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<P>My husband's Drake ancestry has a Rev. War patriot, Oliver Drake, who was from Taunton, Mass. - he was in the Continental Army as well as being a marine in 1780. Someone on this very list helped me locate this ancestor, thanks! My husband has a Reed ancestor who was in the Rev. War in PA, as well, but not in the fighting forces. We didn't know these things 'til this year.</P>
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<P>But the DAR does not always get it all right though. I have tried to trace my husband's Capt. James Tatum of NC who family lore says was in the Rev. War; there was a family sword, etc., but no evidence in the Nat. Archives, evidently, of pay records or pension records, and he did not get bounty land - he had land and went back to NC. He was married and had numerous children and descendants. There was also a Lt. James Tatum who had a brother Howell Tatum (Capt. James Tatum did not have a brother Howell) and they have records of their Rev. War service and they got bounty land in TN after the war. That Lt. James Tatum had no wife or any kids, and I don't believe Howell had kids either, but there seem to be people who use that Lt. James Tatum's Rev. War service to get in to the DAR.<BR><BR><BR></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px">-----Original Message----- <BR>From: "Harguess, Dale" <DHARGUESS@COASTLINE.EDU><BR>Sent: Sep 21, 2009 2:47 PM <BR>To: or-roots mail list <OR-ROOTS@LISTSMART.OSL.STATE.OR.US><BR>Subject: Re: [or-roots] Finding ancestors in Revolutionary and Civil War <BR><BR><?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = [default] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40 NS = "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" /><ZZZhtml xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml"><ZZZhead><ZZZmeta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><ZZZmeta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)">
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">There were a lot of Patriots that weren’t soldiers. If you held a public office, like Justice of the Peace or were a member of a school board or other public official. Some clergymen were considered Patriots because they gave services to the troops and of course people who supplied goods or services to the troops or militias were also considered Patriots.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Do you have a name that you are wanting to know about? I could look him up in the DAR Patriot index.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us [mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us] <B>On Behalf Of </B>ilightle2@hotmail.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, September 21, 2009 2:16 PM<BR><B>To:</B> or-roots mail list<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [or-roots] Finding ancestors in Revolutionary and Civil War<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Pegasus','serif'">Dale,</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Pegasus','serif'">Thanks for the bit about Patriots not needing to be combatants, that would not have occurred to me.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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