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The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (often abbreviated as DAR or NSDAR) is a lineage-based membership service organization for women who are directly descended from a patriot of the American Revolutionary War. [1] A non-profit group, the organization promotes education and patriotism.
The memory that the remains of an unidentified soldier had been reburied at this site was carried into the twentieth century by Mary Gregory Powell (1847–1928), a member of the Meeting House congregation and long-time historian of the Mount Vernon chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Her father, William Gregory (1789–1875 ...
This is a category of officers and soldiers who served as Patriots in the Virginia militia during the American Revolutionary War. People from Virginia who fought in units on the British side are categorized under Category:Loyalists in the American Revolution .
This does not include officers born in Virginia who served in the regiments of other states. Officers are categorized under the state from which they served, not their place of birth. Virginia militiamen are located in Category:Virginia militiamen in the American Revolution rather than this category. However, officers who held rank in both the ...
Oliver Brown Lead the soldiers who took down the statue of King George III in New York City, 1776 [59] [60] Timothy Danielson Lead the Hampshire County Militia, was a brigadier general in the Massachusetts Militia throughout the Revolutionary War. John Fellows
The 11th Virginia Regiment was a Continental Army regiment that fought in the American Revolutionary War.. Authorized by the Second Continental Congress on 16 September 1776, it was organized on 3 February 1777 and consisted of four companies from the Virginia counties of Loudoun, Frederick, Prince William, and Amelia; Captain Daniel Morgan's Independent Rifle Company from Fauquier County; and ...
This category includes people associated with Virginia during the American Revolution. People in this category should not also be placed in Category:Virginia colonial people, unless they were notable before the Revolutionary era (i.e. before about 1765).
The National Society Children of the American Revolution (NSCAR) is a youth organization that was founded on April 5, 1895, by Harriett Lothrop.The idea was proposed on February 22, 1895, at the Fourth Continental Congress of the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). [1]