Thomas Heyward, Jr. 1747-1809

One of the youngest signers of the Declaration of Independence and one of the few signers who were also soldiers in the war. Inscription on his grave monument reads. "Patriot, Statesman, Soldier, Jurist. Member of the Continental Congress; 1775 - Signer of the Articles of Confederation in behalf of the State of South Carolina; July 8, 1778 - Commander the Charleston Battalion of Volunteers; 1780, was captured and imprisoned. Member of the Constitutional Convention of South Carolina, 1790."

Compatriot: John Thomas O'Quinn, Sr.

Cyril Carpenter 1743-1811

Private in militia with Capt. Alexander Foster’s Co., Col. John Daggett’s regt.; marched to RI on alarm of 8 December 1776, service, 22 day; also, with Capt. Moses Willmarth’s Co., Col. Isaac Dean’s Regt.; enlisted July 31, 1780, discharged 7 August 1780, service, 10 days on alarm at RI; roll sworn to at Attleboro, MA. Served on the Attleboro Committee of Safety.

Compatriot: CAPT Thomas Patrick Sharkey, USNR (Ret)

Elkanah Lane, Sr. 1719-1811

As a Minuteman, Lane, Sr. marched at sunrise on the 25th of April 1775, to Lexington and Concord. He was paid by the town for 15 days service at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and for five days in the Militia at another time, one pound, nine shillings and three pence. Service from New Hampshire.

Compatriot: CAPT Thomas Patrick Sharkey, USNR (Ret)

Jonathan Padelford 1751-1835

A Private in Capt. Josiah King's Co. of Col. Mitchell's Regt, commanded by Lt. Col. James Williams, BG Godfrey;s Bristol Co. Brigade at RI Alarms. Service of 8 days when Bristol Company marched to Tiverton, RI on 2nd August 1780. Service from Massachusetts.

Compatriot: CAPT Thomas Patrick Sharkey, USNR (Ret)

Joseph Anderson 1757-1848

Pvt. Anderson was born in New Bern, Craven County, NC and later relocated to South Carolina. Served under Gen. Francis Marion in South Carolina Cheraws Militia 1780-1781. Fought at Camden, Fort Watson and Eutaw Springs among others. Married Sarah Pushmataha of the Barnwell District, South Carolina in 1790 and later moved to Bulloch County, GA after receiving 500 acres in land grants for his service. Died in Thomas County, Georgia.

Compatriot: Robert Louis DeLoach

John Simonton, Sr. 1760-1841.

Born in 1760 and served as a Private in the South Carolina Militia under Colonel Thomas Neel, Capt. Andrew Love and Capt. John Peters in the New Acquisition District Regiment. He died at age 81 on his plantation on Jackson's Creek in Fairfield County, South Carolina and is buried in Blackstock (near Winnsboro), South Carolina along with his wife, Margaret Strong, with whom he had 12 children.

Compatriots:
Robert Anthony Brice
Robert John Brice, II

Maj. Francis Logan 1734-1826

Francis Logan was born in Albany, New York in 1734. He was the son of Andrew Hendrick "Henry" Logan and Alida Pryun. Francis is believed to have moved with his parents from Albany, to Pennsylvania, to western Virginia, to the Yadkin Valley of North Carolina, and then to Abbeville, South Carolina. He married Hannah Trimble and was living in Abbeville during the Revolutionary War. As a Patriot during the Revolutionary War he served as a Captain in the fortified camp at Niney-Six, South Carolina in 1775, and attained the rank of Major by the war's end.

Compatriot: William Thomas Logan

Capt. George Pepperrell Frost 1758-1844
Enlisted as a Corporal in Capt. Richard Shortridges' Company, Col. Enoch Poor's Regiment, 2nd New Hampshire in 1775. Fought at Bunker Hill and the Battle of Trenton .

The youngest of ten children born to the union of John Frost, II and Sarah Gerrish of Maine In 1776 he was commissioned as Ensign in Captain James Carr's Company, Colonel Nathan Hale's Regiment. On Sept 20, 1777, promoted to Second Lieutenant and on Dec 22, 1777, became First Lieutenant. On Dec 6, 1782, he was commissioned Captain. Served seven years.

Compatriot: Stewart Frazer deWitt

Patriot: John Kittle 1759-1805

Private in Col. Abraham J. Van Alstyne's Regiment of Militia
(7th Albany County, NY Militia Regiment)

Later Col. Robert Van Renesselear's Regiment of Militia (8th Albany County , NY Militia Regiment). Supported Gen. Horatio Gates' Continental Army during the Saratoga Campaign and later Gen. Abraham Ten Brock's Brigade at 2nd Saratoga.

