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President Joe Biden, then a United States Senator, was awarded a Gold Good Citizenship Medal by The Delaware Society of the Sons of the American Revolution in 1999. [ 6 ] Of the 22 presidents who served prior to the founding of the SAR, six qualify as patriot ancestors – George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James ...
She was the twin sister of Philemon Waters, Jr., who served in the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War. [2] [3] Rosanna Waters married John Thomas Farrow (1727-1776). Around 1764, the Farrow family moved to present-day Spartanburg, South Carolina, along the Enoree River. In 1776, John Thomas Farrow died of smallpox on his ...
The Sons of the American Revolution (SAR), formally the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (NSSAR), is a federally chartered patriotic organization.The National Society, a nonprofit corporation headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, [8] was formed in New York City on April 30, 1889. [9]
Membership in the OFPA is open to male U.S. citizens age 18 or more of "good moral character and reputation" who are directly descended in the male line of either parent from an ancestor who settled, prior to May 13, 1657, in the territory that would become the Thirteen Colonies and one or all of whose intermediate ancestors in the same line, who lived in the period of the American Revolution ...
Patriots were colonists of the Thirteen Colonies who rejected British rule during the American Revolution. Many Patriots served in multiple capacities. Many Patriots served in multiple capacities. Statesmen and office holders
Pages in category "Members of the Sons of the American Revolution" The following 161 pages are in this category, out of 161 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Battle off Yarmouth took place on 28 March 1777 during the American Revolutionary War off the coast of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. [3] The battle is the first American armed vessel to engage the British Navy. The British vessel HMS Milford forced the American USS Cabot aground and the American crew escaped among the inhabitants of Yarmouth. [4 ...
The Gendering of American Politics: Founding Mothers, Founding Fathers, and Political Patriarchy, (1999) online version; Middlekauff, Robert; The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789 (2005) online version Archived May 24, 2012, at the Wayback Machine; Miller, John C. Origins of the American Revolution.