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FALL 2014 17 Our goal here is not to validate/verify the stories; it is to share the history with others. The hope is that new members will be inspired to join the SAR. Existing members might be surprised to learn that they are connected and be able to submit Supplemental Applications. I personally have already found one ancestor through this process, and the Supplemental is currently in the pipeline. PG Brock has agreed to issue Streamers at the 125th Congress in Louisville to those chapters and state societies that achieve a submission level of 25 percent of their respective membership as of Jan. 1, 2015. A chapter/society with 100 members will be awarded a Streamer if it submits at least 25 biographies. The following are examples of biographical sketches submitted. Can we expect to read about your patriot ancestor soon? — Doug Collins, Kentucky Trustee Capt. John Sawtelle, Ancestor No. P-284948 Capt. John Sawtelle was born on April 18, 1729, in Groton, Middlesex, Mass., United States, and died on 23 Dec. 23, 1790, in Groton, Middlesex, Mass., United States. His last name is spelled Sawtelle and Sawtell. His father was Ephraim Sawtelle and his mother was Abigail Farnsworth. He was a tavern owner, and like many tavern owners in Massachusetts was probably a Son of Liberty because he is one of the known people involved in the Boston Tea Party. He was called out for the Lexington Alarm and also saw action at the Battle of Bunker Hill. William Green, Ancestor No. P-284948 William Green was born in Wilmington, N.C., on Dec. 19, 1758, and died there on March 23, 1803. On Feb. 19, 1784, he married Mary Bradley, daughter of Richard Bradley and Elizabeth Sharpless. Mary was born Feb. 24 1767, in Wilmington and died Jan. 27, 1815, in Wilmington, and her grave is next to William's. Her marker reads (in part): Her ––––– Christian ––––– ––––– reliance on a God of b––––– [Elizabeth Francinia McKoy] During the Revolutionary War, William Green entered the military service on June 6, 1776, and was commissioned first lieutenant on Aug. 27, 1777, in Capt. Taylor's Company, 6th Regiment, North Carolina Continental Line. He was in the Battle of Brandywine and for some time was confined on a prison ship in the Charleston, S.C., harbor. The data about William Green's war record, including his commission, is taken from the Roster of North Carolina Soldiers in the American Revolution, 1932, the DAR Patriot Index 1966 by the Daughters of the American Revolution, and the North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume III, pages 293-421. The data about William Green's vital statistics and marriage is taken from the tablet on his grave and from Genealogy of the Sharpless Family by Gilbert Cope, 1887; "The Will of John Bradley," dated 1811; and records in the New Hanover County (North Carolina) Courthouse. William Green was the fifth child of Doctor Samuel Green and Hannah Mercer, who emigrated from England to Wilmington and died there in 1771. Samuel Green's grave is next to the graves of William and Mary. His tombstone inscription reads: "In the Character of Husband, Father, Friend and Brother, he was affectionate and tender & as a friend—Sincere/Slave to no sect. no private path he trod/But looked through nature up to Nature's God." Some of the direct descendants of the Green family currently live in Wilmington. The children of William and Mary (Bradley) Green include: 1. Elizabeth Green (1785-) 2. Emily Green (1787-) 3. John A. Green (1789-1790) 4. John W. Green (1791-) 5. James Severin Green (Dec. 19, 1792-Sept. 27, 1862); married (1) Caroline A. Holmes, (2) Anne Nessfield Cochran 6. Mary Hostler Green (March 29, 1794-Feb. 27, 1865); married Thomas Wright 7. Ann Sophia Green (Sept. 3, 1796-Feb. 27, 1866); married Frederick Jones Swann 8. William Mercer Green (May 2, 1798-); married (1) Sally W. Sneed, (2) Charlotte Isabella Fleming Sources: Revolutionary War Graves Register. Clovis H. Brakebill, compiler. 672 pp. SAR. 1993. Also SAR Revolutionary War Graves Register CD. Progeny Publishing Co: Buffalo, NY. 1998. If you are a lineal or collateral descendent of someone in the CSA Ofcer's Corp or someone who was an elected or appointed government ofcial in the Confederate States of America, consider joining the Military Order of the Stars and Bars. For information on its activities and eligibility requirements, contact us at: (757) 656-MOSB Or via mail at: MOS&B; - Membership Inquiry P O Box 56251 Virginia Beach, VA 23456 www.militaryorderofstarsandbars.org