Compatriots: Clark and Col. Mark Henderson

Patriot: Job Case 1737 -1798

Captain in Civil Service to Connecticut
Lt. 18th Regiment, Connecticut Militia

Fought at battle of Bunker Hill in 1775. Commanded a Company with 18th NY Regiment and CT Militia in 1776 near Peekskill, NY. Called out for defense of New Haven in 1779.

Compatriot: Thomas Case

Patriot: John Chambers, 1742-1802

Captain in Brig. General Thomas Sumter's 2nd Regiment, South Carolina Line.

Served in the SC Militia under Col. Bratton and Capt. John Steel. Later fought with Gen. Sumter at the battle of Huck's Defeat July 12, 1780, Battle of Camden August 16, 1780 and on August 18, 1780 the Battle Fishing Creek where he was wounded and captured by Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton. He was subsequently released to return home in poor health.

Compatriots: Henry Chambers and Tom Wilson

Patriot: John Cooke 1752 -1832

8th Virginia Continental Regiment

Wintered with Washington at Valley Forge, Pa
Notable Battles:
- October 10, 1774 The Battle of Point Pleasant
- Philadelphia Campaign of 1777 which involved some significant battles of the war such as Brandywine Creek, Paoli, and the Battle of Germantown.
- June 18 1778, the Battle of Monmouth Court House in New Jersey
- 1778, the Battle of Stony Point in New York

Compatriot: Paul Steele

Patriot: Benjamin Dickerson, 1758-1832

Pvt. with the 3rd Regiment, Ulster County Militia.
New York

Fought in the American Revolution under the command of Captain Caleb Brewster transporting spy messages in the Culper Spy network. In 1782 he was severely wounded along with 16 other boatmen who were killed or wounded in a fight with the British in Long Island Sound.

Compatriot: Peter Dickerson

Patriot: Col. Antipas Gilman 1730-1802

Gilman Strafford Co.New Hampshire

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Compatriot: Ivan Bennett

Patriot: Fredrick Hambright 1727-1817

Colonel with the North Carolina Continental Line and Militia

Compatriot: Ted Carothers
Compatriot: Lt. Col. John Carothers

Patriot: Thomas Harris, 1710-1783

Captain Thomas Harris was born in Salem (now Cumberland) County, New Jersey in November 1710. He attained the rank of Captain while serving in the Cumberland County militia between 1748-1750. At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, Thomas Harris was in his mid-sixties and too old for military service. He was appointed as Chairman of the Committee of Observation and Correspondence for Cumberland County in 1775. The Committee of Observation and Correspondence was part of the Council of Safety and acted as the state’s primary department for expediting laws to promote the patriot cause and for suppressing treasonous activity against the newly established state government. Matters of security and the effort to root out Loyalists were vested in the state’s Council of Safety during the early war years. He died on 27 April 1783 in Fairton, Cumberland County, New Jersey. Bathsheba (Harris) Brooks, daughter of Captain Thomas Harris and Sarah Dayton, is one of the few women recognized by the SAR for her patriotic service."

Compatriot: Col. Steven Guy

Patriot: Ebenezer M. Holden, 1764-1845

Enlisted in the 8th Massachusetts line, Colonel Michael Jackson, in Company of Captain Abner Wade

Tombstone states:
Ebenezer M. Holden
Died  July 13, 1845  In the 82 year of his age
A stern defender of his country's right in the  Revolutionary war.

Compatriot: Joel David Holden

Patriot: Thomas Keeney, 1751-1840

Pvt. in Johnson's Regiment, Connecticut Militia

Compatriot: Donald Starkey

Patriot: James McCracken 1754-1824

Private with the South Carolina Regiment of the Continental Line

Compatriot: Joe Riddle

Patriot: John LaBoularderie de Treville 1742 -1791

As a Frenchman, he was known as Jean Le Poupet de La Boularderie de Treville. Assigned to the 4th Continental Regiment of Artillery, he was the 2nd Commander of the Beaufort Volunteer Artillery Militia (1776-1783). After spiking the cannons at Fort Lyttleton during a British advance from Savannah into the Beaufort area he and his men convinced Gen. William Moultrie and Gen. Stephen Bull to bring some of their 200 militia across the Whale Branch River to Beaufort in advance of the British. The result was the Battle of Port Royal Island, aka The Battle of Grays Hill, fought on Feb 3, 1779, during which the British forces left the field first after striking losses to its artillery, soldiers and officers during the brief engagement.

Compatriot: Maj. Robert Ellis de Treville