Revolutionary War Patriots

These are my mother's ancestors who assisted in the making of America.
They risked their lives and fortunes. May their names live for evermore.

"That memory may their deed redeem,
When, like our sires, our sons are gone.
Spirit, that made those heros dare
To die, and leave their children free."
~~Emerson, 1837

My Latest Update of Thirty-one Ancestor Patriots

At a court held at Fluvanna County, Virginia on Tuesday, 9 April 1782, George Cox was certified by Thomas Napier for a public service claim of 240 pounds of beef, dated 28 November 1781.~EdnaBarney.com~

On 1 June 1779, Thomas Craig, along with Thomas Jefferson, was one of the signatories to the Albemarle Declaration of Independence. The original copy is preserved at The Virginia Historical Society in Richmond. Thomas Craig was compensated for three Public Service Claims in Albemarle County, Virginia during the Revolution; one for 270 pounds of beef for State use, the second for 2 1/4 gallons whiskey and the third for 222 pounds of beef for Continental use.~EdnaBarney.com~

John Doland was called into service to the Revolutionary cause at the age of 18 or 19. He served as a Private in the Virginia Line, being pensioned in 1832 and having bounty land warrants of l60 acres in 1855, issued 26 May 1856.~EdnaBarney.com~

Leonard Drumheller was drafted into the Virginia Line in January 1781, at the age of 17, as a fifer and marched from Albemarle County, Virginia to Richmond where he drew arms and thence went to Williamsburg. From Williamsburg he was marched to the halfway house between York and Hampton where he was stationed for a time before returning to Williamsburg and Richmond. There he was discharged in March 1781 and he returned home. In May 1781 Leonard was drafted into the militia and again marched from Albemarle County, this time under Captain Marsh Leake in General Lafayette's army as a Private. He was discharged July 1781. Soon afterwards he was detached in the minute service and was there until after the surrender of British General Cornwallis and peace was declared, between 1 August 1781 and late October. He applied for a Revolutionary War Pension from Albemarle County on 12 October 1832.~EdnaBarney.com~

Colonel Burr Harrison attended The Third Virginia Convention at Henrico Parish Church in Richmond, Virginia on 17 July 1775 to organize troops and the war effort in order to defend the colony against invasion. The Convention acknowledged the debt to Patrick Henry whose wisdom had already begun the arming of the colony. In August 1775 he sent a letter from the convention to his son-in-law, Leven Powell, which is preserved in Leven Powell's papers at the Library of Congress.~EdnaBarney.com~

Nehemiah Hundley was impressed to convey a package from Prince Edward County, Virginia to Fort Pitt during the Revolutionary War. While there, in 1779, he enlisted in the service of General McIntosh's 13th Virginia Regiment serving under Lieutenant William R. Withers. He was wounded in the arm and was discharged as an invalid at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.~EdnaBarney.com~

George Naylor enlisted on 4 July 1776 and his name is on the Muster Roll of Maryland Troops in the American Revolution. He served as a Private among the troops raised by Ensign Alex Trueman, for Captain Magruder's Company in Prince George's County, Maryland. As George Naylor, son of Batson Naylor, he is recorded on "A roll of the Guard kept at Magruder's Warehouse that were from Captain Benjamin Wailes's Company of Militia of the Lower Battalion", in Revolutionary Papers recorded at Prince George's County, 27 May 1782. George Naylor, the son of Batson, also signed the Oath of Fidelity in said county where he was recorded on Fielder Bowie's Return of 30 March 1778.

In the year 1779 George Norvell swore the Oath of Allegiance to the American Revolution in Albemarle County, Virginia, recorded in the Goochland County Order Book 12, page 503. On 21 June of that same year he was a signatory to the Albemarle Declaration of Independence, along with Thomas Jefferson and other prominent citizens, the original document preserved at the Virginia Historical Society, Richmond.

