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 […]
Onesimus Whitehead, the patriot ancestor of Rear Admiral Joel Whitehead, was a member of a family with a strong military tradition since well before the Revolution. The immigrant ancestor of this branch of the Whitehead Family, Isaac Whitehead I, served in the New Haven Colony Militia in Connecticut as early as 1643. The Whitehead family moved westward […]
Born 1739, Kingston, New Hampshire Died 1815, Meredith Center, New Hampshire Ebenezer Dow served during the French and Indian War, serving with Massachusetts forces. He enlisted on April 12, 1775 from Epping, New Hampshire and served as a Minuteman at Concord, Massachusetts during the opening of the Revolutionary War in April 1775. He served in […]
Little detail is available about Cornelius Davenport’s Revolutionary War experience. Although family lore suggests that he may have served as a captain and latter a major and aide to General Washington at Morristown, New Jersey during the winter of 1779-1780, existing payroll records documenting his war time service indicate only service as a Private in the Morris County […]