Ancestor #: A006973 When The American Revolution Started John McELroy only age 17 became a Fife Major in Revolutionary War GAR # 156445 served 1st 2nd 3nd 4th 11th Pennsylvania Continental Army after...

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Mr. Sprague was enthusiastic in the cause of freedom, as also were his sons. He enlisted as private in Col. Archibald Crary's Regt. in 1776; had due him 20 pounds, 12 shilling, 10 pence. In Massachuset...

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Came to the NW Territory with Gen. Rufus Putnam and helped found the first town, Marietta, OH.

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DAR Ancestor #: A074064 . SERVED IN 1780 IN THE CONTINENTAL LINE as a private. 34. Absalom8 Martin (Ephraim (Col)7, Ephraim6, James5, Joseph4, John3, Isaac2, Christopher1) was born 1758 in Basking Ri...

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DAR Ancestor #: A128820 Son of Martha Poage and Andrew Woods Pension R11825V Rank Sergeant, Virginia Militia Married Anne Pogue; 8 children In 1788 he was sent as a representative to the Cons...

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DAR Ancestor #: A130539 from Ebenezer Zane (October 7, 1747 – 1811) was an American pioneer, road builder and land speculator. Born in what is now Moorefield, West Virginia (which was then in t...

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From The Cleveland Herald (Dec. 20, 1847) Sketch of Judge Kingsbury The following very interesting obituary of Judge KINGSBURY—who was emphatically a pioneer of the Reserve, is from the pen of an o...

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Married 23 Oct 1801 Age: 41 to Elizabeth Galow in Marietta, Washington, Ohio, USA

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Sources Ohio Census, 1790-1890 Name: Elizur Kirtland State: OH County: Washington County Township: Organized Settlement Year: 1790 Page: NPN Database: OH 1790 (NW Territory) Census Index Source...

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Joseph Wells was one of the original 48 pioneers to Ohio's Northwest territory. His sister, Susan, married fellow pioneer Peletiah White. Source:

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William Bond Mason William Bond was one of the original 48 pioneers to Ohio's Northwest territory. Sources:

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Hezekiah Flint, of Reading, Massachusetts, was employed by the Ohio Company as the chief carpenter. His son, Hezekiah Flint, Jr., was "to go if room could be made for him." They both came in that pione...

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Hezekiah Flint, of Reading, Massachusetts, was employed by the Ohio Company as the chief carpenter. His son, Hezekiah Flint, Jr., was "to go if room could be made for him." They both came in that pione...

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Capt. William Gray Capt. Continental Line Revolutionary War Capt. William Gray was one of the original 47 pioneers who settled at Marietta and during the Ohio Indian Wars was the commander of troop...

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Samuel Felshaw was a sergeant in Captain Crosby's company during the American Revolutionary War. Felshaw was the son of Captain John Felshaw, "who kept a noted tavern in Killingly, and was long promine...

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Oliver Dodge, one of the original pioneer party, came from Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. He owned a share in the Ohio Company, and was, during the war, at Campus Martius. He joined the colony in Adams,...

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Allen Devol, from Rhode Island, was a nephew of Captain Jonathan Devol. He came with the first company to donation lot, and joined the Waterford Association, who began their settlement in April, 1789. ...

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Amos Porter, Jr. was one of the 48 pioneers who landed in Marietta, Ohio, on April 7, 1788, opening the Northwest Territory for settlement. Amos. died at age 92 years, 9 months, and 8 days. He was the ...

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Gilbert Devol, Jr., one of the forty-eight, was the son of Hon Gilbert Devol, a Judge of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, who soon came out with his family to the colony, and was a person of much inf...

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A Patriot of the American Revolution for MASSACHUSETTS with the rank of CAPTAIN. DAR Ancestor #: A081143 The ancestors of Captain Josiah Munro, with several other emigrants, came from Scotland at a v...

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A Patriot of the American Revolution for RHODE ISLAND with the rank of ADJUTANT. DAR Ancestor #: A204658 Jonathan Devol Jonathan Devol was a shipbuilder. Jonathan served in the navy during the Am...

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Daniel B. Davis Daniel Davis (pioneer) (1742–1807), militia captain during the American Revolutionary War, and pioneer to the Ohio Country Sources:

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Phineas Coburn Phineas was one of the original 48 pioneers in Ohio's Northwest Territory. Sources: -------------------- Phineas Coburn, one of the first company of emigrants to Ohio, wa...

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Jabez Barlow Jabez was one of the original 48 pioneers in Ohio's Northwest Territory. Sources:

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Jethro Putnam 1703 CAPTAIN JETHRO PUTNAM, of Danvers, had preformed meritorious services in the Revolutionary army, and endured the hardships and losses incident to the war, and now turned his attent...

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Jervis Cutler was the son of Dr. Cutler, one of the Directors of the Ohio Company. Dr. Cutler's published journal says, "Monday, December 3, 1787. This morning a part of the men going to Ohio met here ...

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Samuel Cushing, one of the forty-eight, came from New Bedford, Massachusetts. He was the brother of Mrs. Benjamin Shaw, and was related to the well known Sumner and Cushing families of Massachusetts. H...

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Benjamin Shaw was another of the first party. He served in a Danvers company of minute men, under Captain Israel Hutchinson, at teh battle of Lexington, and afterward as a regular soldier in the Revolu...

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Peletiah White, son of Major Haffield White, came to Marietta April 7, 1788. He married Susan Wells, the sister of Joseph Wells, a fellow-pioneer. During the latter part of the Indian War Mr. White ser...

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Earl Sproat, one of the first pioneer band, was a relative of Colonel Ebenezer Sproat. He was a share-holder in the Ohio Company and remained in the country as a settler. He was one of the petitioners ...

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In 1788, William Moulton moved to Marietta. His wife Lydia, his daughters Lydia and Anna, and his son Enoch (sometimes reported as Edmond) joined him there in 1789. Here, Moulton continued his employme...

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According to a footnote (source probably Willis Adams Bailey) in the "Diary of a Journey from Massachusetts to the Ohio Country, 1798", by Dr. Increase Mathews: "John Matthews, born 18 Dec 1765. As J...

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Soldier in the Revolution Practiced Law in Providence (RI?) Founder of Marietta, OHIO 1792- moved to Morgantown, PA 1796- Belpre, OH obtained a francise to operate a ferry across the Ohio River. Just...

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A Patriot of the American Revolution for MASSACHUSETTS with the rank of CAPTAIN, ADJUTANT. DAR Ancestor #: A124696 David Wallis, one of the original pioneers was from Ipswich, Massachusetts, and was ...

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Anselm Tupper (1763–1808) was an officer of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, a pioneer to the Ohio Country, and one of the founders of Marietta, Ohio, the first permanent A...

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Info added per DAR's "Lineage Book of the Charter Members" by Mary S Lockwood and published 1895 stating "Col Ebenezer Sproat, of Massachusetts" ------------------------------ ------------------------...

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. Return Jonathan Meigs (December 17, 1740 – January 28, 1823) was a colonel who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and later served as a federal government Indian a...

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DAR Ancestor #: A092745 "In March, 1754 when in his sixteenth year, Rufus was apprenticed to Daniel Matthews of Brookfield, to learn the trade of millwright." The above quote is from "The Life of...

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William Moulton Born: 12 Jul 1720, Newbury MA Marriage: Lydia Greenleaf on 16 Sep 1742 in Newburyport MA Died: 1793, Marietta OH Placespoon, c 1760, Private Collection Sword, c 1770 Private...

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