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Patriots of the American Revolution - the search is on!

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Profiles

  • Gen. John Bernard Smith (1750 - 1836)
    U.S. Congressman, U.S. Army Major General. Born in Shooter's Hill, Virginia, he was commissioned a justice of the peace in 1773 and served as a Captain in Dunmore's war against the Indians in 1774...
  • Rev. John ‘the Fighting Parson’ Elder (1706 - 1792)
    DAR# A032462 m1 Mary Baker m2. Mary Simpson Rev. John Elder (b. January 26, 1705/06, d. July 17, 1792) John Elder (son of Robert Elder and Eleanor Gillespie) was born January 26, 1705/06 in Edi...
  • Thomas Rice, first Sheriff of Caswell Co., N.C. (1728 - 1800)
    DAR Patriot #A095157 Service: North Carolina; Rank: Civil Service; Service Description: Sheriff of Caswell Co.,NC.Service Source: Kendall, History Abs of Mins of Caswell Co., Pg. 4.Birth: After 1725, H...
  • Ichabod Osborn (1760 - 1825)
    DAR Information: Page 92 Bibliographic information: Lineage book by Daughters of the American Revolution Publisher Harrisburg, Pa., Washington, D.C Book from the collections of Universit...
  • Colonel Matthew Smith (c.1734 - 1794)
    DAR Ancestor #: A10643 Colonel Matthew Smith Matthew Smith resided on his farm a short distance above the mouth of Limestone run at the time of his death, was the eldest son of Robert Smith, of Pa...

Patriot Hunt!

Curator Faustine Darsey on partial hiatus writes:

”I do lots of merges & have noticed that the only way for me to find them is to search for them. They are not showing up (lots of the time) as duplicates by geni.com. When I search for Patriots of the American Revolution and their descendants, sometimes I will merge 3 to 7 trees just listing the Patriot with different children. Then if there are 4 or 5 different established children, I merge more trees. Many times by the time I get "back" to the Patriot there are no birth and death dates listed. I can merge all day by doing these searches, and they never seem to end. I enjoy this and am not complaining, however I would have expected the "geni computer" to identify these profiles for me. Even with the exact same names and dates, it doesn't always do that ....”

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Research tools:

  • Patriot (American Revolution) “Patriots (also known as Revolutionaries, Continentals, Rebels, or American Whigs) were those colonists of the Thirteen Colonies who rejected British rule during the American Revolution and declared the United States of America as an independent nation in July 1776.”
  • link to DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) and SAR (Sons of the American Revolution) Patriot search
  • Soldier counts in Sabine