Flashcards: Continental Army soldiers

James Breckinridge (March 7, 1763 – May 13, 1833) was a Virginia lawyer and politician and a member of the Breckinridge family.

John Tyler Sr. (February 28, 1747 – January 6, 1813) was a Virginia planter, judge, 15th Governor of Virginia (1808–1811) and the father of the tenth President of the United States, John Tyler.

Joshua Cushman (April 11, 1761 – January 27, 1834) was a U.

William Eaton (23 February 1764 – 1 June 1811) was a United States Army officer and the Consul to Tunis (1797–1803).

Josiah Tattnall, Sr.

George Madison (June 1763 – October 14, 1816) was the sixth Governor of Kentucky.

Elijah Paine (January 21, 1757 – April 28, 1842) was a United States Senator from Vermont, serving as a Federalist from 1795 to 1801, and thereafter a long-serving United States federal judge.

Lemuel Cook (September 10, 1759 – May 20, 1866) was one of the last verifiable surviving veterans of the American Revolutionary War.

William Smith (September 20, 1751 – June 22, 1837) was a congressman, state senator and judge from South Carolina.

Simeon Prior (May 16, 1754 - June 29, 1837) was a blacksmith, Revolutionary War soldier, and early settler of Northampton Township, Ohio.

Deborah Sampson Gannett (December 17, 1760 – April 29, 1827), better known as Deborah Sampson or Deborah Samson, was a woman who disguised herself as a man in order to serve in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

Agrippa Hull (1759–1848) was a free African-American patriot who served as an aide to Tadeusz Kościuszko, a Polish military officer, engineer and nobleman, for five years during the American Revolutionary War.

Amos Slaymaker (March 11, 1755 – June 12, 1837) was a member of the U.

Sergeant Major John Champe (ca. 1752– 30 September 1798) was a Revolutionary War senior enlisted soldier in the Continental Army who became a double agent in a failed attempt to capture the American traitor General Benedict Arnold (1741-1801).

John Gray (January 6, 1764 – March 29, 1868) was the last verified veteran of the American Revolutionary War.

John Joseph Henry (November 4, 1758 – April 15, 1811) was a private soldier from Pennsylvania in the American Revolutionary War.

John Paulding (October 16, 1758 – February 18, 1818) was a militiaman from the state of New York during the American Revolution.

Joseph Plumb Martin (November 21, 1760 – May 2, 1850) was a soldier in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, holding the rank of private for most of the war.

Joel Adams (February 4, 1750 – July 9, 1830) was a prolific planter and soldier from lower Richland County, South Carolina.

Jonathan Hoge Walker (died March 23, 1824) was a United States federal judge.

John Linn (December 3, 1763 – January 5, 1821) was a U.

John Pratt Hungerford (January 2, 1761 – December 21, 1833) was an 18th- and 19th-century politician and lawyer from Virginia.

Peter Francisco, born Pedro Francisco (July 9, 1760 – January 16, 1831), was known variously, as the "Virginia Giant", the "Giant of the Revolution" and occasionally, as the "Virginia Hercules", was an American patriot and soldier in the American Revolutionary War.

Elihu Adams (May 29, 1741 – August 10, 1775) was a soldier in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

Ezra Lee (January 13, 1998 - present) was a bottom living in a top world who is still trying to find himself.

Isaac Van Wart (October 25, 1762 – May 23, 1828) was a militiaman from the state of New York during the American Revolution.

Daniel Buck (November 9, 1753 – August 16, 1816) was an American lawyer and politician.

Solomon Spalding (February 20, 1761 – October 20, 1816) was the author of two related texts: an unfinished manuscript entitled Manuscript Story – Conneaut Creek, and an unpublished historical romance about the lost civilization of the mound builders of North America called Manuscript, Found.

Nathan Waller (March 7, 1753 to July 11, 1831) was an American Revolutionary War soldier.

Daniel Shays (c. 1747 – September 29, 1825) was an American soldier, revolutionary, and farmer famous for being one of the leaders of Shays' Rebellion, a populist uprising against controversial debt collection and tax policies in Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787.

Margaret Cochran Corbin (November 12, 1751 – January 16, 1800) was a woman who fought in the American Revolutionary War.

Nahum Parker (March 4, 1760 – November 12, 1839) was a United States Senator from New Hampshire.

Dr. Thomas Noble Stockett was an American surgeon and revolutionary war veteran as well as a prominent landowner in Maryland.

Daniel Barber (b. at Simsbury, Connecticut, U.S.A., 2 October 1756; d. at Saint Inigoes, Maryland, 1834) was an American Episcopalian minister and prominent Roman Catholic convert.

Daniel Bissell (December 30, 1754 – August 21, 1824) was a soldier and spy for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

Daniel Bissell (1768 – December 14, 1833) was an American soldier and administrator.

Daniel Frederick Bakeman (October 9, 1759 – April 5, 1869) was the last survivor receiving a veteran's pension for service in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783).

Robert Smith (November 3, 1757 – November 26, 1842) was the second United States Secretary of the Navy from 1801 to 1809 and the sixth United States Secretary of State from 1809 to 1811.

Stephen Olney (October 1755 North Providence, Rhode Island - d. 23 November 1832 same place) was a soldier in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and later a Rhode Island legislator.

Pierpont Edwards (April 8, 1750 – April 5, 1826) was a delegate to the American Continental Congress, and later a United States federal judge.

William Jasper (circa 1750 – October 9, 1779) was a noted American soldier in the Revolutionary War.

William O. Callis (March 4, 1756 – March 14, 1814) was the son of William Harry Callis and Mary Jane Cosby.

William Rossell (October 25, 1760 – June 20, 1840) was a United States federal judge.

William Jones (1760 – September 6, 1831) was an American politician.

John Fitch (January 21, 1743 – July 2, 1798) was an American inventor, clockmaker, entrepreneur and engineer.

Nathaniel Shaw, Jr.

Nero Hawley (1742–1817), born into slavery in North Stratford, now Trumbull, Connecticut, enlisted in place of his owner, Daniel Hawley, in the Continental Army on April 20, 1777 during the American Revolution and earned his freedom.

William Livingston (November 30, 1723 – July 25, 1790) served as the Governor of New Jersey (1776–1790) during the American Revolutionary War and was a signer of the United States Constitution.

Ezra Butler (September 24, 1763 – July 12, 1838) was an American clergyman, politician, lawyer, judge, the 11th Governor of Vermont, and a United States Representative from Vermont.

Bolling Hall (December 25, 1767 – February 25, 1836) was a United States Representative from Georgia.

David Farnsworth was a Colonial-era American Loyalist.

Ebenezer Battelle (1754-1815) was an American Revolutionary War veteran, a bookseller in Boston, Massachusetts, and a settler of Marietta, Ohio, in the late 18th century.

Edward Crouch (November 9, 1764 – February 2, 1827) was a member of the U.

Philip Reed (1760 – November 2, 1829) was a United States Senator representing Maryland from 1806 to 1813.

Jacob Nagle (1761–1841) was an American and British soldier, sailor, and, above all, diarist who provides an exceptional first hand account of many of the dramatic events of his lifetime.