John Curd, Jr. (1726-1802), SAR Patriot Number P-142344, DAR Ancestor # A028691 John Curd, Jr., was born on 14 April 1726 to John Curd (1706-1752) and Elizabeth Ann Price Curd (1707-1774)  in Henrico County, Virginia.  This part of Henrico County, above the fall line of the James River at Richmond, became Goochland County in 1728.  […]

Patriot Ancestor: Samuel Chamberlain Samuel Chamberlain was born July 18, 1734, in Holliston, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He married Margaret Atwood Bullard on May 13, 1755, in Mendon, Wooster County, Massachusetts.  They had two children: A daughter, Rhoda (Chamberlain) Sage, born November 21, 1760, and a son, Samuel Clark Chamberlain, born May 25, 1765. Samuel Chamberlain enlisted […]

Robert Burnett Sr.                                                                                           SAR #94319 Robert Burnett was born 19 July 1755 in Chester City, Pennsylvania, son of John S Burnett who was one of Washington’s Buckskins at Braddock’s Defeat. He married Susannah Hollingworth on 12 June 1778.  She was the 3x great granddaughter of Valentine Hollingworth who arrived in America in 1682 with William […]

Philip Jacob Schreiber (went by his middle name Jacob)            SAR # P-339175, DAR # A101133 His tombstone inscription is “PVT 4 CO PA MILITIA REVOLUTIONARY WAR.”  He served in the 4th Company as a private (under Capt. Adam Serfoos) – see also PA HIST & MUS COMM, RG 4.61, ROLL […]