Patriot Biographies | Our Patriot Ancestors

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

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

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

Captain Beach Tomlinson, son of Zachariah, was born at the Tomlinson Stafford Connecticut homestead 3 Dec 1726, the fourth generation of the family in the colonies and a successful dairy

Henry Tolles IV was born on 8 August 1736 in New Haven, Connecticut and died on 5 May 1810 in Weathersfield, Vermont. The Tolles family in New England can be

John Stutler lived in Harrison County, (West) Virginia. He was born about 1757 and died about 1827 in Virginia. He married Sarah about 1784 and they had 12 children. John

Captain John Stanfield was born August 1, 1757 in Randolph County, North Carolina, the son of William and Sarah Stanfield.  John married Sara Roberts on February 16, 1777 in Antrim

Joel Sawyer, lived from 1750-1825. He was from Gorham, Maine, and served during the American Revolution as a Corporal in Captain Stuart’s Company, a unit of Colonel Edmund Phinney’s Regiment,

Johan George Sager (or Seger) left Germany in 1737, boarded the Townshead and arrived in Philadelphia, then settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania later that year and married Anna Maria Clotin

“James Reeves, who died May 19, 1838, aged seventy-seven years, had served in the Revolutionary war on board vessel bearing letters of Marque. He was born in October 13, 1762