25 Revolutionary War Ancestors of Sarah Palin
Descendants Qualify for DAR & Other Lineage Society Memberships
Jun 26, 2009
Sarah Palin has at least 25 ancestors who served in the American Revolution. Are any of them shared? If so, descendants can join the DAR and other lineage societies.
The following Revolutionary War soldiers are listed in the Patriot Index, published by the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Descent from these patriots, whose military or other service in the fight for independence is acknowledged by the DAR, qualifies women for DAR membership. It also can qualify women, men and children for membership in several other lineage societies.
Sarah Palin’s Patriot Ancestry
- Jeremiah Bingham (1748-1841/2) of Norwich, CT and Cornwall, VT; married wife Abigail in 1771.
- Joseph Bingham (1709-1787) of Norwich, CT and Bennington, VT; married in 1731 Ruth Post; they were parents of Jeremiah (above).
- Abraham Brownson (ca. 1729-1802) of Woodbury and Bethlehem, CT; married Abigail Hawley (1740-1817) in 1760.
- John Michael Criss (1746-1831), who was born in Germany; married Ursula Hawkins (1746-1820) in 1769.
- Augustine Curtiss (1761-1832) of Warren, CT; married Lodema Sackett (1767-1857) in 1785.
- Maj. Eleazer Curtiss (1736-1788) of Lebanon and Warren, CT; married Mary/Mercy Carter (1739-1805) in 1759; they were parents of Augustine Curtiss (above); Sarah Palin has two lines of descent from this couple.
- Eleazer Curtiss (ca. 1710-1784) of Swansea (now Bristol), RI and Warren, CT; married Mary Dunham (ca. 1715-1788) in 1735; they were parents of Maj. Eleazer Curtiss (above).
- Stephen Damon (1757-1842) of Ware and Hawley, MA; married Rhoda Thayer (1767-1839) in 1785.
- Elias Delong (1746-1800) of New York; married Isabel Dickinson.
- Abner Everett (1760-1852) of Woodbury and Warren, CT; married Jedid(i)ah Brownson (d. 1827) in 1786; Sarah Palin has two lines of descent from this couple.
- Daniel Everett (1714-1792) of Lebanon and Woodbury, CT; married Elizabeth Steele (1719-1794) in 1747; they are the parents of Abner Everett (above).
- Elisha Field (1763-1852) of Bennington and Cornwall, VT; married Ruth Kirkham (1770-1835) in 1790.
- Elisha Field (1717-1791) of Sunderland, MA and Cornwall, VT; married Betty Pratt (1726-1809) in 1753; they were the parents of Elisha Field (above).
- Knowles Godfrey (1762-1794) of Chatham, MA, who died in Charleston, SC; married Mary Ryder in 1786 at Chatham.
- Robert Gower (1723-1806/7) of Norwich, Norfolk, England, came to America before the Revolutionary War. In 1771, he married Mary Henry (1745-1836); both died at Farmington, ME.
- Joseph Heath (1754-1830) of Tolland, CT and Greenwich, NY; married Mabel Rising (1756-1820) in 1777.
- Daniel Hine (1748/9-1835) of New Milford, CT; married Lydia Beecher (1741-1838) in 1769.
- Robert Kelley (1714-1783) married Lydia Marrs in 1771 at Warren, MA.
- Maj. Peter Norton (1718-1792) of Edgartown, MA; married Sarah Bassett (1720-1804) in 1740.
- Capt. Justus Sackett (1730-1815) of East Greenwich (now Hebron), CT; married Lydia Newcomb (1731-1808) in 1757; Sarah Palin has two lines of descent from this couple.
- Nathan Salisbury (1751-1817) of Cranston, RI, and Cortland, NY; married Abigail Stone (1753-1836) in 1771.
- Thomas Sanderson (1746-1824) of Massachusetts married Lucy Wright in 1774.
- Silas Sears (1719/20-1780) of Yarmouth and Greenwich, MA; married Deborah Buck at Harwich, MA in 1743.
- Nathan Westcott (1711-1791) of Cranston and Warwick, RI; married Anne Greene (1712-1744/5) in 1735.
See also: Sarah Palin’s ancestry and information on lineage societies.
Sources:
Presented by William Addams Reitwiesner, a Library of Congress staff member, from data primarily compiled by genealogists Robert Battle and Michael Hurdle.
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