Another of the old American blood, nice to meet ya. :)
My Ancestors via my Mother's side landed in CT, MA and VA during the 1630's.
In reference to what you said about "Daughter of the Revolution". Do you think your Grandfather just meant that you could become a member of the DAR?
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link to www.dar.org]
We've got a few bloodlines that served in the Revolution, the Women in our family are all eligible.
very cool !!!
Hey maybe our ancestors knew each other? lol you never know ! ( think we were MA ) ... wow nice to meet you too! yes Dar is the site my cousin sent me to to get the paperwork she has all the papers on it and was making copies for me ! ...
Quite possibly, I found out my Wife's ancestor's were also some of the Puritan founders up in MA.
I had to go look up my information again, I better stop here or I will be at this for months again, lol.
Daniel Rhoads b. 1755 in Bedford, PA.
Served from June 1775 to June 1778 in Captain Robert Cluggage’s company, in Colonel Thompson’s First Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment.
He is the father of one of my other ancestors, Thomas Foster Rhoads "The Mormon Pathfinder".
Walter Slaughter b. 1755 in Lunenburg, VA
"He enlisted in Anson County, North Carolina’s Captain Thomas Wade’s Light Horse and Independent Company of Foot, serving from February 9, 1776 to March 14. 1776."
Was at the battle of Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge.
The Slaughters were some of the pioneering cattlemen of Texas.
