Listed are names, ranks, and state of service for ancestors of the Rand’s Mill Chapter, NSDAR, members. We are forever indebted to these patriots for their commitment to the cause of American independence.
“‘The times that tried men’s souls,’ are over — and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished.”
Thomas Paine (The American Crisis, XIII, Philadelphia, April 19, 1783)
Patriot Legend:
CAPT—Captain
CHP—Chaplain
COL—Colonel
CS—Civil Service
DR—Doctor
DRM—Drummer
ENS—Ensign
LT—Lieutenant
MATR—Matross (Artillery Soldier)
PS—Patriotic Service
PVT—Private
SGT—Sergeant
SOL—Soldier
STAFFOF—Staff Officer
CT—Connecticut
GA—Georgia
MA—Massachusetts
MD—Maryland
NC—North Carolina
NJ—New Jersey
NY—New York
PA—Pennsylvania
SC—South Carolina
VA—Virginia
- Deliverance Adams, PS, NJ
- Valentine Allen, PS, NC
- Solomon Arnold, PVT, NC
- William Avery, SOL, NC
- Samuel J. Axon, DR, GA
- Plyler Barber, PS, NC
- John Barnes, PS, NC
- Isham Berry, SOL/PS, VA
- William Bland, PS, NC
- Benjamin Blount, STAFFOF, NC
- John Brantley, PS, NC
- Daniel Brugh, SOL, PA
- Henry Buffaloe, PS, NC
- Micajah Bullock, CAPT/PS, NC
- Jesse Bunn, PVT, NC
- Francis Callaway, PS, NC
- Absalom Caudle, PVT, NC
- Robert Chamblee, PVT, NC
- Abraham Cheney, PVT, VA
- Major Clark, PS, NC
- John Cleveland, STAFFOF, NC
- John Cobb, PVT, NC/VA
- Edward Connor, CAPT, NC/SC
- Joshua Creech, PS, NC
- Stephen Crosby, CAPT, CT
- Samuel Dalton, PS, NC
- William Dalton, CAPT, VA
- Philemon Deatherage, CS, NC
- John Draper, LT, CT
- Michael Duskin, PS, NC
- Gideon Faris, CS, PVT, VA
- Joseph Farmer, CS/PS, NC
- Benjamin Flower, PS, NC
- Jacob Flower, SOL/PS, NC
- John Fowler, PVT, NC
- James Gay, PVT, NC
- Solomon Gay, PVT, NC
- George Getman, Sr., SOL, NY
- James Godwin, PS, NC
- William Gore, SOL, NC
- Gideon Green, PS, NC
- Merry Hall, PS, VA
- Samuel Hall, PS, VA
- George Hildebrand, PVT, PA
- Isham Hendon, PS, NC
- Samuel Horton, PS, NC
- Allen Howard, PVT, NC
- Nathaniel Howell, LT/PS, SC
- Joel Johnson, SOL/CS/PS, NC
- James Johnston, SGT, VA
- Elijah Joyce, PVT, NC
- John Coon Joyce, PVT, SC
- Opie Lindsay, PS, VA
- Henry Machen, SGT, SC
- William Makepeace, Jr., SGT, MA
- James Martin, COL, NC
- Richard Martin, PS, NC
- Charles Massey, PS, VA
- Matthew McCauley, CAPT, NC
- James McDaniel, CS, VA
- John Moore, PVT, NY
- William Moreland, PS, NC
- John Morgan, PVT, NC
- Peter Morget, SGT, VA
- Bodo Otto, Sr., PS/STAFFOF, PA
- Frederick Christopher Otto, STAFFOF, NJ
- John Augustus Otto, DR, PA
- Caleb Penney, PS, NC
- Benjamin Pomeroy, CHP, CT
- Thomas Pridgen, PS, NC
- Joshua Pruitt, LT, NC
- George Silver, PVT, MD
- Isaac Simmons, CAPT, NC
- William Slade, STAFFOF, NC
- Joshua Smith, PS, NC
- John Tippens, LT, SC
- James Trent, PVT, PA
- Thomas Ussery, PS, NC
- Samuel Walker, CAPT, SC
- Zachariah Wall, PS, VA
- John Walters, CAPT, VA
- Thomas Walters, PS, VA
- Hackley Warren, SGT, VA
- John Webster, PVT, VA
- Isaac West, PS, SC
- John Witman, CAPT, PA
- William Wren, PS, VA
- Andrew Yount, PVT, PA