Patriot Biographies | Our Patriot Ancestors

On 30 September 1729, Johannes William Youngblood became the firstborn child of German immigrants Johannes Jungblut and Anna Maria Kaffenut. His birthplace is unknown. It may have been Germany or America. In either case, shortly after, the Jungbluts, along with two other immigrant families, purchased 800 acres of wilderness from a New York City land […]

George Yeakle was born in Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1738. His father, Benedict Yeakle, came to America from Switzerland in 1736 on the ship Princess Augusta. Benedict died at the young age of about 31 years old. George then went to Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania to live with family friends his father came to America with.

Col. Nicholas Worthington was born on 29 Mar 1734, in St. Anne’s Parish, Anne Arundel County, Maryland and he died 1 Nov 1793 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. He was the youngest son of Thomas Howard Worthington and Elizabeth (Ridgely) Worthington, third generation American natives. He was a member of the Committee of Observation; also,

American Revolutionary soldier, Ensign Lemuel Wood, a commissioned officer, fought with Captain Theophilus Cotton’s Massachusetts Regiment, Third Company of Minute Men. (History of the town of Middleboro 1775). The Cotton’s Regiment took part in the siege of Boston, including Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill. Lemuel Wood appears on the Census of Middleborough 1790, 1800, and

Ezra Whittlesey was born in Newington, Connecticut, February 11, 1738. He married Ann Pixley. He was admitted, by profession of faith, to the church in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and served in the Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1780. Service Record: Ezra Whittlesey, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Sergeant, Captain Thomas William’s Company of Minute-men, Colonel John Paterson’s Regiment, which

Andrew Wayt was born about 1738 in England. He came to live near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, about 1765 by crossing the Allegheny mountains. He eventually settled in West Pike Run District, Washington County, where he was granted 400 acres of land1. Andrew Wayt married Mary James on 20 August 1765 at a German Reformed Church2 and the

Gideon Warren was born on 12 Dec 1730, at Brimfield, Massachusetts, the son of Jabez Warren and his wife Mary.  It was at the beginning of The Great Awakening, an evangelical and revitalization movement that swept Protestant Europe and British America, and especially the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent impact

John Waggoner was born in 1758 in France to Frances Antony and Jacoba Kling Wagner (both born in Wasselone, Alsace, France) and was a member of George Washington’s Life Guard during the Revolutionary War. He saved George Washington’s life in battle and was given a sword and cane by Washington. Waggoner (Wagner, a single young

Richard Walker was born around 1755 in Prince George’s County, Maryland. While many vital records exist, they are spotty and inconsistent. Much of what we know of Richard Walker comes from family records handed down over generations. According to that tradition, Richard was the third born child of Richard and Polly Walker. He was raised

James Vansant was a third-generation American, born in 1727 in Bensalem, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, which borders the northeast section of Philadelphia. He was the third of four children; his parents were Harman Van Sant and Alice Craven. In 1756, he married Jane Bennett, a fourth-generation American. In 1764, they settled in Northampton Township, Bucks County,