My 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. ~~Edna Barney

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.

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.

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.

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.

During the Revolutionary War, Anne Graves furnished 175 pounds of beef to the Continental Troops, dated November 1781, Spotsylvania County, Virginia.

Benjamin Guinn lived in the Winfrey area of Culpeper County, Virginia. He is recorded by N.S.D.A.R. as having performed patriotic service during the American Revoluton.

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.

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.

On 1 November 1776, John Jameson of Albemarle County, Virginia signed a petition against the Church of England. His signature was next to the names of his neighbors Thomas Wharry, Samuel Jameson, Thomas Craig, John Craig, Thomas Jameson, Micajah Via, John McCord, Sam’l McCord, Wiliam Wood, and William Jameson, Jr. The petition was titled “Dissenters from the Church of England of Albemarle and Amherst Counties” and is referenced in “Virginia Historical Magazine”, volume 18, 1910, page 263.

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.

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.

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

On 20 September 1784, Ensign George PEYTON received bounty land from Virginia for three years service during the American Revolution. 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.

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

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”.

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.

At the Buckingham County Court of 11 November 1782, “Alexander Stinson, Senr.” claimed £2-10 for 300 pounds of beef. At the court of 12 May 1783, “Alexander Stinson Senr.” submitted a claim for £15 for a horse used by the Continental Army.
He is NSDAR Patriot Ancestor #A204929. (See The Stinson Book.)

David Stinson contributed 400 pounds of beef to the American Revolutionary cause in Buckingham County, Virginia, which qualified him to be a DAR patriot. However David STINSON did much more to show his true colors during a time of great danger. On 7 December 1780, he signed a petition that demanded the privileges of citizenship be withheld from all who refused to swear allegiance to the new American government. He demanded that these “non-jurors” not be allowed to practice law, medicine, and that “non-juror” clergy be silenced and deprived of their benefices. In addition, the petitioners demanded that the non-patriots be double taxed. At that point in history, the South had become the war’s battlefield, and the army of Washington was not assured victory. The cities of Augusta and Savannah in Georgia had fallen to the British. If the American rebellion had been put down, David STINSON and the other signatories would have suffered grave consequences.
He is NSDAR Patriot Ancestor #A204931. (See The Stinson Book.)

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.

In 1781, in Augusta County, Virginia Thomas Turk, Sr was reimbursed for 4 bushels of corn, 52 bushels of rye, 34 pounds of bacon and 4 beef which he had provided for the militia. On 21 March 1782, he and his son, Thomas, Jr. were reimbursed in Augusta County at the Court of Claims. On 18 May 1784, he was reimbursed for 9 bushels of corn and for wintering a beef.

Micajah Via signed a petition in Albemarle County, Virginia, on 1 November 1776, entitled “Albemarle, Amherst Dissenters of Disestablishment and Religious Equality” (”Virginia Historical Magazine”, volume 18, 1910, page 63).  This was almost four months after the signing of the American Declaration of Independence. Since that glorious day the petitioners in Albemarle and Amherst were aware that 30,000 British troops had arrived in New York, that their American forces were roundly defeated at the Battle of Brooklyn, that the enemy British were occupying New York City, that the American ragtag army was routed at the Battle of Harlem Heights, defeated by the British at Lake Champlain, and that American troops were forced to retreat at the Battle of White Plains just three days prior.

In the face of all of that, they addressed their words to the “Delegates & Senators, Representatives of the Common Wealth of Virginia at the City of Williamsburg” stating “in consequence of our having thrown off our dependence on the Crown & Parliament of Great Britain.” They closed by ardently wishing that the new Virginia “Commonwealth may become the envy of the Nations & the Glory of the World.“

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.

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.

This lineage was proven to NSDAR standards by Edna Barney.

This new lineage was proven and opened for NSDAR by Edna Barney.

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