On 9 October 1777 in Goochland County, Virginia James Norvell signed
the Oath or Affirmation of Allegiance and Fidelity. In 1782 he supplied 25 bushels
of corn to the patriot cause for the Continental Army in Goochland County.~EdnaBarney.com~

Littleberry Patteson served as a sergeant during the Revolution in the company of Captain Samuel Jordan Cabell, 6th Virginia Battalion of the Continental Forces, from April to July 1777. He also served in Morgan's Rifle Regiment.~EdnaBarney.com~

Obediah Patterson provided diets and forage for two beefs
to the Revolutionary cause in Bedford County, Virginia.~EdnaBarney.com~

George Payton (Peyton)
provided supplies to the Revolutionary cause in Culpeper County, Virginia.

Mrs. Seth Peyton furnished one beef to the Revolutionary cause
in Prince William County, Virginia about 1779 to 1781.~EdnaBarney.com~

William Phelps furnished 350 pounds of beef to the Revolutionary cause
in Buckingham County, Virginia.~EdnaBarney.com~

On 2 August 1777 Abram Poore signed the Goochland County, Virginia Oath of Allegiance, his name being number 18 on the list of W. Harrison, from the Ann Waller Reddy Collection, box B, file 2, FC, "List of Oaths of Allegiance", at the DAR Library. Abraham Poor contributed 4 bushels of wheat and carriage to the Revolutionary cause, from Virginia Publick Claims, page 5, Goochland County,Virginia List I, 1780-1781. He provided 1 peck of cornmeal, 76 pounds of pork, 72 pounds of bacon, 1 pound of salt, 1 large bullock and 275 pounds of beef for Continental and State use, recorded in Goochland County, Virginia Court Booklet dated 19 March 1782. He again gave 250 pounds of beef and one gun for State use.

On 16 August 1777 John Poor and his brother Robert signed the Oath of Fidelity in Goochland County, Virginia. He was drafted during the Revolution and served as a Private in the Virginia Line of the Continental Army for a term of twenty months. In his pension application, S38314, he stated "he was drafted as a private soldier of the war of the revolution on the continental establishment the twentieth day of March 1781 in the county of Albemarle and marched from thence to Chesterfield Court-house where he was allotted to the company commanded by Captain Robert Gamble of the 8th regiment of the Virginia line - That he was at the siege of York in Virginia at a skirmish in Georgia near Savanna and engaged in an attack by the Indians and having served until the 5th day of November 1782 and was then regularly discharged by Genl Charles Scott at Cumberland Court-house in the State of Virginia".~EdnaBarney.com~

On 30 August 1781 Alexander Smith, of Buckingham County, Virginia,
furnished 300 pounds of grass fed beef to the Army.

John Spencer furnished blankets and a pair of stockings to Captain Walker's
Continental Troops, 1779-1781, in Albemarle County, Virginia.

Thomas Turk, Jr served as a Private in Captain Alex Robinson's Company, 1778, and in Captain Robert Kenney's Company, 1779 and also the same year in Captain Thomas Rankin's Company of the Augusta County Militia of the Virginia Militia. He also contributed supplies to the Revolutionary cause.

William Via lived in Brown's Cove, Albemarle County, Virginia. He was drafted for the Revolutionary cause for a term of 18 months on 20 March 1781 and served as a Private in a company commanded by Captain Beverly Roy in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Posey, Virginia Line on the United States Establishment. He served eighteen months and was discharged honorably.

Jesse Sairs of Albemarle County, Virginia gave affidavit that he entered service with William Via under the command of Benjamin S. Sairs, Captain of the militia of the State of Virginia by whom they were marched to Chesterfield Courthouse, the place of rendezvous of the United States troops then commanded by General von Steuben . William Via was under the command of Colonel Gaskins in the Virginia Line on the United States Establishment. From that place of rendezvous they marched with the Second Virginia to the Point of Forks (a military depot to ship goods to Richmond, now known as Columbia, on the Rivana River), thenceforth they were marched under the command of General von Steuben to North Carolina, from there counter marched to the Siege of York in Virginia where they were remanded until the close of the siege. From there they went to Cumberland Courthouse to Winter Quarters. William Via was then marched to Georgia. Returning to Virginia, he was discharged 1 November 1782 by General Seath at Cumberland Courthouse.~EdnaBarney.com~

Edward Walton was issued a certificate for providing 375 pounds of beef to the Revolutionary cause in Hanover County, Virginia, between February 1780 and March 1782.

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