Patriot Ancestors of our Members
Below is a list of the Towamencin Chapter, NSDAR, American Revolutionary War Patriots. The list contains names of our past and present chapter members’ ancestors who were Patriots in the American Revolutionary War.
Connecticut
Eleazer Cary
Joseph Platt Cook
Ebenezer Dowd
Timothy Field
John Graves
Edward Mills
Jedesiah Hyde Post
Timothy Taylor
Georgia
Frederick Rester
Massachusetts
George Allen
Joseph Bridgman
Ebenezer Buck
Eli Cowles
Jethro Delano
Isaac Farnsworth
Samuel Hitch
Jeremiah Hobart
Nathaniel Hobart
Bela Noyes
Nathaniel Sawtelle
Sylvanus Towne
Elijah Ward
Benjamin Wheeler
Stephen Whipple
Maryland
Samuel Elliott
Jacob Groff
Thomas Miles
North Carolina
John Garner
James Gregory
Josiah Hendon
Henry Shofner
Benjamin Winn
New Hampshire
Jonas Hobart
Benjamin Knowlton
New Jersey
Ezekiel Anderson
Daniel Butterfoss
Francis Costigan
Peter Dorland
Joseph Hankinson, Jr.
Edward Hunt
James Hutchinson
Jedidiah Miller
John Pidcock
Benjamin Yard
George Yard
New York
John McGowen
Joseph Stevens
Pennsylvania
Daniel Althouse
Henry Baer
Jacob Beaver
Henry Beck
Isaac Bergey
Arnold Boorse
John Bull
Rachel Smith Carver
Anthony Clippinger
Christian Clymer
Martin Clymer
Benjamin Coe
Benjamin Coe, Jr.
Gilliam Cornell
John Coryell
Balzer Crouse
William Daugherty
John Davidson
James Dunn
Leonard Eckert
Jacob Eisenhower
Christian Fretz
Casper Fluck
John Fogle
Christian Fretz
Abraham Fulton
Nicholas Graffius
Nicholas Greenawalt
Abraham Griesemer
John Griesemer
Pennsylvania, continued
John Hackman
Michael Haney
Samuel Harper
Frederick Hassler
Andrew Hedman
John Heist
Johan Simon Heller
John Heller
Mathew Hennen
Casper Hepler
Edward Warner Heston
Matthias Hinderliter
Adam Hoffman
Jesse Holt
Robert Husted
Joseph Jeffery
Evan Jones
George Kesling
Peter King
William Kirk
Peter Koffel
Philip Kunstman
John Landis
Henry Lauffer
Frederick Leasure
John Lehman
Isaac Lewis
Michael Ludwig
William Mclean
Alexander McDonald
Robert Morris
John Nice
Jacob Orth
Henry Overholtzer
Joseph Overholtzer
William Preston
Jacob Renniger
Wendel Renninger
Benjamin Rosenberger
Peter Ruth
Adam Scheurer
Lawrence Schultz
Johannes Shellenberger
Matthias Shoemaker
Killial Small
Peter Sunliter
Jeremiah Talbot
Nicholas Troxel
William Tyson
William Walker
John Weir
John Wilfong
George Wohlpart
Isaiah Worrell
Adam Yerger
Abraham Yoder
Francis Ottomar Ziegler
South Carolina
Charles Griffis
Elizabeth James Irwin
Elizabeth Ellison Irwin
John Irwin
Drury Pace
Andrew Pickens
Virginia
William Appleberry
John Ashline
Benjamin Bass
Joel Beadles
William Brown
John Cunningham
James Eubank
John Eubank
Benajah Gentry
Mathew Hennen
Isaac Hite
Anthony Lawson
James Markham Marshall
Thomas Marshall
Alexander McDonald
Lettice White Melton
Pearce W. Melton
Philip Pendleton
John Smith
Caleb Stone
Frances Taylor Stone
William Thurmond
George Vought Benjamin Wilson
Local Historical Sites
There are several historical sites in the Towamencin township that existed in Revolutionary War times. Kreibel Road is home to several notable locations – Kreibel School, Anders/Wireman Mill Raceway, the dam at Pringer/Kooker Mill, the Arneth property and Fry’s public school. Old Forty Foot Road brings us to Gottwall’s home where General Francis Nash died after the Battle of Germantown, Towamencin Mennonite Meetinghouse Cemetery where General Francis Nash and his fallen officers are buried, and Detweiler Hall, which was once known as the Tennis-Lukens plantation. On Clemens Road is the Clemen’s Mill. A plaque identifying the location of General Washington’s headquarters, during his October 1777 stay in Towamencin Township, can be found on Delp Drive. Nearly 11,000 troops camped in this small corridor bounded by the Skippack and Towamencin Creeks in October 1777. On Allentown Road, a stone marker dated 1769, can be seen indicating 26 miles to Philadelphia – the Liberty Bell traveled this portion of Allentown Road on its way from Philadelphia to Bethlehem in September 1777. Further down the road, you will find the Tennis-Lukens cemetery which contains remains of Revolutionary War soldiers including the Cadwallader family. The Morgan Log House was built on Weikel Road in 1695 by the Morgan family, the grandparents of Daniel Boone. Wentz Church has 32 Patriots in the cemetery and we celebrate Wreaths Across America there. We have installed a historical plaque there with the names of the Patriots.
Outside the township, but nearby, is the Peter Wentz home on Skippack Pike, where Washington stayed before and after the battle of Germantown. We have also installed a historical plaque at Peter Wentz’s home as he was also a Patriot.
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