Flashcards: Militia generals in the American Revolution

Thomas Johnson (November 4, 1732 – October 26, 1819) was an American jurist with a distinguished political career.

Oliver Wolcott (November 20, 1726 – December 1, 1797) was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and also the Articles of Confederation as a representative of Connecticut and the nineteenth Governor of Connecticut.

Joseph Frye (March 19, 1712 – July 25, 1794) was a renowned military leader from colonial Maine.

Gold Selleck Silliman (1732–1790) was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, graduated from Yale University and practiced law and served as a crown attorney before the American Revolution.

James Irvine (August 4, 1735 – April 28, 1819) was a Pennsylvania soldier and politician of the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Post-Revolutionary periods.

Philemon Dickinson (April 5, 1739 – February 4, 1809) was an American lawyer and politician from Trenton, New Jersey.

Nicholas Herkimer (Herchheimer; c. 1728 – August 16, 1777) was an American Patriot militia brigadier general during the American Revolutionary War, who died of wounds after the Battle of Oriskany.

John Ashe (ca. 1720 – October 24, 1781) was a general officer in the North Carolina militia during the American Revolutionary War.

John Butler (died 1786) was a military officer in the Hillsborough District militia during the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1784, and served as its commanding general between 1779 and the end of the conflict.

John Lacey (February 4, 1755 – February 17, 1814) was an American military officer during the American Revolutionary War.

Joseph Palmer (1716–1788) was an American general during the American Revolutionary War.

Persifor Frazer (August 9, 1736 – April 24, 1792) was an American farmer, soldier, and industrialist, and the founder of one of the most prominent families of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

John Cadwalader (January 10, 1742 – February 10, 1786) was a commander of Pennsylvania troops during the American Revolutionary War.

Peter Gansevoort (July 17, 1749 – July 2, 1812) was a Colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

Timothy Danielson (1733–1791) was the third son of John and Margaret (Mughill) Danielson.

Ethan Allen (January 21, 1738 [O.S. January 10, 1737] – February 12, 1789) was a farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, lay theologian, and American Revolutionary War patriot, hero, and politician.

Griffith Rutherford (c. 1721 – August 10, 1805) was an officer in the American Revolutionary War, a political leader in North Carolina, and an important figure in the early history of the Southwest Territory and the state of Tennessee.

William Floyd (December 17, 1734 – August 4, 1821) was an American politician from New York, and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.

Ezekiel Cornell (1732/33 – April 25, 1800) was a Revolutionary War general who represented Rhode Island in the U.

John Morin Scott (1730 New York City – September 14, 1784 New York City) was a lawyer, military officer, and statesman before, during and after the American Revolution.

Seth Pomeroy (May 20, 1706 – February 9, 1777) was an American gunsmith and soldier from Northampton, Massachusetts.

John Hancock (January 23, 1737 [O.S. January 12, 1736] – October 8, 1793) was an American merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution.

James Mitchell Varnum (December 17, 1748 – January 9, 1789) was an American legislator, lawyer, general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and a pioneer to the Ohio Country.

Daniel Roberdeau (1727 – January 5, 1795) was an American merchant residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the time of the American War of Independence.

William Whipple, Jr.

Samuel Elbert (1740 – November 1, 1788) was an American merchant, soldier, and politician from Savannah, Georgia.

Daniel Lyman (1756–1830) was a New England soldier, Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court and member of the secessionist Hartford Convention.

Joshua Babcock (1707–1783) was a physician, American Revolution general, Rhode Island Supreme Court justice, and postmaster from Westerly, Rhode Island.

William Campbell (born 1745 and died on August 22, 1781) was a Virginia farmer, pioneer, and soldier.

Peleg Wadsworth (May 6, 1748 – November 12, 1829) was an American officer during the American Revolutionary War and a Congressman from Massachusetts representing the District of Maine.

Arnoldus Vanderhorst /vænˈdrɑːs/ (March 21, 1748 – January 29, 1815) was a general of the South Carolina militia during the Revolutionary War and the 38th Governor of South Carolina from 1794 to 1796.

Nathaniel Folsom (September 28, 1726, Exeter, New Hampshire – May 26, 1790, Exeter, New Hampshire) was an American merchant and statesman.

Nathaniel Freeman (March 28, 1741 – September 20, 1827) was an American physician and jurist.

General Nathaniel Woodhull (1722-1776) was a leader of the New York Provincial Congress and a brigadier-general of the New York Militia during the American Revolution.

Benjamin Lincoln (January 24, 1733 (O.S. January 13, 1732) – May 9, 1810) was an American army officer.

John Dickinson (November 13 or 15, 1732 – February 14, 1808), a Founding Father of the United States, was a solicitor and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware known as the "Penman of the Revolution" for his twelve Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, published individually in 1767 and 1768.

Thomas Nelson Jr.

Caesar Rodney (October 7, 1728 – June 26, 1784) was an American lawyer and politician from St.

Thomas Sumter (August 14, 1734 – June 1, 1832) was a soldier in the Colony of Virginia militia; a brigadier general in the South Carolina militia during the American War of Independence, a planter, and a politician.

Abraham Ten Broeck was the son of Dirck Ten Broeck and Margarita Cuyler.

Andrew Pickens (September 13, 1739 – August 11, 1817) was a militia leader in the American Revolution and a member of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina.

Christopher Lippitt (October 28, 1744 – June 17, 1824) was a prominent Revolutionary War officer and founder one of the earliest textile mills in Rhode Island.

David Wooster (March 13, 1711 [O.S. March 2, 1710] – May 2, 1777) was an American general who served in the French and Indian War and in the American Revolutionary War.

David Forman (3 November 1745 – 12 September 1797) was born in Monmouth County, New Jersey of parents Joseph Forman and Elizabeth Lee.

Dr. Joseph Warren (June 11, 1741 – June 17, 1775) was an American physician who played a leading role in American Patriot organizations in Boston in the early days of the American Revolution, eventually serving as President of the revolutionary Massachusetts Provincial Congress.

James Ewing (1736–1806) was a Pennsylvania soldier, statesman, and politician of the Colonial, Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary eras.

James Potter (1729–1789) was a soldier, farmer, and politician from Colonial- and Revolutionary-era Pennsylvania.

James Wadsworth (July 8, 1730 – September 22, 1816) was an American lawyer from Durham, Connecticut.

Jeremiah McLene (1767 – March 19, 1837) was a U.

Jethro Exum Sumner (c. 1733 – c. March 18, 1785) was a North Carolina landowner and businessman, and an officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

Richard Caswell (August 3, 1729 – November 10, 1789) was the first and fifth governor of the U.