Riley, ------- 65 Dr. Henry Alfred Robbins, - - - - 65 Samuel Augustine Robinson, - - _ - 65 Col. J. Sumner Rogers, - . - . . 124 William Edgar Rogers, - - - - - 124 Hon. George Carr Round, - - - - - 124 Addison Gross Sargent, - - - - - 125 WiLLL\M George Sargent, - - - - - 125 Henry Clay Sayles, - - - - - 126 Capt. Clinton Brooks Sears, U.S.A., - - - 66 Col. Franklin Austin Seely, - - - . 66 William Henry Harrison Sheets, - - - - 67 William Carlysle Shelley, . . - . 67 Senator John Sherman, - . - . . 67 Hon. George Howell Shields, - - - - 126 Howard Sill, - - - - - - - 126 William Reynolds Singleton, - - - - 127 Henry Martyn Skillman, Jr., - - - - 127 Thom.\s T. Skillman, - . . - - 127 * Deceased. LIST OF MEMBERS. 147 PAGE Frank Birge Smith, ...-.- 128 Jonathan Leavitt Smith, ----- 68 Robert Atwater Smith, - - - - - 128 Merwin-Marie Snei^i,, . - . . . 68 Richard Henry Spencer, ----- 68 Dr. Joshua Otis Stanton,* ----- 69 Dr. Francis Osmond St. Ci^air, - - - - 69 Dr. Robert Edward Carter Stearns, - - - - 69 Arm at Stood art, - - - - - - -128 Justice Wii.i.iam Strong, ----- 70 Wii^oN BuDD Strong, - - - - - - 70 Mii,o Coi^burn Summers, ----- 129 Alfred Bissei.Iv Tai^cott, ----- 70 Fred. Firmer Tasker, . - . . . 71 Gen. George Thom, U.S.A.,* ----- 71 Prof. Gii^bert Thompson, ----- 71 Washington Nelson Toler, - - - - - 129 Gen. Edward Davis Townsend, U. S. A., - - - 73 Richard Shubrick Trapier, - - - . 130 Frederick William True, ----- 73 Rowan Boone Tuley, - . - - - i^o Senator Zebulon B. Vance, ----- 74 Med. Insp. William Knickerbocker Van Reypen, U.S.N. 130 Hon. Edward Carrington Venable, M.C, - - 74 Dallas Bache Wainwright . . - . 74 Gen. Duncan Stjephen Walker, - - - - 75 Hon. Joseph Henry Walker, M. C, - - - 31 Robert John Walker, ------ 75 Lawrence Washington, ----- 75 Col. Thornton Augustin Washington, - - - 77 John Elfreth Watkins, ----- 78 Andrew Baker Webb, ------ 78 Martin VanBuren Webb, ----- 78 * Deceased. 148 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Samuei, DiIvIvArd Webb, . - - - WiivWAM Hoi